Archives for July 16th, 2014
HTC Desire 610 Coming to AT&T July 25th
The HTC Desire 610 will be available from AT&T on July 25th, HTC announced today. The Desire 610 is a modest smartphone with some added HTC magic and a sleek design which could be a huge hit with budget minded customers. The Desire 610 packs a Snapdragon 400 processor running at 1.2GHz, a 4.7 inch FWVGA… ...
Verizon Adding 4G LTE to ALLSET Pre-Paid Plans Tomorrow
Verizon’s ALLSET pre-paid plans will support 4G LTE devices beginning tomorrow, the company announced today. Currently, ALLSET plans cost a little more than T-Mobile’s options, and don’t support devices with 4G LTE capability, leaving ALLSET users doomed to use sub-par smartphones. With the addition of 4G LTE support to the company’s ALLSET plans tomorrow, a whole slew… ...
Nokia Lumia 635 Coming to AT&T July 25th for Just $99 with Cortana on Board
Nokia’s budget minded Lumia handset, the Nokia Lumia 635 is coming to AT&T next week, with GoPhone kicking it off. GoPhone Nokia Lumia 635 units will be available for $99.99 off-contract on July 25th, with the device hitting AT&T stores both virtual and real on August 8th. AT&T stores will sell the Lumia 635 for… ...
Novartis to turn Google’s smart lens tech into a real-world product
You may remember that Google was working on a smart lens technology; well a portion of what Mountain View engineers have made has been licensed to Novartis’ eye-care subsidiary Alcon, which will try to turn it into a commercial product. This is a mobile health story — hence I’ve talked about it at mHealth Spot… ...
Huawei wants to ruin the Xiaomi Mi4 launch party with a July 22 event of its own
We’re detecting some rather awkward practices in the ever growing smartphone market of China: whenever some vendor decides to hold an event on a certain date, a different vendor announces it too will unveil something new on that day. Earlier this year we saw Xiaomi releasing its new range of routers and a smart TV… ...
It’s now even easier to unlock bootloader of an Xperia smartphone or tablet
For quite some time now, Sony allowed users to unlock bootloaders of their Xperia devices. The process was not that complicated — at least not for those who actually wanted to take this route — but the company decided to make it even easier, nevertheless. And voila… the Unlock Boot Loader service got a facelift,… ...
MediaTek launches what it says is the first 64-bit true octa-core LTE chip with support for 2K screens
MediaTek MT6795 is a new System on Chip (SoC) announced by the Taiwanese company. It’s also the world’s first 64-bit true octa-core LTE chip with support for 2K (2560 x 1600 pixels) screens, and as such – it is designed to power-up the very best of mobile devices. Offering speeds of up to 2.2GHz, the… ...
Xperia T2 Ultra Android 4.4.2 KitKat update now rolling [Update]
Sony has started to roll out the Android 4.4.2 KitKat (sorry no 4.4.4) firmware update to the Xperia T2 Ultra and Xperia T2 Ultra Dual handsets. The KitKat update will update Xperia T2 Ultra handsets to software build number 19.1.A.0.473, whilst Xperia T2 Ultra Dual owners will be updated with build number 19.1.C.0.116. So far we ...
Xperia T2 Ultra Android 4.4.2 KitKat update now rolling
Sony has started to roll out the Android 4.4.2 KitKat (sorry no 4.4.4) firmware update to the Xperia T2 Ultra and Xperia T2 Ultra Dual handsets. The KitKat update will update Xperia T2 Ultra handsets to software build number 19.1.A.0.473, whilst Xperia T2 Ultra Dual owners will be updated with build number 19.1.C.0.116. So far we ...
Xperia Z3 (D6603) passes through the FCC
The handset expected to be known as the Sony Xperia Z3 has passed through the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the US. The particular variant being testing was the D6603 with FCC ID of PM-0800-BV. We know these two relate to each other given an earlier certification from TUV Rheinland. The documents itself do not reveal ...