Mobile phones: News
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LG Optimus F3: Budget 4G Smartphone In The Works
Romain Thuret - Mobiles & Smartphones - 23/05/13 13:05LG, 'the other' South Korean brand, has decided to occupy a larger spot on the mobile market, and has chosen the 4G sector as its in. The F series already...
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Article: A Look Inside An LG Smartphone Factory
Vincent Alzieu - Mobiles & Smartphones - 23/05/13 08:58Ever wonder where smartphones come from? We recently took a trip to South Korea to visit LG, and while we were there the company gave us a tour of...
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BlackBerry Q5: Hands-On, Photos & Details
Romain Thuret - Mobiles & Smartphones - 17/05/13 13:12The BlackBerry Q5 is BlackBerry adding depth to its BlackBerry 10 OS smartphone range. Here's a hands-on view of this new handset, which has been officially confirmed for the UK...
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ZTE Presents Grand X2 In Intel-Powered 4.5" Smartphone
Florence Legrand - Mobiles & Smartphones - 17/05/13 10:50ZTE has announced a new Android Jelly Bean smartphone with a 4.5" screen and a 2 GHz Intel Atom Z2580 dual-core processor. ZTE, the world's fourth largest smartphone-seller as of...
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TouchWiz on the Samsung Galaxy S4: What's Useful... And What's Useless
Romain Thuret - Mobiles & Smartphones - 16/05/13 10:42Last week we reviewed the Samsung Galaxy S4; now we thought we'd take a deeper look into the various features Samsung introduced with the new version of TouchWiz: Air...
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Google Unveils Nexus Version of Samsung's Galaxy S4!
Romain Thuret - Mobiles & Smartphones - 16/05/13 10:38Web-search giant Google unveiled its own version of the Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone at its I/O conference yesterday. This alternative version of Samsung's star handset has been stripped of...
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BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) Coming to iOS and Android This Summer
Romain Thuret - Mobiles & Smartphones - 15/05/13 09:25As this year's BlackBerry Live conference drew to a close, the only real announcement of the day looked to be the Q5 handset for emerging markets. But then—bam—BlackBerry CEO, Thorsten...
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BlackBerry Announces Q5 Handset with Physical Keyboard
Romain Thuret - Mobiles & Smartphones - 15/05/13 09:10There were relatively few surprises on the hardware front at this year's BlackBerry Live conference. However, the Canadian phone-maker did announce one new handset, the Q5, aimed at emerging markets....
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Nokia Lumia 925: "The Best Smartphone Ever" (Photos)
Florence Legrand - Mobiles & Smartphones - 14/05/13 15:14Nokia presented the Lumia 925 Windows Phone at the brand's press conference today in London, declaring it "the best smartphone ever". But, as you may have guessed, the real star...
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Sony Xperia ZR: an Xperia Z "Mini"
Gaëtan Alzieu - Mobiles & Smartphones - 14/05/13 09:48Sony just announced the Xperia ZR, a new smartphone it says will hit stores by July. The new handset is a compact version of the Xperia Z smartphone, which has...
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Samsung Galaxy Core vs. Acer Liquid E2 Duo
Gaëtan Alzieu - Mobiles & Smartphones - 13/05/13 14:12The Galaxy Core, Samsung's new 4.3-inch mid-market smartphone is set for UK release this July. Samsung hasn't released the price yet, but it will be coming in two versions: single-SIM...
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Asha 501: Nokia's Less-Than-Entry-Level Smartphone
Gaëtan Alzieu - Mobiles & Smartphones - 13/05/13 10:47Nokia's back with a new low-end smartphone, the Asha 501. Running the company's in-house operating system, the Asha 501 will be released in the UK this summer. Its recommended US...
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Smartphone Review: Samsung Galaxy S4
Romain Thuret - Mobiles & Smartphones - 09/05/13 09:13Today we're reviewing the already-mythic Samsung Galaxy S4, the follow-up to last year's flagship Galaxy S3. On the outside, the Galaxy S4 is not radically different from the S3, but...
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Microsoft Working on Boosting Touch-Sensitivity
Vincent Alzieu - Mobiles & Smartphones - 06/05/13 09:16As you may already know, we recently developed a new test for smartphones and tablets to assess the responsiveness of their touchscreen controls. We've tested around 30 devices so...
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Microsoft Takes Jab at Apple and Samsung in New Ad
Marine Goy - Mobiles & Smartphones - 03/05/13 13:51As it can't seem to beat Apple and Samsung in sales, Microsoft has taken the humour route with a new ad promoting the Nokia Lumia 920. The ad shows two...
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Drop Test: iPhone 5 vs Galaxy S3 vs Galaxy S4
Axel Mendy - Mobiles & Smartphones - 02/05/13 15:24Just how tough is Samsung's new Galaxy S4? That's exactly what YouTube channel Gizmoslip decided to find out in a drop test featuring the Galaxy S4, the Galaxy S3 and...
