Those eyeing Virgin Mobile’s prepaid phones now have another Android 4.1 smartphone to choose from. …

Is thin better? Huawei seems to think so, if its Ascend P6 — launched recently in London — is anything to go by. The Ascend P6. (Credit: Huawei) The 4.7-inch Android phone is just 6.18mm thin, making it the world’s slimmest smartphone currently available. The P6 also boasts a full HD screen, a 1.5GHz quad-core processor, an 8MP camera and …

The Snapdragon 800 seems to represent a new level of speed for mobile processors. Here it is getting disgustingly high framerates in the 3DMark benchmark. Eric Franklin/CNET The Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 will destroy your mobile processor. Not literally, of course. I’m strictly referring to its ability to render real-time graphics so fast as to make your current mobile processor — …