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Sony Xperia S39h leaks, reportedly headed to China

9 days

by J

Sony may be preparing to launch a new Xperia family member into battle, as a new smartphone known internally as S39h has just been spotted in the wild.

We only have images for you, as there are no leaked internal specifications, size measurements or availability details just yet. As with most Sony smartphones at this time of year, the leaked model has an elongated form and larger display. The phone is said to have a screen bigger than the 4.3-incher found on the Xperia L but smaller than Xperia Z’s 5-inch display.

The display is surrounded by a thick bezel that can be seen in older Samsung generations. Sony’s logo is present right next to the front-facing camera.

The white body seems to be made from a non-polished material with a stylish finish on the back cover. A large speaker can be found on the back of the handset, and Sony’s logo can be once again easily spotted.

On the sides of the device you’ll notice the signature power button, dedicated camera button, volume keys and a micro-USB port. Check out the image gallery below for more details:

The Xperia S39h is reportedly heading to China. Sony has been using a new internal naming scheme for every handset released this year – the CXXXX model number structure – while those launched in China continue to respect the old S/M/L pattern for small, medium or large phones, Xperia Blog reports.

Xiaomi Red Rice with 4.7-inch HD display leaks

11 days

by J in Gadgets

Xiaomi might not be exactly what we’d call a household name in the U.S. smartphone market, but over in China the company has quite the following, and releases some pretty stellar hardware at great prices. We’ve seen plenty in the past, but their latest device that was leaked today is aiming bigger than most, and comes in ridiculously affordable at just 0 according to reports.

The phone leaked today is being called the Xiaomi Red Rice, for its red polycarbonate shell, but we’ll probably see something more traditional as far as a name later this year. The interesting fact here is instead of the traditional 4.3-inch screen of most of their phones, we have a massive 4.7-inch 720p HD display.

We’ve seen reports and rumors of an impressive sounding Xiaomi MI-3 to follow the success of their past devices, complete with a 1080p display and a quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 4 processor, but so far we have nothing concrete on that device yet either. What we do know is Xiaomi has some stellar hardware coming soon, and it will be budget friendly, as always.

Images today were unearthed by IT168 and show a rather unique red device in the works and coming soon for Chinese markets. Sadly according to the reports that 4.7-inch screen will only be 720p and not 1080 like the MI-3, and only sport a dual-core processor. It will have 1GB of RAM, an 8 megapixel camera, and powered by a 2,000 mAh battery. The good news to this however, is Xiaomi could be prepping this device to be an excellent budget friendly smartphone, even cheaper than their others. Reports are stating you’ll get it all for just 0. As in all of that for 0 without signing a contract or subsidizing the smartphone.

SOURCE: UnwiredView

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Concealed Motorola smartphone leaks – looks like a Nexus

19 days

by J in Gadgets

A trio of images were just released of an unknown mysterious smartphone from the folks at Motorola. We know they have something in the works, probably with the aid of Google, but so far the details have been extremely light. With Google I/O coming up quick hopefully we’ll learn more soon. The phone is concealed in quite the “blackbox” case, and looks very similar to a Nexus device.

As usual our good friend over on Twitter @evleaks has delivered another quality look at an unannounced smartphone, and now we’ll just need to hope for more details. The device is obviously being concealed so we can’t see the full design elements, but it looks extremely similar to the Motorola XT912A that leaked back in March.

Is this a Nexus? Doubtful because it has Motorola’s logo plastered on the top in a way usually only AT&T offers, and is also riddled with AT&T and carrier bloat like the MyAT&T app. This leads us to believe it could possibly be a Motorola Atrix 3, but really, we’re not so sure at the moment as this just hit the wires.

Is this the Motorola X-Phone? Maybe. Looking at the software on board we can expect Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean, and all the icons appear to be stock Android, without much of MotoBlur included. Motorola has slowly gone more stock lately now that Google is in charge, and we’ve heard the X-Phone will take a Samsung-like approach and they’ll try to launch it on all carriers, but not quite the same way as a Nexus launch.

As soon as we hear or see more we’ll be sure an update. We could be seeing this at Google I/O, or it might just get announced like any other Motorola phone as of late. Stay tuned!

