Sprint Teaser Reveals Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge in All Their Glory Before Announcement

The Samsung Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge official announcement is now just about two days away. By now we know a lot about the Galaxy S6 and the Galaxy S6 Edge but the final design still remains a mystery. US carriers started sending out official teasers recently that gave us a glimpse of the Galaxy S6 Edge’s dual-curved edge display. However, a new Sprint promotional image leaked on Reddit earlier today gives us our clearest look yet at the possible final design of the Samsung Galaxy S6 and the Galaxy S6 Edge smartphones.

The image shows off almost the entire front panel of the two upcoming Samsung Galaxy flagship smartphones. While we can’t tell much from the image, both the handsets appear to have rounded corners and a metallic frame on the sides which seems to be quite shiny. We also see the individual volume rocket buttons on the side of the Galaxy S6 Edge, which seems to confirm the ‘iPhone 6’ like design language of the Galaxy S6 and the Galaxy S6 Edge. What does remain a mystery is if the back of the two devices will features glass like the recently leaked live pictures or is the two will come a metallic back (metal unibody) as was rumored initially. The homescreen seems to show off the new UI that the two smartphones will include, which doesn’t seem all too different from the Galaxy S5’s UI at first glance.

Sadly, aside from the differences in build materials, the Galaxy S6 still looks largely similar to the Galaxy S5. This is quite disappointing since we’ve been hearing from a long time that the Galaxy S6 will feature an all-new design that will not bear any resemblance to previous Galaxy flagship smartphones. With the codename ‘Project Zero’ we were hopeful that would actually be the case but the leaked image from Sprint promotion does make it seem a little disappointing. In fact, the front of the two new Galaxy S flagships seems to draw heavily from the Galaxy S5 than the Galaxy Alpha, Galaxy A-series and the Galaxy Note 4. We were expecting the Galaxy S6 design to be similar to these new devices but it looks like Samsung hasn’t concentrated much on the overall design on the front but only refined the sides and edges of its upcoming new flagship smartphone along the lines of the Apple iPhone 6 and the Apple iPhone 6 Plus.

Anyway, we don’t need to speculate much for now as everything will be revealed on Sunday when Samsung officially unveils the Samsung Galaxy S6 and the Galaxy S6 Edge smartphones. The two devices are expected to include a 5.1” Quad HD Super AMOLED display, Exynos 7420 64-bit chipset, 3GB RAM, 32/64/128GB internal storage, 20MP rear camera with optical image stabilization, 5MP front-facing camera, and a lighter version of TouchWiz based on the latest Android 5.0.2 Lollipop version.

HTC One M9 Full Spec-Sheet Revealed in New Leak

The HTC One M9 or ‘Hima’ is all set to be announced by the company at its Utopia in Progress event scheduled for March 1 in Barcelona. However, you don’t need to wait until then to find out everything about the device as a new post from renowned leakster upleaks has revealed the full spec-sheet of the One M9 before its official announcement.

Most of what has been revealed in the latest post is not new and had been revealed by upleaks a few weeks back already. However, there are still few new bits of information that have been revealed, along with details on carrier variants and the list of accessories that will be offered with the smartphone.

The One M9 is reported to include a 5.0” 1920 x 1080 resolution Full HD LCD display, exactly similar to the One M8. The chipset powering the smartphone will be Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon 810, clocked at 2.0GHz for the Cortex-A57 cores and 1.5GHz for the Cortex-A53 cores. 3GB of RAM is expected to be included, an upgrade over the 2GB RAM on the One M8 from last year. What will not be similar though is the amount of internal storage offered. According to the upleaks post, the One M9 will come with 32GB or 64GB internal storage options. Thankfully the new report confirms that a microSD card slot will be included, so you will be able to expand the memory by up to 128GB.

At the back, the One M9 will include a 20.7MP resolution rear camera with a dual-LED flash like on the One M8. At the front, the One M9 will include a 4MP UltraPixel camera. Earlier upleaks report couldn’t confirm if HTC will go with the 4MP UltraPixel or a 13MP sensor, but the latest report seems to suggest that HTC made up its mind on using the UltraPixel sensor for the front camera on One M9.

The One M9 will include VoLTE, LTE Cat.6 and Carrier Aggregation support, but the Carrier Aggregation feature is said to be dependent on the market and may not be offered on all One M9 variants. It will come with the latest Bluetooth 4.1 version, like every other Snapdragon 810 device. The batter is expected to be 2,840mAh, which doesn’t sound too great and is lower than most recent flagship smartphones. Last but not the least; HTC’s excellent BoomSound stereo speakers will be onboard too.

