Today on the SlashGear test bench is the new Huawei Ascend P1 Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone. It was first unveiled at CES and we’ve been waiting for it ever since. As of late Huawei has been making some huge strides with their hardware to better compete with HTC and the Samsung’s in the world, and this phone is a solid attempt. Being one of their best handsets to date can it match up? Check out the rest of the review to find out.
Sony pushed the Xperia S out of the door back in March, but the Xperia P and Xperia U have lagged behind a little in making it to market. Both of those devices are finally with us, and just like HTC, Sony seems to be banking on three phones hitting different price brackets to try and jump start its smartphone career. The Xperia U may be the cheapest in the NXT line, but it does have some solid specs: a dual-core 1Ghz processor, 854×480 3.5-inch screen, and five megapixel camera. How does it hold up? Find out after the jump.
Nokia gave us no small surprise when it launched the Nokia 808 PureView and its new camera-phone technology. Promising a headline-grabbing 41-megapixel sensor, paired with image processing systems more akin to what you’d find in spy satellites than smartphones, it’s the first fruit of a project five years in the making. Until now, though, all the sample images we’ve seen have been produced by Nokia’s own hand, so we understandably jumped at the chance to join the PureView team at the headquarters of lens supplier and imaging specialist Carl Zeiss in Southern Germany to take some shots of our own. Read on for the full sample gallery – together with some comparison shots with the Nokia Lumia 900 – along with the full story as to why PureView is so special.
This week a couple of engineers from Tech Craver busted out a hammer, some nails, and their own Nokia Lumia 900 review unit to do some stress tests. While what you're about to see isn't technically as scientifically viable as we'd normally like to see in a hammer-to-smartphone test, we'll accept it - if only because they added what appears to be Stephen Elop calling them on the phone at the end of the video before the video stoppers up. This story has also been picked up by Nokia official Jason Harris of Conversations by Nokia - they're fairly impressed by the whole situation too, to be frank.
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Over the next three weeks we’re working with NVIDIA and ASUS to celebrate the first full year of the NVIDIA TegraZone with no less than three game packs that you can grab for yourself! Inside each of these game packs you’ll find an ASUS Transformer Pad TF300, a TF300 keyboard dock, a Logitech game controller, and a Jawbone Jambox Speaker – all of this bringing you a setup that offers up “console quality gaming” on the go! Starting today and running through the 31st of May, you’ve got one chance to win each week for a total of three game packs right here on SlashGear – Transformer TF300 tablets galore!
Happy Tuesday, everyone. We're still in the thick of CTIA, and we have all sorts of big mobile stories for you. So let's get right to it - Kyocera Rise and Hydro budget ICS smartphone hands-on. And that's not all; we also have a look at one of the major LTE phones - HTC Evo 4G LTE hands-on. Of course, though, CTIA isn't the only thing making news. We have to talk about this - The driverless cars that want to run Google off the road.
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It's time again for T-Mobile to release a Huawei manufactured device under their own label, this budget-minded smartphone set to bring fire where the Springboard left off. Of course this is a smartphone and that was a tablet, but still, there's room for everybody when you're working with Android. Here you've got a smartphone that's running on T-Mobile's 3G network, has a 3.5-inch HVGA touchscreen, and will be released with Android 2.3 Gingerbread right out of the box.
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Perennial rumors of a Facebook phone have reawakened, with industry sources claiming HTC is producing a device for the social network as a way of reestablishing industry heft after Samsung's rise in prominence. Unlike existing Facebook-enabled handsets, such as HTC's own ChaCha and Salsa, the new Facebook phone will "have a platform exclusive to Facebook" DigiTimes reports, and include all the functionality currently enjoyed on the desktop version.
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The hero series of HTC devices known as HTC One has its wireless partner up and running this week and we’re taking a look at it first-hand: the HTC Media Link HD is here in all its glory. This dongle was described when the HTC One series was first announced all the way over in Barcelona and comes this week in as simple a form as expected – it’s just a little black box. At the bottom end (below the HTC logo) you’ll find a microUSB and a full-sized HDMI port, it’s connections to your HTC One series phone entirely wireless.
Happy Saturday, everyone. Hopefully you had a great week. If you've been too busy to keep up to date with all the goings on in the tech world, here's what you need to know. Eyes are still focused on Instagram, which has grown to 40 million users. Here’s something else to whet your electronics news appetite – T-Mobile breaks 1 million iPhone mark on EDGE. And here's some great news if you're Google stock holder – Google stock splits 2-for-1 to holder’s glee.
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After 14 long years, it seems that Nokia might finally no longer be the leading manufacturer of cell phone handsets. There are very dire reports about where Nokia may be headed if it can't generate lasting enthusiasm, but this one may be one of the most severe about where the company stands right here and now. A Reuters poll of analysts from that Samsung is expected to have sold around 88 million handsets in the first quarter of 2012. Nokia, meanwhile, may have only sold around 83 million.
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There’s a brand new Samsung Galaxy Tab tablet in town, and this one is what Samsung hopes will be a whole new experience driver for the whole hardware family. Where what we’ve seen before from Samsung has been a set of tablets that tried to be everything at once, this and the 10.1-inch version of the Galaxy Tab 2 are both aiming more at the services they can provide with other devices rather than concentrating on that plus content creation plus gaming plus a partridge in a pear tree. What we’ve got here instead is Samsung’s suite of connected services encapsulated in one machine – and it feels nice to use, too!
