We’ve seen transparent or partly transparent handsets before, but never one with a transparent color touchscreen, like the model shown below and demoed by NTT DoCoMo in Japan. A couple of years ago LG launched a transparent keyboard phone, then we had the Xperia Pureness and its transparent monochrome screen and recently the Xperia S with that...
AS you know, the nano SIM standard is in the process of actually becoming a real thing on real devices, but before that big phone makers must agree on the standard technology. Apple, Nokia, RIM and Motorola have their own vision of how this new slot should look and only RIM and Motorola have found common ground so far. They’ve reached a compromise...
You’ve heard a lot of talk about the Samsung flexible OLED displays, but details were lacking till now… Well, it appears that the screens codenamed Youm have recently received a larger order. What we know about the flexible screens is that they will debut on devices in late 2012. I’m extremely curios to know who placed those “huge...
Research in Motion may not be coming up with any cool smartphone anytime soon, but at least they’re working on other fronts. Right now they’re developing fresh battery technologies, that involve a fuel cell for their electronics gear. They’ve actually applied for two new patents related to that matter. One of the patents if for the...
There’s a test out there done by displaymate.com, that basically compares all types of displays from all famous mobile devices on the market and one surprise was the Nokia Lumia 900. It came out on top of many other models, as far as visibility and outdoor use is concerned. AMOLED displays are particularly known for their beautiful colours, but...
China-based white box vendors will get an impressive impact on the smartphone market this year, since estimations say that they’ll ship 200 million smartphones this year. The info comes from industry sources in Taiwan and their advantage is the availability of cheap chip solutions. Taiwanese company MediaTek will offer the makers its MT6575 chip...
Samsung has been detailing its flexible display technology for a while now, but the idea has advanced enough to require some branding and trademarking to be done. We’ve seen concepts and prototypes like the one in the video below and now the flexible screens from Samsung will be known as Youm. The Korean manufacturer says that the technology...
Now that MWC 2012 has ended, it’s time to look back and see some of the most interesting aspects of the show. One of them would be the experience we had at the Emporia booth. There we found the Emporia Connect, a clamshell phone for the elderly and people who have health issues. There were also some brain game technologies demoed, keeping the...
March 1st was the official ending for Mobile World Congress 2012 and it brought a ceremony where the best products of the last year got a prize. The prizes are for excellence, quality and already we knew that Nokia 808 PureView got its prize early, as the “best new phone”. Apple and Samsung also got awards, but more about that after the...
Quad core processors are the talk of the town, but that doesn’t mean that the dual core technology is dead. And who better to prove it than Qualcomm, with the new Snapdragon S4 MSM8960 CPU. AnandTech got its hands on a developer device with this chipset and took it for a spin. The results blew away the competition, as shown in the images here....
