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These days we can see more and more smartphones getting different certificates for being waterproof, shockproof, dustproof, etc. Since they are standardized under special labels like IP57 or IP54 it was just a matter of time when someone will mix them up, and that special moment came during the presentation of Archos smartphone by the company's CEO Loic Poirier.

Nokia finally officially unveiled its smartphone with Android OS at the MWC. However, this is not what Android fans had hoped for, and it turned out that the device will serve the spread of the company's services to attract users to the Lumia devices.

The Wall Street Journal has information about Google's upcoming smart watch based on Android. The device will serve same as the Nexus line as an example of the reference design of smart watches, sources say.

A day that many have eagerly expected has arrived and Samsung has officialy unveiled ther new flagship, Galaxy S5. The device has a full HD screen of 5.1 inches, as well as new software that helps it to achieve the proper screen brightness and contrast in different conditions. S5 uses quad core Snapdragon 800 processor clocked at 2.5GHz processor and Adreno 330 graphics processor.

Jolla, a Finnish company founded by former Nokia employees, has announced that they are prepared to issue a full commercial version of their operating system Sailfish which will be numbered 1.0.

Huawei MediaPad X1 is the thinnest and lightest tablet with Android, atleast accroding to the company. Aluminium case measures thickness of 7.18 mm and weighs only 239 grams.

According to the German Manager Magazin, Nokia is reportedly considering to take over Juniper Networks to strengthen its business in relation to the telecommunications network.

A new smartphone from Gionee will appear on the market under a name Elife S5.5. The figures in the title are not for the display size, but are related to the thickness of the device - 5.55 mm, which currently makes it the thinnest smartphone to the world.

According to information acquired by the website N4BB latest Blackberry that is being developed under the code name of Jakarta will belong to the low end devices. N4BB has released specifications for a future phone that they claim to be official. According to them, the BlackBerry Jakarta has a 5 inch qHD screen with a resolution of 540x960 pixels, 1.5 GB of RAM, 8 GB of internal memory and is powered by a dual-core processor clocked at 1.2 GHz.

The Japanese company Rakuten, specializing in e-business, today announced that their $900 million acquisition is Viber, the popular mobile application for instant messaging and voice communication. Recently we wrote that Viber was for sale and that there are several Asian companies interested in it, however the main candidate was Chinese WeChat.