[via @evleaks]

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Android Authority On Air – Episode 59 – Google Play Store updates, Babel leaks, ChaOS ROM and more.

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by J

The biggest news this week in the Android world is the latest version of the Google Play Store. Google’s play store leaked a few weeks back and since then, we’ve been anxiously awaiting the update to officially roll out. This past week our prayers had been answered, we didn’t have to wait until I/O 13. Since the Play Store update is now official, Babel decided to continually leak all over the web. This week we saw Gmail error messages talking about Babel, we saw Babel show up in various Chromium Google Groups posts and an memo touting Babel’s upcoming features were revealed.

On the devices front, the Nexus 10 lived up to the Nexus name, having it’s case/cover show up out of nowhere. You can snag one in grey or scarlet for . Various sources around the web seem to have confirmed that Glass will be shipping to Explorers within a months time. This makes sense as IO is a month away. Samsung confused us this week by announcing the Galaxy ‘Mega’. The Mega’s come in 5.8 and 6.3 inch screens. The screen sizes might be awesome, but the specs are just the opposite. Samsung’s Galaxy Note 8.0 launched in the US this week as well. Xiaomi announced the Mi2S and Mi2A, a pair of inexpensive, decently speced smartphones.

Over on the Rootin’ and ROMin’ scene, CyanogenMod 10.1 M3 was released last week. M builds are more stable than nightlies, sometimes called Milestones or Monthly builds. If you’re looking to try something completely new, how about Chameleon OS aka ChaOS ROM. ChaOS is a new, open source MIUI alternative focused on theming and user customization.

In carrier news AT&T and Sprint continue to LTE all the things while T-Mobile increases their offer to bid for Metro PCS. Across the pond, EE plans to boost their network speeds by doubling their channel width on their LTE network.

Last but not least, Apple’s slide to unlock patent was invalidated in Germany and FairSearch, a group backed by Microsoft and Oracle hated on Google saying that open source software is anti-competitive because it’s free and Google’s mobile app platform is anti-competitive.

Congratulations to Patrick Tremblay! He’s the winner from our Nexus 4 Wireless Charging Orb contest that we held last week on air. Congrats again. We’ll be in contact shortly.

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Google X Phone render leaks, looks totally fake

57 days

by J

After seeing a Google X Phone rumor earlier today, we’re now back with a first render of the handset, which was leaked alongside certain hardware details.

GSM Arena has received the image above from a tipster, and from the get-go we’ll tell you that it looks totally fake. Unless someone wanted us to question the lack of a speaker needed for actual calls or the fact that the time is off by a couple of minutes (check out the first circle and then the status bar,) this looks like a bad photoshopped image so far.

Considering that the picture doesn’t inspire any trust, should we believe the associated hardware details? Unfortunately we can’t answer that question yet, as we have nothing official from Google.

The tipster says that the handset will sport a 4.7-inch display with 1280 x 768 resolution, Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor, 4000mAh battery, no microSD support and Android 4.2 Jelly Bean “with very few customizations job [sic] by Motorola.” The handset is also said to come with IP57 certification (water resistant up to a meter for up to 30 minutes) and Gorilla Glass 3 display.

Comparatively, the earlier X Phone rumor said that the handset will come with a 4.8-inch display of unspecified resolution, sapphire protection instead of Gorilla Glass, a 2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 CPU and 4000mAh battery. The other rumor also said the phone will come with a carbon fiber black plate and rubber bumper corners.

There are similarities and differences between these two rumors, although that doesn’t really mean a thing since we’re used to see lots of rumors hit the web before a new product launches, with some of them contradicting the others.

Now that we’ve seen the first X Phone render, which can easily be proven fake, we’ll get back to waiting for actual images of the device to leak. We’ll also remind you that an earlier rumor claimed that an early X Phone prototype has already been leaked and previewed, that unnamed Motorola handset found in Vietnam just before the Galaxy S4 announcement.

What do you expect from the X Phone?

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5-inch Huawei Ascend G700 leaks to the net

61 days

by J

No matter how hard a company tries to keep something under wraps, it never quite works out that way. With that in mind, Evleaks has now leaked a press shot of the as-of-yet unconfirmed Huawei Ascend G700.