Along with the spec-sheet, upleaks also has details on the various variants of the One M9. The Hima#UHL variant is likely to be sold in Asia, Europe, Africa, UAE, Russia, Turkey, and Mainland China. The Hima#UL will be headed to the US with AT&T, T-Mobile and a Developer Edition model. In Canada, the smartphone will be offered by Rogers and Telus. Customers in Latin America will also be getting this same model.

The Hima#WHL model will be headed to the Sprint Network in US and also China Telecom. Finally, the Hima#WL model will be the Verizon Wireless variant.

HTC is also expected to offer a wide range of accessories with the One M9. Some of the accessories revealed by upleaks are the HTC DotView 2 case, clear case, stand case, waterproof case with IP68 rating, waterproof headset, HTC BoomBass speaker with Wi-Fi support, and a screen protector.

HTC One M9 Plus Full Spec-Sheet Revealed By Upleaks

Notorious leakster @upleaks is back with some new information regarding HTC’s plans for the year. This time the leaker has posted alleged full specifications of the company’s upcoming flagship One M9 Plus smartphone. The One M9 Plus was believed to be the phablet variant of the One M9 flagship with a 5.5-inch Quad HD display. However, the latest report from upleaks claims that the One M9 Plus will not arrive with a 5.5” Quad HD display but instead it will sport a smaller 5.2” Quad HD display.

The One M9 Plus is said to be powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 Octa-core 64-bit chipset, just like the regular One M9. However, upleaks claims that there will be two One M9 variants, one with the Snapdragon 810 chip and the other powered by a Mediatek chipset. It hasn’t been specified which exact Mediatek chipset the other variant will come with but apparently that version is going to be sold in the Chinese market. It will also include 3GB of RAM on both variants and 32GB of onboard storage. No mention of whether the memory will be expandable or not, but we do hope that the memory is expandable, just like the One M8 last year.

The major USP of the One M9 Plus and also one of the main differentiating factors between it and the regular One M9 is expected to be the fingerprint scanner. Unlike the HTC One Max, the One M9 Plus is said to include a touch based fingerprint scanner like the TouchID scanner used by Apple. This does seem pretty interesting and will mean that HTC will be on par with Samsung as the Galaxy S6 is also expected to use a more secure touch based fingerprint scanner. The fingerprint scanner will be integrated on a physical home button as seen in the leaked image of the smartphone recently. For those of you who were worried if the physical home button meant the One M9 Plus will miss out on HTC’s excellent BoomSound stereo speakers, the latest report brings great news as the One M9 Plus is reported to include BoomSound stereo speakers on the front and it will also support Hi-Fi audio. We’re not quite sure if that refers to High-Resolution Audio or something else though.

The camera on the back will be another difference between the One M9 and the One M9 Plus. The One M9 Plus will apparently come with a Duo Camera setup at the back, similar to the One M8. Instead of the 4MP UltraPixel and 2.1MP combination last time, the One M9 Plus will include a 20.7MP and 2.1 MP cameras at the back. At the front, the smartphone is rumored to include a 4MP UltraPixel or a 13MP Selfie shooter.

Finally, the smartphone is claimed to support VoLTE and LTE Cat.6 networks for maximum download speeds of up to 300Mbps. Bluetooth 4.1 will be onboard as well, thanks to the Snapdragon 810 chip. The only disappointing part is the battery capacity. According to upleaks, the One M9 Plus will include the same 2,840mAh battery as the regular One M9. This can be quite disappointing as the One M9 Plus comes with a higher Quad HD resolution display instead of 1080p on the One M9.

Samsung Galaxy S6 with Exynos 7420 64-bit Chipset Gets Benchmarked, Reveals Beastly Performance

Unlike in the past, Samsung is expected to use its Exynos 7 Octa-core 64-bit chipset for the upcoming Galaxy S6 flagship smartphone. In the past few weeks we have seen many new reports appear on the web that detail the reasons behind Samsung choosing to stick to its Exynos 7420 chipset for the Galaxy S6. A recent report even claimed that Qualcomm may provide Samsung with a special variant of the Snapdragon 810 for the Galaxy S6. However, it doesn’t look like the use of the Exynos 7420 chip will disappoint anyone as it managed to perform admirably well in the Geekbench benchmark recently.

