by Adrian Diaconescu, 1 month ago

The Apple vs Samsung patent clash has been making the headlines the most in the past year or so, but that’s not the only seemingly endless legal dispute starring some of the big tech companies…

by Adrian Diaconescu, 1 month ago

Unveiled less than two months ago, the S Pen-toting Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 is already available in the US of A via a number of online retailers. That’s the good news, seeing as Sammy has…

by Adrian Diaconescu, 1 month ago

It’s no longer a secret that HTC had to delay the initially planned One release because of component shortages, but thankfully it seems the Taiwanese have finally managed to iron out all the kinks and…

by Adrian Diaconescu, 1 month ago

Samsung is busy, busy, busy lately and not just with Mega launches (pun intended). The Galaxy makers are also working hard on providing timely Jelly Bean updates for as many “stars” as possible. The latest Sammy…

by Adrian Diaconescu, 1 month ago

While they’re no match for the record-breaking numbers posted by Samsung fiscal quarter after quarter, LG’s smartphone sales have been on the rise lately, mostly boosted by the Nexus 4 and Optimus G hits. Very…

by Adrian Diaconescu, 1 month ago

Although it’s not exactly a household name in the global mobile industry, Pantech is extremely popular in South Korea. In fact, believe it or not, Pantech has been the second best-selling handset maker in its…

by Adrian Diaconescu, 1 month ago

It’s still early days in the 2013 battle for Android smartphone supremacy, but the names of the heavyweight title contenders are no longer a secret. There’s the Samsung Galaxy S4, which analysts predict will sell…

by Adrian Diaconescu, 1 month ago

Intel had a timid debut in the Android décor, with its first mobile chips powering only a handful of entry-level phones from small manufacturers in 2012. But then the Lenovo IdeaPhone K900 got introduced during…

by Adrian Diaconescu, 1 month ago

The race for the world’s thinnest smartphone title used to be extremely heated not long ago, but lately it seems like manufacturers don’t care as much about this crown as they used to. Which is…

by Adrian Diaconescu, 1 month ago

They say it’s easier to reach the top than remain there, but when it comes to an ever-changing and always competitive smartphone market, I think it’s tough to become king and equally as hard to…

by Adrian Diaconescu, 1 month ago

All the benchmarks are in, the processor confusions are (more or less) cleared up, the hype is at the highest heights ever, so everything’s all set for Samsung Galaxy S4’s grand release. And unlike the…

by Adrian Diaconescu, 1 month ago

Remember when we (jokingly) called Huawei crazy for unveiling a beastly 6.1-inch phone called the Ascend Mate? Well, Samsung is about to get even crazier, as rumors of a 6.3-inch Galaxy Mega are intensifying. If…

by Adrian Diaconescu, 1 month ago

Two years and two high-end (ish) smartphones. That’s all it took to catapult Xiaomi from a no-name, novice company in the mobile décor to worldwide sensation. True, Xiaomi is yet to break the Chinese borders,…

by Adrian Diaconescu, 1 month ago

As unfair as it might seem, a phone’s commercial success very rarely depends solely on things like hardware, software support or design. Instead, it often all comes down to marketing, how fast you can make…

by Adrian Diaconescu, 1 month ago

Asus is already doing very well in the budget-friendly 7-inch tablet market, courtesy of the massive Nexus 7 box-office hit. However, that doesn’t mean there isn’t enough of the pie left for another of the…