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by Michael Fisher | April 26, 2013 8:08 PMRead OnYes, yes: we know the official English-language prefix for "eight" is "octo," but you have to agree that octa just sounds -and looks- a whole lot better. And based on Samsung's choice of spelling on the box that just rolled into our office, the company agrees with us. Besides, admit it: after a week spent watching us dissect the quad-core American variant of the Galaxy S 4, you're hankering for a peek at its Exynos-powered eight-core sibling, no matter how we spell it. Behold: the phone we Yankees call the "international version" of Samsung's latest Android flagship, known to its friends ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | April 26, 2013 9:33 AMRead OnASUS was teasing the Fonepad in its videos prior to MWC and, at the show, the company introduced a concept which I have personally been waiting for for a long time. You either love it or hate it, there's no middle road there, really. It's a tablet that has an earpiece so that it can double as a phone. Surely, other tablets have phone functionality too but you are limited to either using the speakerphone or some fancy bluetooth accessory which might or might not be included. This is not the case with the Fonepad; just bring it up to your ear, talk, and don't mind all the looks people are ...
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by Taylor Martin | April 12, 2013 11:19 AMRead OnHTC and Facebook teamed up last week at 1 Hacker Way in Menlo Park, California to (hopefully) lay to rest the remaining rumors of any official Facebook phone. Facebook unveiled its latest product, Home, and HTC announced its newest device, the First, the first phone to run Facebook Home out of the box. On the outside, the HTC First is an extremely minimal device. Its all matte-finished exterior and lack of major branding make it very subtle, and its specifications are extremely modest. It features a 4.3-inch 720p display, 1.4GHz dual-core Snapdragon 400 chip, 1GB RAM, 16GB fixed storage, a ...
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by Taylor Martin | April 9, 2013 9:00 AMRead OnAt Mobile World Congress in February, Samsung announced the latest addition to its expansive tablet lineup, the Galaxy Note 8.0. Tony and Michael had some hands-on with the GSM model (with the controversial earpiece speaker and Phone functionalities in tow) in Barcelona. But we've been waiting to get our hands on the WiFi-only model. Needless to say, it arrived late last week. And as per usual, we gave it the unboxing treatment with all the ums, uhs and other inaudible mumblings you can shake a stick at! Don't forget to click the play button below!
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by Taylor Martin | April 3, 2013 12:49 PMRead OnWhile LG may not have the weight Samsung has in the market for extra large phones, it's no stranger to phone-tablet hybrids. LG released the Optimus Vu last year, as well as the Optimus Vu II. But the less common 4:3 aspect ratio made the 5-inch devices look and feel much larger than they truly were, resulting in a rather unwieldy experience. Enter the LG Optimus G Pro. On the outside, it may be a Galaxy Note II look-alike, but LG's model has some notable improvements over Samsung's gargantuan phone. But there are also some things about the Optimus G Pro that are off-putting. Either way, ...
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by Michael Fisher | March 12, 2013 4:27 PMRead OnSometimes, the word "unboxing" alone just doesn't fit. It's too cursory, too flippant. De-boxing videos used to be a novelty, but now everyone does them for products ranging from dumbphones to screen protectors. And while all unboxings are fun in their own peculiar way, some devices call for more. A high-end smartphone, after all, deserves a high-end unboxing - doesn't it? Introducing a new kind of package-shedding video: a "premium" unboxing. We weren't in a rush for this one, as literally thousands of sweaty fingers all over the internet have already tapped and grazed the chamfered bezel ...
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by Taylor Martin | March 11, 2013 2:16 PMRead OnSony announced the Xperia Z and Xperia ZL at CES earlier this year. With the exception of waterproofing and some outward appearances, the two devices are very similar on paper. The Xperia ZL comes with a 5-inch 1080p display, 1.5GHz quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro chipset, 2GB RAM, 16GB built-in storage, a microSD card slot and a 2,370mAh battery. The ZL just arrived on Taylor's doorstep, so he gave the Xperia ZL the good ol' unboxing treatment. What are you waiting for? Check out the video below! P.S. I call this device the Xperia Z in the beginning by mistake (more like force of habit). It ...
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by Taylor Martin | March 5, 2013 2:02 AMRead OnSony unveiled the Xperia Z and Xperia ZL at CES in January. As far as specifications go, the two smartphones rival some of the best phones announced this year so far. The Xperia Z features a 5-inch 1080p display, 1.5Ghz quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro chip, 2GB RAM, 16GB built-in storage with a microSD card slot, 13.1-megapixel camera, 2.2-megapixel front-facing camera and a 2,330mAh battery. But that's not all the Xperia Z has up its sleeve. It also has a dustproof and waterproof coating to keep out those dangerous and pesky elements. And the design of the Z is exceptional. Its hard lines, ...