The Exynos 7420 managed to score impressively high in the Geekbench test with a single-core score of 1520 and multi-core score of 5478. The single-core score is higher than Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 devices, with only the NVIDIA Tegra K1 chipset in the Google Nexus 9 managing a better score than the Exynos 7420. However, in the multi-core test the Exynos 7420 managed to gain a massive lead over all current mobile chipsets, including the NVIDIA Tegra K1 and the Snapdragon 805. The Google Nexus 9 manages a score of around 3200 on the multi-core test while the Snapdragon 805 powered devices like the Google Nexus 6 and the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 can score a shade under 3000. We still do not have any leaked benchmarks of the Snapdragon 810 to go by, but it does look like the Galaxy S6 will be one powerful beast when it launches.

We also need to keep in mind that the device that was run through the Geekbench test is most likely a prototype device running on unfinished software. On final hardware with the updated software, the scores can go up slightly. So all in all we’re looking at one of the most impressive mobile chipsets of the year in the new Exynos 7420. In the Galaxy S4 and the Galaxy S5, the Exynos chipsets didn’t quite manage to bowl us over with the performance, but this year it seems like Samsung has worked really hard on the new Exynos chipsets and it doesn’t seem like anyone will miss the Snapdragon 810 as far as both performance and connectivity goes. Unlike previous Exynos chipsets, the Exynos 7420 is expected to arrive with an integrated LTE Cat.9 modem with Tri-Band Carrier Aggregation like on the recently announced Korean variant of the Galaxy Note 4.

Together with the rumored light TouchWiz version that is expected to debut with the Galaxy S6, the Exynos 7420 chip is likely to ensure butter smooth performance on the Galaxy S6, with none of the performance issues that all Galaxy flagships have suffered from so far.

Samsung Galaxy Note Edge Release Date for Verizon Revealed

Verizon is set to release the Samsung Galaxy Note Edge in early January, with a precise date to be given during CES 2015, according to current info.

Last year marked the release of a very interesting new smartphone design. Samsung decided that plain-old square displays are boring, and decided to release a device with a curved edge. The display extends around the right edge of the device, providing extra room for shortcuts and quick gestures, as well as being highly customizable. It was pretty innovative, but fans had a hard time getting used to this new design at first, mostly because it was such a unique idea. Well, that all changed over time, and the Galaxy Note Edge became really popular very quickly, to the point where Samsung decided to feature this new curved design on its next flagship, the Galaxy S6. Anyway, with the Note Edge’s popularity, everyone has been looking forward to Verizon releasing it. The device was initially released on AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint, but never reached US Cellular or Verizon, which raised a few questions.

Note Edge likely to release on 8th Jan on Verizon Wireless

Current rumors point towards a January 8th release date for the Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note Edge, but that date is not confirmed yet. The information comes from a leaked Verizon document and seems pretty trustworthy right now. It doesn’t reveal the price, but if it’s anything like the other carriers, then it won’t be too cheap. The Galaxy Note Edge is set to possibly feature a price tag of $399 on-contract, or $450, but it’s all up to Verizon. The carrier will most likely be selling two color variations of the device: black and white. This would mean that Verizon would be the second carrier to offer both color variations, alongside AT&T, because the rest of the carriers only feature this device in black.

Nexus 6: Price, Pre-Order Date, Rumored Release Date & Specs Revealed

This has been a big week for Google and we have just about all the information on the latest Nexus smartphone for you. Today, we’re going to talk about the official price, the official specs and when we can expect to pre-order and purchase the Google Nexus 6.

Nexus 6 Price

The night before Google announced the Nexus 6, we saw an AT&T product page showing the name, ‘Google Nexus 6. This made a lot of us happy to know that AT&T would be selling the smartphone directly. However, the big reveal here seemed to be about the price. AT&T was using the LG Vista image and price as a placeholder, so when readers saw the $49 on-contract price, it made a lot of them happy. However, some of us were skeptical about the price. Turns out we were right to be because the official price has now been released and it is very unlikely the on-contract price will be $49.

Google and Motorola have announced the Google Nexus 6 will cost $649 without a two-year contract. The 64GB model looks to be priced at $699. It seems the days of moderately-priced Nexus devices could be a thing of the past. At a $649 price tag, I’m thinking the two-year contract price will be more like $199. We haven’t seen any details to confirm or deny this, though – we just know the off-contract price so far. When we learn more details about the price, we will be sure to let you know.

