Apple won’t be making any radical changes to the iPhone with this year’s model, if new photos out of China are to be believed. Purporting to show the iPhone 5 and new iPhone 5S’ front panels side by side, this apparent leak shows they’re almost exactly the same. Spotted by AppleInsider on a Chinese-based blog …

You don’t need a net and ether to catch this Butterfly: the 5-inch HTC Butterfly S has been officially confirmed as a bigger brother to the HTC One. Announced in Taiwan, the Butterfly S boasts a 5-inch, 1080p touchscreen. The follow-up to the HTC Butterfly, the Butterfly S is powered by a 1.9GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 processor with 2GB of …

The official DroidLanding Twitter account has reactivated itself and is broadcasting beacons again. Related stories: No Droid HTC One? No big deal HTC Droid DNA review Verizon gives away free Droid X’s prelaunch After sitting dormant for the better part of two years, @DroidLanding is teasing followers with transmissions and videos. This account has been used to help drum up …

Time to give iOS 7 a try. The clever folks at British phone blog Recombu have come up with a way for you to try out the dramatically restyled Apple software for the iPhone. It’s not a preview that you can load up on your phone and it doesn’t include all the finished transitions between screens, but the simulator does …

The just-released version 3.0 of Aviary for Android sports a redesigned interface and comes with some important new features for beautifying your photos. The most notable of the app’s additions is the improved Enhance tool. Previously a single-tap tool for smart, automatic adjustments, Enhance now comes with three different settings: Hi-Def, Illuminate, and Color Fix. Each setting has a way …

The Pocket Tripod can hold your iPhone vertically or horizontally. Geometrical Inc. An iPhone needs a stand. There, I said it. Whether for watching videos on an airplane, reading your Flipboard feeds over breakfast, or snapping rock-steady photos, nothing beats having your screen propped up at the perfect angle. For a long while, my preferred solution was the Zero Chroma …

HTC, Sony, and Huawei are leading the charge into large, full high-definition phone displays, said DisplayMate Technologies. It’s a market Apple has yet to enter. “With the iPhone 4 Retina display, Apple pioneered the previous generation of smartphone displays in 2010,” wrote Raymond Soneira in DisplayMate Technologies’ Full HD Flagship Smartphone Display Technology Shoot-Out released on Tuesday. “This time the …

LG Display is about to embark on the mass production of smartphone display panels that reportedly don’t break, crack, or shatter — because they can bend. By the fourth quarter of this year, the electronics company plans to be supplying the flexible displays to a host of major clients, according to The Korea Times. “We have completed the development of …

If you’re anything like me, you have an iTunes library you’ve amassed over the course of many years, one that includes everything from ripped CDs to Amazon MP3 purchases to song downloads from any number of outside sources. In other words, it’s a messy collection, with duplicates, missing album art and tags, and so on. There are plenty of utilities …

Huawei’s Ascend P6 is the thinnest mobile ever made, the Chinese company claims, having just officially announced the metallic Android phone at an event in London. At 6.2mm that’s hard to argue, but this isn’t the high-spec, high-cost handset some were expecting. With a 4.7-inch 1,280×720-pixel screen it’s not as massive or as high-res as rivals such as the HTC …

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The successor to LG’s flagship smartphone Optimus G will be powered by the speedy Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor, the companies announced Wednesday night. The new smartphone, which as of yet hasn’t been officially named, is expected to be announced later this year. The continued collaboration between the two companies isn’t surprising considering that the LG Optimus G was one of …

The HTC One is an absolutely fantastic piece of kit, offering a stylish design, an incredible screen and plenty of raw processing power for those important everyday tasks — like getting three stars on all the levels in Angry Birds. It does have one shortcoming, however: HTC Sense’s BlinkFeed, which is set as the default homescreen on the phone. Whenever …

Google’s smashing 7-inch slate could soon be set for a sequel, with a Korean analyst telling our sister site CNET News that screen makers are gearing up to supply displays for a new Nexus 7 tablet in June. Calling the tablet the Nexus 7 II, IHS researcher Ricky Park says it’ll pack a better-than-Full HD 1,920×1,200-pixel screen — a serious …

Android tablets have largely been a 7- or 10-inch affair to date, but 8 inches could be the new sweet spot, according to NPD DisplaySearch. Dell and Lenovo are among the tablet makers preparing 8-inch Android tablets, according to a blog post Tuesday from NPD DisplaySearch. Supply chain indications point to production of Android-based tablet PCs with 8-inch, 1,280×800 displays …