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HTC has outed a consolidated financial report for Q4 2014 and the company saw a quarterly revenue of $1.524 billion (NT$47.9 billion), $224 million more than the same quarter last year. After taxes, the net profit for the quarter was $15.9 million, while the gross margin was 20.4% and operating margin merely 0.4%. The company didn't share additional information on the volume of smartphones it shipped for the quarter. However, HTC notes that its diversification strategy for the quarter broaden the company's reach to consumers. With the launch of the RE camera and collaboration with fitness firm Under Armour to launch fitness and connected health devices, HTC hopes to manage expand its focus beyond the mobile market. The company is looking at Q1 2015 with its head high up and expects revenue to be between $1.32 billion and $1.43 billion (NT$41.5 billion and NT$45 billion). HTC plans to launch more entry-level smartphones next quarter in hopes to capture a larger market share. St...

The Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos S6802 is part of Samsung’s growing dual-SIM Android lineup. The hardware inside the phone is mostly the same as in the original Ace, save for the second SIM slot, of course. We don’t have many dual-SIM phones in our battery test database, so we’ll be testing the Ace Duos using only one SIM to make its results comparable. When it comes to talk time on a 3G network, Samsung advertises 7 hours of battery life. In our tests the phone came close to hitting that mark with its battery dying after 6 hours and 53 minutes of real-world call time. That puts it at the bottom third of the chart, so maybe you should consider sticking to 2G networks – according to official numbers, the Ace Duos should last for more than 18 hours of telephony on those. Motorola DROID RAZR MAXX 20:24 Huawei Ascend P1 12:30 Samsung Galaxy Note 12:14 Samsung I8530 Galaxy Beam 11:58 Samsung Wave 3 S8600 11:07 HTC One X (AT&T, LTE) 10:35 Samsung I9300 Galaxy S III 10:20 HTC One V 10:00 Meiz...

This time last week, we asked you to take part in a poll where we asked you what do YOU do with your phone? We had an overwhelming response and it’s now time to look at the results. There were two parts to the survey; one where you needed to tick as many boxes as necessary to let us know what you used in the last month, and the other part would let us know how often you perform those tasks. Part one When looking at the data from the results, there’s really not much in it between all of the options. When it comes to using your phones, you really know how to make the most of your Nokia Lumia. The top ten activities that you – our Nokia Lumia user readers – did with your phone in the last month is as follows: Browsing websitesDownloading apps from the MarketplaceWiFi to connect to the InternetAccess emailUse camera for still picturesUse social networksGPSMusic/MP3 playerOrganiser/calendar3G to connect to the Internet If we compare the results from the Niesen survey, there are some minor ...

The Samsung I8530 Galaxy Beam is a fairly unique device with its built-in pico-projector. Samsung has put a big 2000mAh battery inside the smartphone, which is almost as big as the one on the Galaxy S III, and given that there’s only a dual-core processor and a smaller 4? LCD to feed we expected it to fare quite well in our test. We put the Galaxy Beam through our usual battery testing procedures and we are now ready to share our findings with you. On a 3G network, the Samsung Galaxy Beam rations its battery very carefully and lasted for the almost unbelievable 11 hours and 58 minutes. It managed to beat the official estimate of just under 10 hours by quite a bit. Motorola DROID RAZR MAXX 20:24 Huawei Ascend P1 12:30 Samsung Galaxy Note 12:14 Samsung I8530 Galaxy Beam 11:58 Samsung Wave 3 S8600 11:07 HTC One X (AT&T, LTE) 10:35 Samsung I9300 Galaxy S III 10:20 HTC One V 10:00 Meizu MX 4-core 10:00 HTC One X 9:57 HTC One S 9:42 Samsung I9103 Galaxy R 9:40 HTC Sensation XL 9:30 Noki...

Posted in: Android, Battery tests, Featured 16 hours ago by Peter The Meizu MX 4-core is a revamped version of the ambitions MX smartphone, which challenged both the iPhone and its Android kin alike with a heavily customized OS. The MX 4-core, as the name suggests, uses a quad-core Exynos chipset from Samsung (like the one in the Galaxy S III) and also has a slightly bigger battery than its predecessor – 1700mAh vs. 1600mAh. What other changes has Meizu done under the hood to improve battery life? The Chinese haven’t gone into specifics, but we saw improvement across the board. The original MX posted a pretty respectable talk time endurance, but the Meizu MX 4-core beats its achievement by over an hour. That makes it one of the best performers in this category and puts it within 20 minutes of the Samsung Galaxy S III (which packs a far larger 2100mAh battery). Motorola DROID RAZR MAXX 20:24 Huawei Ascend P1 12:30 Samsung Galaxy Note 12:14 Samsung Wave 3 S8600 11:07 HTC One X (AT&...

Qualcomm just reported its 3rd quarter fiscal 2012 results and profits have soared year on year owing to continued strong demand for 3G and 4G connected hardware. High sales and strong yearly growth have contributed to a bottom line of $4.63 billion in revenue. Meanwhile net income is reported at $1.21 billion. MSM chipsets were the biggest contributors with 141 million units sold. Though sales were reported to be down 7% over the last quarter, the YoY growth is noted to be 18%. CEO Dr. Paul E. Jacob said that the sales drop was due to upcoming devices lined up for the holiday season. Dhruv Bhutani is a tech enthusiast who tries to keep a tab on the latest and greatest in the mobile and telecom sector. He is currently using an iPhone 4S and a Nokia Lumia 800. Catch him on Twitter @DhruvBhutani , you can also reach out on Facebook and Google+ View the original article here