In addition to more substantive features update behind the Mango build for Windows Phone 7, Microsoft’s forthcoming firmware update for its mobile operating system may also come with support for visual voicemail. The idea behind visual voicemail was first popularized by Apple’s iPhone, which shows voicemail in an app interface where users can tap on [...]
In a bid to make the latest Android software release more accessible to more people in a timely manner so that you don’t have to wait six months after Gingerbread was released to enjoy it on a non-Nexus smartphone, Google is partnering with carriers and hardware partners to ensure that devices will receive timely updates. [...]
After having made the Google Nexus S 4G available for order this past Sunday, Sprint is already beginning to roll out a maintenance update for the Android 2.3 Gingerbread device. The Maintentance Release GR22 is being delivered as an over the air software update and brings a number of enhancements related to the device’s security, [...]
The Nokia N8 is by far one of my favorite phones for its excellent camera and sleek design, but the handset is not without fault, which is a reason why I am looking forward to when Nokia will release its Anna update for the device’s Symbian^3 operating system. Currently, the Nokia N8, even on its [...]
The next Microsoft Windows Phone 7 update, codenamed Mango, may extend Microsoft’s Bing franchise for the platform beyond just search, voice, and mapping functionality as Mango is speculated to deliver new Bing features. Like Google, which is leveraging various different assets to deliver apps and integration in Android, Bing is rumored to be bringing Bing [...]
Unconfirmed speculations posit that Apple, at least for Verizon Wireless, will be delivering iOS updates over the air in iOS 5. This will be a new change for iPhone, and potentially iPad and iPod Touch, owners as currently Apple requires users to tether their smartphones and devices to a computer to download and install the [...]
T-Mobile had promised that an operating system update to take the Android 2.2 handset up to Android 2.3 Gingerbread will be forthcoming, and it looks like that may happen soon as Gingerbread was seen running on a G2X. This is my next caught an early glimpse of the Gingerbread build for the handset, and it [...]
Though LTE support isn’t quite there yet for 4G mobile broadband connectivity on the Motorola Xoom Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet, Verizon Wireless is slated to start delivering over the air (OTA) software updates to the tablet which will bring a number of features and fixes. The 28 MB system update, which could be accessed via [...]
Facebook has updated its social networking app for the Android platform, which is now available as a free download or upgrade to version 1.5.3, that brings a number of improvements, new features, and bug fixes. Chief among the features of the new version 1.5.3 is the abulity to tag friends in status updates. Now, you [...]
Microsoft has announced that a major update to its Windows Phone 7 mobile platform codenamed Mango will be arriving this Fall, and that firmware will bring not only better overall performance, but faster browsing speeds. News of the Mango update comes out of the Microsoft-hosted MIX11 conference in Las Vegas, NV. Mango will bring hardware [...]
As we had reported earlier, a build of Android 2.3 Gingerbread had been leaked out on the Internet and is slowly being rolled out to customers over the air–Verizon denies that a software update is happening. Regardless of whether you’re attempting to do update your handset OTA or through the steps indicated through the leaked 4.5.588 [...]
Motorola and Verizon Wireless will be rolling out an over-the-air, OTA, update to the Xoom Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet over the next few days. While the update itself doesn’t bring Adobe Flash support, Motorola says that the update is a pre-cursor to supporting Flash 10.2 on the Xoom, which will provide for hardware acceleration to [...]
Following Steve Ballmer’s Mobile World Congress keynote featuring cut and paste functionality for Microsoft’s emerging Windows Phone 7 platform, the software company was rumored to be delivering that functionality to end users in the first part of March. The speculated release date was March 8th, according to Mary Jo Foley of ZDNet, but as that [...]
While Microsoft may be multi-tasking to deliver Windows Phone 7 updates, bring CDMA Windows Phone 7 support, and ink a partnership with Nokia, an update to the platform, codenamed Mango, that is scheduled to bring a slew of features to the new mobile platform may not make it in 2011 and could slip to 2012. [...]
In a welcomed 180-degree change from its policy, Motorola has gone on record to now say that the company will perform the 4G LTE radio swap, which is a hardware upgrade, to upgrade the Motorola Xoom Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet to support Verizon Wireless’s faster 4G mobile broadband network. The Xoom-maker had previously said that [...]
HTC is promising an Android 2.3 Gingerbread upgrade to a number of its high-end smartphones. The company says that those current Android 2.2 Froyo smartphones should see a Gingerbread update by the second quarter. Handsets affected include the HTC Desire–a variant of the original Google Nexus One, the newly launched Incredible S announced at MWC, [...]
A recently leaked inventory listing on Verizon Wireless’s internal system shows that the carrier is poised to carry the Droid Incredible 2, the successor to the popular Droid Incredible made by HTC. Given that HTC had recently announced a larger screen Incredible S, there is speculation that the Incredible S may arrive on the U.S. [...]
There has been constant chatter about the release date of the HTC Thunderbolt, a 4G LTE Android smartphone for Verizon Wireless that is anticipated as a rival to the HTC EVO 4G on Sprint and the HTC Inspire 4G on AT&T with its 4.3-inch display, kickstand, HTC Sense user interface, and fast mobile broadband connectivity. [...]