Nexus 6 Specs

Google’s Nexus 6 will come with a 5.96-inch AMOLED display capable of a 2560 x 1440 pixel resolution. Inside, we can see it will house the Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 SoC. This chip has a 2.7GHz quad-core processor paired with the Adreno 420 GPU. The Nexus 6 has 3GB of RAM and will be available in 32GB and 64GB of internal storage. The back of the device looks to have the same 13MP camera as the 2014 Moto X and will also have a 2MP front-facing camera. It ships with Android 5.0 Lollipop and will be powered by an embedded 3,220mAh capacity battery.

The device has a little more going for it than just these raw specs. The Nexus 6 is compatible and will ship with Motorola’s Turbo Charger. Motorola and Google claims it will give you 6 hours of use with only a 15-minute charge. The Nexus 6 is IPX7 water-resistant, so you shouldn’t have any issues if you get the device wet or completely submerge it for a short amount of time. We get two color options here: Midnight Blue and Cloud White. It also comes with some of the Motorola features we see in the Moto X. Do you think we’ll see a red Nexus 6 announced in a month or two like we did with the Nexus 5?

Nexus 6 Release

This is where things start to get a little hazy. If we look at the Nexus 6 page on the Google website, it only lists a pre-order date. All it tells us is that pre-orders will begin toward the end of October. Digging around, it seems The Verge is reporting October 29th for the pre-order date. They continue by telling us it will be released in November. After doing some more digging, it appears T-Mobile News is reporting that T-Mobile will start selling the Nexus 6 on November 12th. We should take both dates with a grain of salt, though. Since nothing has been officially confirmed by Google, these dates could change at any moment.

Sony Xperia Z3: US Launch Date and Pricing Revealed for T-Mobile

Sony Xperia Z3’s launch date and price tag have been under a lot of speculation for a while, but these details are now clear regarding the American carrier, T-Mobile. Sony’s device is set to launch on October 29th.

T-Mobile Xperia Z3 Pricing

As it currently stands, pricing for the T-Mobile Sony Xperia Z3 starts at $0 for 24 months of payment ($26.25 per month – $630.00 in total). If you’re eager to get your hands on this amazing device, pre-orders start from October 15th at 12:00 a.m. PDT. Many tech enthusiasts are already lining up to get their hands on Sony’s flagship as soon as possible.

To understand why this device is so popular, you’ll have to check out its amazing tech specifications. Sony Xperia Z3 features a 5.2-inch 1920 x 1080 TRILUMINOS display, a 2.5GHz quad-core Snapdragon 801 processor, 3GB of RAM, and 32GB of internal storage, expandable use an external microSD slot up to 128GB. The device also features 4G LTE connectivity and a very impressive 20.7MP rear camera with an Exmor RS sensor. It packs really impressive hardware, for a modest price tag.

This collaboration between Sony and T-Mobile is not a first. They worked together on the release of the Sony Xperia Z and Sony Xperia Z1. It’s good to see Sony focusing on individual carriers to reach out to as many customers as possible. Their devices are often innovative and cheap, so it’s a win-win. T-Mobile is definitely going to end this quarter on a profit due to this release, as well as many other offers.

Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Tech Specs & Features Detailed in Infographic

Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Tech Specs & Features Detailed in Infographic

Samsung Galaxy Note 4 is already turning out to be extremely famous, with fans barely containing their excitement and already trying to pre-order the device. To add to the hype, Samsung has released a gorgeous infographic that unveils a lot of details about the smart gadget, including dimensions, design, color varieties, tech specifications, and a lot of other features we didn’t know about. It’s certainly a brilliant move from them, which other companies should take a note of. These sorts of infographic are by far the best way to share device details with the media and customer base.

The Samsung Galaxy Note 4 has the following set of dimensions: 78.6mm x 153.5mm, a 5.7-inch display, a Super AMOLED touchscreen, and provides the sharpest image quality on the market. It sports two incredible cameras: a 16MP primary shooter and a 3.7MP secondary camera for taking selfies. Samsung also provides the famous S Pen which has doubled its pressure level from the previous model, doubling its initial value of 1024 and offering you a very clean way to manipulate the touchscreen of your phone. The infographic also shows charging details, suggesting that this device charges nearly twice as fast as its predecessor, from a 55-minute charging time to only 30 minutes.

Samsung Galaxy Note 4 infographic reveals various details

Samsung has definitely stepped up their game this year, publishing a fantastic device which has us excited. We’re certainly going to be getting our hands on it as soon as retailers decide to put it up for pre-order.