Watch today's Pocketnow Daily as we talk about how Samsung was lucky enough to be dropped almost $450 Million in damages in their Apple vs Samsung trial. Then we talk Nokia as we've got tons of rumors of an aluminum device code-name Catwalk, and we also have additional talks of a water proof lumia in the works. Sony is up next as that 4.8-inch 1080p device that we expected for MWC is now being rumored for the Summer. The FCC then gives us some good news as their chairman has confirmed that he'll look at the carrier unlock legal issues. We end today's news by talking about the thicker, ...

Watch today's Pocketnow Daily as we talk about how Google doesn't seem to like the idea of building their own retail stores. We later talk about the rumored HTC Tiara, which proves that HTC is still committed to building Windows Phones. Then we talk about Nokia and their expansion plans, though instead of bringing more phones, they're clearly becoming more of a software company. The dual-screen Yotaphone is next, as we show you some hands-on coverage of the device at MWC 2013. We end today's show talking about how even Apple's Ad gurus admit that Samsung Ads are making a dent in their ...

You might have heard of Mailbox: an iPhone-only app that claims to change the way we use email. Even if you want to use it right now, you can't, unless you were among the first to reserve your spot in line. If you download the app today, you're looking at an 800,000 person line. Orchestra (parent company of Mailbox) is doing this to ensure that their servers can handle the processing of millions of emails; Mailbox does some server-side action to compress your emails, strip out unnecessary stuff, and push it to your phone in an attempt to provide a fast email experience. And boy, does it ...

If you compare today's smartphones with the best handsets offered four or five years ago, it's truly astounding how far everything has come. Yesterday, I briefly explained in an editorial about a rumored Ultrapixel camera that mobile hardware and performance have began to transcend the boundaries of the limitations often associated with mobile technology. Rarely, however, do we stop and think about how powerful our pocket-sized computers truly are. But with mobile processors clocked at speeds that rival some full-fledged computers and featuring anywhere from two to eight cores, pinhole ...

We've all been there. You pull your phone out of your pocket and notice something is off. Slide past the lock screen and you notice that, for whatever reason, your phone is back to factory settings. (For the record, I have had this happen with every mobile OS I have used to date.) Or maybe you have lost a phone. Having to go through the motions to get your phone back to how it should be is never a fun process. It's time consuming, and sometimes important information is gone forever, irrecoverable. Fortunately, there is a solution – precautionary steps that prevent sensitive or important ...

Something that has always bothered me about iOS is that there are heavy animations throughout the operating system. Whether you're moving between items in a list, going back to the homescreen, launching apps, opening folders, or emailing a photo, there are long, slow animations at every turn. This gives the appearance of smoothness and fluidity, but it's also tremendously ineffecient. Android lets you turn off animations in Developer Options out of the box, but in iOS, you can't doing anything about it. Unless, that is, you jailbreak and download the free app Accelerate. It lets you set a ...

Despite an absence of hard evidence to support such a thing, theories about Apple introducing a larger-screened iPhone sometime over the course of the next year refuse to die out. We've already heard a whole mess of rumors about the possibility of a 4.8-inch iPhone, either arriving late this year of sometime in 2014. The latest voice to weigh-in on the subject is an analyst at Barclays Capital, championing the idea that Apple could introduce a 5.0-inch iPhone phablet sometime in that same year-end timeframe. Honestly, we're inclined to put a whole lot less faith in this than previous ...

Three years after we were all wowed at all that Epic Citadel proved the iPhone 4 could do, Epic Games has just brought the same Unreal Engine 3 technology to Android. In a nutshell this is pretty much the same version we've seen for iOS ever since it was launched, but it offers the kick of providing benchmarking as well. With this new version you can test frame rates, quality settings, and resolution details. Now even though the iOS version was recently updated as well to support higher resolutions, the benchmarking seems to be an Android exclusive. I'm sure Epic Games understands just how ...