Erik Pineda

Samsung will likely push down the selling price of the Galaxy Note 3 on release date, the move to deflect growing threats as rumours of arriving rival handsets such as HTC T6, iPhone 6 and Nexus 5 persist.

Sony is joining the vanilla Android club as reports emerged that the Japanese firm is preparing a version of its flagship smartphone – with all the powerful hardware specs but taking the new label Xperia Z Nexus.

Many would want to get glimpses of Apple’s iPhone 6, iPhone 5S and even the iPhone Mini via the WWDC 2013 scheduled next week but one analyst believes the world will have to wait a bit more.

It’s always interesting to fuse beauty and brute characteristics, especially when lent to a powerful mobile device like the upcoming Google opus Nexus 5.

Come July, Samsung and HTC will release the Galaxy S4 Mini and HTC One Mini respectively. Both gadgets are the exact replica of the GS4 and the One, obviously designed to tussle with Apple’s budget iPhone.

It’s no secret Samsung is building one of the toughest gadgets to come out this year – the Galaxy Note 3 that reports said will land between August and September this year.

Apple’s iPhone 6 and iPhone 5S will sport flatter interface on their respective release dates thanks to the Jony Ive-redesigned iOS 7, new reports said.

Mass production of the redesigned iPad 5 is scheduled to commence between July and August this year, en route to a likely late September release date, new reports said.

Two likely killer features to rollout with the iPhone 6 and the iPhone 5S are eye-detection capability and automated battery power adjustment, both designed to conserve energy and extend the handsets’ operating hours.

Samsung’s 2013 phablet offering is fully expected to be a monster device and newly-leaked information about the Galaxy Note 3 largely confirmed the upscale specs on its rumoured September release date.

Samsung unveiled this week its latest try to dislodge Apple from its tablet throne. The Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 and the Galaxy Tab 3 8 join the slew of slates that the Asian tech giant have been deploying in dizzying pace. The object is obvious – to defeat the iPad and its sexier sibling, the iPad Mini.

Fingerprint sensor has been a dominant theme on wild rumours surrounding the iPhone 6 and iPhone 5S release date, prompting one designer to show off an iPhone render that prominently highlights the killer feature.

It was not as invincible as it was but Apple, according to analysts, remains in “a fairly positive position,” and the looming iPhone 5S release date plus the rumoured iPhone 6 debut next year will further strengthen the tech titan.

The Apple smartphone brand will remain on top of the food chain following the September release date of the iPhone 5S, a new report said.

Samsung’s third phablet instalment, the Galaxy Note 3, could arrive as early as July or August this year, a new report said, and the general specs and make will leave it as merely a bigger Galaxy S4 clone, new reports said.

Picture the iPhone 6 and the iPhone 5S as devices with seamless body designs on release date, with “the aesthetics … greatly enhanced by not cluttering the device enclosure with always-visible components.”

Samsung is coming up with another iPad killer and potentially this Android tablet is a certified muscle-car, reports said.

Apple appears to be ramping up the preparations for the release date of its new flagships, the iPhone 5S and possibly even the rumoured phablet-size iPhone 6, as sales promos involving old iPhone models started cropping out.

The speculations are spot on. Google announced this week that the Play Store will sell another Android flagship, the HTC One, that operates exclusively on its stock operating system.

Apple CEO Tim Cook has indicated that global consumers will get to see a totally redesigned iPad 5 and iPad Mini 2 on their rumoured October release date, crediting Jony Ive for the ‘incredible changes’.

Samsung officially unleashed the Galaxy S4 Mini, a scaled-down Jelly Bean smartphone that aims to further strengthen its bigger sibling’s, the 5-inch Galaxy S4, unstoppable climb to the top.

Apple’s iPhone 6 release date is said to represent the tech giant’s radical jump to uncompromising device engineering and software technology. As such, the latest render of the rumoured phablet further plays up to the hype.

Apple watchers got the strongest hint yet this week of the impending iPhone 5S release date, which a new report will come between September and October based on purported production activities build up in the months ahead.

Prior to their release date, the upcoming iPad Mini 2, expected to sport Retina display this year, and the iPad 5 are widely rumoured to have undergone major design and software revisions.

Ten million sales and counting – those were the great numbers of Samsung fans who scooped up the Galaxy S4 only four weeks after its global release date.

Months before its rumoured September release date, wild speculations continue to swirl on fresh iPhone 5S offerings, which analysts love to call as killer features to neutralise the iOS smartphone’s numerous rivals.

With a 4-inch screen size and a host of killer features, the current iPhone template is delivering what gadget consumers generally require, Apple CEO Tim Cook declared.

Apple is giving more production role to Chinese supplier Pegatron prior to the scheduled release dates of the iPhone 5S and the iPhone 6, a new report said.

Now that LG has admitted that it is not, not yet at least, the official Google partner in making the Nexus 5, the branding for the stock Android smartphone has immediately become an open field.