Author: Damian Parsons

Hopes for a 2012 release may be dashed. I wouldn’t put it entirely out of the realm of possibility, as MTK MT6589 / MTK6589 CPUs have already been successfully implemented in test units, (more…)

Lenovo has stepped up their game in the looks department. When they updated the a750 to a789, they made a phenomenal jump in looks by changing the bottom of the bezel, which slopes down and away. (more…)

Several days ago, we took a look at a short video demo of the 18 lumen projector working inside the Kai T1 excursion. The price for the Kai T1 will be announced on October 8. (more…)

The Newman n1 has been very hard to come by, but now available from retailers is the Freelander i10. It’s interesting that the retailers are putting this out as a “Newman n1 OEM”, and possibly that’s the truth. (more…)

This morning at 10am, Amoi n820 Big V went on sale. There were 20,000 white and 10,000 black. All 30,000 units sold out in 15 minutes.

This furthers the notion that it will be very difficult to get our hands on the popular phones such as JiaYu / JaiYu, UMi X1 and Amoi n820 even as they’re released. Of course, we can hope that many of these sales were to retailers that ship abroad, it remains to be seen. -END-

I’m not too impressed. Shrunk down in the sliding gallery they look okay, but when reaching larger sizes, even the outdoor shots look mediocre. (more…)

Latest news in is that JiaYu has received their C3 license from Beijing. They are urging us to be patient and try not to slander / speak badly about the company or spread rumors. (more…)

Oppo hops on the music phone bandwagon hoping to catch youth customers with it’s excellent audio features. The Oppo R817 out-of-the-box supports automatic lyric and cover search, and flac / app double lossless, ogg and amr as well as the standard audio formats. (more…)

Soon to be released is the Lenovo S560. And when we say soon – we mean Lenovo soon, as opposed to JiaYu / JaiYu soon. (more…)

We’ve all known Oppo to push the limits with their world-class super-slim smartphones. Well, they’re bucking the tradition and putting out a mtk mt6577 / mtk6577 smartphone with a 3000mAh Sony battery! (more…)