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It’s an Apple Monday today as the Cupertino-based giant today announced that it has sold over nine million new iPhones in just three days time. The company said that it has sold a record-breaking nine million iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c while it saw over 200 million iOS devices now running on the completely redesigned iOS7. Both the devices are currently available in the US, Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Puerto Rico, Singapore and the UK while the demand for iPhone 5S especially exceeded the initial supply. “This...

LG today unveiled its new offering – the phablet – named as Vu 3. The Vu 3 is an Android-powered device featuring 5.2-inch HD/IPS screen. It further includes 1280 X 960 pixel screen resolution, 13-megapixel snapper, 2.1-megapixel front-facing camera and a LED flash on the back. It comes powered by a quad-core Snapdragon chip from Qualcomm and includes Android Jelly Bean 4.2.2. There are no words on pricing yet but it will be made available in Korea from September 27. Features & Specifications: Android Jelly Bean 4.2.2 5.2-inch...

According to a report on Wall Street Journal, BlackBerry is reportedly preparing to lay off up to 40 percent of its employees by year’s end. The publication citing people familiar with the matter claims that the cut will result in impacting thousands of employees which are working in all the departments of the troubled mobile maker. Over the report, company’s spokesperson told Journal that, “Organizational moves will continue to occur to ensure we have the right people in the right roles to drive new opportunities in mobile...

Apple at its press conference announced iPhone 5S along with iPhone 5C. The device is coming in silver, gold and “slate grey” color while it will run on iOS 7. The device if one says in short is an upgraded version to the iPhone 5. Other specs include a new A7 chip, which as per Apple is the first 64-bit chip in a smartphone. Over the battery life, the company says that the device is having up to 250 hours of standby time and 10 hours of LTE browsing. Talking about the camera, the device cam includes auto-image stabilization, while...

Apple today at its press conference announced its long-awaited iPhone 5C. The device bears a cost of $99 for 16GB and $199 for 32GB while the colored cases cost additional $29 option. The smartphone comes in five color variant option: green, white, blue, pink, or yellow. Other specs include a 4-inch Retina display, 8-megapixel camera and the same A6 processor found in the iPhone 5. Also the device’s back and sides are notably made up from a single part. The company has also created custom cases for the device with a special soft-feel...

Sony today at its press conference in IFA 2013 announced Xperia 2013 with 5-inch 1080-pixel display, 21-megapixel camera and Android 4.3 on board. Without a doubt, Sony with Xperia Z1 following the steps of both HTC and Nokia with putting additional efforts on quality of the camera. The device will also support features including Social life letting users to stream direct to Facebook in real-time Timeshift giving an extra edge of taking 61 images in mere 2 seconds. The device also includes a 3,000mAh battery, LTE, NFC along with Snapdragon...

Apple today finally turned long-rumors into high by confirming that it has scheduled its iPhone event on September 10th, the company has just sent out invitations to an event at Apple’s campus in Cupertino starting at 10AM PT. The company’s new iPhone is in news from quite long time; including the device will be available in gold color. Other rumors talked about two new iPhone the company will unveiled this year – an iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C. The iPhone 5S might even includes a 12- or 13-megapixel camera with dual-LED flash. Rumored...

It’s a Kit Kat time. No, I am not talking about chocolate but it’s the name of Google’s new Android operating system, Google’s head of Chrome and Android, Sundar Pinchai shared via Google+ post. Pichai also revealed that the company now passed 1 billion Android device activations. Here is what Sundar Pichai shared: Just back from a whirlwind trip to Asia visiting our Android ecosystem partners in Korea, Taiwan, and Japan. Exciting to see all the high quality Android devices available now, including Samsung Galaxy S4, HTC One,...

ZTE, a smartphone giant in China, launched the Firefox phone in August of 2013. While this is the first Firefox phone that ZTE has released they have plans to release more in the future. According to an article on IT World.com the first batch of these phones has already sold out. This could be because the phone was reasonably priced for most people’s budgets. It could also be related to the fact that many Linux users are willing to use this Firefox phone, despite already having a mobile phone. Features of The Firefox open phone The...

It has been almost 7 years now, since the world has gone mobile. Smartphones and tablets have replaced the conventional desktops and laptops. All our daily computing needs, starting from scheduling the appointment to browsing the internet, creating and showing the presentation to mere online hotel reservation, accessing the social media accounts to even photo editing; all can be done easily and on-the-go with the help of our smartphone and tablet devices. However, none of these could have been achieved without the launch of revolutionary...