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The current Nexus smartphone, the LG Nexus 4 was originally available just in black. However, LG are now offering it in white as well. Tech specs for the White LG Nexus 4 are still the same as the old black one, which isn't bad since you still get a high-end smartphone but the only difference with the White Nexus 4 is its colour. It should be available already but it would likely go for a slightly higher price than the original black one. While on that topic, LG have confirmed that they have no plans for another Nexus smartphone, squashing earlier rumours about an LG Nexus 5 smartphone in the works. LG have not ruled out working with Google again though.

While Samsung have plans to reveal Samsung Galaxy S4 variants like the Galaxy S4 Mini, Active, Zoom and Mega, so far only the S4 Mini Active and Zoom specs have been revealed. First off is the Samsung Galaxy S4 mini, which was revealed from the AnTuTu benchmark site:

• 4.3" Super AMOLED (540 x 960, 240ppi ~ 256ppi)
• 1.7GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 dual-core Krait 200
• 1.5GB RAM
• Adreno 305 GPU
• 8GB internal storage
• 8MP rear camera + 2.1MP front camera
• LTE + dual-SIM support

Samsung's oversized phablets continue to grow with the Samsung Galaxy Mega 5.8 and 6.3. Thankfully, their prices have also been revealed as vendors have started selling the Samsung Galaxy Mega 5.8 in India at INR24900 (RM1364). The Samsung Galaxy 6.3 has been priced at INR31490 (RM1725). The price isn't entirely unexpected as both phablets only have midrange specs and should feature just a bit higher than the Samsung Galaxy Grand.

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