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Samsung has reportedly confirmed the Samsung Galaxy S5 launch will happen in February at around the Mobile World Congress event held in Barcelona, Spain (MWC 2014)

Blackberry Ltd. said Friday it had filed a suit in a California court against Los Angeles firm Typo Products for violating its patents with a Blackberry-like keyboard made for Apple's iPhone. The struggling Canadian maker of the Blackberry smartphone said that Typo's $99 keyboard case, which attaches a Blackberry-like physical keyboard to an iPhone 5, "blatantly copied BlackBerry's keyboard."

Samsung has announced Galaxy Camera 2, successor to the Android-based Galaxy Camera that it announced at IFA last year. Samsung will be showcasing the camera at CES in Las Vegas next week. Samsung Galaxy Camera 2 comes with a 16.3 effective megapixel 1/2.3-inch BSI CMOS sensor and 21x optical zoom. The Android 4.3-based camera is powered by a 1.6GHz quad-core processor alongside 2GB RAM. The Galaxy Camera 2 comes with 8GB internal storage (2.8GB user accessible), which is expandable by up to 64GB via microSD card. Connectivity options include Wi-Fi, GPS, NFC and Bluetooth. Interestingly, there's no mention of 3G/ LTE connectivity, so one wonders if Samsung has given up on having a SIM slot, which was present in the original Galaxy Camera. Samsung did launch a cheaper, Wi-Fi only variant of the Galaxy Camera later, so the Galaxy Camera 2 follows on those footsteps. There's no word if Samsung will launch a Galaxy Camera 2 variant with cellular connectivity at a later...

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Nokia has launched its new feature phone in India, the Nokia 106 at Rs. 1,399. The new affordable phone from Nokia is now available via the company's online store and is available in three colour variants Black, Red and White. The online site notes that the phone will be delivered in five working days.

Lava Mobiles' new budget smartphone, the Iris 354e, is now listed at an online retailer for Rs. 3,415. As of now, the smartphone is out-of-stock at the e-commerce website, and offers a 'Notify Me' option to consumers. The company is yet to unveil the Iris 354e for the Indian market. The Lava Iris 354e runs Android 4.2 Jelly Bean and is a dual-SIM (GSM+GSM) device, with support for dual standby. It features a 3.5-inch HVGA (320x480 pixels) display. The Iris 354e is powered by a 1GHz dual-core processor (unspecified chipset), along with 256MB of RAM.

Nokia has pulled its popular Here Maps from iTunes app store citing iOS 7 as the reason, claiming that it was harming the 'user experience'. The Indian Express reported the news first and notes that Here Maps on iOS had a bug that froze the app when users tried to zoom in and out of the app. Further, the report states that in case the app didn't freeze while trying to zoom in or out, the iOS version of the Here Maps responded strangely and also made it hard to find alternative routes or directions. The report claims that the Here Maps was tested on three Apple devices before being pulled down and it describes the app as 'unusable' on all the devices. The report also cites a statement from a Nokia spokesperson that reads, "We have made the decision to remove our Here Maps app from the Apple App Store because recent changes to iOS 7 harm the user experience. iPhone users can continue to use the mobile web version of Here Maps under m.here.com...