March 26, 2018
HTC had a terrible holiday quarter
Smartphone and VR headset maker HTC has published its consolidated results for Q4 2017 — and it makes for grim reading. The topline figures are: Flat quarterly revenue…
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March 21, 2018
Mobile gaming is having a moment, and Apple has the reins
It’s moved beyond tradition and into the realm of meme that Apple manages to dominate the news cycle around major industry events, all while not actually participating in…
Read articleMarch 15, 2018
PUBG soft-launches on mobile in Canada with Android release
Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds, the ‘battle royale’ style game where everyone tries to be the last player standing while scrounging for supplies to keep them alive, has launched on…
Read articleMarch 15, 2018
John Chen to stay on as BlackBerry CEO through 2023
BlackBerry today announced it reached an agreement to keep CEO John Chen in his current position through 2023. Chen joined the company in 2013 and is responsible for…
Read articleMarch 8, 2018
Android beats iOS in smartphone loyalty, study finds
Samsung’s new Galaxy S9 may not quite live up to the iPhone X when it comes to Samsung’s implementation of a Face ID-style system or its odd take…
Read articleMarch 8, 2018
Samsung Galaxy S9+ review
You probably don’t need a 4,000-word review to tell you that the Galaxy S9+ is a good phone. Now that everyone’s got all of the Note 7 jokes…
Read articleMarch 2, 2018
Galaxy S9’s display takes honors alongside its camera
Earlier this morning Samsung’s Galaxy S9’s camera was awarded the highest-yet score from DxOMark, and now its screen gets the best-of-all-time nod from DisplayMate and display wonk Ray…
Read articleFebruary 26, 2018
Sailfish v3 sets its sights on 4G feature phones
With the smartphone OS market almost entirely sewn up between Google and Apple, what’s an alternative operating system maker to do? Take an interest in feature phones, that’s…
Read articleFebruary 25, 2018
The Samsung Galaxy S9 arrives March 16 for $720, with AR emojis, real-time translation and a better camera
Samsung didn’t leave too much up to the imagination this time out. The hardware giant took a little wind out of its own sails back at CES when…
Read articleFebruary 25, 2018
Samsung’s Galaxy S9 wants to turn the camera into a new home screen
The Galaxy S8 and S8+ already had one of the better smartphone cameras in the industry, and the Galaxy S9 and S9+ both seem to be top contenders…
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