The G700 might not be as jaw-droppingly awesome (or crazy?) as some of their other recent efforts like the Huawei Ascend Mate, but it does appear to be a reasonably decent looking 5-inch handset. While the above photo comes from Evleaks, the actual hardware details come from another reliable leaker, paopa00128.

So what does the G700 feature? We know that the processor inside is a MediaTek MT6589 SoC. We also know that it has 2GB of RAM, a 5-inch display, and will feature Android 4.2. It will also have a two versions, one that supports WCDMA and another supporting TD-SCDMA. Beyond that? We don’t know much else.

We can make a few educated guesses, though. More than likely, this is an entry or mid-range device. That means it will probably not be full HD, instead just 720p. That also means it will probably price around the U.S. equivalent of 0, especially considering the G-series’ pricing history.

For now we can’t say when this will be arriving, but once these kinds of leaks start surfacing, it is only a matter of time before the device becomes official.

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Google Play Store 4 reportedly leaks with a brand new look

Google Play Store 4 reportedly leaks with a brand new look

62 days

by J in Gadgets

Today we received a few neat little treats from Google. First they launched their new app Google Keep, and now we’re seeing what looks to be a brand new version of the Google Play Store. While everyone is currently on Play Store version 3.10.14 or so, the folks from Droid-Life reportedly have the brand new version that’s coming soon. They received an apk listed as version 4.0.16 and it’s showing a brand new Play Store.

We’re not really sure what to make of this leak, especially considering the Play Store doesn’t ever leak out until it’s actually ready for prime-time. The version reportedly received by DL clearly isn’t ready for mass consumption, and has a few issues and doesn’t fully work. That being said, that could be a sign this is indeed the real deal and Google’s backend isn’t up and running for it yet.

This is a brand new look we haven’t seen from Google. Not just a slight change like the Store has undergone over the past months. They’ve completely changed everything and given the UI an overhaul and brought it more in line with their Holo design guidelines. Everything is simple and clean, the font has changed, and all the colors have too. Each category has a bigger header and the colors match as usual, but it has a grainy look and isn’t completely filled in. Take that as you will.

If this is indeed real, we’re loving the new look. All the icons are larger, everything is all about content and looks much cleaner. All the apps are listed with a similar look and feel as Google Now cards when you head to the “My Apps” section, and as you see above the icons are clearly larger. There’s big icons, large magazine photos and album artwork everywhere to grab your attention.

We won’t go over everything as for now this doesn’t appear to be confirmed. It looks pretty legit, but we’ll reserve judgement until we hear or see more details. For a full rundown hit the source link below and see what Droid-Life has to say about it. What do you guys think? Could this be an early look at where Google’s headed with 5.0 Key Lime Pie?

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5.2-inch LG Nexus 5 leaks, sounds too good to be true

67 days

by J

Now that the Galaxy S4 is out we’ve seen a variety of reports hinting at other smartphones that could be launched in the future, with most of them focusing on Google’s X Phone. But there’s also a new wild LG Nexus 5 rumor out there.

From an untrusted source, Android and Me has gotten a hold of a leaked picture of an LG device that’s a candidate for the Nexus 5 position. The leak for this LG Megalodon – apparently that’s its codename for now – includes specs and features as follows:

5.2-inch OLED Display with 1920 × 1080 resolution
Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 @ 2.3 GHz
3GB LPDDR3 RAM
16/32/64GB of internal storage
16MP rear camera by OmniVision (4k video recording @30FPS, 1080p video recording @60FPS, Real Time HDR & HDR video recording, optical image stabilization, BSI 2.0)
2.1MP front camera (1080p video recording @30FPS)
3300mAh Lithium Polymer battery
Front positioned stereo speakers
Qualcomm RF360 (LTE 150 Mbps & HSPA+)
Integrated DVB-T / ATSC-antenna
Gesture like controls (navigation, zoom, etc)

Naturally, we’re advising you to take everything with a large chunk of salt for now, as this Nexus 5 sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it?

At the same time, this isn’t the first LG Nexus 5 rumor we’ve seen, so we wouldn’t be surprised to see LG get the Nexus 5 contract after all, no matter whether today’s leak proves real or fake.

