New benchmark confirms NVIDIA’s Tegra K1 blows every other smartphone chip out of the water
We’d seen some early benchmarks suggesting that NVIDIA’s new Tegra K1 system on a chip would absolutely crush the performance of any other SoC on …
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Former Apple CEO makes bold new smartphone bet
Is the world ready for the Sculley Phone? The ex-Apple CEO largely credited with the firing of co-founder Steve Jobs back in the mid 1980s …
Samsung appears ready to spam wearables market
Samsung may be getting ready to announce more wearable devices in addition to the three new gadgets unveiled at MWC 2014, including the Gear 2, …
iPhone 6 has Apple gearing up for the most massive iPhone launch yet
Apple is apparently getting ready for a massive iPhone 6 launch, at least according to Chinese publication Commercial Times (via Digitimes). According to the report, …
A costly mistake: Report claims unsold iPhone 5c inventory is piling up fast
A new report from Taiwan indicates that stock of the unsuccessful iPhone 5c is piling up with Apple’s suppliers and retail partners, as demand for …
Video: This smartphone ad isn’t just bizarre, it will actually give you nightmares
There is no magic formula for selling smartphones, but there are some things that can greatly increase a vendor’s chances of success. Great hardware is …
This health smart device wraps around your iPhone, not your wrist
Not all health and fitness smart devices launched this year will wrap around the user’s wrist (or even ankle for some products), but also around …
Samsung’s Google Glass rival might turn your whole hand into a keyboard
We’ve known for a while now that Samsung has been working on its own wearable computer headset that will be similar in a lot of …
Android 4.4 puts an end to Samsung’s benchmark games
Samsung was caught red-handed more than once last year as reviewers repeatedly discovered evidence that the company’s phones and tablets were artificially boosting benchmark scores. …
Legere: Study calling T-Mobile the worst network is ‘slanted,’ ‘out of date’
You didn’t think T-Mobile CEO John Legere was going to take a new study that trashed his company’s wireless network lying down, did you? RootMetrics …
Here’s yet another way Samsung is stomping out all Android rivals
When people talk about Android phones these days, there’s a good chance they’re really referring to Samsung and one of its many, many, many Galaxy …
FreedomPop makes Galaxy S2 relevant again with exciting new privacy protection features
FreedomPop on Wednesday unveiled the Privacy Phone, also known as the “Snowden Phone,” or essentially a Galaxy S2 model that has advanced privacy-guarding features, while …
New leak shows All New HTC One’s dual cameras up close and personal
There seems to be nothing that HTC can do to stop detail pictures of The All-New HTC One from leaking out. @evleaks has now posted …
The one good reason to support a Sprint-T-Mobile merger
I’ve long been a skeptic about Sprint and T-Mobile merging, mostly because Sprint mergers have been the kisses of death for once-promising wireless carriers such …
LG smartphone evolution timeline pretends the iPhone never existed
LG has released an interesting infographic that presents the history of the smartphone, including its past, present and potential future, at least according to the …
Google promises fix for pesky Nexus 5 bug that eats into battery life
Nexus 5 users who have noticed an annoying camera bug that often sees a software process called “mm-qcamera-daemon” eat up CPU resources and drain their …
Exciting new phone aimed at hardcore Android fans takes shape as first hardware details arrive
The OnePlus One has so far promised to be one of the most exciting Android handsets of the year thanks to an interesting marketing campaign. …
This is why Verizon gets away with charging customers more money
Verizon has been the one carrier that’s most resisted the T-Mobile-led wireless pricing wars of the past few months and now we can see why. …
Leaked images of All New HTC One reveal gorgeous design, performance that crushes competition
We have already seen photos of “The All New HTC One” leak several times over the past few weeks. We even saw the new flagship …
The end of the jailbreak era
Is the popular practice of jailbreaking iPhones, iPads and iPod touch devices about to go the way of the dinosaur? According to one industry watcher, …
Apple’s iPhone 6 must have switched to sapphire, because Corning is already bashing it
In a conference call on Tuesday, of which Seeking Alpha has published a transcript, Corning had to answer various sapphire-related questions from analysts, likely based …
New Nexus 6 details emerge
LG will continue its partnership with Google and launch a Nexus 6 smartphone this year alongside Google’s first Nexus smartwatch, Gizmodo.de has learned from a …
Samsung gears up for expensive new wearables launch
While Samsung unveiled new wearable devices at MWC 2014, saying they would be available in stores in early April, the company did not actually mention …
Intel backs wearables interest with $100-$150 million Basis acquisition
Intel has acquired wearable device maker Basis in a deal possibly valued at around $100 million, with a source telling TechCrunch that the number may …
BBM users, get ready for ads – BlackBerry starts testing sponsored content
No, you’re not going to see advertisements pop up in the middle of your BBM chats… but BlackBerry just delivered on new CEO John Chen’s …
Apple patent hints at live voicemail eavesdropping for call screening
With all the conveniences that they offer, we sometimes forget that smartphones lack several key features that we all used to enjoy back when answering …
Google plans to make the world’s best mobile browser even better
Google’s Chrome mobile browser is the best mobile web browser we’ve used and it looks like Google is about to make it even better. DroidLife …
How Samsung plans to make sure driving with the Galaxy S5 won’t kill you
If there’s one thing that’s even stupider than people who drive while watching videos on Google Glass, it’s people who drive while watching videos on …
Video: Here is Cortana, Microsoft’s answer to Siri, in action
The Windows Phone 8.1 leaks continue to roll out as the Microsoft Build Developer Conference inches closer. Just a day after the reveal of Cortana’s …
Apple has a major opportunity to invade Samsung’s turf
For the past couple of years, Samsung has been aggressively making moves to erode Apple’s market share in both smartphones and tablets by pumping out …
