Erik Pineda

Thanks to the major revamp on the upcoming Apple’s iOS 7, iPhone 6 and iPhones 5S will get a long-requested feature on the handset’s release date – fully functional widgets that sit on the smartphone’s home screen.

Apple will rely on its three-gadget salvo – the iPhone 5S, the iPad Mini 2 and the iPad 5 – to keep the company’s cash register ringing this year and on.

A few months from now, Samsung will refresh its flagship phablet, prompting tech watchers to anticipate a classic battle between the Galaxy S4 and the Galaxy Note 3, which analysts said is set for a September 2013 release date.

Samsung is reportedly coming out with the camera-centric Galaxy S4 to be named Galaxy S4 Zoom on its rumoured June 2014 release date.

There will be one Google smartphone flagship set for a grand release date this year, a new report, and it will be the LG-manufactured Nexus 5.

Apart from Jelly Bean 4.3 or Key Lime Pie, Google’s major push later this month is the second coming of the Nexus 7, a new report said, with attendees of the annual I/O event poised to see the stock Android tablet first.

Samsung recently won a patent approval from U.S. authorities that strongly suggests of a slightly curved and expectedly durable screen for the Galaxy Note 3 release date in September.

Two iPhone models, the iPhone 5S and the so-called budget iPhone, are pegged by analysts to arrive September this year but new indications now suggest the handsets’ release date is likely to happen in advance.

British carrier Vodafone has reportedly listed the iPhone 6 as among the gadgets to comprise its upcoming release dates, a new report said.

The number of consumers wanting to own the first-gen iPad Mini is on the decline, an alarming trend that could prod Apple to speed up the planned release date of the iPad Mini 2 with Retina display.

A new Lumia variant is reportedly set for unveiling this May, along with the Lumia 928 and Lumia 925, and there is a likelihood that Nokia would test drive the rumoured Lumia EOS with Jelly Bean.

Apple’s rumoured phablet, the iPhone 6, is likely the first beneficiary of invisible control keys on top of the wrap-around display that the smartphone will reportedly introduce come its release date next year, a new report said.

Samsung is letting out a barrage of Galaxy smartphones to choose from in a three-month spread, beginning with the supersized Galaxy Mega and to be capped by the long-awaited Galaxy S4 Mini.

Two leading Apple gadgets, the iPhone 5S and the iPad Mini 2, are set for separate release dates later this year, but this early, experts are offering wish list and predictions for the expectedly blockbuster products.

Following the release of its new flagship, the Samsung Galaxy S4, Samsung has indicated that it will issue two variants namely the Galaxy S4 Mini and the Galaxy S4 Active. Now a fourth version is reportedly on its way, to be called Galaxy S4 Zoom.

Upcoming releases of iPhones and iPads this year would likely support smart sharing of media contents in a single iOS device as suggested in a new patent developed and filed for approval by Apple.

The HTC One global release date is marked by critical acclaim, with many infatuated experts easily labelling the handset as probably the best Android smartphone to debut this year.

Production of the iPad Mini 2 with Retina will reportedly commence in June, setting off fresh speculations that the second-gen 7.9-inch tablet from Apple is primed for a September 2013 release date.

Prior to its release date, the Galaxy S4, according to Samsung, will deliver the same across the board experience regardless if the unit is powered by an 8-core Exynos chip or the Snapdragon kind.

No more curves for the future Samsung flagship, which was shown in a new concept bearing a gigantic screen that folds in half for easy pocketing.

Verizon is reportedly packaging the iPhone 5 into a $US99 promo plan, a new report said, significantly shrinking the unit price of the Apple flagship some months prior to the rumoured release date of the iPhone 5S and its cheaper version.

All the signs point to a May release date for the next Nexus flavour coming from Google and LG, the latest of which a handset image that could be use as the base model for the much-awaited Nexus 5.

Apple fans will get what they’ve been asking for a few months from now – an iPad Mini 2 with Retina display technology, which will be immediately refreshed by Q1 2014 with the iPad Mini 3, also with Retina.

Apple’s practice of inserting an S release into its iPhone upgrade cycle has been widely assailed, with critics asserting that the iPhone 6 is more deserving of the 2013 release date.

The second Samsung flagship this year, the Galaxy Note 3, is landing likely on September 2013, hard-pressed to surpass the too-high bar set by its Sammy cousin, the Galaxy S4, and other rival handsets.

Its existence remains a pigment of everyone’s imagination but experts are increasingly convinced that the iPhone 6 release date is dawning upon us – though not this year but by mid-2014.

The Motorola X-Phone release date is reportedly set later this month, with Google using the I/O Developers Conference as the fitting occasion for the fresh Jelly Bean flagship handset.

Apple’s rumoured low-cost iPhone, planned for a simultaneous release date with the iPhone 5S, will redefine the smartphone industry in the same way that the iPad Mini altered the global tablet arena, a new report said.

Nexus 5 is an entirely different handset from the rumoured Motorola X-Phone and Google is building its new flagship with the help of a familiar partner – LG from South Korea.