All About Smartphones

The Mobile World Congress 2015 happening today in Barcelona is already raising hits and major smartphone manufacturers are going to be unveiling some cool stuffs; HTC has already started by taking the wraps off their flagship device HTC M9 and the specifications and features are very juicy, in fact the future of HTC M9 is very good. Below we present to you all the specs released for the HTC M9 smartphone. Design Design is very important in today's world of smartphone. You can't have a phone looking like a turaya phone even with great specs and expect it to sell especially seeing how smartphones are becoming fashion accessories. The HTC M9 has a well flushed body and has dimensions 144.6 x 69.7 x 9.6mm and weighs just 157g. SIM and Network The HTC M9 will come with a nano, single SIM card slot with support for GSM, HSPA and LTE network technology.  Display The HTC M9 will come with a super LCD 3 capacitive touchscreen, 16 million colors seen through the 5....

HTC, the Taiwanese comapny have finnally taken the wraps off its new flagship smartphone dubbed the HTC One M8.   The M8 which borrows a lot of design and form from its predecessor, the HTC One (2013 edition) comes with a good number of cool features and specification upgrades especially the finger print sensor located at the back of the device, close to the camera. Network and Bands The HTC M8 comes with network 2G/3G/4G LTE and equipped wit a nano SIM slot. The bands of the M8 makes it suitable to be used in almost every network of the world as it covers bands 2G: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900, 3G: HSPDA/850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900/2100 and 4G: 700/850/1700/1800/1900/2100/2600. Dimensions and Weight HTC M8 has dimensions 146.4 x 70.6 x 9.4 mm (5.76 x 2.78 x 0.37 in) and weighs a total of 160g. Hence it doesn't feel heavy at all when compared to other smartphones like the Samsung Galaxy S5. Display and Resolution Like its predecessor, the comes with a 1080p resolution miulitouch dis...

Rooting any Android device is becoming very easy nowadays and the same should be said for unrooting Android devices too. For one reason or the other, unrooting of Android may be needed either to correct an issue or to avoid voiding the warranty when presenting the device to manufacturers for swapping or repairs Which ever reason it is, the tutorial below should help unroot your Android device whether Samsung, HTC, Tecno etc. Requirements 1.   Rooted android device  2. Device with Clock World Mod installed not supported (requires more steps than the ones stated) Procedures 1. Go to Play Store and download ES File Explorer. Don't move to SD card. 2. Launch app, click on the slash button 3. Tap the phone menu button to reveal new options  4. tap Root Explore setting it to ON 5. Superuser will ask you to grant super privilege or root privileges to the app. Allow it 6. Now go to the System folder as shown in the image below, then bi...

HTC phones are likely to be widely banned in the UK following the current case between Nokia and HTC over patents infringement by HTC. Nokia accused HTC of infringing on some patents which eventually caused a legal battle in UK courts.  Justice Arnold of the England and Wales high court ordered an injunction against HTC but gave HTC the chance to appeal on limited grounds.  Nokia won the first round of the case and have asked for the ban of HTC phones and monetary compensation for each phone sold.  If Nokia should completely win the case and these demands by Nokia are finally acceded to, there would be a huge ban on a lot of HTC phones that are accused to have infringed on Nokia’s patents EP1246071 and EP0998024.  The patents in question describes the method of configuring electronic devices and especially between desktop computers and mobile devices.  If the ban becomes effective, it would be a serious issue for the Taiwanese compa...

Samsung team in Taiwan was fined a total sum of $340,000 by the FTC for bribing students in Taiwan to speak negatively against HTC phones in forums and group discussions. According to FTC, Samsung Taiwan was charged with engaging in unfair trade rules by campaigning against a competing company, HTC in online forums and review sites. Samsung's Taiwanese team admitted to the charge and that they started the bribing of students April 2013 so that they can give bad comments about HTC products and to praise Samsung phones. Two other smaller companies were also charged in the case and they were asked to pay $100,000 each for their involvement in the scam. We know that there is serious competition in the smartphone industry but this action by Samsung Taiwan is actually taking things too far. This isn’t the first time Samsung has been in trouble with the FTC. Earlier this year, the company was fined for misleading advertising for its claims about camera features on...

