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We fully expected this from our earlier reports but Samsung have dethroned Apple in smartphones sales for Q1 of 2013. According to analysts Samsung sold $26.62 billion worth of smartphones. While Apple have been doing quite well too at $22.95 billion this figure is lower by $7.71 billion compared to the figure reached in Q4 of 2012. Nokia followed up with $3.64 billion while LG got $2.95 billion from their smartphone sales.

LTE networks in Malaysia are just coming out, with the only major players being Maxis and Celcom. Therefore it makes sense that it took a while for the LTE-enabled version of the Samsung Galaxy S4 or I9505 to reach our shores. Coming out for Maxis in the next week or so, the I9505 will be priced a bit higher at RM2499 because instead of 16GB this version has 32GB worth of internal storage.

Out of all the new Samsung Galaxy S4 variants, there was one that we were sure was going to be released and that would be the Samsung Galaxy S4 mini, which Samsung have officially announced recently. Following the SIII mini, this year's Samsung Galaxy S4 mini confirms most of the tech spec rumours including:

• 4.3-inch qHD Super AMOLED display
• 1.7GHz dual-core processor
• 8MP rear camera + 1.9MP front camera
• 8GB storage + 64GB microSD
• Android 4.2.2
• 1900 mAh battery
• LTE + IR LED support

After our earlier report on a possible HTC One Google Edition, it seems that this rumour has been confirmed. HTC are going to release a HTC One running stock Android for a Nexus experience, much in the same way as when Google announced the Samsung Galaxy S4 Google Edition at Google I/O. According to HTC, the HTC One Nexus Edition will be priced at $599 (RM184) and be sold at the Google Play Store from 26 June 2013.

As a company in the smartphone business, Motorola was responsible for quite a few world's firsts in the phone and smartphone industry. So when it got bought by Google, many were expecting great things. We just didn't expect it would take this long. Finally, Dennis Woodside, Motorola CEO has come out and confirmed a couple of things which include:

• The Motorola X phone is real, it will be known as Moto X, be very contextually aware, broadly distributed and made in the US (and probably coming in Q3 of 2013).
• Motorola will be relaunching their product line from now until October.
• The new product line will focus more on quality than quantity.

Like every other major Computer related company, Acer has quite a few things that they would like to unveil at this year's Computex 2013. They have already revealed quite a few tablets and hybrid tablet computers. Some were just ho hum and some were downright exciting. Teasing their Computex 2013 debut,  Acer have released a teaser video indicating that they have quite a few things to unveil.

Samsung continues their barrage of devices for every size and use, but this time we may have leaked tech specs for the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 and the Samsung Galaxy Ace 3. The tech specs for the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 include:

• 10.1-inch TFT-LCD display (1280 x 800)
• 1.6GHz dual-core processor
• 1GB RAM
• 3MP rear camera + 1.3MP front camera
• 16GB / 32GB storage
• 6800 mAh battery
• 243.1 x 176.1 x 7.96mm
• 510g
• Android 4.2 Jelly Bean

Based on a rumour from China, possibly from component suppliers, Apple may be doubling the amount of pixels in the screen for the next iPhone. This would result in the side bezels becoming thinner, following the same look and feel as the iPad mini. Currently, the iPhone 5 has a Retina display with 730000 pixels anda pixel density of 326ppi. Doubling the number of pixels would mean about 1500000 pixels for a pixel density of 460ppi.

It is no secret that Samsung have not been able to keep up with the production of their Exynos 5 Octa chipsets and processors. Only 30% of the Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphones sold had these processors, after all. For this reason, the rumour that Samsung may instead use the Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 to power their upcoming Samsung Galaxy Note III phablet sounds very likely. Performance benchmarks of Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 800 platform have been very good, so much so that they've overtaken Samsung's own Exynos 5 Octa.

As rumours continue to swirl about the soon-to-be-released Samsung Galaxy Note III, one of the latest rumours is that Samsung will include Optical Image Stabilization with the Note III. On top of the 13MP camera the Note III is supposed to have, this feature may also come with shutter functions. So far, tech specs for the Samsung Galaxy Note III include:

• Exynos 5 Octa
• 5.99-inch Super AMOLED (1080p)
• 3GB RAM
• 13MP rear camera (OIS)