Posts By Azeem Ullah Hassan
HTC Announces the First, the First Phone with Facebook Home
By Azeem Ullah Hassan | April 8, 2013 No CommentsWhether you like the new Facebook Home or not, HTC is pretty much sold on the concept. The new First smartphone by the company is the first phone with the service built right onto the phone. Here are the full specs of the phone: Android 4.1 Jelly Bean with Facebook Home 4.3 inch HD display 8.9mm thick weighing 123.9g Micro-sim card slot 4G LTE supported [...]
Read More40 Years Have Passed Since the First Ever Cell Phone Call
By Azeem Ullah Hassan | April 4, 2013 2 Comments40 years have passed since the first public phone call was held between two people. The caller, Martin Cooper who was a former Motorola employee, used a bulky Motorola DynaTAC 8000x phone which some people will remember as the phone they saw in GTA Vice City. Martin called a reporter saying “I’m ringing you just to see if my call sounds good at your end” [...]
Read MoreSamsung Announces New Budget Phones: Galaxy Star and Pocket Neo
By Azeem Ullah Hassan | April 4, 2013 3 CommentsA new week, a new Samsung phone. The Korean company which is obsessed with releasing new phones as quickly as possible has announced yet another combo of Android smartphones, this time the Galaxy Star and Pocket Neo. Both Galaxy Star and Galaxy Neo Pocket look identical in design and most of the specs. Its strange that how two phone (from same vendor) can be so [...]
Read MoreEmatic Announces the $80 Android Tablet
By Azeem Ullah Hassan | April 4, 2013 6 CommentsNow here’s another company you most probably haven’t heard of. Ematic, just another manufacturer which specialises in making “disposable” tablets has released its new tablet. Called the Genesis Prime, the tablet will probably be one of the cheapest Google-certified product you’ll ever see, costing only $80. Of course killer specs can’t be expected at this price and needless to say, the tablet offers just that. [...]
Read MoreBlackBerry Reports Profits and Loads of Optimism
By Azeem Ullah Hassan | March 29, 2013 One CommentBlackBerry has finally announced its quarterly earnings after its name change. The new report comes with good news and hope of the arrival of better times. To start off, BlackBerry said it earned profits of $94 million on $2.7 billion revenue, which may sound tiny compared to the 10 or even 11-digit figures of the industry leaders but is none-the-less a good start. The no. [...]
Read MoreThe New ThinkCentre Edge 62z is a Budget AIO PC from Lenovo
By Azeem Ullah Hassan | March 29, 2013 3 CommentsBudget All-in-one PCs. How often do you spot machines with both of those traits on the market? The answer’s obvious: not often. But Lenovo is here to break the ice once this time, offering the ThinkCentre Edge 62z. The new AIO PC will be available at a (relatively) low cost of $549 or around Rs. 60,000. Instead of hardcore gamers, this system is targeted mainly [...]
Read MoreBlackBerry 10 Apps Touch the 100,000 Mark
By Azeem Ullah Hassan | March 22, 2013 2 CommentsA great news for the fans of the BlackBerry 10 platform is that the number of apps in the BlackBerry store has just reached 100,000. Of course, numbers don’t tell the whole tale but still its quite an achievement for a store which came into existence just 7 weeks prior to reaching the milestone. The news also came just a day before the Z10 smartphone [...]
Read MoreLenovo Issues an Update to the ThinkPad Lineup in the T431s
By Azeem Ullah Hassan | March 19, 2013 No CommentsLenovo has announced yet another laptop in the popular ThinkPad lineup. The new T431s is the successor to the T430s and comes with either Windows 7 or 8. From the outside, it looks like any other ThinkPad laptop thanks to the boxy & rugged design and the popular TrackPoint. This one, by the way includes a hinge which makes the laptop movable by up to [...]
Read MoreXperia SP is Another Android 4.1 Smartphone from Sony
By Azeem Ullah Hassan | March 19, 2013 No CommentsOther than announcing the Xperia L, Sony also took time to announce the Xperia SP. The handset is a high-end Android 4.1 smartphone and is probably the successor to the Xperia SL. Here are the full specs: Android 4.1 Jelly Bean 4.6 inch display with resolution of 720 x 1280 pixels Scratch-resistant capacitive touchscreen LTE supported 10mm thick Weight: 155g 1.7Ghz dual-core Krait processor 8 [...]
Read MoreSony Outs the Mid-Range Android Running Xperia L
By Azeem Ullah Hassan | March 19, 2013 4 CommentsSony has just shown off another mid-range smartphone the new Xperia L. The phone will sit in the notch above the Xperia P and brings considerable improvements to the already good package. It also features Sony’s NXT design language. Here’s the specifications list: Android 4.1 Jelly Bean 4.3 inch display with resolution of 854 x 480 pixels Scratch-resistant capacitive touchscreen 9.7mm thick Weight: 137g 1Ghz [...]
Read MoreSamsung Galaxy S IV Vs. Other Flagships
By Azeem Ullah Hassan | March 18, 2013 9 CommentsThe Samsung Galaxy S 4 has only been around for a very few days now but has found itself in the middle of a fierce competition. Here is a comparison chart of the shiny new Samsung Galaxy IV against smartphones from other manufacturers which will be just as willing to tear their new rival apart as ever. Samsung Galaxy S 4 HTC One [...]
Read MoreSamsung Galaxy S 4 Exclusive Software Coming to GSIII Too
By Azeem Ullah Hassan | March 18, 2013 2 CommentsKeeping up with their traditions, Samsung has yet again been working hard to make sure that great software keeps circulating in the plastic veins of its phones. Samsung Vice President of Portfolio Planning, Nick DiCarlo has just said in his interview that everything which is not related to hardware will be coming to its other flagship models too. Anything that we can do that’s not [...]
Read MoreThe Drawbacks of Using Social Media on Phones (Infographic)
By Azeem Ullah Hassan | March 18, 2013 4 CommentsThe following is an amazing infographic which focuses mainly on the drawbacks of social media and social apps on smartphones nowadays. To start off, 47% of people on earth use social media services through phone and 4 out of 10 have an app for that purpose. Then comes the worse bits which tell you how expensive it can be to be social through a phone [...]
Read MoreSamsung Galaxy S IV Gets Unveiled
By Azeem Ullah Hassan | March 15, 2013 7 CommentsThe next big thing from Samsung is finally here as the Samsung Galaxy S IV has been announced in New York this morning. The phone is unarguably one of the very best in the smartphone industry ever with its ground-breaking specs. Featuring a 4.99 Inch Full HD display, 13mp camera and an 8-core processor, this phone has enough power to thrash any phone in the [...]
Read MoreSamsung Reveals the Dual SIM Galaxy Y Plus
By Azeem Ullah Hassan | March 14, 2013 3 CommentsSamsung has just unveiled the successor to the popular Galaxy Y budget smartphone in the Galaxy Y Plus. The phone looks more like a Galaxy Pocket though and features a 2.8 inch display along with dual-sim compatibility. Here are the full specs of the phone: Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich 2.4 inch display with resolution of 240 x 320 pixels Dual-sim compatibility Weight: 96g 12.98mm [...]
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