Archive : Mobile

Google has given a face lift and updated the layout and look to its Android Market website which  is a marketplace for Android developers to sell applications developed for phones running Android OS . Cosmetically, it’s a tad better than what it use to be , but it still looks very sparse and hideous  in comparison to Apple’s iTunes. Search option is still conspicuous by its absence, [...]

Image via CrunchBase With Developers, users and product companies preferring Android, iPhone and even Blackberry OS, Windows Mobile software is getting royally ignored, even in its updated and glorified revision – Windows Phone 7.  The latest to join this list is Skype who has  revealed that they don’t have any development plans for bringing their popular Skype Mobile  service to [...]

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Swedish entertainment company Voddler, which offers paid video-on-demand service which offers movies and TV programming has launched an free to download Android app for its advertisement funded movie service. Until this release on Android OS , the streaming TV and movie service, which is available in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland, was only available [...]

Froyo – Google Android OS’s 2.2 version seems to have more up its sleeves than what we reported earlier. While developers, Android users and followers wait patiently for Google to announce Android OS’s next major update, more new details on its features continue to trickle in. Google is expected to show off Android 2.2 Froyo update at the upcoming Google I/O conference [...]

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Google will be releasing the latest version of its mobile operating system Android  later this month. The latest release of Android – 2.2 is christened Froyo. Google is expected to announce or release the Froyo update at the upcoming Google IO conference on May 16-18 at Google Headquarters. Android enthusiast’s and leading community androidpolice.com [...]

After the discovery of an iPhone 4G (fourth generation) prototype in a California bar few days ago belonging to an Apple Engineer which ended up with gizmodo.com who proclaimed it the real mcCoy and reviewed the features extensively,  another 4G  iPhone handset that was leaked out was displayed by Vietnamese site – Taoviet. A brand new 16GB iPhone 4G was flaunted in front of a camera and [...]

If you think just because iPhone is still every where it tops the sales chart – think again. For the first time since its launch, Android-based smart phones outsold the iPhone in the U.S. in the first quarter  of 2010.  Android  continues to shake up the U.S. mobile phone market, it moved past Apple to take the number-two position among smartphone operating systems, according to [...]

Image via CrunchBase Apple iPad is finally coming to UK, Apple have opened up pre – orders and released mobile network & pricing information for UK versions of  iPad tablet device after they previously put back the UK release date due to high demand in the US where it has reached the landmark of selling a million devices last week. There is  a choice of three carriers  – [...]

Sporkings is receiving an ever growing number of visitors from Smartphone users lately, so we thought it was about time we gave you Smartphone owners more attention. We’ve been very busy as of late, testing out a range of mobile accessories from chargers to cases. First up is the ‘Proporta USB Turbocharger 3400 World Pack‘. Now, in all honesty, this has to be my personal favourite [...]

Google added a fully featured GPS satellite navigation service to its Google Maps application for mobile phones running its Android operating system 1.6 and higher, including the Nexus One. Google Maps Navigation which is an internet-connected GPS navigation system with voice guidance which was until now available only in the United States on Android phones. Speaking at the launch Steve Lee, [...]