Phone News, Reviews and Specs
AT&T hits record smartphone sales: 10 million in Q4 2012 08 Jan 2013, 08:20 14
AT&T, the nation’s second-largest carrier, sold 10 million smartphones in the last quarter of 2012, an...
The 5-inch smartphone: is this the end of the screen size race? 08 Jan 2013, 07:32 154
Give people a phone with a 3.5-inch display in 2007 and you’d hear oohs and aahs about how big that display...
Huawei Ascend D2 making shows the aluminum unibody go through 116 circles of hell to arrive at perfection 08 Jan 2013, 06:47 5
The Huawei Ascend D2 is a device that might have gone a little less attention than the high-profile water...
Huawei Ascend W1 08 Jan 2013
Huawei Ascend W1 is the first Windows Phone device from the manufacturer. It runs Windows Phone 8 and...
Samsung posts CES 2013 event highlights 08 Jan 2013, 06:24 7
Samsung takes pride in its grandiose events at the major tech shows and this year’s CES show was no exception…
Sony Xperia Z price revealed 08 Jan 2013, 06:18 51
The Sony Xperia Z is a water and dust resistant cream of the crop smartphone that still manages to deliver...
Sonim XP Strike Review 08 Jan 2013, 06:00
Is Apple preparing a cheaper iPhone for developing markets in 2H 2013? 08 Jan 2013, 04:28 35
Here is a rumor that we haven’t heard for a while - Apple is reportedly pondering on releasing an affordable...
Sony Xperia ZL hands-on 08 Jan 2013, 04:19 24
Frankly, it might be rather difficult for some people to notice the slightly more compact size of the...
Sony Xperia Z hands-on 08 Jan 2013, 03:43 97
Simply known as the Sony Xperia Z, it’s the Japanese company’s dubbed flagship device – and boy does...
Sony Xperia Z UK release date set for March 1st, coming to Vodafone 08 Jan 2013, 03:41 2
The Sony Xperia Z is a device in a category of its own - a top of the line smartphone that is at the...
Windows Phone is now selling five times better than last Christmas 08 Jan 2013, 02:56 69
Microsoft’s chief executive Steve Ballmer made a surprise appearance at Qualcomm’s keynote at the CES...
Liquipel 2.0 ready to waterproof your Apple iPhone 5 or Samsung Galaxy S III 08 Jan 2013, 00:36 17
Liquipel 2.0 is being introduced at CES, one year after the original Liquipel was revealed at the 2012...
Samsung ATIV Odyssey hands-on 07 Jan 2013, 23:52 6
The Samsung ATIV Odyssey was announced back in October 2012 and was expected in December, now we see...
96.5% of BlackBerry PlayBook owners are using the tablet's latest OS build 07 Jan 2013, 21:42 12
Statistics from the popular BlackBerry PlayBook game Pixelated show that 95% of PlayBook users are running...
Sony Xperia Z vs HTC Droid DNA vs Samsung Galaxy S III specs comparison 07 Jan 2013, 20:57 60
With the just announced Xperia Z, Sony pulled the trigger on a Full HD smartphone, which HTC did with...
Qualcomm overhauls its mobile processor lineup with the Snapdragon 200, 400, 600, & 800 07 Jan 2013, 20:53 36
As part of its press conference to lead into CES this year, Qualcomm has announced that it is retiring...
Liveblog: Qualcomm CES 2013 keynote 07 Jan 2013, 20:06 7
CES 2013 is a major consumer electronics show, and Qualcomm has become an incredibly influential company...
Sony Xperia Z specs review: greet the real 007 phone 07 Jan 2013, 20:06 62
Sony calls Xperia T the James Bond phone, but that title should have really waited for the Xperia Z monstrosity...
Is a 6.1-inch Windows Phone 8 handset by Huawei to be announced at MWC? 07 Jan 2013, 19:59 14
Huawei might be working on another 6.1-inch beast of a smartphone quite similar to the recently-unveiled...
The SpareOne Cellphone uses one AA battery 07 Jan 2013, 19:50 6
A company called SpareOne has built a cellphone that runs on AA batteries and gets about ten hours of...
Sony shows off new Google TV remote with voice command 07 Jan 2013, 19:47 2
One of the better features about the Sony NSZ-GS7 Google TV box that came out last year was the remote,...
Sony Xperia ZL copycats the Z specs in a tighter chassis for "select markets" 07 Jan 2013, 19:41 19
If you thought Xperia Z is amazing, but could make do without the waterproof part of it, Sony's got you...
Sony officially announces Xperia Z and gives release window 07 Jan 2013, 19:31 35
We all knew it was coming and now it is official. Sony has officially announced the Xperia Z as part...
Sony Xperia ZL 07 Jan 2013
If you thought Xperia Z is amazing, but could make do without the waterproof part of it, Sony's got you...
