Nokia, the world’s largest phone maker, has found itself struggling in recent years against challengers from iOS and Android camps, but the Symbian heavyweight is showing that it is welcoming change, a positive sign of things to come for the company. After having re-taken control of Symbian development efforts from the Symbian Foundation, Nokia has [...]
Holiday activities have limited me to skimming the tech news lately. One thing simmering in the back of my mind though is the report on Microsoft’s “new” approach to tablets. It seemed familiar and not because it only rehashes old ideas. No, it was something else, something I couldn’t put my finger on… until now.
There’s a picture that has prompted a rumor that the T-Mobile version of the Samsung Galaxy Tab will see a price drop from $399 to $349. That’s obviously the subsidized price with a contract. Again, it’s a rumor, but if you’re interested in the T-Mobile version or live in an area where the carrier choice [...]
Sling Media just pushed an update to its Slingplayer Mobile for iPhone app to the iTunes App Store, bringing the revision to 2.0. The new app, available as a free update for current owners and a $30 download for those who haven’t previously purchased, brings the new high quality video streaming found on the company’s [...]
Good news for digital inkers who use an iPad. PhatWare the makers of WritePad, PhatNotes and other digital inking software has just released PhatPad for the iPad. And we’ve got some codes to give away! See below the video for details. I haven’t had an opportunity to check out PhatPad for the iPad yet, but [...]
A recent update to Google Voice Search on the company’s Android mobile platform brings some improvements to voice recognition. The update, now available as a free update or download on Android Market, will now allow users who opt in the opportunity for Google to learn their speech patterns, which will help with better voice recognition [...]
Yesterday I got excited, as did quite a few others with news from Engadget that Barnes & Noble was going to update the Nook Color to Android 2.2 (Froyo) in January and add the Android Marketplace to the device. This would have in effect made the Nook Color a pretty decent Android Tablet/Slate, in fact [...]
Well, well, well. Mark Zuckerberg, founder and major domo of Facebook has been named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year. Here’s what the sub-lead of the article says: For connecting more than half a billion people and mapping the social relations among them; for creating a new system of exchanging information; and for changing how [...]
The U.S. Army is looking at ways to integrate mobile technology, like smartphones, into the personal arsenal of troops in war zones. Beyond Android smartphones and iPhones, the Army is examining ways to deploy the iPad, the Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook, and pico projectors. With mobile technology in war zones, the army is [...]
Facebook has just unleashed an update for Android, which is available for update or download for free from Android Market, which brings the social network’s app to version 1.5. The update brings with it chat so now you can chat with your Facebook BFFs and also receive push notifications for messages, invites, or friend requests. [...]
Nokia has announced that the Notifications API has been released and is now available for third-party applications developer to integrate into their applications for use on the Symbian and MeeGo operating system platforms. The Notifications API is available as a plug-in for the Nokia Qt SDK and allows for apps like instant messenger (IM) apps, [...]
Google had confirmed that the company had acquired Toronto-based Zetawire. The deal, which happened in August, is a small one for Google, but it does give Google a patent for mobile banking and transaction processing, which could tie in nicely with Google’s push for near field communications (NFC) technologies, which is beginning to emerge on [...]
Interesting. Very interesting. Word is that Android 2.2 (Froyo) will be hitting the Nook Color in January. Yes, you can do some rooting and install it now, but this looks like an official way of moving only one step behind the next version of Android. What’s really interesting about this is that Froyo will enable [...]
I think Hector Gomez is a man on a mission to test out every new Tablet/Slate he can lay his hands on. He recently sent me a link to the video in this post and his observations of the Viewsonic G Tablet that he got to check out at his local Office Depot. Like many [...]
Despite Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ harsh comments about a seven-inch slate, saying that the form factor would be unusable and would require users to file down their fingers so they can touch-type on the smaller screen real estate, rumors of a more compact iPad tablet are again making the rounds on the Internet. Kaufman Bros [...]
Google has pushed through an update of its Google Voice App for the iOS platform that now works with the iPad and the iPod Touch. No, you can’t make calls directly using those iOS devices but through what Google is calling Click2Call you can initiate a call and tell Google Voice which of your phones [...]
Marketers are now looking at the growing electronic book market to grow, and with that we’ll hopefully start to see new pricing models and promotions for digital books. E-books, as they are called, will be another venue for advertisers to place ads, whether they be videos, graphics, text, or sponsorship advertisements, and these ads can [...]
The Microsoft Arc Touch Mouse is now available at most retailers for $69.99. As far as a mouse goes in my view it is not a bad alternative if you need a mouse that is relatively compact for your bag or you pocket with one exception. I’ll get to that in a minute. The design [...]
