AT&T / Carriers / Mobile OS / Nokia / Phones / Windows Phone
by Phones Review · Published 10/11/2013
Owners of Windows Phone running devices have been anticipating the arrival the newest update of the platform named Amber. The improved version of the software was launched in the middle of August. Since then it is gradually arriving to the various Windows Phone running models. Two of the smartphones that were not lucky enough to get the update until now...
Android 4.4 KitKat is the newest update of Google’s platform that was announced just weeks ago. The mobile giant released a special video to present users with the update. However the company quickly pulled it down. The reason for this was the started rumors about a mystery device that appeared in the video, alleged to be the LG Nexus 5....
HTC equips its smartphones with its unique user interface Sense. The new version of the Android-based platform Sense 5.5 is expected to arrive in the next weeks. HTC has already made hints that the update will bring a lot of goodies to the smartphones. Even though the curiosity and the impatience of users about Sense 5.5 are building up, the...
Android / HTC / Mobile OS / Phone Business & Stocks / Phones / Windows Phone
by Phones Review · Published 10/05/2013
Microsoft is reported to have begun talks with HTC about adding its Windows Phone to HTC’s Android based smartphones. Redmond has considered cutting or eliminating the license fee for HTC and other OEMs in order to increase the market share of its own operating system. Currently, Windows Phone is the third OS, far beyond Android and closing the gap to...
Jolla / Mobile OS / Phones / Sailfish OS
by Phones Review · Published 10/03/2013 · Last modified 11/13/2013
The Finnish company Jolla has published the final specifications of its first smartphone. We already knew some of them, but the official jolla.com website revealed even finer details. Some of them are actually quite surprising for us. Let’s recap what we have so far. Jolla boasts a 4.5-inch qHD display (960×540), a dual-core Snapdragon processor ticking over at 1.4 GHz...
It seems that after only a week after Samsung started testing the latest Android platform on the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 (N7100) a firmware for the device has leaked in the wild and is accessible. The early leak comes from Vietnamese Tinhte by forum member HappyKing. If you know about XDA forum boards you are probably guessing that already the...
The dynamics in the mobile world are very intensive and not always predictable. The latest research provided by ABI Research reveals that we are now seeing changes in the leadership on the tablets market, giving a slight advantage to the Android running slates. Apple has been the leader in the mobile world in terms of tablets. The company was among...
Apple has extended the number of apps working in the background on the iPhone and other devices running the latest version of the operating system iOS 7. This is very good from a user’s perspective – users have much more options than the old iOS 6, where only a limited number of apps could be run in the background. Now...
When we shared with you the reported serious bugs with the lockscreen and the emergency calling option in iOS 7, we added that Apple is working on the problems and promises that they will be fixed really soon. Soon after that, the company released the iOS 7.0.1 update that brought bug fixes of the Touch ID. Today Apple has begun...
Owners of HTC One Developer Edition have a reason to smile – their device is getting updated with the Android 4.3 Jelly Bean version of the platform. It is rolling out to the smartphones in US, not only for the carriers-branded versions but also for the unlocked flagships. The size of the update is 564MB, named 3.22.1540.1. The goodies that...
