Tag: Mobile phones
BlackBerry Q10 sells like hot cakes at Selfridges, breaks store records
UK retailer Selfridges has announced that the newly-released BlackBerry Q10 handset has broken the company's technology sales record during its opening weekend at retail. The QWERTY keyboard phone is the second in BlackBerry's new line of BB10 smartphones and was…
iPhone 5S pre-orders may open on June 20, ship in July
A newly-leaked carrier roadmap has made its way to French tech blog Nowhere Else that suggests the iPhone 5S will be available to pre-order on June 20. The document, intended to aid shopfloor sales assistants for Japanese telecom KDDI's "au"…
Smartphones are now outselling cheap feature phones for the first time ever
Fancy pants smartphones are now outselling cheaper feature phones for the first time in history, according to new findings from research firm IDC. Tracking shipments over the first three months of 2013, 51.6% of the 418.6 million mobile phones shipped…
Mobile phone theft crimes on the rise in England, while all other crime falls
Mobile phone theft is the only rising crime in England and Wales, with virtually every other form of crime dropping since 2011. "Theft from the person" (the police's fancy new way of saying muggings), under which header many mobile phone…
Samsung Galaxy S4 best contract deals compared: O2, Three, Orange, Vodafone, EE, T-Mobile, Tesco
The Samsung Galaxy S4, the long-awaited smartphone successor to the company's world-beating Galaxy S3, finally goes on sale this weekend. The flagship handset looks set to go up against the impressive HTC One handset, with the Galaxy S4 packing in…
LG to launch flexible screen OLED smartphone late this year
Yoga fans, rejoice! LG have announced plans to launch a smartphone with a flexible OLED display before the end of the year. Revealed during the company's financial results call, few details beyond a planned Q4 2013 release date were offered,…
Nokia Asha 210 Symbian smartphone has dedicated WhatsApp button
Taking the fight to the Facebook Home-packing HTC First Android smartphone and BBM-equipped BlackBerry handsets, Nokia have launched the social-focussed Asha 210. A budget-orientated smartphone, the Nokia Asha 210 uses the ageing Symbian operating system and packs in a QWERTY…
HTC One faces more supply woes as Nokia wins band on mic tech
Can't someone cut HTC some slack? First it was struggling sales, then it was supply shortages. Now the ailing smartphone manufacturer has to contend with a set-back for its critically-acclaimed HTC One handset, as Nokia has won a ruling that…
HTC Desire L looks to boost company's mid-range smartphone line
HTC have revealed the Desire L Android smartphone, a new mid-range blower intended to bolster the company's budget-end line-up. Popping in a 4.3-inch display, HTC have equipped the Desire L with a 5MP camera, a 1GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of…
Nokia post steady Q1 2013 results as Lumia sales start to take off
Nokia seem to have finally turned the corner, with the release of their Q1 2013 financial results showing solid sales of their Lumia line up. The Finnish company has posted net sales of 5.85 billion Euros for the quarter, selling…
