Yesterday we told you about some new rumors dealing with Microsoft's follow-up to its first Windows 8 tablets, the Surface RT and Surface Pro. According to that info, we'd be seeing a 7-to-9-inch tablet launch quite soon, possibly in late June. Well, we'll know how accurate that guess was in just a matter of weeks, but today we hear a new assessment about what to expect from this next Microsoft Surface tablet, and this tale has us waiting quite a while. Instead of a June launch, analysts are predicting sometime in 2014, instead. Supposedly, Microsoft is only just getting started sourcing ...

Thanks to a number of leaks, we've got a pretty good idea what the unannounced Nokia Lumia 928 is going to look like. This guy feels like he's been hanging in the shadows so long that we're aching to learn when Nokia's finally planning to go public with the model. With a Nokia event just two weeks away, we're anxious to see if the 928 will take the spotlight, but in the meantime we might have just caught a sneak peak at the 928 in action, where it might have just showed up at separate Nokia gathering. This shindig was no product announcement, but a private concert where Nokia provided ...

A few weeks back, some seriously compelling evidenced surface which made it appear that Google was looking to introduce some sort of major Android gaming service, tying together lots of individual games with online matchmaking, leaderboards, and achievements. As we wait to see if anything along these lines will be announced at Google I/O, a new Google hire has us thinking once again about this growing focus the company might be placing on mobile gaming. Noah Falstein has spent years in the industry, getting started on the awesome arcade game Sinistar in the early '80s. Last month, Google ...

With the exception of Nokia and its Lumia 520 and 720 models, the last few months have been pretty quiet when it comes to new Windows Phone hardware. There have been plenty of rumors about what might be next, and today we get to hear a few new ones, with some claims attempting to round-up what hardware will be arriving in the near future. Now, this info comes from a Reddit thread, and while it's posted with some authority, we really can't attest to just how accurate any of it is; as such, please don't take any of this as gospel. We've already talked a lot about Nokia's EOS and Catwalk ...

Yesterday, we got confirmation that the bootloader on the AT&T Galaxy S 4 was locked, and rumors suggested similar fates for the phone on other carriers. While not everyone is even going to care about a thing like a locked bootloader, those of you who love tricking-out your phones with custom ROMs were no doubt a little bummed. That's why we're glad to see that progress is already being made to free these phones from their chains, with evidence arriving of a bootloader hack. Noted Android hacker Dan Rosenberg posted the above picture to his Twitter account, which sure enough, appears ...

We have heard a whole lot of claims about the HTC M4 over the past several months. Some of those suggested it would be a smaller version of the HTC One, with a metal body and all. Some said that the M4 would be more like an HTC First sans Facebook, with the same 4.3-inch 720p screen. Today a very believable-looking render of the phone has arrived alongside some updated specs and it sort of seems like everyone was right: we get that HTC One look alongside that HTC First display. While there are a few tweaks, the design here is largely the same as the One's. The only changes we can spot are ...

NEC is no stranger to smartphones, but much like Sharp, it's not a manufacturer we get to talk about much, with the lion's share of its handsets never crossing the Pacific from Asia. It popped on our radar a little earlier this year when we saw the crazy dual-screened NEC Medias W at the Mobile World Congress, but that was the exception that proves the rule. Surprisingly, it now seems that an NEC Android could be fixing to come to US shores after all, upon a render leaking of the NEC Terrain for AT&T. As if being an NEC model wasn't enough, we're cranking-up the unusual factor here by ...

Gaga? Dogo? When it comes to codenames attached to rumored Sony Xperia smartphones, we've heard some pretty unusual monikers. Today we get some new gossip about two such models, as well as some upcoming Sony display tech. Let's start with Togari, because that's one name we've heard a couple times before. Last we heard, Togari was supposed to be a big 6.4-inch 1080p phablet. Today we don't get any new info on its specs, but do hear a little about its supposed design. According to someone claiming to be a tester, Togari will share many design cues with the Xperia Z. It should be quite thin, ...