Archive : Mobile

Twitter has updated its Twitter #music iOS app on Thursday with several new features, including genres replacing the lists feature, #music users gets different genres to listen to including Alternative, Country, Dance, Electronic, Folk, Hip-Hop, Metal, Pop, R&B, and Rock. The app’s iTunes page gives out more details “Genres! Get hip-hoppy or get your metal on or get your dance beats [...]

Apple on Monday releases second build of its iOS 7 beta 2 to developers, iOS 7 was unveiled during WWDC 2013 earlier this month, the first version left out iPad support, which is included in this beta  along with a functional Voice Memos along with performance improvements and bug fixes. The new beta version includes features such as Siri voices, car integration, peer-to-peer file transfer functionality [...]

Apple is upgrading it’s iphone processor from an A6 chip to an A7 chip in the iPhone 5S according to images published by MacRumors,  iPhone 5S will carry a dual LED which will flash different colored hues depending on the surrounding lighting. “Additional markings on this new iPhone 5S chip indicate that it carries Elpida DRAM, apparently in the same 1 GB amount seen on the A6”. [...]

Twitter has acquired Spindle, a social media centered start-up a local discovery startup which works on location and check-ins to find local places of interest near a user, Twitter has not surprisingly, shut down spindle, and plans to have the Spindle team work on Twitter’s local discovery service. “We’ve spent the past two and a half years building a product that helps you answer the [...]

HTC officially unveiled it’s much rumoured Butterfly S smartphone on Wednesday at the expected launch event in Taiwan. HTC Butterfly carries the now almost standard 5-inch 1080p display, which is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 quad-core processor, the same one which is found in HTC One. It has 2GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage, expandable via microSD. Operating System is the latest [...]

Mark Zuckerberg  has been in Seoul, South Korea this week and earlier met with top executives including the company’s president Shin Jong Kyun and chairman Kun-hee Lee according to Bloomberg to discuss a partnership that would boost Facebook’s advertising sales on mobile phones. Facebook’s effort to be more mobile focused saw it release Facebook Home, which centres around [...]

Huawei was reportedly considering acquiring Nokia in it’s bid to help Huawei become a global leader in smartphone manufacturing according  an article  by the Financial Times. The buyout news boosted Nokia shares in U.S. markets which went up 41 cents, or 11%, to reach $4.10, during US mid day trading on Tuesday. Huawei quickly responded saying that it “has no plans to acquire Nokia”. The [...]

Huawei unveiled it’s latest Smartphone,  the Ascend P6 in London today, Huawei claims that P6 is ‘the world’s slimmest smartphone’. Huawei P6 is 6.18mm thin, it packs a quad core CPU clocked at 1.5GHz and 2 GB of RAM, it features a 4.7-inch display with a 720p resolution. “The HUAWEI Ascend P6 is a star among smartphones with its industry-leading design, high-quality [...]

Apple as was widely expected took the curtains off it’s rumoured iRadio service named  iTunes Radio (not iRadio), an Internet radio service carrying over 200 stations and a catalog of music from the iTunes Store, combined with  iTunes functionality, and Siri integration. iTunes Radio is available on iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, Windows PC and Apple TV. iTunes Radio listeners get access to [...]

At the opening keynote of Apple’s annual developers conference Apple announced it’s latest mobile OS,  the iOS 7 which Apple says is the most radical design change to the iOS operating system since the launch of the iPhone back in 2007. ” iOS 7 is completely redesigned with subtle motion, an elegant color palette and distinct, functional layers that make it feel more alive.’ [...]