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According to data collected by Retrevo, 81% of current iPhone owners will buy Apple's mobile phone again when the time comes to replace the current device.

There is an interesting movement going on right now that has both good and bad consequences if it is brought to life. We are talking about the push by some law makers to put “kill switches” into cellphones. The thought behind this is that a would-be thief might think twice if he knew that a phone could be turned off rapidly just like a credit card. The Movement is called “Secure our Smartphones” and while they appear to have their hearts in the right place, there is something not quite right in what they are proposing. Sadly whenever we see such a big push to disable or control products and devices there comes with it a concern about abuse.

According to IDC's estimates, next year 1.7 billion "smart connected devices" should be supplied, of which around billion will go to emerging markets. The smart connected devices is IDC name for "smart" mobile phones, tablets and PCs, and most deliveries are expected in China, India, Brazil and Russia. Just these four markets are expected to supply about 662 million units, worth more than 206 billion dollars.

SK Hynix have managed to produce a more capacitive LPDDR3 memory in 20-nanometer generation of manufacturing process. LPDDR3 has higher speed and lower consumption than the previous LPDDR2 that is still very common in today's mobile devices.

Samsung Galaxy Note is a device that has achieved unexpected success. This device with a large screen has recorded very good sales, while about his popularity numerous rumors and leaks of information and photos are speaking for themselves.

Unofficial photos of HTC's smartphone called HTC One Mini appeared on the internet, after rumors that were circulating for some time. Photos were published by Estonian blog Forte and on them we can see that thr device's design is very similar to One, but of course something smaller.

The previously announced Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 with seven-inch diagonal screen will be joined by two more models. Their screens will have a diagonal of 8 and 10.1 inches, and both will have a screen resolution of 800x1280 pixels. 8 inch Samsung Tab 3 is envisioned as a lightweight device for reproduction of multimedia content, primarily written.

HTC has officially announced the release of smartphones with Google's factory version of the operating system Android. The device bears the name HTC One Nexus User Experience and will be on sale from 26th June through an online store Google Play.

Dennis Woodside, CEO of Motorola Mobility, has finally released some more information on the business plans of the company. After Google's 12.5 billion dollar takeover, Motorola practicaly presented zero new products, and recorded an additional $271 million loss in the first quarter of this year.

AMD kicked an interesting product out the door today in the form of their Operton X-Series APU SoC. You might remember that the possibility of this APU was leaked a while ago by an inadvertent inclusion on a slide showing the Operton X logo. Everyone knew this was going to fold over into an x86 APU based SoC and the launch was just a matter of time. Now the lid is off and we can talk about the Opteron X (Kyoto) and where AMD sees this new product in their server business and in the market as a whole.