Before you get out the pitchforks, we should clear up one little detail about the title of this review: the Lumia 1520 is by no means a bad smartphone. At least, not in the traditional sense. Nokia's latest high-end Lumia is packed with top-shelf specs, as well as a processor and screen combination never before seen on a Windows Phone. In that sense, the Lumia 1520 is ...

While the Sony Xperia Z Ultra just became a Google Play Edition device, owners of the Xperia Z and Xperia ZL also have a reason to be happy. The Android 4.3 update for Sony Xperia Z, as well as the ZL, is now available to download, thanks to XDA Developers. The Xperia Z's firmware (C6603) and the C6503 for the ZL are both available at the source links below. Build ...

Watch today's Pocketnow Daily as we talk about the possible Ubuntu Touch smartphones that we may see from undisclosed OEMs very soon. Microsoft is next as we get reports of the company being bold enough to offer Windows RT and Windows Phone 8 for free to OEMs. Nokia follows the news as we get more reports of a 5.2-inch Lumia, aside from more details of the Nokia ...

Remember back in October when we told you about the story of the filmmaker whom Apple ripped-off when the company co-opted his video for internal uses without compensation or credit? It caught our attention when we saw Nokia interject itself into the matter, hooking the filmmaker up with a brand new Lumia 1020 with the hopes that he might take advantage of it for ...

Yesterday, we saw Google's lineup of Play Experience devices make some big gains, adding the LG G Pad 8.3 tablet and Sony Xperia Z Ultra phablet to its selection. The reaction to this news seemed overwhelmingly positive for both models. It would figure that a good thing like this wouldn't last, and today we get our first touch of something really worth disliking about ...

Motorola's stake in the mobile industry has been constantly slipping, alongside revenue, for years now. In Q1 2008, it held a respectable 10.2 percent global cellphone market share. (Keep in mind, the smartphone-specific market was just then beginning to bloom.) According to Gartner, Motorola now resides among the many in the ominous "Other" category on its quarterly ...

Windows Phone has ended up as a bit of a Nokia-only show. Sure, we still see signs of work on an odd device from another hardware partner every now and then, but those hardly add up to a significant slice of the platform's share. While some WP fans would like nothing more than to keep seeing Nokia dominate, Microsoft may be wishing that more OEMs were interested in ...

At Pocketnow, we think we've assembled one of the best teams in mobile tech reporting. But mobile is a huge space to cover, and the list of outlets covering it is equally massive. Making up that techno-blogosphere is a long list of personalities - some eccentric, some conventional, but all interesting.  With the Pocketnow VIP (based on the popular Pocketnow Live), we ...