Erik Pineda

HTC is saving the best to come in the few months ahead and its latest offering, the dual-core One SV, is a straightforward midrange smartphone intended to woo the budget-conscious buyers.

Powerful Android smartphones are in the 2013 gadget pipeline, but nothing beats the excitement reserved for Samsung’s Galaxy S4, which reports said will debut early this year with a 4.99-inch screen size.

BlackBerry is raring to blaze the path for recovery via its initial two handsets launch on February, namely the Touchscreen Z10 and the QWERTY X10, both set to run on BB10.

There are no supply issues hampering the production of Nexus 4, a South Korean official of LG told a Chinese publication this week, dismissing reports that the Google smartphone stock outs were mostly caused by a supply chain that is erratic and scarce.

Humanity survived its predicted destruction on December 21 2012 but a group of U.S. scientists believe that we are again closer to the end days not because the Mayan Calendar says so. They now look at the symbolical Doomsday Clock, its minute hand ticks just five minutes before midnight.

Nokia and its partners have been delivering impressive after-sales services for the Lumia 920, dispatching timely patches and offering great accessories to further increase the attention it managed to capture starting late 2012

Samsung’s Galaxy S4 is likely to come out within the first quarter of 2013, a new blog report said, which based the claim on the hints ‘leaked’ by Samsung during a side gathering in the recently-concluded Las Vegas CES.

Sony’s Xperia Z seems worth comparing with the Nexus 4 from Google-LG. The two gadgets draw energy from one power source – the 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4 Pro that works sweetly with a 2GB RAM for a trouble-free handset behaviour.

The new Sony Xperia Z packs all the right elements to deliver joy for the Japanese firm, long searching for a hero phone that will measure up with the mighty iPhone and Galaxy smartphones from Apple and Samsung, respectively.

Labor’s opening salvo for election year 2013 appears to have exceeded the ruling party’s expectations as the latest News Ltd-Newspoll survey showed the government to a record high 38 per cent of primary vote, boosting its support by an impressive 6-point jump.

Fans would have more reasons to snap up the Galaxy S3 Mini, following reports from Samsung operations in France that the smaller version of the hugely popular Galaxy S3 now comes in six colour variants.

The Coalition mocks her 935 days of being the nation’s chief leader, marked on Sunday, but Prime Minister Julia Gillard appears all geared up in further extending her grip on the job she inherited from former Labor leader Kevin Rudd.

Nexus 4 is almost the ultimate handset ladled by Google and LG into a mouth-watering single-plate serving. It is a beauty and a brute that is easy on the pocket, nudging the handset to phenomenal global acceptance barely two months after its debut on the Google Play store.

Smartphones will only get bigger in the next few years because consumers are embracing the trend, Samsung said, hinting too that its current success rides high on the level of satisfaction the company delivers to global gadget users.

The next batch of Nexus 4 shipment is on the way and each unit will deploy with Android JellyBean 4.2.2, fresh blog reports said.

Former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd called on his Labor colleagues, specifically those serving in the Gillard Government, to use more of their hearts in designing the national dole program for hard-up Australians.

A new report from Forbes suggested that U.S. kids are fast outgrowing the gadgets that inspired the global mobile device explosion and are gravitating instead toward the competitions

LG Optimus G on Sprint is set to receive a minor update patch via OTA, which the U.S. telco said has started rolling out, to improve certain features of the phone and solve previously reported bugs.

Another Galaxy phone is coming down to Earth, courtesy of Samsung, which announced on Thursday the commercial availability of the Galaxy S2 Plus.

Nokia’s new flagship smartphones have reached the Indian shores, opening up another important front for the Lumia 920 and Lumia 820, which have been revving up the Finnish firm’s global mobile phone thrust.

You and your Nexus 4 (lucky you) may want to extend the possibilities that this powerful smartphone, powered by stock version of Android, can do. BootUnlocker is the answer, according to folks at RedmondPie.com.

The competitions are gathering strength, and it is more imperative for Apple to tinker with its business model and release a cheaper iPhone version this year, which a number of analysts have been suggesting.

The Nexus 4 remains on the back-order status, latest check on Google Play store showed, which allowed unofficial channels to offer the Google-LG handset but with significantly bloated price tags.

Speculations abound that Samsung will let loose its latest flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S4, anytime within Q2 2013 but one important component could actually determine the gadget’s market debut.

Panasonic debuted two new Toughpads at the ongoing CES in Las Vegas this week, keeping its tradition of providing mobile computing machines that are able to withstand all forms of abuse and neglects.

How profitable the Galaxy S3 and the Galaxy Note 2 are for Samsung? It is widely believed that the South Korean tech giant’s $US8.3 billion of operating profit in the fourth quarter of 2012 was largely delivered by its mobile division business.

Talks that Apple is releasing two versions of iPhone this year is growing by the day, fed by forecasts from key analysts, but a new report suggests that if indeed an iPhone Mini will come out, the earliest that the handset will hit global markets is by 2014.

Ten months after its launch, Windows 8 now counts 60 million licences shipped out so far, Microsoft said on Tuesday, the whole bunch covering OEMs delivered to new PCs and multitudes of upgrades.

Within the vast expanse of the Milky Way, U.S. astronomers estimate that some 17 billion Earth-sized planets exist and likely located in the so-called habitable zones, where water in liquid form is found.