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Smartphone maker HTC <2498.TW> said on Wednesday its latest smartphones have passed a U.S. customs review, clearing the way for it to ramp up sales in the United States as it looks to turn around a decline in what was once its largest market.
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Apple iPhone 4S has an awesome Retina display with pixel density rate of 330 pixels per inch (ppi). It is, so far, unmatched in terms of screen sharpness and clarity by any other display featured in rival smartphones. But the charisma of Apple’s so-called “Retina display” is just about to end as LG has showed off its 5-inch LCD display that maxes out at full-HD resolution offering an excessive pixel density of 440ppi.
Finishing the $12.5 billion Motorola Mobility acquisition last week, Google is on the road to release its own smartphone. Surprisingly, talks of another Internet tech giant making a similar move are also surfacing online.
Samsung Galaxy S3 is the most-hyped Android smartphone made ever. Samsung showcased the device at a special event on May 3 in London and it is hitting UK stores on May 29. However, the U.S. release date is still unclear, but the recent reports give indication of June 20 release.
Nokia is the leading manufacture for Windows Phone, and the Finnish giant has only been selling devices only since November of 2011, that's a full six months ago. The Lumia 800 was the first of many Windows Phone 7.5 devices. However, the company is not slowing down, and it now appears a Windows Phone 8-based Nokia is already in the works.
Earlier this year, Sony announced that the Xperia lineup of android smartphones, released in 2011 and 2012, will get the latest taste of Ice Cream Sandwich. However, in a shocking announcement, Sony removed the PlayStation phone – Xperia Play – from Android 4.0 ICS update list.
Powered by quad-core 1.4 GHz Exynos processor, Galaxy S3 is not the only quad-core rig in the market, but it is the one that has received top spotlight. The biggest competitor to Galaxy S3 is HTC One X, which is powered by quad-core 1.5 GHz processor.
Samsung Galaxy S3 is undoubtedly the hottest smartphones in the whole range of Android devices that have ever been made. Pre-orders for the Android super phone have already topped 9 million and the launch date is just around the corner. Folks in Europe are preparing to get their hands on the Galaxy S3 on May 29 with a U.S. release scheduled soon thereafter.
There are many who are not pleased with the Samsung Galaxy S3 being compared to the iPhone 4S, mainly due to how old the 4S is. However, the Apple iPhone 4S is the number one selling smartphone on the planet, so until Apple announces the iPhone 5 or new iPhone, these types of comparisons cannot be helped in the very least.
A German regional court ruled in a hearing on Thursday that Motorola Mobility infringed Microsoft patents by offering the option on its mobile phones to send a longer text in a batch of several messages.
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Bharti Airtel, India's top mobile phone operator, added 2.01 million mobile users in April, taking its total subscribers in the country to 183.3 million, data from an industry body showed on Friday.
Save up now for that new iPhone: the era of free or cut-price phones when signing a new mobile phone contract may be soon be over in Europe.