This week Japanese carrier NTT Docomo announced its spring releases, including a number of Android handsets and tablets that will be released over the next four months. There are four interesting additions here that could also see a worldwide release date – the Sony Xperia Tablet Z, the LG Optimus G Pro, the Pansonic Eluga [...]

Starting CES off with a bang, Nvidia has announced their next generation Tegra 4 chipset for sim-free smartphones, tablets and notebooks. Like its predecessor, the Tegra 4 includes four high-speed processor cores as well as a fifth low-power companion core. The idea is that the four main cores are used for intensive tasks, while the companion core [...]

As promised, yesterday Canonical unveiled the first version of their Ubuntu smartphone operating system. The new OS takes many design cues from the desktop version of Ubuntu Linux, but uses a much different interface designed from the ground-up for use on a smartphone. Like the ill-fated Meego OS that we saw on the Nokia N9 [...]

Today, we’re going to be looking at the latest rumours surrounding Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy S4 handset. Let’s get started by having a look at the CPUs that have been suggested so far to power this phone. The easiest for Samsung is to use the Exynos 5250, which is the dual-core Cortex A15 chipset used in [...]

JellyBean update A confirmation has come from Samsung about the Jellybean update for the Samsung Galaxy S3 will come in the final quarter of 2012 which you can buy at http://www.phones4u.co.uk/. There will be a new design for the keyboard, notifications you can expand and Google Now will be integrated. The LG Optimus LTE2 will [...]

If you wanted to identify a song on Android, you previously had two good options – Shazam and Soundhound. Both worked well, but were sometimes slow and had ads. Now there’s a better option from Google themselves, called Google Ears or Google Sound Search. It works in the same way, identifying music in your environment [...]

Today we’ll be looking at five of the best travel apps on the market – sorry, on Google Play – for Android. I’ve been travelling more and more lately (most recently to a trade fair in Hannover and a Hadrian’s Wall cottage in Cumbria) and my smartphone has become increasingly important for keeping me on [...]

With our coverage of the XT928 yesterday, we thought we’d be amiss to not share what we know of the second Motorola RAZR variant that Motorola is bringing to Chinese shores. Designed for the high-powered consumer on the China Mobile TD-SCDMA service, the MT917 combines the look of the RAZR (even including that same kevlar backing) [...]

One of the rumoured Chinese variants of the Motorola RAZR have been revealed. This beautiful creature is the Motorola XT928. It comes with a 4.5″ screen at 1280 x 720, a dual core 1.2 GHz processor and a massive 13 megapixel camera. While it’s still thicker than the original RAZR, it still boasts a very slim [...]

These days the functionality of a device is often limited by the size of the screen it comes with, sooner or later an invention of a device that would eliminate the screen and deliver the power of a pc and web to any screen was inevitable.  A Norwegian hardware and software startup  called FXI Technologies [...]