Navteq, which is a wholly-owned Nokia subsidiary, has just acquired Trapster, which is a crowd-sourcing service where motorists mark locations on the map where police have speed traps set-up. The Trapstser service is used by 9.4 million people and provide user-generated content on road checks, hazards, and other information. Whether we’ll begin to see more [...]
On December 16th, users can head over to Best Buy stores or online to purchase the Google Samsung Nexus S smartphone, which will be the hardware platform that will debut the Google Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system, which brings enhancements and refinements to further Google’s efforts on Android 2.2 Froyo. Best Buy is now detailing [...]
It looks like the MeeGo user interface, probably sans Nokia’s secret sauce, was captured on a video highlighting some of the menus, home screens, the mobile Fennec (Firefox) browser. Some of design looks like they have been ported over from the Maemo 5 experience from the N900, but for the most part the icons and [...]
It is no secret that Samsung’s Galaxy Tab has been a huge success here at the end of 2010. Some would call it a surprising success especially given the price tag. But no matter, it looks like the Galaxy Tab is continuing to sell. So much so that Samsung is going to start offering a [...]
Like the headline says, no surprise here. Apparently Steve Ballmer is going to show off new Tablets at CES 2011 according to a report from Nick Bilton’s Bits Blog at the NYTimes. The report further says the Tablets will be made by Samsung and Dell. Apparently the Samsung Tablet will run Windows 7 when in [...]
For those who are holding out on purchasing an Android tablet for dual-core processing power, eLocity has announced that its A7 Android tablet with a 7-inch WVGA tablet is now shipping with Android 2.2 Froyo, not the latest Android 2.3 Gingerbread, along with NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 processor which delivers gigahertz dual-core performance and NVIDIA’s ULP [...]
The Google Chrome Cr-48 is all about cloud computing, so it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that it doesn’t have a ton of ports to plug in peripherals that would tether you to a desk. In this part of our multi-part review, we’ll give you a brief port tour and share some close-up [...]
An iPhone variant for Verizon Wireless’s U.S. CDMA network will reportedly also come with 4G LTE support as well. An unknown source claims that the carrier had held management training sessions for iPhone sales last week with LTE-compatible versions of the Apple smartphone. The iPhone for Verizon is said to have been completed for some [...]
Former writer @SimonLR from The Mobile Fanatics has posted some preliminary experiences he has with an upcoming Nokia N9 smartphone, which according to past rumors and leaks may be similar to the Nokia E7 or N8 but running on the MeeGo operating system instead of Symbian. According to Simon’s tweets, we learn that the “keyboard [...]
It looks like Creative’s 10-inch Android tablet, the ZiiO 10, was spotted at the FCC awaiting for regulatory approval. CrunchGear mentions that there isn’t a mention of Android Market, Google’s official Android app store, in the user manual filed at the FCC, and according to the product page for the tablet from Creative’s UK page, [...]
A new image of the HTC EVO Shift 4G has emerged, and this time the Android slider shows off a hard case accessory. The HTC EVO Shift 4G will be Sprint’s answer to the T-Mobile G2, which the latter carrier is boasting as a “4G” device running on its HSPA+ network in the U.S. For [...]
The Motorola CLIQ was launched as Motorola’s first Android device and was seen as the device that marked the beginning of the company’s turn-around since declining sales since the days of the RAZR. Since the CLIQ, Motorola has launched devices on all four major U.S. carriers and has worked with Motorola to help create the [...]
Incase Snap Battery Case for the iPhone 4 is a similar concept to the Mophie Juice Pack for the iPhone 4 in that it offers an extended battery inside a hard case for protection on the iPhone 4. Instead of a full wrap around case on the Mophie Juice Pack Air, which is an excellent [...]
We’re beginning to see now more details about Motorola’s upcoming Android tablet, which will run on a tablet-optimized version of Android called Honeycomb, which is version 3.0 of the mobile operating system designed by Google. The tablet was originally spotted recently at the D: Dive Into Mobile event hosted by All Things Digital, and was [...]
Google had released an update to its Android Market app store user interface design for Android handsets running on Android OS version 1.6 or higher. According to Google, the highlight of the update will be: “This new Market client introduces important features that improve merchandising of applications, streamline the browse-to-purchase experience, and make it easier [...]
Verizon iPhone rumors aren’t really even a dime a dozen. It seems like hardly a day goes by without a new one. That said, MacDaily News is posting this latest one that says Verizon and Apple are planning a post holiday release of a LTE capable iPhone and that training has already begun with working [...]
Actually the pre-CES Tablet hype has been swinging for some time now, but it is beginning to pick up steam. Last year at CES it was all about Tablets and Slates as everybody and their brother promised that they would be bringing a touch screen Tablet to market. It was so crazy that the press [...]
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