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by Michael Fisher | January 23, 2013 5:50 PMRead OnThe ATIV S might've been the star of the show last month, but Samsung still hasn't managed to get the high-end Windows Phone onto U.S. carrier shelves. In its place comes the ATIV Odyssey, a mid-tier model for Verizon Wireless we took a quick look at in Vegas. It's this midrange handset, and not the bigger ATIV S, that lays claim to the title of first Samsung-built Windows Phone 8 device for the U.S. market. Specs are predictably underwhelming, with a 4-inch 800x480 Super AMOLED display, 5MP primary camera, and 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4 CPU backed up by a solitary gig of RAM, but there are ...
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by Michael Fisher | December 7, 2012 5:48 PMRead OnWe're no stranger to the Lumia 8xx series of Windows Phone 8 devices here at Pocketnow. The Lumia 810 got our full review treatment a little while back, the Lumia 822 helped us launch our new Quick Review format just a couple days ago, and just this afternoon, we received the device that served as the basis for both of those custom variants. Its 4.3-inch AMOLED display, 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 CPU, and 8MP camera haven't changed, but the radio guts, casing design, look and feel are something else entirely. Behold: the Nokia Lumia 820 for AT&T. Click below for the first of the ...
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by Michael Fisher | November 30, 2012 5:14 PMRead OnWe've already reviewed one variant of Nokia's midrange Lumia 820 -the Luma 810 for T-Mobile USA- but there's enough different on both the inside and the outside of Verizon Wireless' variant that we thought we'd take another dip into the mid-tier Windows Phone 8 pool. The 822 is a curvier, thicker, but lighter take on the Lumia 820, with a design that summons images of a pebble when viewed from behind, and whose front side packs a little more "chin music" than we're used to. It runs the latest version of Windows Phone 8, projecting it onto a 4.3-inch ClearBlack AMOLED display. It's powered ...
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by Michael Fisher | November 16, 2012 2:53 PMRead OnSometimes you pre-order a technology product and it doesn't go as well as you'd like. Sometimes you talk about that rough pre-order process on a podcast episode, and right after you hang up the mic, life hits you square in the irony with a buzz at the door from the delivery man. That's what happened just a few minutes ago here in our Boston office. We'd just wrapped up recording this week's Pocketnow Weekly podcast when a mysterious package arrived at our door. Putting aside our qualms about the ominously unspecific return address, we promptly busted out our Old-Timer unboxing knife, set ...
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by Michael Fisher | November 13, 2012 9:54 PMRead On"It is not a phablet." HTC's stern declaration to the assembled press regarding the category of its latest Android smartphone was a little odd when it hit our ears at this morning's announcement, but the reason for the fuss quickly became apparent. Any time a company launches a device that breaks the five-inch-display barrier, there's bound to be speculation about its size -surely mammoth- and its weight -surely massive. In heading off the "phablet" talk right at the top of the announcement, HTC and Verizon let everyone know that despite its massive screen, the new Droid DNA was very ...
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by Michael Fisher | November 9, 2012 6:14 PMRead OnIt's been nearly six months since we last hosted a Windows Phone device in the Boston offices of Pocketnow, but in the past six hours we've welcomed in two of the newest and hottest. The Nokia Lumia 920 and Nokia Lumia 810 each enjoyed an unboxing in our studio this afternoon. Neither is a light or a small device, but the product we tour in this video is bigger and heavier than both of them combined. Times ten. It must've been all the excitement around the Windows Phone 8 launch, coupled with the irresistible promise of wireless charging mated with loud, bass-y audio. When I reported to ...
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by Michael Fisher | November 9, 2012 3:15 PMRead OnThe Lumia 920 and the Windows Phone 8X aren't the only Microsoft-tastic devices to get excited about this November -- particularly if you're on a bit of a budget, and especially if you're a T-Mobile USA customer. The Nokia Lumia 810 is a variation on Nokia's newest midrange Windows Phone 8 offering, custom-tailored for America's most magenta carrier. It features a 4.3-inch OLED display with WVGA resolution and Nokia's "Clear Black" technology, and it's powered by a dual core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus running at 1.5GHz, backed up by a gig of RAM. The camera is 8MP with Carl Zeiss optics ...
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