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Windows Phone
by Stephen Schenck | May 23, 2013 8:01 PMRead OnMicrosoft finds itself in a somewhat unique place in the electronics industry, with products in both the smartphone and console gaming spheres. Sure, Sony hits both those notes, but there's a big difference between manufacturing smartphones and having direct control over a smartphone platform. In theory, that should lead to some fantastically tight integration between ...
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iOS
by Stephen Schenck | May 23, 2013 7:20 PMRead OnAre you ready for the latest round of gossip about Apple's upcoming gear? This time we get to hit all the big players, with details showing up that concern the flagship iPhone 5S, the rumored cheaper iPhone, as well as the next iPad. Some if this is minor stuff, like a tweaked shape for the rear microphone near the iPhone 5S's camera. The 5S could also get a bigger ...
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Android
by Stephen Schenck | May 23, 2013 6:48 PMRead OnBack in March, we heard about an upcoming Huawei flagship that – if the rumors were true – would take the top spot as the world's thinnest smartphone. We had heard similar rumors earlier in the year which ended up missing the mark, so we didn't give it an overabundance of attention. Since then, more evidence has arrived showing-off a 6.2-millimeter thick handset ...
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Android / Windows Phone
by Taylor Martin | May 23, 2013 6:27 PMRead OnNokia is a name that is synonymous with great build quality and hardware, awesome mobile cameras, and now Windows Phone. Nokia penned a deal with Microsoft in 2011, pushing its efforts to improve Symbian as a leading smartphone OS and the MeeGo project with Intel to the back burner. As we've learned, however, Nokia's decision to go all-in on Windows Phone ...
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Android
by Stephen Schenck | May 23, 2013 5:28 PMRead OnThe Google Galaxy S 4 will be here in just over a month, but even if the idea of that flexible, hackable GS4 has you salivating at the thought, there are a number of serious limitations that could stand in the way of your being able to enjoy the handset. Beyond the fact that the Google GS4 will (at least at first) be a US-exclusive, it's also incompatible with CDMA ...
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iOS / Windows Phone
by Stephen Schenck | May 23, 2013 4:38 PM
Read OnMicrosoft continues to try and stir-up interest in its tablet offerings, taking the latest step of putting up a page on its site to let visitors do a spec-by-spec comparison between the iPad and a number of Windows 8 and Windows RT tablets. A small controversy has ensued following the page's publication, as some people try and claim that Microsoft is misleading the ...
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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 ...