Sony Xperia Z 07 Jan 2013
The specs on the Xperia Z are what we expected from the rumors. It will be a 5" 1080p display, a 1.5GHz...
Watch Sony's CES 2013 press conference here 07 Jan 2013, 19:00 3
It's time for Sony to announce its upcoming flagship smartphone, the Xperia Z! If you want to watch the...
Liveblog: Sony CES 2013 press conference 07 Jan 2013, 18:48 9
This year's CES has turned out to be more of a TV- and appliance-centric event, but there's still hope...
BBC Sport app for Apple iPhone and Apple iPod touch launches, includes analysis, scores and more 07 Jan 2013, 18:10 2
BBC apps are known for having outstanding multimedia capabilities, such as the BBC News app for both...
Huawei Ascend Mate hands-on 07 Jan 2013, 18:09 23
Huawei unleashed a monster at CES, the 6.1-inch Ascend Mate which has a battery as big as the phone...
Sprint will get Windows Phone 8 smartphones by Samsung and HTC by this summer 07 Jan 2013, 18:05 13
An announcement like this was bound to come sooner or later. After all, Sprint has already confirmed...
Swype beta updated with crowd-sourced autocorrect, called Living Language 07 Jan 2013, 17:48 2
Swype hasn't been in the news much recently, and the gesture keyboard space has been dominated by news...
Fresh images of the Sony Xperia Z leak before announcement, show a funky power key 07 Jan 2013, 17:47 37
Leave it to the vast prairies of the Chinese tech blogosphere to leak something in full bloom minutes...
Surprise! Most consumers don't care if they are using iOS, Android or Windows 07 Jan 2013, 17:47 29
Research company Accenture has come up with some pretty interesting results from its latest study. It...
Huawei Ascend D2 hands-on 07 Jan 2013, 17:47 15
PhoneArena.com is at CES 2013, and Huawei made a splash with a nicely crafted Ascend D2, the new flagship...
Microsoft "applauds" the hacker that jailbroke Windows RT 07 Jan 2013, 17:34 5
Yesterday, we brought you the news that a hacker named Clrokr had jailbroken Windows RT and enabled unsigned...
Vuzix shows off Android-powered Google Glass competitor 07 Jan 2013, 17:22 3
Once Google first announced Project Glass, it was pretty clear that there would be other companies trying...
Samsung ATIV Odyssey for Verizon to launch "in the coming weeks" 07 Jan 2013, 17:21 3
You know how the saying goes: better late than never. After being delayed due to undisclosed reasons,...
Apple asks the full Court of Appeals to reverse the decision not to ban the Samsung GALAXY Nexus 07 Jan 2013, 17:04 38
Apple has filed with the full Federal Circuit Court of Appeals to reexamine a previous ruling made in...
Samsung takes aim at enterprise with "Safe" 07 Jan 2013, 17:00 2
For a while, there were rumors swirling that Samsung could purchase RIM in an effort to leverage the...
Samsung GALAXY Note 10.1 LTE 07 Jan 2013
Samsung GALAXY Note 10.1 LTE is the LTE enabled brother of the last years model.
Samsung announces LTE Galaxy Note 10.1 due on Verizon this month 07 Jan 2013, 16:48 10
Samsung has been running through a ton of products in its CES keynote today, but one announcement of...
Ubuntu for phones image will be available in late February 07 Jan 2013, 16:38 9
Last week, Canonical announced its plans to move into mobile by creating a converged computing platform...
Huawei Ascend D2 pairs Full HD 5-incher with a respectable 3000 mAh battery 07 Jan 2013, 16:32 7
The phone has a metal frame inside and curved chassis, making it more ergonomic to hold, and Huawei went...
New Intel Atom processor for use in low-cost smartphones runs at 1.2GHz, offers HSPA+ speeds 07 Jan 2013, 16:30 4
Intel is slowly, yet surely paving its way towards establishing itself as a big player on the smartphone...
Netgear announces $129 Google TV box 07 Jan 2013, 16:23 1
We were led to expect that Google would be making a big push this year at CES with Google TV and had...
Huawei shoots for gold with 6.1" Ascend Mate - "the largest screen smartphone" gets the largest 4050 mAh battery 07 Jan 2013, 16:11 30
Huawei's conspicuous 6.1" smartphone we saw leaked a few months ago just materialized as the "largest...
Bay Trail Atom processor by Intel is announced – quad-core power for tablet use 07 Jan 2013, 15:58 9
So, it looks like the rumor mill was on the right track all along: Intel just announced a new Atom processor...
4,500 Samsung TecTiles found in Caesar Entertainment hotels in Las Vegas 07 Jan 2013, 15:52 1
Korean based Samsung has worked out a deal with Caesars Entertainment to install 4,500 Samsung TecTiles...
Liveblog: Samsung CES 2013 press conference 07 Jan 2013, 15:50 7
This is one of the biggest events at CES 2013 today. Samsung, the company which has conquered much of...









