There have been a bunch of leaks attempting to show off components which will supposedly find homes in the iPhone 5S, but a lot of what we've seen so far has been a little... meh. That is, we've seen buttons, connectors, and other tiny parts, but not so much in the way of more substantial hardware. If you've been craving something more significant, we just might have ...

Of all the smartphone platform upstarts currently working on their wares, Tizen has the potential to be the most successful. For one thing, it's got the backing of Samsung, who's just an unchecked juggernaut at the moment. Then there's the hardware, and what little we've heard so far – mentions of things like 720p displays – had us hopeful that Tizen would be home ...

Nokia announced the Lumia 925 at its May 14, 2013 event in London, and the phone was brought to the stage as "the most advanced smartphone" on the market. The buzz-word of the day was aluminum; the company emphasized the advantages of using aluminum for the phone's body, granting overall better reception and antenna performance. However, the Lumia 925 is not made ...

Several months ago Waze, the insanely popular GPS navigation company, was in the middle of negotiations over selling their company to the highest bidder. Facebook reportedly want to buy Waze for the social aspects of the company. Google apparently didn't want Facebook to become a competitor in that industry, so the two companies got into a bidding war. What would this ...

Rent your house or buy one? Lease that car or purchase it outright? Over and over in our lives we're offered these decisions. Now, it looks like a similar dichotomy is gaining support in the software industry, including when it comes to mobile apps: do you want to buy your software now, or pay a little bit each month as part of an ongoing subscription? While there are ...

The Bing team has always had a strange relationship at Microsoft. On one hand, they want to gain market share as a search engine, on the other, they want to integrate with other Microsoft products.  In the past, many of the Bing apps on non-Microsoft platforms really took priority.  For example, Bing on the iPhone was once much better than Bing on Windows Phone and ...

This has been a tough and unique year when it comes to smartphone offerings. Companies like BlackBerry have offered a new competing platform, and still we know this has been a market that's focused only on Samsung and Apple sales for the last couple of trimesters. HTC has been in-between these companies, trying to not fall like we've seen other giants fall in 2012, and ...

Watch today's Pocketnow Daily as we talk about the Nokia EOS rumors as the codename RM-877 has just left the FCC and everything points to a July 11th launch. Next it's all about the Moto X, and even though the news are ok, they're not really what we'd call good. We then talk about some leaked photos of a possible gamepad for iOS 7 devices made by Logitech. The Galaxy S ...