Archive : Mobile

Image via CrunchBase Running Google’s Android operating system on an iPhone, what many geeks have been dreaming for over a year is a reality now thanks to David Wang, better known as “planetbeing” , who is  a member of the a group called the  iPhone Dev Team, Planetbeing sent a Twitter update and uploaded a video Android running on iPhone ( click on the link for the video) [...]

If rumors are to believed there are strong indications that Apple, makers of immensely popular one and iPad are on the verge of accquiring UK based ARM,the leading maker of mobile chips. ARM’s microchips can be found in most of the world’s mobile phones, including Apple’s iPhone. Last year almost 4bn chips based on Arm’s designs were shipped worldwide which talks volumes [...]

GiffGaff is a ‘people powered’ mobile operator, running on the o2 network here in the UK. Last night they launched an updated website, with their brand new tariffs. Among these new price-plans is a very exciting £35 a month for unlimited everything: calls, texts, data. On top of the already great perks offered by these guys (free GiffGaff-to-GiffGaff calls/texts, free data until [...]

Apple is in the country looking for suitors for iPad’s phone network in UK, this marriage could  be as beneficial for the networks as it was for AT&T in US on whose network iPhone was launched exclusively. According to unverified sources ( rumours ),  the three big networks, O2, Orange and Vodafone, will be getting the iPad at launch as Apple is keen to ensure that the tablet computer [...]

If you are one of those who craves for lightning cellular network speeds and mobile phones with futuristic appeal, your wishes might just come true next year courtesy Verizon’s latest announcement. Verizon Wireless has recently announced its plans to launch its first LTE handset for 4G networks by middle of next year. However, the launch of 4G might see the end of Verizon’s unlimited data [...]

The horror and disturbance caused by your colleague sitting nearby or a co-passenger on a train or bus  shouting loudly next time you come across a loudmouth yammering away into a cell phone at top volume should be a thing of past soon, thanks to  researchers working on a mobile  phone that could put an end to “volume control challenged” people. The lip-reading phone needs nine electrodes [...]

Image via CrunchBase All those whining and complaining about lack of good  graphics and high quality gaming experience in Android phones will soon become history. Google has paved the way for  iPhone-like 3D games on  Android handsets running 1.5 or higher, offering support for the OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics standard through its latest Android Native Development Kit r3. It is offered [...]

If you were one of those in UK who got excited and happy when  O2 updated their iPhone pricing lists for video calling, your excitement is short lived as a spokesperson for O2 clarified that “the UK video calls that appear in their key features table is actually a regrettable mistake” according to a technology website which was contacted by a O2 spokesperson and was one of the first [...]

    Steve Jobs has ruled out any possibilities of iPhone-to-iPad tethering which would allow the iPad users to access the internet using iPhone’s 3G capabilities. In fact, the reply from Apple’s top boss was a point blank ‘No’ in an email reply to a query from a Swedish tech blog Slashat.se. While there are speculations if the email reply was indeed from Steve Jobs, early forensic email [...]

After dragging Nokia to court for patent infringement, Apple has sued HTC over their alleged infringement of 20 patents related to the iPhone user interface, architecture and hardware. Steve Jobs who is known for not mincing his words said that HTC is stealing their technology. “We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it. We’ve [...]