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 what you need, as a couple new leaks have revealed what just might be the iPhone 5S's motherboard and its display panel. There have been fakes in the past – especially when it comes to iPhone circuit boards – so what makes ...

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 to considerably higher-end hardware than the likes of which we're seeing from the first Firefox OS efforts. Today, we continue to learn about what to expect from Tizen hardware, checking out some evidence that Samsung is ...

Huawei's Ascend P6, the company's new super-thin Android flagship, has been leaking like a rusty bucket for several weeks now, and we've seen hardware renders, UI screenshots, and checked out some relatively decent rumored specs. Still, we had a few lingering questions, so it's great to see Huawei finally make things official today, announcing the Ascend P6 at a London event. So, what have we got? Pretty much exactly what we were expecting: a 4.7-inch 720p screen, 2GB of RAM, and a 1.5GHz quad-core K3V2 SoC. Those specs would be a lot more impressive on a phone coming out in 2012, but ...

So far, Windows Phone has done an admirable job at avoiding temptations to get caught up in the hardware spec rat race, as so many Android OEMs do. WP hardware may not have the highest-end components around, but darn it – it gets the job done. Still, while the platform may not be racing to adopt the bleeding edge, it does need to modernize itself from time to time – just look at the addition of 720p support last year. We've already heard rumors that 1080p could be in the platform's future, along with support for new SoCs to help drive all those pixels. The latter's where our interest ...

With all the leaks we've been seeing in recent weeks, it's sure felt like Nokia's first 41-megapixel Windows Phone model, so far known by codename EOS, was nearly ready to launch. Last week, we learned of invitations going out for a July 11 Nokia event that sure seemed to hint that it could mark the announcement of the EOS. Today we add some more fuel to that launch fire, with an unknown Nokia handset passing through the FCC that sure could be the EOS. Nokia model RM-877 includes support for HSPA+ on the 850, 1700, and 1900MHz bands, as well as LTE on bands 2, 4, 5, and 17. Bands 4 and 17 ...

It's been a couple weeks since we first got confirmation of the Moto X, capping-off months of Motorola "X phone" rumors. Even before we had that name, we had been hearing quite a bit of talk about the phone's possible hardware specs, and tried to gain some insight from potential benchmark results. What we were able to suss out sure made the X seem a lot less capable than the 2013 flagship phones we're seeing from companies like HTC, Samsung, or Sony. Now some newly arrived Moto X specs have leaked, and while they finally go into detail about a number of the hardware's capabilities, they ...

You know it had to happen: no sooner do we finally start coming around to the idea of 1080p screens on smartphones – that maybe they're not completely overkill and can meaningfully contribute to a phone's specs – when now there's talk of handsets with even higher resolutions. According to some industry sources, we could start seeing devices arrive in 2014 with six-inch WQXGA screens: that's a resolution of 2560 x 1600. We're already familiar with such high-res displays, but in much larger sizes, like the 10-inch component on the Nexus 10. While a WQXGA screen that size still has a ...

We've seen a big uptick in interest lately towards bringing a proper console-quality gaming experience to smartphone users. While the processing power has been there, the larger issue has been about control – touchscreens are fine for plenty of things, but traditional gaming ain't one of them. On the Android front, we've seen projects like NVIDIA's Shield attempt to meld console-style controllers with a smartphone to overcome those limitations. There's a similar movement taking place over on iOS, and that accessory pictured up above just might be one of the first Apple-certified ...