Medic Mobile is a company which endeavors to bring heath care to the remote regions of Africa and Southeast Asia, where health care is not available. The company recently launched $10 cellphones for its workers, a move which has been immensely beneficial in taking health care benefits to millions more.
China Telecom has launched a new Samsung Flip phone, SCH-W2014. It is claimed to be the most powerful dual-screen flip phone of Samsung. It has the world’s first quad-core Snapdragon 800 CPU.
Space agency NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer or LADEE has been designed to probe the moon’s thin atmosphere and lunar dust. The good news is after a month-long journey, the lunar probe is now orbiting the Moon.
Although most of the noise right now is about iPhone 5S, earlier Apple handsets are still very relevant. The game and app streaming firm, Agawi, has now benchmarked the touch-responsiveness of iPhone 5 and leading Android devices. According to the results, iPhone 5 trumps all the rest.
Windows Phone users have been waiting for an update that Microsoft has been readying for a while now. The company is calling it ‘General Distribution Release 3’ but just ahead of its formal release, screenshots posted on the web divulge the features that the update offers.
In the recent past, we have been hearing about a 5-inch Nexus handset. Although so far none of the rumors could be substantiated, an FCC filing now hints about a device which fits the rumored details.
HTC has long been cited as the sick child of the smartphone market. The company started with an excellent potential and a brand value that put it up there among the top players but over time, HTC’s smartphone market and its stock value has plummeted. Now, rumor has it that the Chinese company Lenovo may acquire HTC soon.
We recently reported that Microsoft has finally released a new YouTube app for Windows Phone, after long try to fulfill Google’s demands. But interestingly, Google has blocked the app and that has angered Microsoft executives. Now the Microsoft executives are accusing the search giant of trying to sabotage the Windows Phone platform.