The first smartphone running on Firefox OS was shown at CES 2013 exhibition. Today Mozilla announced another one. The devise is designed for software developers and will not become available as commercial product. It got 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 processor, 3.5-inch HVGA screen, 512MB RAM, 4GB ROM, 1580mAh battery. The smartphone is equipped with all [...]
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Mozilla showed another smartphone running Firefox OS
January 22nd, 2013 
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Huawei starts shipping of Ascend D2 flagship smartphone
January 17th, 2013 admin Huawei Ascend D2 was first shown just a week ago but Huawei has already announced its sale. The smartphone has been already available for China Telecom’s customers. The price is about $640. In other countries the device is expected to become available in March. The Ascend D2 features 5-inch FullHD (443ppi) IPS+ screen, 1.5GHz quad-core [...]
Mozilla showed Firefox for Metro UI [screenshots]
October 8th, 2012 admin Some months ago Mozilla informed about its plans to make a version of Firefox adopted for Metro UI, an interface used in forthcoming Windows 8. Recently the developers released the beta version and asked everyone to test it. Though to try new UI users have to run Windows 8 RTM. The developers also forewarned that [...]
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Research: in total iPhone 5 owners will pay $1800 [infographic]
October 3rd, 2012 admin In US new iPhone 5 is sold for $199. This fact comes to the delight of many people. But just few of them realize how much iPhone really costs. Mashable has just posted an infographic showing the real price that you will pay in total. $199 is price with two-year contract with Verizon, AT&T, or [...]
Google will show the next Nexus smartphone in October
October 1st, 2012 admin According to some unofficial sources in next 30 days Google will announce the next Nexus series smartphone. The device will run on Android 4.2 and probably will be released in November. The presentation is expected to take place on All Things Digital event that will be held on October 29-30. Unlike two previous Nexus smartphones [...]
Rumors: the next Nexus series device will be made by HTC
September 25th, 2012 admin As we know last two Google Nexus smartphones were produced by Samsung. But it is rumored that the next Nexus series device will be manufactured by HTC. Some analytics believe that it will be a hybrid of a tablet and One X 5 smartphone and will be released as Google Nexus 5. According to GSM [...]
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Apple announced iOS 6
June 12th, 2012 admin Yesterday at WWDC Apple announced new version of its operating system for mobile devices. In contrast to the previous version iOS 6 has more than 200 innovations. New operating has closer integration with Facebook, improved Siri supporting more new languages. FaceTime video chat functionality now can be used not only with Wi-Fi networks but also [...]
Tizen OS will get Android and Bada apps support
May 16th, 2012 admin According to official sources forthcoming Tizen operating system will get support for Android apps. Moreover it will be able to runs apps designed with the help of bada SDK. The technology providing this feature is called Application Compatibility Layer or ALC. Representatives of Open Mobile promise that Tizen lets run Android apps with absolute compatibility [...]
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Facebook announces App Center
May 10th, 2012 admin In the run-up to IPO Facebook announced its app store – App Center. This catalog will include both free and paid social apps for such popular mobile platforms as Android and iOS. Moreover most of apps will have browser-based versions and can be run on every desktop computer no matter which OS it uses. While [...]
Google will launch cloud storage service next week
April 17th, 2012 admin The Next Web has just reported that Google Drive will be launched next week. It is a cloud storage service providing 5GB space for every user for free. Additional services will be paid. Users will be able to access their files via a client app or web browser. The app, providing quick access to Google [...]
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