Sony Xperia Z1 f (Mini) official: Snapdragon 800 and 20.7MP camera inside a bite sized shell

Tales of a smaller, more easily pocketable

Sony Xperia Z1

have been rumored around the internet almost as long as the full sized model. This Sony Xperia Z1 Mini as it was known (Honami Mini) was said to be big on specs, while small in overall stature. Today, during the same NTT DoCoMo event that confirmed the Samsung Galaxy J, the Sony Xperia Z1 f (Mini) too was finally announced, arriving on the Japanese carrier later this year.

The Z1 f features the same metal frame as its larger sibling, sandwiched between 2 layers of silky smooth glass. The phone will be available in 4 colors at launch: black, white, pink, and yellow, with a size only a hair larger than that of the

Motorola Moto X

. Where the Moto X arguably skimped on specs, the Z1 f goes all out, coming in hot with the same powerful Snapdragon 800 processor and 20.7MP Exmor RS as the big Z1. Sony pulled no punches when it came to this phone.

Sony Xperia Z1 f

• 4.3-inch 720p X-Reality Triluminos display
• 2.2GHz Snapdragon 800 quad-core processor
• 2GB RAM
• 16GB internal storage/micro SD card slot
• 20.7/2.2MP camera
• 2,300mAh battery
• Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean
• Dimensions: 127mm × 65mm, 9.4mm thick
• Water/dust proof
• NFC

The Z1 f isn’t due out in Japan until late December, so there’s no telling when (or even if) this little device will ever make its way to other markets. With the current trend of “bigger means better” Android devices, the world could use a few more high-powered petite devices like the Sony Xperia Z1 f.

Galaxy Round to have 5.7-inch display curved along the edges

The Galaxy Round, which is expected to be announced this week as the first smartphone with a flexible display, will have the same specs as the Galaxy Note 3, according to a report published by ETNews, and will be launched in Korea by SK Telecom just a few days after going official.

According to Rbmen, the screen will be of 5.7-inches and will be curved along the contours (sides) of the device, making it fit the shape of a person’s face when making a call. The curved screen will also improve the experience when watching movies or playing games, while the resolution will remain at 1080p. Other specs will reportedly include a Snapdragon 800 processor and Android 4.3, though it’s not expected to be compatible with the S Pen, which should help keep the cost down (though it’ll still be priced pretty high).

As always, nothing is confirmed right now, but if rumours hold true, we should be getting all the details on the Galaxy Round within a fortnight.

It’s just this company which might have got a good market share, but hasn’t come up with a device that has a Full HD display, but now the newscaster from the company has posted on Twitter that it is working on the first Full HD device, the Micromax Canvas Turbo, A250 which would get the powering by a 1.5 GHz Quad-core processor.

The latest best devices from Micromax were the Canvas 4 A210 and the Canvas Doodle 2 A240, and both of them came with the HD display having a 720p resolution. Now, with the entry of Canvas Turbo in the near future, would the Indian brands competing Micromax come up with similar products soon? we’ll get to see only after Micromax makes the devices official. The size of the display is unknown as of now, but it’s for sure that it would have the 1920 x 1080 pixels of resolution. The processor that the device would sport, is the 1.5 GHz Quad Core MT6589T Processor with PowerVR SGX 544MP GPU clocked at 357 MHz.

The device is said to come with the Android 4.2.1 Jelly Bean OS, and that is the same version with which the two other recent high-end devices from Micromax were launched. Apart from these, rest is all rumors which include the 13-megapixel rear camera with the LED flash and a 5-megapixel front facing camera which one of the competitor Gionee Elife E6 has got.

By the looks of what is coming in the device, it’s the Elife E6 which would see it as a competitor, as the latter has got a 1080p display, the 13MP & 5MP camera combo and a quad-core processor. As of now we would have to rely on the MMXNews Twitter feed and believe it because that’s the only source leaking the details about the Canvas Turbo. We could be seeing the announcement any time soon because the Elife E6 is already launched and available.

Samsung Galaxy J leaked, reveals 5-inch FHD Display and Snapdragon 800

We recently got wind through an FCC certification that Samsung is developing Galaxy J (SC-02F) for the Japanese market. Now Japanese blog, RBMen has published images of the Galaxy J that will be a part of NTT Docomo’s 2013-14 Winter-Spring lineup to be announced on October 10. The Galaxy J will be available in three colors – Coral Pink, Satin White and Lapis Blue and bring in features like a 5-inch Full HD display (AMOLED or LCD is unconfirmed), snapdragon 800 MSM8974 CPU, 3GB RAM, 1Seg for TV and more.

The phone has a good balance of looks and power but chances of Samsung releasing it outside Japan looks unlikely.

The HTC One Max phablet again made an appearance in a few leaked live photos where it was wearing the Verizon tag, and the sources did claim that there was a removable back cover in place along with a fingerprint sensor on the back. The rest of the rumors are still the same, where one is expecting a Snapdragon 800 SoC processor, a 6-inch display with the 1080p resolution and the same HTC One camera with the 4-megapixel Ultrapixel technology lens.

The phone is expected to be made official in the coming week or two.

More clearer photos of the HTC One Max have come out, and it’s again through Weibo, and it clearly shows the Fingerprint Scanner and a lot more things, with the specifications too. So, just like what was being expected and leaked before, is what you are actually going to see in the One Max. The HTC One Max 8088 is going to come with a 5.9 inch screen with the 1980 x 1080 pixels screen resolution, and there would be a 1.7 GHz processor (we haven’t been able to see the chipset, whether a Snapdragon S4 Pro or a Snapdragon 800, as we had found both in the different rumors), 2GB RAM and a 5-megapixel camera which could be the ultrapixel one.

16GB of onboard storage is what is being shown, and the battery capacity is 3300 mAh. And as expected, it would be the new Android 4.3 KitKat version that the device would come with. The pricing is expected to be around $800, and the expected launch is around October 2013, and we might have to wait for the Android KitKat based Nexus device for the One Max to become official.

The HTC One Max is being rumored a lot, but the latest leaks show a very interesting feature which was introduced by Apple in the iPhone 5S – the Fingerprint scanner. The scanner though doesn’t take it’s place on the front button area but it lies below the camera lens on the rear side with a squarish design which might have just the single purpose.

The One Max is codenamed the HTC 8088 and it is expected to come with a 5.9 inch full HD display, and as the leaked screenshots suggest, there would be the GSM and LTE support in it. The internal powering is expected to be 2.3GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor along with 2GB of RAM and the camera is the UltraPixel one, which was introduced in the company’s flagship HTC One smartphone earlier this year.

The screenshots even suggest that we might be seeing the new HTC Sense UI in the Android 4.3 KitKat version that was recently announced by Google, and we might see that officially along with the announcement of the Nexus 5 device.

It won’t be a long wait before we get to see this device officially announced, but that shouldn’t come before the Nexus 5 entry, we guess.