BQ and Canonical has once again collaborated on a new Ubuntu OS running smartphone – the BQ Aquaris E5 HD Ubuntu Edition. The device succeeds the BQ Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition which was announced earlier this year. “We have devised the BQ-Canonical collaboration as a long term project. Our next objective, which we are already working […]
A couple of days ago, Zimbabwean firm, G Telecoms (Gtel) announced a partnership with the Safaricom, the biggest operator in Kenya. Gtel would be offering a total of 8 devices in the country with which would all be available on 1-year contract from Safaricom. Some of the smartphones that would make it to Kenya includes […]
After almost a year after announcing it’s working on a $25 Firefox OS smartphone, Mozilla is going back on its word for the device. The device which was expected to launch in countries like India and Indonesia will not be seeing a market release. In an e-mail sent to employees, Mozilla CEO Chris Beard made […]
The Vivo X5 Max S is a said to be bigger battery successor/variant of the super slim Vivo X5 Max, which was at one point the thinnest smartphone around but it isn’t anymore anyway. The X5 Max with its 4.75mm thin body got so many knocks with its crappy network receiving and fast draining battery. […]
Microsoft Windows 10 will come with a wide range of features that will put a big smile across the Gaming Community. It will also enhance the sale of Xbox games. Windows has tried to incorporate the Xbox gaming experience in its previous versions before. In regards to the announcement made at its Redmond campus, it […]
Google currently dominates the search engine scene but companies like Yahoo are still relevant in the game. Yahoo is reportedly working on personal assistant ‘Index’ which is expected to rival Google’s Google Now, Apple’s Siri and Microsoft’s Cortana. During a conference call organised by the company to divulge it’s first quarter earnings, Yahoo CEO Marissa […]
Nokia has officially announced it is ‘combining’ with Alcatel-Lucent to create an innovation leader in next generation technology and services for an IP connected world. The Finland based coy will acqure the France based company in an all-share transaction which will amount to €15.6 Billion. According to the press release, the public exchange offer would […]
After every flagship device – the Galaxy S6 this time, Samsung launches different variants of the device into the market. It is not unusual to see details of the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S6 Active showing up in rumour mills. The company has the Xcover series to cover users who want a rugged device on the […]
Microsoft has announced the Surface 3, a smaller and less powerful version of the Microsoft Surface Pro 3. The Microsoft Surface 3 runs a the Full Windows 8.1 OS (upgradeable to Windows 10 once available) as opposed to the piped-down Windows RT that comes with the Surface Pro 3. It also makes use of a […]
Qualcomm has displayed its Quick Charge 2.0 technology on video in a bid to show how much faster it is in charging smartphones batteries. The video starred three Motorola Nexus 6 smartphones which had their 3200mAh batteries reduced to 0%. The three Nexus 6 smartphones were charged with three different chargers. The first of the […]