In case we’re looking at the real deal, this LG Nexus 5 is said to arrive in October, so there’s plenty of time to find out more details about the handset.

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Verizon Galaxy Nexus 4.2.2 Jelly Bean update leaks – get it here!

77 days

by J in Gadgets

We know the Samsung Galaxy Nexus over on Verizon Wireless has been left out of the update schedule for the most part, and many of you have moved on to bigger and better things, but we have good news. After seeing reports and details the past few days confirming Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean was coming soon, last night the official update leaked with improved radios and all. Get all the links to try it yourself below.

Yup, the “Nexus” that was four updates behind the rest is finally getting on par with its siblings, as long as Verizon and Google get the update out shortly. However, for those that don’t want to wait for Verizon to screw this up the official update has leaked and is available now for your pleasure. Thanks to a few XDA members we don’t have to wait.

This means you can flash your stock Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean Verizon Gnex to Android 4.2.2 and enjoy Photo sphere camera features and gallery, better notifications, lockscreen widgets, and everything else Android 4.2.2 brings to the table. Not only does this update the Android version, but we also are receiving brand new radios from Verizon that should improve 3G/4G signals, as well as the ‘hand-off’ between the two for a seamless experience. We’re also hoping for better battery life (laughs) but don’t get your hopes up on that one. So for those that haven’t already moved on to CM10.1 or a custom ROM, get the links below and update yourself today!

Instructions:

– This zip requires you to be completely stock running the last OTA update, which is Android 4.1.1 (JRO03O). This is not a ROM that can be flashed over other custom ROMs, this is an official OTA update file that needs to be flashed in a custom recovery.

Download Link
1. Download file from above
2. Boot into custom recovery (using CWM or by holding volume up/down and power at same time)
3. Install update zip from SD card
4. Reboot, enjoy more Jelly Beans!

Alternatively if you’re already running CM10.1-m2 or any other custom ROM on your Verizon Galaxy Nexus and would just like the new radios you can also give those a try as well. We’re not seeing substantial results, but it’s only been a few hours since we flashed the new radios. Get those below!

Instructions:

– Flash the new radios in the custom recovery of your choice. You can flash the new radios over any custom ROM – but as usual I’d do a backup just to be safe. Remember, the CDMA radio takes a lot longer so be patient and it will finish in due time.

Download Link
1. Download file from above
2. Boot into custom recovery (using CWM or by holding volume up/down and power at same time)
3. Install radio zip from SD card
4. Reboot, enjoy more bars! Hopefully

That’s it you should now be completely up to date and feeling all special with your Verizon Galaxy Nexus. It’s been updated to the absolute latest version of Android and has a few new radios right out of the Verizon oven. Thanks to a few users on Twitter and XDA we now can enjoy all of this a little early. Drop us a comment below and let us know how it all went.

[via @WinDroidGuy]

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Device Specifications and Information

Device Info

Device Name

Manufactuer

Carrier

Announced Date

Release Date

Also Known As

Display

Screen Size : 4.65 Inch
Resolution : 1280×720
Screen Type : Super AMOLED

Dimension & Weight

Height : 5.33 Inch
Width : 2.67 Inch
Depth : 0.37 Inch
Weight : 150 Grams

Battery & Power

Battery Type

Lithium Ion

Battery Capacity : 1850 mAh
Talk Time : NA
Stand By Time : 150 hours

Software

Android OS

4.0.x

Audio Playback

AAC
AAC+
AMR
MID
MP3
WAV
WMA

Video Playback

h.264 / AVC

Messaging

Hardware

CPU

CPU Clock Speed

Core

Ram

Internal Storage

Front Facing Camera

Camera Resolution

Camera Features

Auto focus
Flash
1080p Video Recording

Sensors

Accelerometer
Ambient light
Proximity

QWERTY

Cellular Network

Network Technology

CDMA

CDMA Band

900
1900

Device Connectivity

Wi-Fi

802.11b
802.11g
802.11n

Bluetooth

Bluetooth 3.0

Location Features

Compass
GPS
Cellular location
Wi-Fi location

FM Radio

NFC

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