HTC have finally announced its HTC One Max phablet yesterday with massive specs and features. The HTC One Max is a 5.9 inch phablet with some nice features as the HTC One flagship smartphone but with some new additions to it. One of the areas where it the HTC One max outshines the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 is in the fingerprint sensor One maxis embedded with. Although, the camera and processor is still the same as the HTC One smartphone (Snapdragon 600 variety), the One Max does have a space for extra memory slot in addition to the already present 16/32GB internal memory. Software-wise, the One Max comes with HTC’s Sense 5.5 software sitting on top of Android 4.3. There’s no word on whether a Google Play Edition version of the One Max will be available, unfortunately. Google has a potential Nexus event on the horizon though, so it’s entirely possible one may get announced then. Maybe not, though. As earlier stated, HTC One Max has come forward before Samsung and ...

September this year would be a power struggle among smartphone makers as each of them would try to out do the other in terms of device specifications and sales. Consumers are not left out too as they will have a harder decision to make as to what device to purchase. It has been rumored for days now that Samsung is set to release the next Samsung Galaxy Note III for September. The device is rumored to have a resolution of 1080 x 1920 which a 5.7 inch full HD AMOLED screen to go with. Just like the Samsung Galaxy S4, the Note III will have a Octa - core processor managing things on the device and with a 13MP camera plus a stylus. Knowing Samsung, they like to pack in serious stuff into their devices believing that no other company can rival the huge hardware and specs in their devices Well, HTC have decided to go head to head with Samsung Note III by providing even more power with the announcement of their HTC One Max . HTC One Max will have 6 inch full HD 1080...

Striving for success and gaining success is one thing, however keeping and holding on to that success is another thing; one that often requires huge amount of energy even sometimes exceeding the energy used to get to that vantage point. The term "Energy" is defined as money invested, Research & Development, innovation and dedication to true customer satisfaction. While Apple and Samsung may have strived and attained success in the smartphone industry, keeping hold of that success is a daunting challenge. One they address every second of the time using different models.  Am sure they learnt from the mistakes of the Fallen heroes: Blackberry, Nokia, Erricson and even Motorola. The reason for even far more energy spent on sustaining success isn't too far fetched considering the plethora of other companies trying to attain that pinnacle of success at the expense of the downfall of the new big names either by copying innovation or using advertising t...

The war is on and Samsung S4, HTC One and iPhone 5 smartphones See in serious trouble with the latest smartphone unveiled by Huawei called Ascend P6. Earlier today Huawei unveiled the world slimmest phone ever with a thickness of 6.18mm with weight of 120g and a front facing camera of 5 megapixel. Yes! 5mp front facing camera. This isn't even the grandest of all the features it has.  I bet you are amazed already and cant wait to hear more.  The body of this wonderful smartphone is aluminium and looks quite a bit like the iPhone 5 and will come in 3 colours of black, white and pink. A full details of the specification of this smartphone is as follows: Front camera: 5 megapixel with support to capture 1080p videos Back camera: 8 megapixel with full HD support. Thickness & Weight: 6.18m & 120g Operating System: Android Jelly Bean 4.2.2 with emotion UI 1.6 Processor: 1.5 GHz quad core Huawei K3V2 processor. RAM : 2GB S...

Is Nokia fairing well in the face of this fierce competition in the Smartphone Industry? The competition in the smartphone industry is very fierce. It is not a place for a weak company to venture into at all if you are not ready to do and make drastic powerful choices. Former powerful companies like Nokia, Blackberry, Sagem etc which have given way to Apple Inc. and Samsung used to dominate the phone industry have fallen and have fallen even more because of this fierce competition going on at this point in time. The devices of these fallen heroes are no more demanded in great quality. People now can't wait to get theirs hands on iPhone, Samsung Galaxy S3, HTC One. Nokia and Blackberry isn't in the list. What if Nokia had gone the Android way just like Samsung , HTC etc? Would the company be in a better situation? As of this writing, Apple Inc. is dominating the smartphone market, raking in money by the minute. In fact, the fate of the Phone industry to...