When Sony introduced the Xperia Z back in January at CES, the Japanese surprised us all not only with an unexpectedly elegant and powerful device, but also with the thing’s water and dust protection. Those kind of rugged-like functions were not an absolute novelty for anyone, but the shocking thing was seeing them on a more »

Have you been waiting with bated breath for Nokia’s new Lumia 925 and 928 Windows Phone 8-based handhelds only to find the two a little underwhelming upon their highly anticipated official intros? You’re likely not alone. But it appears you can do something about it. Something other than wait for the EOS or other mythical more »

The sky was the limit to our Google I/O fantasies only a few days ago, but the reality proved to be far less exciting than imagined. Basically no new piece of hardware was unveiled at this year’s I/O conference, unless you count the surprising “Google edition” of the Samsung Galaxy S4 as new. And while more »

It’s nearly impossible to not fall in love with Samsung’s Galaxy S4 at first sight, but if by some chance you don’t it’s probably because of the thing’s plastic body. I’m not going to open that Pandora’s Box and re-start the age-old metal vs. plastic debate, but let’s face it – at first glance, HTC’s more »

With Google rebranding all of it’s communications services into one crossplatform system, Hangouts, announced yesterday, some users were criticizing the new functionality and it’s lack of including some of the most common ways that people communicate: SMS text messaging and voice calls. Although these services will not be rolling out with the new ‘umbrella’ service, more »

Although we had thought it would be called “Babel,” Google did do something about its various chat platforms and their lacking synergies. On Wednesday during the company’s annual I/O developer’s conference, they (among many other things) introduced Google “Hangouts.” Made available for iOS and Android mobile operating systems and on the web via a special more »

Japan is known for good food, high-tech robots, uber-cool cars, samurais and geishas, but also for high-end smartphones, some of which happen to hit the country exclusively or at least get intros there before anywhere else. On that note, today’s been a pretty big day for the Japanese mobile industry, with NTT DoCoMo, the country’s more »

Google’s I/O event has been groundbreaking in many ways. One of the company’s biggest announcements however, was when they brought out the Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone on stage. Discussing the device’s potential, the big G announced their plans to made their own version of the latest Galaxy smartphone in the very near future. Although it more »

Even if Intel seems to be increasing its Android interest, you can still count the high-end smartphones with “Intel inside” on one hand. There’s Lenovo’s IdeaPhone K900… and that’s about it for now. Sure, if you lower your standards a little and expand the high-end niche qualifications, you’ll easily find three or four more Intel-powered more »

Verizon may be determined to keep the carrier’s version of the HTC One under wraps for as long as possible, but sometimes actions speak louder than words. Case in point, Droid DNA’s latest price cut, bringing the super-phone’s price down to $0 with two-year contracts. True, the special offer is time-limited, so Big Red is more »