Investors or BlackBerry users – no one seems to be happy with BlackBerry maker Research in Motion due to their inability to stay current with the market demands and inability to catch up with Apple iOS and Android based devices that does much more than email and phone calls. That’s going to change according to RIM‘s CEO.
RIM’s CEO Thorsten Heins, who replaced long time CEOs [...]
Twitter has launched today new versions of Twitter for iPhone and Twitter for Android. These new apps contain several updates including a video feature, now you can click on a tweet with a video link on your iPhone or Android device, and have the video play directly in the tweet.
Below are the new features as described by Sung Hu Kim, Twitter’s Product Manager
“Expand Tweets
Since we [...]
Google has released the source code of Android 4.1, also known as Jelly Bean, the latest version of its Android operating system, this move that is sure to see massive excitement from the huge Android developer community.
” We’re releasing Android 4.1 in AOSP today. The name of the tagged release is android-4.1.1_r1. The name of the development branch is jb-dev. We recommend that you create [...]
Apple’s bad luck in UK courts continue, after losing a patent case against HTC recently, Apple lost another patent skirmish, this time with Samsung. UK High Court Judge ruled that Samsung tablets don’t infringe Apple patents. High Court of England and Wales ruled that three of Samsung’s Galaxy touch-screen tablet products don’t infringe Apple’s patents.
Judge Birss referred [...]
Google Nexus 7 will arrive in UK on July 19, according to the UK based Retailer Dixons, which has the Google Nexus 7 Tablet PC – 16 GB available for pre-order for £199.99 with an expected launch date of July 19th. According to the online applications store, both models will ship in 2 to 3 weeks.
Dixons, Currys and other major U.K. companies are only putting for sale the 16GB model currently. [...]
If you have been eagerly pinning for Facebook App Centre which was launched almost a month ago in the US, your prayers are now answered. Facebook has now launched it over in the UK.
Facebook App Centre makes it easier for its members to find games, music services and media content. It had more than 600 apps available from day one – including Instagram, Spotify Pinterest and Draw Something. The [...]
Samsung Galaxy S III launch generated the kind of buzz and excitement usually seen only with Apple mobile device launches. Columnists and Reviewers are running out of platitudes raving about the latest device to come out of Samsung’s stable.
In tradition with proclaiming every other Android Phone a iPhone killer, Galaxy S III was touted as an iPhone killer as well. Is Galaxy S III the best Android [...]
When it comes to listening to music these days, the consumer is presented with a plethora of options; almost too many. Whether it’s a simple case of throwing some headphones in and listening solo, or streaming music from a personal computer to a media server like an Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3, whatever you choose to do, most people have an option in their home already.
It’s with that in [...]
If ever there were a product that followed trends, if would be the mobile phone market. For a while, smartphones were getting smaller and smaller, trying to squeeze as much out of as small a device as possible. Then Apple (the trend setter, let us not kid ourselves) released the iPad and slowly but surely, mobile phone manufacturers decided that they would quite like to utilise the large screen size [...]
Product: Blackberry Playbook 2.0
Price: Starts at £169.99
The tablet market is a funny one in many ways. The undisputed king is Apple, with the luxurious (and expensive) iPad and they aren’t going anywhere. But everyone wants a piece of that pie, and now Blackberry have their newest Playbook model – 2.0 – that is offered at a cheaper price and thus presents a lower barrier to entry. But [...]