Phone users, have you held your smartphone in your hand and felt that there just wasn’t enough screen on which to view your content? You readers with tablets, have you struggled with your massive slate and wished it were just a little more manageable? Samsung has heard your pleas for the perfect phablet, and present [...]
Samsung’s newest tablet, the Galaxy Note 8.0, was announced last month at the 2013 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. Today, Samsung Electronics Philippines Corporation (SEPCO) announced that they will be launching the device here in our shores in April. Here’s a quick refresher: The Note 8.0 features an 8-inch TFT touch screen with a [...]
Bigger than the Note II, but smaller than the Note 10.1. This is the perfect way to describe Samsung’s new phablet that recently made its first appearance in the 2013 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain—the Galaxy Note 8.0. Based on the size and specs of the device, it is clear that the Note [...]
Intel is expected to announce the Clover Trail+ mobile CPUs at the 2013 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, which will be Intel’s first dual-core chip for smartphones. The Atom CPU provides double the computing performance and triple the graphics capabilities of its predecessor, Medfield, and will use the same level of power consumption as the [...]
Lonson Alejandrino, Cherry Mobile’s Smartphone Product Manager Say what you will about Cherry Mobile, but we here at Gadgets believe it gives more people access to technology in a bigger way than almost any other manufacturer in the market today. The mobile device giant has just formally launched mobile phones, and a very impressive new [...]
No one really doubted its existence, but at least it’s now official. Meet Huawei’s latest phablet, the absolutely huge 6.1-inch Ascend Mate. This particular phablet is filled with all the latest Android gadgetry, which includes a 1.5 GHz Hi-Silicon quad-core processor, 6.1-inch HD IPS+ LCD screen that sadly isn’t a full HD display (topping out at 1280 [...]
If you thought that Huawei was alone in their quest to create the most unweildy phablet known to man, you’d be wrong. Rumor has it that ZTE is also jumping in feet first into the lets-make-a-comically-sized-phablet craze with their P945 phablet. This particular device is rumored to have a moderately sedate 1.2GHz quad-core processor, 5.7-inch [...]
Have a Galaxy Note and are a bit miffed about obvious lack of Jelly Bean goodness in your aging device? Don’t fret, Samsung has you covered – the company has announced that they will be bringing the same Premium Suite update that they gave the Galaxy Note 10.1 to the original Galaxy Note, along with [...]
Things are getting slightly ridiculous up in phablet land, as Engadget has reported that a Huawei executive by the name of Richard Yu has flaunted their next phablet device, the Ascend Mate tot he masses and waiting tech media. The Ascend Mate is possibly the biggest phablet in existence today, and carries a gigantic 6.1-inch, [...]
A lot of rumors have been circling about on HTC’s upcoming 5-inch, 1080p smartphone, the Deluxe. While there hasn’t been any more rumors about what’s going to power it inside, there’s been plenty of leaks on what it’ll look like on the outside. GSM Arena has managed to get their hands on purported press shots [...]
When we learned about the HTC’s 5-inch J Butterfly that was released for the Japanese market, we knew it wouldn’t be long till the company unleashed an international version of the device. Well folks, your wait is almost over – Twitter user @evleaks has leaked a press render of the possibly international version of [...]
The market for large, hybrid devices that toe the line of being a smartphone and a tablet (or a phablet, as it is more commonly known) is growing exponentially each year. As a direct result, plenty of manufacturers are creating their own interpretation of the phablet, with various results. Korean manufacturer LG has dived into [...]
