After much anticipation Samsung has just announced its newest flagship phone, the Galaxy S III, in London. The phone has a 4.8-inch Super AMOLED display at 720p resolution, a 8-megapixel primary and 1.9-megapixel front-facing cameras that start up in 990ms, 16 or 32GB of storage, NFC, Bluetooth 4.0, and a 2,100mAh battery. As rumored the device is also powered by the [...]
Research in Motion showed off its new phone OS called Blackberry 10 today in Orlando. The maker of Blackberry phones and tablets is hoping their new OS will help bring them back to relevance. Blackberry 10 (formally known as BBX) puts emphasis on ”glanceable” information (much like Windows Phone tiles). One of the things that RIM addressed [...]
Today is a big day for Samsung. The South Korean company released fantastic numbers in its Q1 report, yet interestingly it didn’t mention an even greater achievement. According to research firm Strategy Analytics Samsung just surpassed Nokia as the biggest phone maker in the world. This quarter Samsung shipped 93.5 million handsets (44.5 million were smartphones) while [...]
Samsung once again seems a little too eager about their upcoming May 3rd phone event. The company released information on the chip to power the next Galaxy S phone. Its called the ”Exynos 4 Quad” and will run at 1.4GHz per core. The chip is based on ARM Cortex A9 architecture and has advanced power management features. The Exynos 4 Quad will be [...]
Samsung’s support pages are now showing the phones on US carriers set to receive an upgrade to Android 4.0. On AT&T, the Galaxy S II, Galaxy S II Skyrocket, Captivate Glide, Galaxy Note, Nexus S, and Galaxy Tab 8.9 will all be upgraded. On Verizon the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Galaxy Tab 7.7 will be upgraded. On Sprint the [...]
Samsung is continuing to raise the hype ahead of their announcement for the next Galaxy S phone on May 3rd. Today’s hype comes from a teaser video that dares watchers to ”stand out from everyone else.” It seems that this “everyone else” are sheep….iSheep that is. In regular Samsung fashion the video provides little other information. We don’t even get [...]
Samsung has just sent out invitations for a May 3rd event in London to show off the ’next Galaxy’ phone. So far Samsung has not mentioned how it will name the successor to its Galaxy S II devices. They could just continue the naming scheme and use Galaxy S III or they could add a new name. The Galaxy S II [...]
HTC has announced a new One line of smartphones at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week. The intent of this new product family is to unite the brand under one unified name. According to HTC the One brand is “focused entirely on customer experience.” This focus is being accomplished through an emphases on industrial [...]
What appears to be Microsoft Office for iPad has now been spotted in the wild. The app looks like it has metro styling and includes Excel, Word, and PowerPoint icons as well as the ability to create new documents. Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit has been working on Office for iPad for sometime now. We first [...]
RIM has said many times that their new OS (Blackberry 10) will be very different than their current phone OS. RIM’s Blackberry line of phones have long been considered inadequate when compared with the iPhone, Android phones, or even Windows Phone devices. Blackberry 10 is supposed to be RIM’s answer to this problem of irrelevance. [...]
The Blackberry London has become one of the greatest myths of RIM’s future product line. We have seen countless images of this supposed device over the last few months. Now Crackberry has gotten their hands on what they say is an official RIM slide showing the London may soon be available to the public. Design [...]
Nokia’s CES press event is only hours away and some new images have leaked out. Pocketnow has posted pictures of what they claim is the Nokia 900. These pictures look very similar to the pictures we posted last week of the Nokia Ace on AT&T. The images reveal nothing new, but it does continue to [...]
Research in Motion has not been on the good side of its stockholders or customers lately. Much of this discontent has often been channeled in the direction of RIM’s co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis.
Andy Rubin has often used his Twitter account to spread the good news of Android’s growth. This Christmas season is no exception. Rubin announced that over Christmas, 3.7 million Android Devices were activated.
Nokia and T-mobile seem pretty excited about their new relationship. So excited in fact that they released all the details before the big event tonight. Due to this fact we have canceled our previously scheduled live blog. But no worries you can read all of the info below right now. Nokia’s first Windows Phone on [...]
Do have a desire to share your iPhone’s data plan with your laptop and not want to pay for a carrier tethering plan. Well now there is an app for that. iTether for iOS has just appeared in the App Store for a hefty 15$. The app promises to share a iPhone’s data plan with [...]
There have been quite a few reports lately of volume problems on the Galaxy Nexus. Posts on various forums say the phone will sometimes experience random muting, and mixed response from the Nexus’ volume rocker.It seems that the issue has something to do with the use of the 2G 900 MHz frequency used by many [...]
iOS 5.1 is finally here for all you iOS users out there. This update most notably brings a fix for the iPhone 4s battery issues that has been eating up its battery life. It also brings other bug fixes such as multi-tasking gesture support for the iPad 1. The Technolon crew have already installed this [...]
While, I don’t think this is a huge surprise to anyone, but Adobe has decided to stop flash development on mobile devices. This can be attributed to the HTML5 boom in recent years pushed largely by Apple’s iPad and iPhone mobile products. HTML5 has a lot more to offer when it comes to mobile devices [...]
UPDATE: Well unless you have already downloaded the app, it is no longer available. The Gmail app for iOS that was released this afternoon has been quickly pulled from the App Store. It seems that the app had a bug that affected the way the app provided notifcations. We will continue to cover this issue [...]
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