Samsung W2014 Clamshell with Snapdragon 800 CPU Leaked and Android 4.3

Clamshell smartphones are a rare breed and those that are available outside Asia are even rarer. Samsung W2014 is such a device, so Android enthusiasts shouldn’t get their hopes high unless they’re living in China. GSMArena reports that Samsung W2014 has been spotted at TENAA, the Chinese regulatory commission. The smartphone is said to ship with Android 4.3 Jelly Bean operating system out of the box and a powerful 2.3 GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor. Aside from its unusual (for a smartphone) clamshell form factor, Samsung W2014 features 3.67-inch dual Super AMOLED 3.67-inch capacitive touchscreen display that supports 800 x 480 pixels resolution. It is also worth mentioning that Samsung W2014 comes with 2GB of...

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Nokia Lumia 1320 Photo Leaked

One of the smartphones that Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has been recently rumored to plan on bringing to the market is the Nokia Lumia 1320, which can allegedly be seen in the photo attached to this post. The photo emerged on Twitter via @Ctechcn and shows Verizon Wireless’ logo on the front of the device, though rumor has it that the phone won’t be launched at this carrier. In fact, MyNokiaBlog notes that Lumia 1320 might prove to be the international version of the Lumia 929 that was spotted online a while back, which would explain the aforementioned carrier branding on it. Furthermore, the two devices appear to be identical, though there are some UI changes in Lumia 1320 when compared to Lumia 929. Hopefully, Nokia will...

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Windows Phone 8.1 to Remove the Back Button, Support Larger Screens

Next year, Redmond-based software giant Microsoft is expected to release another update to its Windows Phone operating system, one that has leaked online a few times before under the codename of Blue, and which will bring some welcomed changes to devices, it seems. Among these, we can count the removal of the Back button, which will no longer be included in the hardware specifications of devices powered by the OS (supposedly set to arrive as Windows Phone 8.1). Basically, users will be using the home button to exit an app, just as they can do on iOS devices at the moment, winsupersite explains. Additionally, Windows Phone 8.1 is expected to improve the multi-tasking capabilities of the platform, after GDR3 brings some improvements...

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AMD Hawaii Radeon R9 290X, a Card with 64 ROPs

You've got to love company slides. They tend to leak to the Internet days, sometimes even weeks, before they're supposed to. And AMD's Radeon R9 290X graphics card will only debut on October 15. The folks at WCCFTech were able to procure the presentation slide that shows how many ROPs (raster operations units) the video board has. Or rather, how many it has compared to the Radeon HD 7970. And since the HD 7970 has 32, that means the R9 290X boasts 64. The other important detail is the 1.4 times greater number of stream processors, which means 2,816 (Tahiti has 2,048). The rest of the specs are the ones that reports have uncovered before: 4 GB GDDR5 memory at 5 GHz, 512-bit interface, and 1 GHz GPU clock. It's still possible that...

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