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Windows Phone
by Taylor Martin | May 23, 2013 4:18 PMRead OnWhen someone uses a particular platform for any given time, they become invested in the ecosystem – the apps, the built-in and related services, and the way everything syncs up perfectly and seamlessly. You become invested in the platform and the user experience. And switching to any other platform is certainly more difficult than just a context switch and getting ...
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Android
by Stephen Schenck | May 23, 2013 3:23 PMRead OnWe've still got over a month to go until Google starts selling its own special edition of the Samsung Galaxy S 4, ditching the familiar TouchWiz and Samsung software touches for a stock Android experience. While nothing new is happening with the phone's hardware, we've nevertheless been curious to learn about just how it will arrive, and a new listing over at the ...
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iOS
by Stephen Schenck | May 23, 2013 2:46 PMRead OnGoogle I/O may be over and done with, but San Francisco's Mocone Center won't get much of a reprieve before smartphone fans are back in hordes, with Apple taking over the same venue in just a few weeks for the Worldwide Developers Conference 2013. The whole thing is a grand affair, running from June 10 through June 14, but where's the actual meat – when can we expect ...
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Pocketnow Weekly 045: HTC’s death spiral, Jolla’s rebirth, and yet another Nokia EOS rumor (Podcast)by Michael Fisher | May 23, 2013 1:47 PMRead On
Here at Pocketnow, we like other tech sites. We share the same news space, we share a lot of editorial opinions, and we trade jokes and barbs on the Twitters, the Facebooks, and even in the godforsaken comments section. We're even starting to interact face-to-face with our foreign contemporaries in on-air venues like the Pocketnow VIP, but here at the Weekly, we ...
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Android
by Stephen Schenck | May 23, 2013 12:55 PMRead OnIt hardly took any time at all following the HTC First's launch that we started hearing rumors of the smartphone's failure. Then we saw AT&T slash the phone's price, and all that talk started feeling like it had some weight to it. As we still stand by to learn the phone's ultimate fate in the US, its troubles spread internationally, and today we get word that the ...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 23, 2013 12:19 PMRead OnSamsung's told us to expect the first smartphones running the new Tizen platform to arrive towards the end of Q3 2013 – sometime in August or September. We've heard rumors about a couple models in particular, codenamed Redwood and Melius. Since then, we've learned that Melius might be an Android, instead, but that leaves Redwood, attached to model number GT-I8805. ...
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Android
by Stephen Schenck | May 23, 2013 11:33 AMRead OnThe HTC One is an incredible Android, but even its proponents have lamented the lack of microSD expansion and a removable battery. Well, the international and US carrier editions of the One lack such features, but microSD, at least, is indeed present on models like the Chinese One. What gives? An HTC exec offers an explanation for the disparity, but we're not quite ...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 23, 2013 10:52 AMRead OnFor all the progress that's been made over the years towards slimming down the bezel surrounding smartphone screens – the gap between the display and the phone's edge, we still haven't seen anything that quite looks like an all-screen phone face. Sometimes manufacturers come close, especially on a phone's side edges, but up top and down below we're generally still ...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 23, 2013 10:16 AMRead OnGoogle's Play Music All Access is the latest offering to hit the smartphone music scene. It gives users direct access to songs, lets them create custom radio stations, and helps them discover new artists. While it sounds like another great addition to the landscape of options available, it's really not doing anything new. That applies to both the features it offers, as ...
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Android
by Anton D. Nagy | May 23, 2013 8:14 AMRead On5 million HTC One devices sold to date, in a month, according to reports, which is a decent number considering all of the difficulties in production and distribution (and the phone is still not available in every region where it should be). That's half of the number of Galaxy S 4 units Samsung managed to sell through its global channels, but the South Korean company ...
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Android
by Joe Levi | May 23, 2013 7:17 AMRead OnRumors are surfacing about Amazon playing with the idea of finally bringing a smartphone to market. Why wouldn't they? They've already got some basic eBook readers, and some devices that should rightly be called "tablets". They don't have a phone, not yet anyway. So what's this we're hearing about an Amazon 3D phone? According to sources that don't want to be named, ...
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by Taylor Martin | May 23, 2013 7:01 AMRead On
Mobile gaming is an industry that has experienced some truly awe-inspiring growth. Mobile platforms have matured from offering little more than side-scrollers (Canabalt or Angry Birds) to offering some elaborate and beautiful 3D games that rival many older console games. There are games that were state of the art when I was a teen, like Grand Theft Auto 3 or Max Payne, ...
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by Adam Doud | May 23, 2013 7:00 AMRead OnI saw something the other day that made me sad. Very sad. It was a slim, sleek, ultra light Samsung GSIII, with a freaking BMW strapped to it. Ok, so it wasn't a BMW, but it was a case that looked like a snow tire wrapped around the phone. The back of the phone was literally 1 cm off the table top. Dang, it was ugly. And the sheer size of these monstrosities. ...
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Android
by Anton D. Nagy | May 23, 2013 5:10 AMRead OnWe've recently heard rumors of HTC switching to numbers for its phone models and nothing could come as a direct confirmation but an official device unveiling today, as HTC announces Desire 600. The Taiwanese phone-maker has officially put the HTC Desire 600 in the spotlight for Russia, Ukraine, and the EMEA region. This might be a mid-ranger but it is a potent one. It ...
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Multi-Platform
by Anton D. Nagy | May 23, 2013 4:14 AMRead OnWe've been huge fans of future possible sapphire solutions for smartphones ever since MWC. We've also visited the factory that can make this possible. Sapphire is known to be an extremely tough material, almost impossible to scratch. It has its own downside though: it's also very brittle. Gorilla Glass, on the other hand, is less brittle, but, it is much easier to ...