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Smartphone Review: Acer Liquid E1
Axel Mendy - Mobiles & Smartphones - 02/05/13 11:31The Acer Liquid E1 is an entry-level Android smartphone with a 4.5-inch screen that also comes in a dual-SIM version, the Liquid E1 Duo. Acer used DTS Sound for the...
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Samsung Galaxy S4 AMOLED Screen Put to the Test
Romain Thuret - Mobiles & Smartphones - 30/04/13 14:29The Samsung Galaxy S4 was finally released at the weekend. Ahead of our full review of this latest flagship handset, coming next week, we've put the phone's 5" Full HD...
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Smartphone Shipments Edge Past Feature Phones
Florence Legrand - Mobiles & Smartphones - 29/04/13 11:09Samsung and Apple now account for 50% of the smartphone market, with Samsung still out in the lead as the undisputed leader worldwide. What's more, Q1 2013 saw more smartphones...
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New Touch-Responsiveness Test: Results For 21 Smartphones and Tablets
Régis Jehl - Mobiles & Smartphones - 26/04/13 12:24We've developed a new test for smartphones and tablets to assess the responsiveness of the touchscreen controls. We've already put 21 devices to the test, and it seems that not...
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Galaxy S4: The Best Camera Phone on the Market
Florence Legrand / Romain Thuret - Mobiles & Smartphones - 25/04/13 15:41We received our Samsung Galaxy S4 yesterday, and we've already run it through the photo lab. So what's the skinny on the 13 Mpx camera? Could the GS4 be the...
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Smartphone Review: Nokia Lumia 520
Florence Legrand - Mobiles & Smartphones - 25/04/13 14:21The Nokia Lumia 520 is a Windows Phone 8 handset that costs roughly £150. It comes in an array of attention-grabbing colours and has respectable hardware for an entry-level model,...
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Samsung Galaxy S4: Hands-On, Photos, First Impressions
Florence Legrand - Mobiles & Smartphones - 24/04/13 14:55Samsung was showing off its Galaxy S4 in Paris yesterday—a great opportunity for us to get a closer look at the firm's new flagship high-end Android handset. As top dog...
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Android: 1.5 Million Handsets Activated Daily, 1 Billion Sold By 2014
Florence Legrand - Mobiles & Smartphones - 17/04/13 14:32Eric Schmidt, the ex-CEO-turned-Executive Chairman of Google, declared yesterday that no fewer than 1.5 million Android smartphones are activated every day, on 320 service providers and in 160 countries. Apparently,...
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Geekin' It Up: The ZTE Geek, a Smartphone with a Clover Trail+ SoC
Axel Mendy - Mobiles & Smartphones - 11/04/13 14:33At the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in Beijing, ZTE presented one of its latest concoctions, the ZTE Geek, a smartphone that runs on an Intel Clover Trail+ system-on-chip. With the...
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Smartphone Duel: Sony Xperia Z vs HTC One
Florence Legrand - Mobiles & Smartphones - 11/04/13 13:23Sony Xperia Z or the HTC One? It's time to make a choice. Beyond their visual styles, which of these two smartphones provides the best user experience? On one side...
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AU Optronics To Announce 5" Full HD OLED Smartphone Screen
Pierre-Jean Alzieu - Mobiles & Smartphones - 10/04/13 15:01At China International Optoelectronic Exposition (CIOE), AU Optronics is getting ready to unveil its latest creation, a 5-inch Full HD OLED smartphone display with 443 dpi resolution. The resolution...
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Smartphone Buyer's Guide Updated
Florence Legrand - Mobiles & Smartphones - 07/04/13 13:50We've just updated out pick of the best mobile phones on the market, now featuring the Samsung Galaxy Note 2, Apple iPhone 5, HTC One, Sony Xperia Z and more....
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Facebook Finds A Mobile Home, Google Gets Its Panties In A Bunch
Florence Legrand - Mobiles & Smartphones - 05/04/13 15:20Yesterday Facebook showed off Home, its new app for Android phones designed to plant Facebook at the very heart of the mobile user experience (and divert some of Google's advertising...
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HTC One: STMicroelectronics on THAT 4-Megapixel Sensor
Florence Legrand - Mobiles & Smartphones - 05/04/13 09:45While the heavyweights of the mobile phone world are all busy upping the pixel-count in their cameraphones, HTC has loaded its flagship One handset with "just" 4 Megapixels. Time to...
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Smartphone Review: LG Optimus G
Florence Legrand - Mobiles & Smartphones - 04/04/13 13:57After already making the rounds for months in North America and Asia, the Optimus G finally hit the UK last week. In its arsenal is a serious set of specs...
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Samsung Galaxy Mega Phablet Range
Florence Legrand - Mobiles & Smartphones - 04/04/13 08:49Samsung, the world's top smartphone seller, could be gearing up to out a new series of phablets in Q2 2013. Bigger = better, it seems. With an updated version of...
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Camp Grounded: The Digital Detox Summer Camp in California
Florence Legrand - Mobiles & Smartphones - 03/04/13 09:53Camp Grounded is a summer camp in California where tech-addicted adults can spend a weekend in the county far-removed from their online lives and electronic gadgetry. Campers can rediscover the...
