Andrew Hoyle/CNET Samsung’s Galaxy S5 is off to a strong start, claims a new report out of Korea. Samsung’s flagship handset, which launched worldwide on Friday, surpassed the launch-day sales of last year’s Galaxy S4 by roughly 30 percent, reported ZDNet Korea, a CNET sister site. In some markets, Galaxy S5 sales were double that …
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Apple Bloom.fm, a London-based streaming-music service that offers everything from access to free radio to song borrowing, believes Apple is scared of its operation. Speaking to CNET on Friday, a Bloom.fm spokesman confirmed that the company’s ad-spend on Apple’s mobile-advertising platform iAd has been banned by the iPhone maker. The only suitable reason for that, the spokesman argues, is that …
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One of Lenovo’s previously announced handsets, the K900. Lenovo Lenovo has plans to launch a midtier smartphone featuring the increasingly-common gold finish making its way to more and more handsets. Lenovo will announce at some point soon the Golden Warrior S8, the Android Headlines blog site reported Friday, citing reports and leaked images out of Asia. The device will reportedly …
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T-Mobile CEO John Legere Lori Grunin/CNET In part two of his three-part plan to “revolutionize a broken, arrogant, and stupid wireless industry,” T-Mobile USA CEO John Legere announced Thursday that tablet owners will soon find a cheaper option for wireless data through his company. Starting Saturday, current and new postpaid T-Mobile subscribers can add an LTE tablet to their existing …
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A look at Project Ara. Google Google has taken one step closer to launching its Project Ara modular smartphone design. The company on Wednesday announced that the first version of its Project Ara Module Developers Kit (MDK) is now available for free to developers. The MDK, 0.10, is “a very early version,” Google says, but will still provide developers with …
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Galaxy S5’s teardown. iFixit Samsung’s latest flagship handset, the Galaxy S5, isn’t easily repairable, a new teardown from iFixit has revealed. iFixit, which provides periodic teardowns on tech gear and also sells products that DIYers can use to repair devices, gave the Galaxy S5 a repairability score of five out of 10. The device earned praise for a battery that’s …
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The HTC One M8 stacked atop the original One. Sarah Tew/CNET HTC’s One M8 flagship handset has varied pricing on Amazon right now, and depending on your carrier of choice, you might be able to get a deal. Customers looking to pick up the HTC One M8 from Sprint or Verizon Wireless can get it for $150 with a two-year …
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ZTE, the embattled China-based mobile company, launched a new smartphone on Wednesday that promises big features at a cheap price. Dubbed the V5, the Android-based handset comes to China with a quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor and 5-inch 720p HD display. It also features a 13-megapixel rear-facing camera, and 5-megapixel front-facing camera. ZTE is offering five color options on the Redbull …
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iFixit Samsung’s Gear 2 smartwatch is awfully easy to repair, a new teardown from iFixit has revealed. The folks over at iFixit, who tear apart consumer tech and sell product to help DIYers perform their own gadget surgeries, gave the Gear 2 smartwatch a repairability score of 8 out of 10 (with 10 being the easiest to repair) on Wednesday, …
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DxO rankings for mobile phones. DxO Labs The Sony Xperia Z2 has supplanted Nokia’s 808 Pureview as the best smartphone for mobile photographers, according to an organization that analyzes camera quality. Sony’s latest flagship handset scored a 79 out of a possible 100 on the DxOMark Mobile scale, beating out Nokia’s 808, which landed a score of 77 out of …
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