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We saw that Microsoft is set on marketing a Windows 8 tablet of its own - the Surface. But perhaps the company has the same plans for the phone segment, too. Benchmarking tool WPBench certainly suggests so, as a new entry in its benchmark database...

Nokia has just announced that their free music streaming service, Nokia Music, has come to the US. The service will feature 150 exclusive playlists created and kept up to date by US based "musicologists" (it's a real job, we checked), featuring...

NFC promises to allow phones to take over a lot of functionality, including paying at a store. Orange and Barclaycard announced that the Samsung Galaxy S III will become the first Android smartphone to support their Quick Tap contactless payment...

The Huawei Ascend D Quad was one of the superstars at this year's MWC in Barcelona, but it got off to a rocky start as the development of the company's own K3V2 chipset with quad-core CPU didn't go according to plan. As a result, the Huawei Ascend D...

The BlackBerry 10 L-series phone is out in the wild again, except this time someone bothered to switch it on. This image first found on Instagram shows a person who really needs a manicure holding what is unmistakably the phone previously known as...

A couple of days after it surfaced, causing some serious hype, Nokia's upcoming Lumia 920 smartphone has emerged in some more alleged images. Coming from the same source as the images from a couple of days ago, the new renders showcase the handset's...

IFA 2012 has been a lot of fun and it still is for everyone who's going to attend it this week. However, with the announcements over, our job was over too and we are back to the daily grind in the office. Now is an appropriate time to take look...

As is always the case, the closer we get to an iPhone launch, the more leaks there are. Some attribute these as purposely released by Apple generate more hype for their imminent launch. Whatever the case, this latest video confirms what we've...

A while ago we heard rumors that Samsung is planning to launch a service called S Cloud, which would (obviously) compete with iCloud. The first concrete evidence of the service came from a surprising source - the new Galaxy Note II that Samsung...

The HTC Accord, which had its specs leaked a few days ago, will be named HTC 8X. At least, that’s what the leaked quick start guide of the smartphone suggests. The leak comes via Twitter from the same tipster who spilled the beans on the...

The Android smartphone everyone's talking about this week has got a price and a release date in India. Online retailer Infibeam has put the Galaxy Note II on pre-order for 38,500 INR, which is about $694. According to our tipster, who has had a...

After posting a rather quiet IFA showcase, it appears that HTC has something major in the works for the immediate future. A couple of blurry shots showing a mysterious handset made by the Taiwanese company have leaked out. The device...

You didn't think Apple is done with the lawsuits after its victory against Samsung last week, were you? The Cupertino company has filed another patent infringement lawsuit against Samsung, adding an additional 22 devices to the list of alleged...

Samsung keeps expanding its Duos lineup of Android smartphones with two SIM slots. The latest addition goes by the name Samsung Galaxy Pocket Duos and should be the most affordable dual-SIM droid offering by the company. Running on Android...

Carphone Warehouse has issued a press release announcing three important things – the UK release dates for the recently unveiled Xperia T and Xperia J and the retail price of the Xperia Tablet S. The Xperia T and Xperia J smartphones will hit...

The Galaxy Note II LTE is here and it looks identical to its LTE-less global counterpart. We asked around and turns out that the Note II LTE has the same innards as well - a quad-core Exynos 4412 Quad SoC with an additional LTE chip...

Huawei announced the Ascend G600 Android smartphone. The latest member of the increasingly popular model range sports mid-range specs and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The Huawei Ascend G600 is powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core CPU. There's...

We all knew this was coming sooner or later - the next line of Lumia smartphones, sporting the Windows Phone 8 OS with a pinch of PureView. Two leaks showing the alleged Nokia Lumia 920 and 820 have popped up on Twitter courtesy of @evleaks. The...

A week after its major court victory on its home turf in the United States, Apple lost a patent lawsuit case against Samsung in Japan. Tokyo District Judge Tamotsu Shoji ruled that Samsung's smartphones and tablets do not infringe Apple's patents...

The smartphone member of Samsung's new Ativ family, the Ativ S, is the first Windows Phone 8 device to go official. Unfortunately, a Microsoft embargo forbid us from being able to get any pictures of the device turned on, so we'll have to share our...