Archive : Mobile

iPhone 4′s FaceTime video chatting feature released at the WWDC keynote by Steve Jobs is generating tremendous hype and as expectedly garnered lots of press as with anything iPhone related, I am wondering about the reason for the hype and hoopla as  video calling on 3G mobile phones has been existent for years now. Two-way video calls were one of the highlighted features of early UK 3G networks [...]

If you own a HTC’s manufactured Google’s Nexus One phone and envy the option of shooting videos in high definition in the iPhone 4 do not despair, now your Google Nexus One could do the same If its running on Eclair ( Android 2.1 ). Xda-developers.com has managed to hack the Nexus One and upgrade it to 720p HD video in an obvious effort to keep up with the iPhone 4.  The hack is for [...]

Apple iPhone 4 which was announced yesterday is not going the iPad way with U.S. getting a preferential launch with UK customers having to wait for few weeks. O2 UK has become the first UK mobile carrier to confirm it’ll have the iPhone 4 ready for purchase on the launch day of  June 24. Apart from O2, other existing iPhone carriers in UK namely  Orange and Vodafone have confirmed they [...]

iPhone 4G is here. As expected Steve Jobs has launched the iPhone  at the opening keynote of World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco, California which commenced a couple of hours ago. Describing it as the ‘biggest leap since the original iPhone’ , Steve Job said he will discuss eight features of the ‘thinnest smartphone on the planet ‘ from over 100 new features. The [...]

HTC EVO 4G the latest smartphone from HTC Corporation which is also the first phone to run on 4G network  is launching in few hours in US and will be available on Sprint network, priced at $199.99 with a two-year Sprint contract, the EVO is also offered for $449.99 without starting a new 2-year or extending existing agreements with Sprint. Since Sprint and HTC announced about the EVO 4G in March [...]

Mobile Software Developers are obviously not impressed or affected with Android based smart phones taking over iPhone in sales figures for the last quarter in the United States this is vouched by the fact iPhone and iPad has the largest number of developers working for iPhone and iPad platform. The iPhone dominates mobile app development with more than half of mobile developers working on the platform. [...]

Google Inc’s Chrome OS, the highly awaited upcoming open source operating system designed by Google to work exclusively with web applications including Google TV will be launching officially in the last quarter of this year. Google’s VP of product management, Sundar Pichai, made this announcement at the COMPUTEX technology forums event . Chrome OS, announced by Google  last July, is [...]

Not contend with creating a landmark of selling a million iPads in 28 days,  Apple has sold over two million iPads in less than two months of its launch per claims made by the company. No doubt, that iPad and iPhone has  brought Apple loads of revenue. last week, the it surpassed Microsoft to become one of the biggest tech organization and the second largest in US in terms of makret capitalization. The [...]

TweetDeck, the popular Adobe Air’s Twitter and other SNS (Social Networking Sites) management tool continues to add features at a steady pace that too while its still in Beta  . TweetDeck has released version 0.34.2 which brings the location-based exploration and gaming platform Foursquare  into its fold along Google’s social-networking platform Buzz (yes, Buzz is still active, [...]

Social-networking site Facebook joins the list of companies realizing the potential of Google’s Android mobile OS and embracing it. Facebook which already has a SDK (Software Development Kit) for iPhone has launched the official Facebook Software Development Kit for Android, the SDK was demoed at Google’s conference in San Francisco last week.(http://code.google.com/p/fbconnect-android/). ” [...]