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Nokia today at its Nokia World event in Abu Dhabi announced the largest Windows Phone available yet: the Lumia 1520. The device features a huge 6-inch display with bearing a tag of first Windows Phone having the 1080p resolution. The device is the first one to be powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 800 processor and is a single piece polycarbonate design which makes it looks bigger than that of Lumia 720. Over the camera, the device includes a lower-resolution version of its 41-megapixel PureView sensor with 20 megapixels while the PureView...

Nokia today in Abu Dhabi announced the new members of Asha family: Asha 500, Asha 502 and Asha 503, bringing all three devices in bright red, bright green, yellow, cyan, white and black colors. Starting with Nokia Asha 500, the device features a 2.8-inch screen, 2-megapixel camera and comes in single SIM and Easy Swap Dual SIM variants. The device bears a cost of $69 and will be shipped initially in Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. The Nokia Asha 502 features a 3-inch screen, a 5-megapixel camera, comes...

LG today announced the G Pro Lite, a new smartphone under its G Pro range. The device features a 5.5-inch display with 960 X 540 resolutions and consists of a large capacity of 3,140mAh battery and Android Jelly Bean. It further includes 1 GHz dual-core processor, 8-megapixel camera and dual stereo speakers. The device will make its debut first in Latin America this month, and will be followed by its availability across Asia, Russia, China, India and the Middle East while there’s no word on it Europe or US availability yet. Other thing...

Apple announced today that it will be bringing its iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C in more than 35 countries worldwide, including Italy, Russia, Spain, India, Mexico on Friday, October 25. The iPhone 5s comes in gold, silver or space gray for a suggested retail price of $199 (US) for the 16GB model, $299 (US) for the 32GB model and $399 (US) for the 64GB model while iPhone 5c comes in blue, green, pink, yellow and white for a suggested retail price of $99 (US) for the 16GB model and $199 (US) for the 32GB model. The complete country list where...

Samsung today announced its first smartphone with a curved screen name the Galaxy Round. While the device bears similarities with the Galaxy Note 3, but its list of features include a 5.7-inch 1080p screen, runs on Android 4.3, 7.9mm thick and weighs 154g and packs a 13-megapixel rear camera and 2.3 GHz quad-core processor. Other main feature to notice with the device is that the feature called as “Roll Effect” which will pulls up all the information about the device when titles on a flat surface and ‘Gravity Effect’ which produces...

Since, how long we are using the mobile phones? Perhaps, 15 years or 20 years. However, the fact is that the first mobile phones were made for cars in 1946, and the first realistic mobile phone was invented by Motorola way back on April 3rd, 1973. Let’s fast forward all these stuff and come towards the smartphones, which we are using these days. If we ask anyone these days that what kind of phone he / she wants to buy? The answer would be a smartphone. Regardless of personal choices such as the iPhone, Android or Windows Phone, but...

As expected, BlackBerry today announced its disastrous financial result. The mobile maker reported the revenue of approximately $1.6 billion with GAAP loss of $965 million, or $1.84 per share diluted while adjusted loss from continuing operations were of $248 million, or $0.47 per share diluted; adjusted gross margin of $570 million, or 36%. BlackBerry blamed Z10 sales as behind such a poor results while we reported yesterday only that the company called off its financial call to discuss the results with both analysts and investors. Other...

Shopping for a new cell phone online has many advantages. However, you need to be aware of a few technicalities or you could end up buying a phone that doesn’t work with your SIM card. Here are 4 tips to help you avoid buying the wrong mobile and find the perfect cell phone next time you shop online. Locked or Unlocked The most important consideration when you choose to buy your next cell phone online is whether it is a locked or unlocked phone. Locked phones are mobile phones which are “locked” to certain providers. So if you...

According to a report on the New York Times, BlackBerry has cancelled its call with media and analysts to discuss its latest financial results. Although there is no surprise over this as company is standing in its worst time. The phone company has gone through the huge rough times in recent couples of weeks with Fairfax Financial’s bid to acquire the company for $4.7 billion while the company’s plan to cut 4,500 jobs. On the start of this week, Fairfax which itself owns about 10 percent of BlackBerry had signed a letter of intent...

BlackBerry announced today that it has signed a letter of intent with a group led by Fairfax Financial. The deal if take agreed upon will lead to BlackBerry shareholders receiving $9 per share in cash, while the transaction will be valued at approximately $4.7 billion in total. The consortium would acquire for cash for the entire outstanding share of BlackBerry which was earlier not held by Fairfax. Fairfax owns 10 percent of BlackBerry’s common shares as of now. Barbara Stymiest, Chair of BlackBerry’s Board of Directors, said:...