COMPUTERS

Latest rumours claimed that the Samsung Galaxy S4 will not appear in the upcoming Mobile World Congress later this month but in a separate launch event in March 22 with a higher price compared to its predecessor.

Samsung is set to introduce new update regimen with the Galaxy S4, giving the company more control in the normally complicated Android upgrade cycle, a new report said.

The 7-inch tablet class proves very alluring and Asus thought it wise to join the fray and compete on its own terms. The company recently confirmed the upcoming release of the Asus MeMO Pad.

Nexus 4 resumed deliveries last week and buyers actually got what they asked for, in some cases after only three days of waiting. It appeared the shipping fiasco, as pledged by LG and Google, that marred the smartphone’s launch late last year has been resolved.

Two sneaky Android apps have been detected by Kaspersky, a well-known anti-virus and malware security developer. The apps cloaks as cache cleaners but instead snoop around once connected to PC. Superclean and DroidCleaner are the two applications uncovered by Kaspersky Labs. Both feature clean-up of Android phone or tablet cache files.

Too many mobile devices have saturated the market and all of these came from different brands. Anyone can purchase a new mobile device from a network carrier using a plan or from a retail store to get an open-line. But with the increasing need for internet usage, primarily 3G, network carriers make good deals with the latest smartphones in the package, such as the seven offers from two major telecom service providers.

The Taiwanese firm HTC is still under warning of continues sales drop. The intense friction between Apple and Samsung in terms of marketing has stumbled HTC while the new players, Huawei and ZTE, compete inside China, which kicked the Taiwanese firm out of the top five in the last quarter of 2012.

More clues came out that there is a Motorola X-Phone project, its existence allegedly confirmed by a LinkedIn job posting searching for a project director, according to tech experts.

The HTC M7 is definitely hitting store shelves by Q1 2013 with no less than HTC chief executive Peter Chou reportedly brandishing the quad-core 1080p smartphone in a recent company gathering.

Nexus 4 recently returned at the Google Play Store but it appears the 8GB version is facing supply issues once again. The device currently shows indication of availability concerns due to delayed shipping times where customers have to wait for three to four weeks before getting their hands on the Nexus phone.

New Samsung tablets are set to be unveiled at the 2013 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and among them is the entry-level Galaxy Tab 3 7.0, said to carry a starting price of $US149.

The upcoming Galaxy S4 is rumoured to sport wireless charging capability but those who can hardly wait for the next Samsung flagship smartphone launch and happen to own the million-selling Galaxy S3 can actually enjoy this feature in advance.

The white version of the popular LG Nexus 4 surfaced online last week as its brother slips into the Google Play Store and disappeared again.

Nokia Lumia 710 users in the United States will not be getting further support from carrier T-Mobile, specifically in accessing the Windows Phone 7.8 update, a new report said.

There have been rumours that the next iPhone as well as the cheaper version of the handset will be released together in June.

A two-minute commercial of Super Bowl by Samsung sets to air during the fourth quarter of Sunday's big game. It is a humorous production from Seth Rogen and Paul Rudd who were both seen in the teaser days ago.

Samsung Galaxy Note 2 is offered half the price by some retailers that could mean the imminent release of its successor – Samsung Galaxy Note 3.

Shibani Bhujle, a New York marketing manager, complained of an incident unexpected by other iPhone users. She said that her one-year-old iPhone 4s spontaneously combusted which burnt her fingers and then oozes a liquid out of the device.

St. Thomas Aquinas, a Catholic prep school in Florida, is one of more than 2,000 schools to adopt Chromebooks for education, according to Google's Global Education Evangelist Jaime Casap.

Come March 2013, Apple intends to refresh its 9.7-inch iPad, this time around thinner and lighter from the version we have seen in the last quarter of 2012 thanks to a new touchscreen technology, a new report said.

Popular handset LG Nexus 4 is rumoured to be the first smartphone to receive the upcoming 4.2.2 Jelly Bean update.

Nexus 4 is gone again in Australia after only days of being available. Both the 8GB and 16GB variants of the Google flagship smartphone has just returned to Google Play site, but now buyers are doused with cold water again.

Sony sent out invites for a New York City event labelled ‘PlayStation Meeting 2013’ which the ailing Japanese consumer electronic firm will stage on Feb. 20. Is this the much-awaited PlayStation 4 unveiling?

BlackBerry unveiled its first touch screen smartphone BlackBerry Z10 yesterday at Sydney.

Samsung’s Galaxy S4 starts rolling out by the second week of April 2013, the projection based on two new reports coming from the United Kingdom and New Zealand.

Nokia is reportedly testing a new Lumia smartphone, triggering fresh speculations that the Finnish firm is pulling off a surprise following its announcement of a Feb 25 news briefing at the 2013 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

The new BlackBerry Z10 finally made its debut yesterday at Sydney.

A new social photo-taking game app launched by CollegeHumor has been launched for iPhone and it's called Bout. The photo-taking app challenges players to compete with each other by submitting images that answer funny prompts.

Escaping from the temple ruins and dungeons while dodging traps beats out the powers of super-powered birds. Imangi Studios made history with Temple Runs2 as it became the fastest growing mobile game, displacing Rovio's pet app. Temple Run 2 soared with 50 million downloads in just 13 days from its release.