by Stefan Constantinescu, 2 months ago

Samsung’s Galaxy S4 is due to be announced in a little over a week. That means the rumor mill is going to be spinning non-stop at a furious pace for the next eight days or…

by Stefan Constantinescu, 2 months ago

HTC has just published their February 2013 revenue numbers. Actually, it’s just one number: $11.37 billion Taiwanese dollars, which translates to about $384 million. That’s an incredible 44% less than the same month one year…

by Stefan Constantinescu, 2 months ago

ZTE is such a dirty girl. They’ll do business with just about anyone, as long as they get some sort of preferential treatment. ZTE was the one and only company to ship a phone using…

by Stefan Constantinescu, 2 months ago

Earlier today I published two photos of the alleged Galaxy S4 that were tweeted by the anonymous Twitter user @evleaks. I have no idea who @evleaks is, but I “trust” them. By “trust” I mean…

by Stefan Constantinescu, 2 months ago

The headline above is going to confuse a lot of you without some backstory, so here’s what you should know: Opera has been making web browsers for as long as we can remember. They’ve always…

by Stefan Constantinescu, 2 months ago

There’s a company out in Canada that wants to take a business model we’re all familiar with, monthly subscriptions, and bring it to the relatively young market of third party applications. It’s called Mobiroo, and…

by Stefan Constantinescu, 2 months ago

Google is an innovate company, no one is denying that, but many people don’t understand how they many money. Everything Google does comes back to advertising. Android was created so that phones with web browsers…

by Stefan Constantinescu, 2 months ago

The bean counters at IDC have just published a prediction that we’re not going to dispute: Smartphones are going to outsell feature phones in 2013. They say that 50.1% of the mobile phones sold this…

by Stefan Constantinescu, 2 months ago

The man or woman behind the Twitter account @evleaks just dropped two huge bombshells on us. They’ve published two renders of the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S4. Should you trust @evleaks? We do. We can’t count…

by Stefan Constantinescu, 2 months ago

Samsung is going to announce the Galaxy S4 in roughly 10 days. We’re not going to lie, we’re excited. Sure, HTC’s One is pretty, and Sony’s new Xperia phones are drop dead gorgeous, but let’s…

by Stefan Constantinescu, 2 months ago

HTC announced their 2013 flagship smartphone, the One, on Febrary 19th. That’s less than a month ago. According to Focus Taiwan, the company wanted to launch the device in their home market today, but the…

by Stefan Constantinescu, 2 months ago

Once upon a time, not that long ago actually, you had to be an adult with a fairly decent job in order to own a smartphone. Today, thanks to budget devices and operator subsidies, damn…

by Stefan Constantinescu, 2 months ago

Why did Samsung kick HTC’s ass last year and why are they probably going to kick their ass again this year? Advertising. HTC’s marketing budget is practically non-existant compared to the billions that Samsung spends…

by Stefan Constantinescu, 2 months ago

My entire career as a journalist covering the mobile technology industry can be traced back to one application: Opera Mini. When it came out in 2005, I installed it on my phone just to see…

by Stefan Constantinescu, 2 months ago

Most companies don’t publish press releases on Sunday because … let’s face it, us journalists need our rest too. But for some strange reason, LG felt compelled to drop this bombshell on us: The company…