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A nother render of a new Motorola Android smartphone, supposedly the Motorola X phone has surfaced online. Mobile phones focused website, GSM Arena, claims to have received the render with a short description of the specifications, from a person close to the team working on the X Phone. However, there is no way to verify the sender's claim and identity, and whether the image is fake or genuine.  The render shows a Motorola phone that looks very futuristic, featuring what appears to be a curved screen with no bezel, and a thin frame, with a camera lens and sensors towards the top, just fitting in. The UI appears to be stock Android but there are some new widgets for time, weather and battery status. According to the tipster, the phone will be powered by a Snapdragon 800 chipset and will sport a 4.7-inch display with a resolution of 768x1280 pixels. It will have a 4000 mAh battery and will run Android 4.2 Jelly Bean with a few customisations done by Motorola. The tipster...

In late 2012, it appeared that Sony and LG will bow out from the smartphone race. Both the companies were struggling to keep pace with the existing smartphones in the market and it seemed that both these companies had nothing interesting to offer. However, it now seems that these two companies are back in action. Sony has already announced two interesting smartphones - Sony Xperia Z and Xperia ZL and there's already buzz around two more smartphones - Sony Xperia SP and Xperia L - which are expected to be in the market soon. LG on its part had showcased two smartphones at the CES - LG Optimus G and Optimus V2 - at CES. And Korean smartphone maker now seems to be gearing up for the next phase of the challenge. The company is expected to soon launch the successor of Optimus G, called Optimus G Pro.PhoneArena has managed to get their hands on this smartphones' promo materials along with the renders. As per the website, LG Optimus G Pro will feature a 5.5-inch ful...

The bigger the better seems to be the new mantra of mobile phone makers. Samsung stretched the mobile screens to 5.3-inch with the introduction of its Galaxy Note device and 5.5-inch with the Galaxy Note II. Now, the company seems to be aiming even higher (read bigger). If reports in Korea Times are to be believed, Samsung has already started working on the Galaxy Note III, which is said to have 6.3-inch screen. The world’s biggest technology company has been developing the Galaxy Note III with a 6.3-inch screen using an OLED display, according to officials from a local parts suppliers, while the company will start the first commercial sale of 55-inch OLED TVs from late next year. The report also mentions that in 2013, Samsung will be cutting down its investment in the Liquid Crystal display (LCD) units and concentrating more on organic light-emitting diode (OLED) and plastic-basedflexible displays. Samsung had launched its Galaxy Note phablet device at the...

The next competition in technology is your face – anywhere, anytime. As the cameras and screens of smartphones and tablets improve, and as wireless networks offer higher bandwidth, more companies are getting into the business of enabling mobile video calls. The details vary from one service to the next, but the experiences are similar: from anywhere in the world with a modern wireless network, a smartphone’s screen fills with the face of a friend or relative. The quality is about the same jerky-but-functional level as most desktop video. Sound is not always perfectly synced with the image, but it is very close. The calls start and end the same way, by pressing a button on the screen. Mobile video calling has risen so quickly that industry analysts have not yet compiled exact numbers. But along the way, it is creating new business models, new stresses on mobile networks and even new rules of etiquette. “All the communications – social messages, calls, texts and vide...