Phones

Spectralink, a workplace wireless systems specialist, has launched a mobile handset built on Android – the Pivot. It’s designed for “in-building mobile employees” – in hospitals, large warehouses, or building developments, perhaps – and supports Voice over Wi-Fi (VoWi-Fi) along with “smartphone-like usability”. It runs Android “Jelly Bean” 4.1.2. “PIVOT is the first device of its kind and it will ...

Just a quick post to flag the release of the Samsung Galaxy Gear smart watch, released at the IFA show. I’ve covered it in more depth on the sister blog Gadget Master, but of course it has specific Android provenance, too. It works with Android devices (some Samsung Galaxy devices, to be precise, courtesy of “Smart Relay” software), and runs ...

As well as the Samsung watch, the tweeners” as Steve Jobs called them). The Samsung Galaxy Note 3 has a 5.7inch, full HD Super AMOLED display, in a slimmer and lighter form factor. Samsung also claims a better battery life, which is always an issue with the power hungry phablet screens. There’s a 13 megapixel rear camera “with Smart Stabilization ...

I must admit I’m a bit confused by the new Samsung Galaxy Mega, which runs Android 4.2. With a 6.3in display (HD 1280 x 720) is it stealing the phablet crown (dread phrase) from Samsung’s own Note range? I thought the big question was whether the much anticipated new Galaxy Note 3 (expected on Wednesday 4 September) would leap frog ...

Shipping with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 800 processor and sporting a large 5.2-inch full HD display (16:9 aspect ratio, with 400 pixels-per-inch resolution ), the LG Optimus G2 announced its arrival yesterday at an event in New York. Another point of note is that it has buttons on the back, not the side…. Engadget has got its hands on the device, and ...

Just a quick flag-in-the-sand post to mark the release of Moto X the first phone from Motorola since its Google acquisition. It’s described by Engadget as “a relatively mundane mainstream smartphone”. The spec? Apparently – via an online “Moto Maker” studio – you will be customise colours, accents, memory capacity and other aspects of the config. Engadget writes: The major ...

You wait ages for a phablet story and then two come along in one day (see also the Xperia Z Ultra story – Sony Xperia Z Ultra pushes the phablet envelope)… Phablets are Android territory because Apple has avowedly chosen not to occupy the ground (“tweeners” as Steve Jobs called them), and there’s an interesting post on the topic on ...

Must cover this one. It’s big but it’s slim, it’s Full HD but it’s also waterproof… It’s the Android-powered Sony Xperia Z Ultra and it’s pushing the phablet envelope (a form factor criticised by Apple purists but one that is increasingly popular with the wider public). Really, it’s all about the display… The Samasung Galaxy Note was the previous holder ...

The world’s slimmest Android phone? That title could be held by the Ascend P6, from Huawei (pronounced “WAH-way”, not “who are we”). The Chinese company has just unveiled the new smartphone, which measures 6.18mm and weighs 120g, at an event in London. Running Android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean II), it’s the flagship of the Huawei Ascend P series, and the brushed ...

How many stars are there in our galaxy? Not as many as the phones, tablets and phablets in the Samsung Galaxy range… (boom, boom) It’s getting hard to keep up with all the Samsung releases, with the last week alone bringing news of the Galaxy S4 Mini, the Galaxy Tab 3 series, and the Galaxy S4 Active. With release dates ...