Sony Xperia i1 Honami | Leaked Images | 20 MP Camera | Features | Review

Sony's brand new 6.4-Inch Xperia Z Ultra phablet that they announced earlier this week, but new one leaked image of upcoming flagship Android smartphone that could end up being called Xperia i1 codename "Honami".

Honami is believed to sport a 20MP camera, putting in a large 1/1.6" sensor and Xenon flash, although the lens looks no bigger than previous cameras. The Techtudo team who leaked the homani photos claims that they have verified the 20MP camera resolution, but could not publish any photo.

The Honami appears same 5-Inch full HD 1080p display as the Xperia Z with Bravia technology - rumors reported. It ran Android 4.2 on a Snapdragon 800 chipset, 2GB of RAM, the configuration quad-core and 2.3 GHz Qualcomm CPU which is most powerful.

According to latest leaks, it will announced on July 4th. Although date hasn't been confirmed. No announcement or release dates have even been mentioned yet.

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Samsung Galaxy S4 Active | Dust and Water-Resistant Phone | Features | Review

Samsung's Galaxy S4 Active is a new avatar of S4. S4 Active is a Dust and Water-resistant Android smartphones. The Samsung's Galaxy S4 Active is one of the smartphone with IP67 Certified. It can protect from dust as well as water for 30 minutes at the depth of one meter.

The S4 Active shares much of its internal hardware with the vanilla Galaxy S4, including a quad-core Snapdragon 600 CPU at 1.9GHz, 2GB of RAM, a 1080p (TFT, not AMOLED) display, 2600mAh battery and 16GB of internal storage, expandable via microSD. The camera is a 8-megapixel unit compared to the S4's 13MP.

The Galaxy S4 Active still comes with Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean and software features found on the GS4 like Smart Scroll, Smart Pause, Air View and Air Gesture. It supports NFC, 11.ac Wi-Fi, and 4G LTE networks.

Galaxy S4 Active is made out of polycarbonate, but the rougher texture on the back and squarer edges actually make it easier to grip and handle. The three Android buttons at the bottom of the handset are also physical, eschewing the capacitive side keys, and there's now a flap above the Micro USB port.

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Google's Motorola upcoming "Moto X" Smartphone | Made in USA | Moto X Will Launch by October

Google's Motorola plans to launch a new smarter "Moto X" smartphone later this year. Motorola Mobility has confirmed the existence of the Motorola Moto X Phone, which it will be launching in October.

Motorola Mobility CEO Dennis Woodside said at D11 that the newly announced Moto X phone will be assembled mostly in the U.S. The Moto X is the company's long-rumoured Android smartphone designed as the first device to be launched under Google's ownership of the company.

According to a release from Motorola. The Moto X will be built in a factory in Fort Worth, Texas, the plant is about 500,000 square feet and will employ about 2,000 people in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.

Woodside said that the Moto X will be a 'made in America' device, with production of the handset to take place in Texas. While the audience responded well to Woodside's plan, it remains to be seen if the company is planning to produce all Moto X models in its Texas facility or just those to be sold in the US with international variants to be produced closer to their target markets.

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Transparent Glass Smartphone | Polytron Technologies | Future Transparent Mobile Phone

Polytron Techologies Announces Plans To Design A Transparent Glass Smartphone. Taiwan-based Polytron Techologies, a subsidiary of US firm Polytronix, aims to change the way we look at (and through) glass.

The prototype wasn’t functional, but did illustrate what a glass-based device could look and feel like. Today’s handsets are typically encased in plastic or metal, but Polytron intends to introduce specially designed glass that could contain near-invisible electric wiring. This would create a transparent visual effect, the company told Tech Hive.

The company makes giant projection touchscreens, selectively opaque glass, holographic glass, LED-impregnated glass, color-changing glass, rainbow glass, and glowing glass. Polytron has announced its plans to complete a transparent glass smartphone by the end of 2013.

The company has earlier created Polyvision Privacy Glass, which is an electrically switchable, selectively opaque or transparent pane of glass made of glass, conductive material, and liquid crystal film. In its natural state, the central crystalline structure is randomly oriented, scattering incoming light to make the surface opaque but when an electric current is introduced, the liquid crystals line up and become transparent, transmitting light from one side to the other.

The other firm’s invention is Polytouch Frame, a big transparent touchscreen monitor. The future smartphone prototype seems to rely on the firm’s existing technologies, though there’s a lot to do.

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Can iphone mini boost the apple Past | Iphone mini launch next year | Price | Review

Rumors saying that Apple plans to launch iPhone mini next year 2014. The iPhone mini is expecting at a price ranging from $200 to $250.

"We expect Samsung to slightly extend its lead over Apple this year because of its larger multitier product portfolio," Neil Mawston, executive director at Strategy Analytics, said in an e-mail interview with Reuters.

Global smartphone shipments will jump 27 percent to 875 million this year, slowing from last year's torrid 41 percent pace as growth is easing in many key markets such as North America, China, the developed economies of Asia, and Western Europe, Mawston said.

South Korea's Samsung Electronics is forecast to sell 290 million smartphones this year, up from a projected 215 million in 2012, the research firm said. Apple's smartphone sales are projected to reach 180 million this year, up 33 percent from last year, slightly trailing Samsung's 35 percent increase.

This will give Samsung a 33 percent share of the 2013 smartphone market, up from last year's estimated 31 percent, while Apple will hold 21 percent, versus last year's 20 percent.

The Korean handset maker has the edge over Apple in large part because it "plays in more segments," Mawston told Reuters, allowing it to "capture more volume than Apple."

To fight back, Apple may try to win over a larger base of consumers by launching a smaller, cheaper variant of the iPhone, dubbed the "iPhone Mini" by the analyst.

With the iPhone 5 grabbing huge demand and sales, a low-end model may not be on Apple's agenda this year.

There’s absolutely no evidence that Apple is working on an iPhone mini — but for that matter there’s wasn’t much to indicate that the company was working on the iPad mini either — but the rumors suggest a smaller, cheaper handset that will appeal to those who are interested in the iPhone but find the current offering too expensive.

While there’s no doubt that this would have huge appeal in the U.S., a cheap iPhone would have massive appeal in countries such as China and India. And if Apple can gain traction in these countries, it could add billions to its profits, and millions of new users every quarter.

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