Nokia will apparently be unveiling a new high-end smartphone at the upcoming Mobile World Conference in Barcelona. In the last few months we’ve already seen the Nokia Lumia 710, Lumia 800 and Lumia 900 Windows Phone handsets from the Finnish giant, could another Lumia device be next?
It’s been a while coming but the Samsung Galaxy Nexus has been confirmed for a mid-February release in the UK. No word yet on when the rest of the world will see the snowy counterpart of the world’s first Ice Cream Sandwich device, but we hope it shouldn’t be too long.
While we’re now pretty certain that the Samsung Galaxy S III will not be seen at the upcoming Mobile World Congress even in Barcelona, rumors are starting to circulate about a late April/early May release. Whether or not the news is true is anyone’s guess right now, but it certainly doesn’t seem too far-fetched. Although it’s true that Samsung did recently release the Galaxy Nexus, it’d be within past trends for Samsung to not consider that as a suitable flagship device and roll out a more specifically Samsung-branded Galaxy S II sometime soon.
After Microsoft’s expensive acquisition of Skype it was just a matter of time before we started to see the popular VoIP service start cropping up on Windows Phone devices. Now we can apparently start expecting to see some pretty deep Skype integration by the end of the year.
Windows Phone 8, named Apollo, has been detailed after PocketNow got their hands on some solid information. Amongst the list of additions to the Windows Phone platform we found such juicy morsels as: We’re pretty excited about all of these changes in particular. The point that most keenly caught our eye was the Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 info sharing via NFC. Much like WebOS implemented at the end of its life, Windows Phone 8 devices will be able to transfer information to Windows 8 tablets simply by tapping the two gadgets together. It’s a very cool little piece of functionality and we can’t wait to give it a try ourselves.
A few of our readers have asked us what they can expect to be unveiled at the upcoming Mobile World Conference (MWC) in Barcelona. The unfortunate truth about big expos like the MWC is that it’s almost impossible to separate rumor from truth in the lead up. As such we can’t give any definite predictions, but here are some of the more viable rumors we’ve heard floating around the web in recent months.
The Nokia Lumia 910 has recently shown up on the website of Dutch retailer named Typhone and it seems to be a slightly tweaked version of the Nokia Lumia 900 that was demonstrated at CES. Where the Lumia 910 apparently differs from its American Lumia 900 cousin is in the camera and connectivity departments. It seems that for this new Lumia 910 version that 4G LTE support has been dropped and supplemented with a 12MP camera instead of the Lumia 900’s 8MP option.
The HTC Sensation XL is definitely at the larger end of the current smartphone spectrum, weighing in with a large 4.7 inch display. Being a variant of the HTC Sensation, it’s also one of HTC’s highest-end phones. So can this 4.7 inch beast compete in the big leagues? We took it for a spin to find out just exactly that for our HTC Sensation XL review.
HTC’s first quad-core phone, the HTC Edge, is a little device we found some leaked goss on a few weeks back. Very little solid info is currently known about the HTC Edge, but now it’s starting to look like we could be seeing a release date in late February.
The Apple iPad rumor wheel never stops turning and for those of us out here on the rim it can sometimes be difficult to wade through all the dross and find that one relevant and hopefully plausible little gem of potential truth. The iPad 3 is currently expected by many on the web to go on sale in the US sometime around March. So with this possible release date looming closer and closer what can we say we know about the iPad 3?
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