It was an inevitability: with Samsung's Galaxy S 4 firmly arrived, rumors are already beginning to show up for next year's flagship, the Galaxy S 5. Now, it may seem premature to start talking about things like SoC choice quite this far out, when we don't really even have a strong sense of what the options will be, but today's rumor has very different focus, looking at the GS5's design, instead. If we're to believe this source, Samsung could be taking a page from HTC and the One, and deliver a fully-aluminum Galaxy S 5. This tidbit comes from an anonymous "trusted source close to the South ...

Cheap Android tablets are expected at a price point as low as $99. A recent report speculates that such budget slates might land towards the third quarter of the year. The claim is based on the fact that manufacturers are now apparently competing in the price department. ASUS recently announced its MeMo Pad HD 7 slate which goes for as low as $129 (for the 8GB storage version). The report claims that such move might force other OEMs to lower the price of future Android tablets. $99 is expected to be the target threshold. With first-tier brand vendors fighting to lower the price, ...

Ever since Nokia hitched its wagon to Microsoft and Windows Phone, it's been difficult to think of the two companies as wholly independent entities; after all, Nokia's carrying the bulk of WP smartphone sales, and Microsoft gives the OEM some special access that other Windows Phone manufacturers aren't similarly able to enjoy. As such, it's no news to learn that the two are working closely together, but some new comments from Nokia reps have us wondering if specific could be in the works for this summer. At a recent UK Lumia 925 event, Nokia talked about "working even closer" with ...

Yesterday, we brought you some images of a device purporting to be the in-development Galaxy Note III, with what looked like a big six-inch screen. Today, that's joined by a new picture, apparently showing the Note III next to a couple other phones. No soon has it hit the scene, though, that we're hearing claims that it's a fake (or at least being misrepresented) and what we're really looking at is the Galaxy Mega 6.3. Does that theory hold up to scrutiny? GSM Arena prepared the lovely analysis of the new image above, using known measurements of that Nokia handset to identify the screen ...

A couple weeks back, we took some time to talk to you about Waze, the crowd-sourced navigation app that compiles user-submitted data to let you find the fastest, least congested, and overall best routes around. At the time, rumors were flying all over concerning Waze's interest in being acquired by a heavyweight like Facebook. As it turns out, Google manage to slide in with the winning bid, and today announced its acquisition of Waze. So, what does this mean for the app? You may remember from our earlier look that we had some serious reservations about how a move like this might affect our ...

Apple's iOS 7 announcement yesterday seems almost reserved; we didn't have the news dominated by any one big feature like Siri, and instead saw deep-rooted change (to varying extents) wash over the platform as a whole. All those little tweaks sure add up, though, and the sum of their parts made for a pretty darn attractive update to the aging OS. Apple's changes caught the eye of some of its competition, and late last night the new Android head honcho Sundar Pinchai took to Twitter to voice his interest. Pichai claims to be "excited to try out iOS7 beta," though that's of course contingent ...

While Facebook continues to try and make things work with new updates, it's hardly controversial to suggest that its Facebook Home is something between a slow-burner that hasn't quite found its success yet, and an abject failure. The one ray of sunshine that really managed to shine through the whole thing has been the idea of Chat Heads, which Facebook was smart enough to separately build into Messenger. We even saw the idea capture the imagination of the custom ROM community, and Paranoid Android introduced its own Halo feature inspired by Chat Heads. We've shown you just how Halo works, ...

Back in late May, we caught wind of curious goings-on happening over at the Bluetooth SIG. While it's no oddity to see devices get their Bluetooth certification published as they prepare for launch, last month we looked at a brand new certification just filed for the Nexus 7. While there's no good reason for the SIG to be doing that, as far as what info was publicly available, it all might make sense if this was somehow tied to the upcoming release of Android 4.3, which could bring the platform new Bluetooth functionality (4.0 LE mode, to be specific). We've yet to see that happen (despite ...