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Facebook Phone by HTC Coming Next Week?
Florence Legrand - Mobiles & Smartphones - 29/03/13 13:24Facebook has sent members of the American press a mysterious invitation to an event bearing the caption 'Come See Our New Home On Android'. Has the world's number one social...
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Smartphone Review: HTC One
Florence Legrand - Mobiles & Smartphones - 28/03/13 14:33The HTC One is somewhat of a last chance for a company in need of a swift comeback. After nearly being picked apart by its Android adversaries over the past...
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[UPDATE]: HTC One Release Delayed Yet Again
Florence Legrand - Mobiles & Smartphones - 25/03/13 14:01The HTC One is suffering a second round of delays in its wait to be released, and may start shipping at the same time as one of its most fearsome...
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BlackBerry World Reaches 100,000 Applications
Florence Legrand - Mobiles & Smartphones - 25/03/13 13:33Two months after outing its new BB10 mobile operating system, the BlackBerry World store has reached 100,000 applications. Anyone with a Z10 will no doubt be pleased to hear that...
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Sony Xperia Z: Sudden Death!
Romain Thuret - Mobiles & Smartphones - 22/03/13 13:53Ever since Sony Mobile released its new flagship handset, the Xperia Z, users have been reporting bizarre cases of sudden and instantaneous phone death. The horror... Attention Xperia Z owners,...
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Smartphone Review: Sony Xperia Z
Romain Thuret - Mobiles & Smartphones - 21/03/13 14:16Sony's first smartphone with a 5-inch Full HD display, the Xperia Z is the latest feather in the cap of a company that's striving to become the Number One Android...
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[Update] HTC One vs Sony Xperia Z: Cameras In Low Lighting
Renaud Labracherie / Morgane Alzieu - Mobiles & Smartphones - 18/03/13 08:09We've just added the HTC One to the smartphone camera Face-Off, where you can compare pictures we took on it with other flagship smartphones, such as the iPhone 5 and...
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Samsung Galaxy S4: 5" Full HD Screen, 13-MP Camera, 2 GB RAM
Romain Thuret - Mobiles & Smartphones - 15/03/13 09:52Samsung finally presented its 2013 flagship Galaxy S4 Android smartphone last night in New York. Measuring 137 x 70 x 7.9 mm and weighing 130 grammes, it's almost the same...
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HTC One In The House. Let The Testing Begin.
Vincent Alzieu - Mobiles & Smartphones - 14/03/13 15:54We just got the HTC One. And it's quite a cool phone... HTC has made some daring, original choices: While Samsung proudly confirms that the S4 will stay true to...
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Smartphones & Tablets: What's In Store For 2013
Florence Legrand - Mobiles & Smartphones - 14/03/13 14:05With the Mobile World Congress over for another year, it's time to take a look back at what stood out at the 2013 edition of the Barcelona-based mobile device and...
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HTC One Delayed
Romain Thuret - Mobiles & Smartphones - 13/03/13 17:00HTC's One 2013 flagship handset is playing hard to get. Whether HTC didn't expect so many pre-orders or hasn't managed to get organised in time, this 4.7" Full HD handset isn't...
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Samsung Galaxy S4: With One Day Left, What To Expect?
Romain Thuret - Mobiles & Smartphones - 13/03/13 11:10As we wait for Samsung to officially unveil the Galaxy S4 smartphone tomorrow, we have to wonder: will we really learn anything we don't already know? After all, a hands-on...
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LG Announces The Optimus LTE III
Axel Mendy - Mobiles & Smartphones - 08/03/13 11:19After a flurry of announcements at MWC 2013, LG has come out with yet another: a mid-range smartphone, the Optimus LTE III. Practically identical in specs to the Optimus F7,...
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Sony Xperia Z Camera Test
Florence Legrand / Renaud Labracherie - Mobiles & Smartphones - 07/03/13 13:12Ahead of our full review of the Sony Xperia Z smartphone, test shots from the phone's camera are already online to view and compare in our Face-Off. So just how...
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Smartphone Review: Nokia Lumia 620
Vincent Alzieu - Mobiles & Smartphones - 07/03/13 10:32The Lumia 620 is Nokia's brand new budget smartphone. Its direct competitor, the HTC 8S. Inside are a 1 GHz Qualcomm S4 dual-core processor, 512 MB of RAM, a 3.8-inch...
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MWC 2013: Hands-On With The Lenovo IdeaPhone K900
Romain Thuret - Mobiles & Smartphones - 06/03/13 13:58Already spotted at the CES trade show earlier this year, the Lenovo IdeaPhone K900 smartphone was on show recently at the Mobile World Congress. This giant Android 4.1 mobile is...
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Samsung Galaxy S4 Specs in AnTuTu Benchmark?
Florence Legrand - Mobiles & Smartphones - 05/03/13 10:38While rumours about the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S4 are coming thick and fast ahead of its 14 March presentation, the handset's tech specs may now have cropped up in the...
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