News – Feb 2nd

The ASUS MeMO Pad 10 Smart first popped up on our radar thanks to an unboxing video that made its way online a couple of weeks ago, and now the unannounced Android slate is back for a second helping of leaky goodness. A few press images of the MeMO Pad 10 Smart have been posted by Dutch site TabletsMagazine…

What is the perfect smartphone size ? It’s a question we continually find ourselves coming back to as mobile manufacturers seem to be throwing various smartphone sizes at a metaphorical wall of users to see what sticks.
Over the last four years, Android manufacturers have explored virtually every variation of display size between 2…

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February 2013 kicks off the first of the month on a Friday which is the day we feature the fifth place winner on the Official Smartphone Rankings.  This week the HTC DROID DNA wins again, beating the Apple iPhone 5 by one vote.
“Best Phone Iv’e Owned So Far ! ”  By SEANBOY1 on December 30, 2012
I started my smart phone ownership with the Iphone 3g…

User privacy is a topic that seems to pop up on a fairly regular basis in the mobile space. One recent example is the app Path, which has agreed to pay an $800,000 fine for collecting user data without permission. Today the U.S. Federal Trade Commission touched on the subject of mobile privacy , suggesting ways that platform developers, application developers, ad networks and analytics firms can better inform consumers about their data practices and offer better data protection…

Some information leaked from the FFC that points to a new Nokia device much like the Lumia 810 with one important difference it will have an LTE band. This device is going by RM-878X and has confidentiality till 24th June. Sadly this mean there will be no pictures of this device till T-Mobile says so…

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The numbers don’t lie!  The Samsung Galaxy Note II topped the Official Smartphone Rankings charts for another week.  This week by almost 20 points over the second place tied Samsung Galaxy S III and Apple iPhone 5.  
Aaron Baker – Editor-in-Chief for PhoneDog.com .  Follow him on twitter @PhoneDog_Aaron …

Folks, I have a promise to make you. From this day forward I pronounce myself the Ambassador for Safe Walking (ASW) because someone has to say this stuff. As the ASW for PhoneDog, I promise to do the following: put walking before webpage even in the face of proxy message or flash incompatibility; put my surroundings before screen captures and burst shots; and acknowledge all intersections as death traps even in the face of a Facebook update or incoming Tweet…

MobileBurn reviews Samsung’s first Windows Phone 8 smartphone on Verizon, the ATIV Odyssey.
Check the video review after the break.

The Samsung ATIV Odyssey features a 4-inch screen, 1.5GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM, 8GB of internal storage expandable via microSD card, 5 megapixel main camera, 1…

Andrew over at MobileBurn compares the BlackBerry Z10 browser against the Samsung Galaxy Note II, iPhone 5 and Samsung ATIV Odyssey.
Check the benchmark comparisons after the break.

BlackBerry’s new WebKit-based browser did a great job. What do you think?
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In a similar fashion to his peer from Huawei, HTC's chairman Peter Chou showed off the yet to be revealed M7 flagship during the company's year end party in Taipei, Taiwan. Mr. Chou also confirmed the smartphone's name quite originally – by repeatedly screaming it.

The smartphone makes a brief appearance while HTC's chairman took some pictures of the gathered crowd…

When Apple first announced Siri, I wasn’t all that impressed . That’s mainly due to the fact the service had already been around for quite some time and was effectively more efficient and powerful before the being swooped up by Apple. Don’t believe me? Even the legendary Woz said so himself .
When Google announced its somewhat similar (yet very different) service, Google Now , in late June 2012, I couldn’t help but swoon…

The rivalry between the Apple and Samsung had led to an injunction on the Samsung's Galaxy Nexus, which was reversed later by an appeals court. Apple had then asked the court to reconsider, but the case is now over as Apple's request has been demised.

The US court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, motivated its decision from today with the fact that all the nine judges of the Appeals…

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It seems that HTC could announce two other smartphones alongside the 1080p M7 this month. The HTC M7 is expected to go official on February 19 and the M4 and G2 could debut at the same press event.

The information comes courtesy of a few specs and release information by @evleaks and UnwiredView.

The two devices should start hitting retail stores this spring, while the M7 will reportedly…

Asus Padfone 2 is one of the most innovative devices in the mobile market beyond any shadow of doubt. The second generation of the 3-in-1 smartphone, which can be converted into a tablet and later into a laptop with the help of dock has surely changed the way we look at buying smartphones and tablets…

One of the joys in what we do is shooting without a script. What you hear me say is typically improv; shot off the cuff, with no script whatsoever. It’s a fantastic way to do camera work, but if you’ve ever done anything improv – particularly on camera – you know that often times, what your brain is thinking doesn’t always come out of your mouth.

Huawei announced three phones at the CES in Las Vegas in January – the Ascend D2 1080p smartphone, the Ascend Mate 6.1" phablet and the Ascend W1 Windows Phone midranger. Usually the Huawei phones launch in their homeland – China – first and so this is the case here.

The 6.1-inch Ascend Mate droid will launch in about a month and at least one retailer is already taking pre-orders for it…

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Today while using my phone, I realize that my apps have…