HTC has finally released the Android 2.2 Froyo upgrade. The HTC Aria is a smaller entry-level handset with HTC’s proprietary HTC Sense user interface on top of the Android operating system. Unlike the trend with most Android handsets with 3.7-inch screens and larger, the Aria maintains a more compact 3.2-inch HVGA display. Though HVGA is [...]
With the Samsung Epic 4G, a 3G/4G multi-mode Android Galaxy S variant for the Sprint Now Network, having just received its Android 2.2 upgrade from Android 2.1, some users are reporting that they are experiencing calendar synchronization, connectivity, and SD card problems. If you have the Epic 4G and are experiencing any of those issues [...]
The AT&T version Dell Streak 5, a 5-inch tablet-smartphone hybrid from Dell, is finally getting its upgrade to Android 2.2 Froyo, up from Android 1.6. While Dell has been offering the Android 2.2 Froyo upgrade on various variants of the 5-inch Dell Streak, the AT&T-locked and branded device is finally getting its treatment to Android [...]
While Verizon Wireless and Motorola have both promised that there will be a 4G LTE upgrade to the Motorola Xoom tablet, which will initially be launched as a 3G CDMA-only device, after launch, neither company have announced how the process will work. A leaked internal document obtained by Droid-life now tells the story, and if [...]
Google is re-igniting its war with Facebook, but this time the war is fought much closer to home on the Android home front. With the recently deployed Android 2.3 Gingerbread over the air update to rectify some of the Nexus S‘s many problems, Google is removing the Facebook contacts synchronization feature that would allow Android [...]
Google is now pushing out an update to its Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system for the Nexus One and the newly launched Nexus S smartphones. The update brings the Gingerbread build number to 2.3.3 and will be delivered over the air (OTA) over the next several weeks in batches to ease server load. That means [...]
We had previously reported that Microsoft is rolling out a small maintenance update over the air (OTA) to Windows Phone 7 users, however issues related to the update is prompting the mobile OS-maker to advise users to hold off on performing the update if they haven’t already done so. While the current update doesn’t add [...]
The Microsoft Windows Phone 7 NoDo update, which is said to bring copy and paste functionality that was absent at the platform’s debut late last year, is already showing up in some shipping devices. According to WPCentral, retail units of the Dell Venue Pro in India are now being delivered with the NoDo update pre-installed. [...]
In addition to the IE9 browser coming to Windows Phone 7, more basic features such as copy and paste will be coming to Microsoft’s mobile platform. In a presentation at Mobile World Congress, the company’s CEO says that the copy and paste functionality will be headed via a software update in the first two weeks [...]
After T-Mobile USA had announced that it will be delivering its Android 2.2 software update to its Galaxy S variant, called the Samsung Vibrant, rival carrier Sprint has tweeted that it will soon deliver an update to Froyo for its own variant of the Galaxy S called the Epic 4G with a sliding keyboard. IntoMobile [...]
According to T-Mobile USA’s Chief Marketing Officer, the Android 2.2 Froyo update for the carrier’s Galaxy S variant dubbed the Vibrant will be officially unleashed starting tomorrow. The roll-out will occur in batches, so if you’re a Vibrant owner and don’t see the firmware update immediately, don’t fret. According to the carrier, the update was [...]
If you’re the proud owner of T-Mobile USA’s first official HSPA+ smartphone, you’ll be happy to know that the carrier of your choice will be pushing a firmware update to the T-Mobile HTC G2 over the air starting today. Don’t fret, however, if you haven’t seen the update hit your G2 devices yet as Android [...]
Apple released the latest update for the iPhone and iPod Touch overnight. The 2.2 update includes a number of new features and of course some fixes as well. It also still leaves a lot of common mobile phone features out in the cold. Here’s some of what’s included:
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Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE Review: A Worthy Successor to the Original (Video)
When Sprint had debuted the original WiMax-capable HTC EVO 4G nearly two years ago, it was an instant hit on the Now network. Not only was the HTC EVO 4G the first 4G smartphone in the world taking advantage of Sprint’s then speedy WiMax network, but it brought some new features and pizzazz to the [...]
Last year Toshiba waded into the Android tablet market with the Thrive, a 10.1-inch slate that served as the company’s response to what they deemed missing in the then current crop. Thus, it had several full-size ports, a rugged-ish exterior, and a thick chassis to accommodate both. Though a decent tablet, the Thrive didn’t generate [...]
Samsung Shows That It Is a Software Company
As exciting as it has been to talk, postulate, and speculate about the Galaxy S III’s hardware and specs before the third-generation Galaxy flagship smartphone was announced on May 3rd in London, once the device was announced one thing became apparent: Samsung is now a software company. That doesn’t mean that Samsung is shying away [...]
Autumn Dynasty Review: A Great RTS for the iPad
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Google Search App iPhone and iPad Update Looks Beautiful (Video)
Google just delivered a beautiful update to the company’s Google Search app for the iPhone and iPad The Google Search app for iPhone and iPad replaced Safari as my browser of choice, earning a spot in the iPhone and iPad dock. It’s faster and offers a beautiful new full screen image search which looks awesome on the [...]
