iPhone 5 announced!

Well, finally after so many rumours and so much anticipation. Apple has announced the iPhone 5 which follows on from the 4S with a taller display, new processor chip and thinner form factor. The new iPhone is really thin at 7.6mm thick and is only bigger in height being 123.8mm in comparison to the iPhone 4S's 115.2mm.

Specs wise, the iPhone 5's display is taller making it 4-inches with a resolution of 1136x640 and retaining that retina goodness, powering it is Apple's newest generation A6 processor, however there isn't any details on number of cores or an actual clock speed but has 1GB of RAM and run iOS 6 well. Camera's include a 8-megapixel rear-facing camera and 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera for video calls. Internal storage is the usual 16/32/64GB variants with no way of expanding.

I'm disappointed, yes, the screen and processor -which are arguably the most important features on a phone, may have been changed. But Apple really needs to come up with a different design, it's old and boring and it needs a refresh. Still, It's nice to see a new iPhone and it will most likely sell well.

iPhone 5 model leaks...

There has been a lot of speculation, leaks and rumours surrounding the 5th iteration of Apple's iPhone. Everything has been said, 3D screen, new docking connector and even a totally new design have been said by some people. All this time Apple has been silent, probably laughing at us and the rumours were coming up with.

Well, today, it looks like a model/prototype of the iPhone 5 has been leaked. The prototype includes the bigger screen now a reasonable 4-inch affair. It also comes with the new dock connector which has been said to lock un-certified Apple docks out of it. (great!). So, what about specs, well Quad-core processor is an absolute possibility, the retina screen will be in tact, I'd say that we may see a 12-megapixel camera on the back with a 2-megapixel on the front. Nevertheless, the iPhone still receives the award for most boring design ever. 

BlackBerry 10 OS Revealed...

At BlackBerry's annual world conference they took the wraps off a BlackBerry 10 running device, an "Dev Alpha" device. This device is nothing like any other BlackBerry model seen before (It doesn't even have a physical keyboard) and neither is it a final production model.

The device sports a 4.2-inch screen with a resolution of 1280x768 that punches out a pixel density greater than the iPhone. The rest of the device's specifications are unknown. The device is rather chunky, and kinda resembles a unbranded Galaxy S2 without the buttons.

However, for the sake of RIM, I hope BB10 works out...

Will the Galaxy SIII just be a “incremental upgrade"?

Recently an insider has claimed that the Galaxy SIII -which is to be unveiled on the 3rd of May is just an "incremental" upgrade instead of an all round brand new device, similar to what the iPhone 4S was to the 4. The insider also claims that the naming of the Galaxy S devices will be altered, paralleling Apple with their "New iPad" instead of "iPad 3"

If this were true, then instead of the HD screen we've been hearing so much about, we'd probably see the current screen featured on the Galaxy S2 enlarged by less than half an inch, a faster processor (could still be a quad-core chip) and maybe a few aesthetic changes for the bigger battery to accommodate for the extra two cores.

In my opinion, an "overhaul" of the features on the predecessor instead of brand new features won't be enough to compete with the offerings of other mobile phone companies these day referring to the HTC One X. Remember, The Galaxy S2 literally wiped the floor when it came to a high end device last year. Samsung can do it again and personally I hope they do.

Do you think the much anticipated Galaxy S3 will just be an update? or a totally new device?