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Swedish company Ecisson announced today that it has reached an agreement with Samsung to end their 2012 patent infringement case. Samsung has accepted to pay up $650 million in addition to years of royalties. The details regarding what...

Kantar has just released its statistics on the smartphone OS market share for the quarter ending in December. The report shows Android and Windows Phone expansions continue through 2013 with steady growth even though it might be losing its momentum....

ASUS went ahead and announced the PadFone E, a middle man in its lineup of smartphone and tablet hybrids. The PadFone E sports modest specs a looks pretty similar to the PadFone mini. It sports a Snapdragon 400 chipset with a quad-core 1.4 GHz...

LG has revealed its fourth quarter and full year financial results for the year of 2013. The company made $53.1 billion in terms of net revenue with $203.65 million net profit in the full year of 2013, an improvement over 2012. Operating profits...

Nokia's Android budget phone codenamed Normandy has leaked yet again. This time around we found the phone listed on the biggest Vietnamese online retailer's website. The listing shows an official picture with Nokia's proprietary Android skin...

You're busy, we get that. So here's a recap of all the big stories that happened this past week that you shouldn't have missed. This is the week in review. LG's Phablet, the Flex was made available for ATT this week in the US and all...

LG spilled the beans on the announcement and the name of the successor of the LG Optimus G Pro. The upcoming phablet will go official in February (MWC in Barcelona is likely) as the LG G Pro 2. Unsurprisingly, LG removed the ‘Optimus’ moniker...

Samsung and Google signed a long-term partnership which will see the two giants share their patent portfolios. The deal will cover the companies’ current and future patents over the next ten years. The partnership will spread over a broad...

Nokia Lumia Icon, also known as Lumia 929, has leaked numerous times before. We saw it confirmed by a case, then Verizon itself posted its official listing of the device ahead of the announcements with pictures and user's manual. We even learned the...

The yet to be announced Nokia Lumia 1520v appeared in a duo of live photos. Also known as Nokia Lumia 1520 mini, the device is expected to bring the top-shelf specs of Nokia’s flagship phablet in a more compact for factor. The duo of...

According to the latest reports coming from China, HTC is preparing a mid-range Desire smartphone based on the latest MediaTek platform (with true octa-core Cortex-A7 CPU). The device somewhat reminds of the iPhone 5C because of its bright...

Micromax has launched the A200 Canvas Turbo Mini smartphone, just a week after the A119 Canvas XL phablet went official. The new A200 Canvas Turbo Mini features a 4.7" 720p IPS display and runs on a quad-core 1.3GHz Cortex-A7 processor coupled with...

BLU is known for producing mid-range Android phones for bottom dollar prices, and the 4.8 HD is their newest handset to continue this trend. Coming in the standard Black and White colors, Blue is also offering two other ostentatious paint jobs:...

Motorola is preparing some very sweet deals through the Valentine's Day. Starting Monday, January 27, Motorola Mobility will be slashing $100 off the price of the contract-free Moto X. The offer will be available from 3PM to 4PM ET, or until...

We recently reported on the NSA's access to all iPhones, making each user's data visible to the watching eyes of the government agency. There was even some talk that Apple may have worked with the NSA, basically handing over a key to all of their...

It goes without saying that things change quickly in the mobile industry. But sometimes it's hard to really understand the kind of rapid progress we are getting without proper perspective. So we though we'd take a break from our usual...

Kantar, the popular data consultancy company, has released a series of Tweets with highlights of its upcoming Q4 2013 annual report in regards to Nokia's performance. The most notable tidbit relates to T-Mobile, which has been revealed as the the...

Sony's miniature flagship, the Xperia Z1 Compact has been the talk of the town ever since it debuted at the recently concluded Consumer Electronics Show. The hotly anticipated mini variant of the Xperia Z1 was already up for pre-order in several...

Delayed (again) but not dead (yet) – Samsung has sent out invites to a Tizen event at MWC where it will showcase the newest Tizen devices. "What devices?" you might be asking yourself – so far only a camera has been announced, a variation on the...

Going to buy a Motorola Moto X or a Moto G? You might want to try this first – the Friends with Moto program might shave $50 off the X and $40 off a 16GB Moto G. It's not a certain deal but you can sign up to receive a promo code for the...