Category: Mobile Software
 

Android

Gingerbread, Honeycomb and Ice Cream Sandwich: which version of Android is for smartphones and which for tablets?

Posted February 7, 2011 by Mike Evans

Google’s Android releases have become a bit confusing recently, with Gingerbread, Honeycomb and even Ice Cream Sandwich all in various stages of release and coming soon to an Android smartphone near you. Or is it an Android tablet? Or is…

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Mobile Software

Google TV turns your Android and iPhone devices into remote controls

Posted September 8, 2010 by Mike Evans

Google’s next part of its world domination is Google TV, which I have to admit is looking pretty darn good. Google TV is basically Android on an HDTV, complete with apps, Web browsing, a unique new programme guide that integrates…

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Leaked Photos

6 new screenshots of Nokia’s new MeeGo

Posted September 4, 2010 by Mike Evans

Nokia’s new MeeGo OS is shaping up rather nicely, it would seem. A new developer’s document has been announced that provides not only a style guide for MeeGo pp developers, but also a taste of what’s to come with the…

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Articles

NITDroid: Nokia’s worst nightmare suddenly becomes real

Posted August 28, 2010 by Mike Evans

I love the fact that modern smartphones can be moulded to the whim of the customer, no matter what the manufacturer’s original intentions. Take, for example, the HTC HD2, which was originally released with Windows Mobile 6.5.
It didn’t take…

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LG and Samsung’s next-gen User Interfaces

Posted August 6, 2010 by Mike Evans

When you think of Korean phones from the likes of Samsung and LG, you think of marvels of technology, with phones crammed full of features, but with pretty ordinary user interfaces.
The superb Samsung Galaxy S, for example, has a…

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Coming Soon

Video of Nokia MeeGo in action

Posted July 1, 2010 by Mike Evans

All future Nokia N-Series phones will soon be running its brand new MeeGo OS. As I reported a few days back, MeeGo is a brand new OS formed from a collaboration between Nokia and Intel, and based on their Maemo…

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Coming Soon

New 3D user interface coming to Android 3 GingerBread

Posted July 1, 2010 by Mike Evans

After the giddy delights of Android 2.2 FroYo, with its superb range of new tweaks tha tmake Android phones even better to use than ever, we now hear that the next version of Android won’t just feature new tweaks –…

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Mobile Software

Want to know why Symbian lost the app war?

Posted May 31, 2010 by Mike Evans

The iPhone’s stroke of genius was its apps. Being able to install new apps developed by third parties gave the iPhone a whole new dimension that other phones simply couldn’t offer. Before the iPhone, your phone came with a pre-installed…

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Mobile Software

First Symbian^3 phone “won’t be a Nokia”

Posted May 31, 2010 by Mike Evans

According to Lee Williams, Symbian’s Executive Director, the first phoone to feature the new and highly anticipated Symbina^3 mobile OS won’t be the Nokia N8 as evereyone expected. Rather, it’ll be a phone made by “…an Asian vendor”, although he…

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Mobile Software

Video of Nokia’s new Symbian^3 mobile OS

Posted March 13, 2010 by Mike Evans

Nokia’s mobile OS, Symbian, has been showing its age recently and is in desperate need of a spruce up if it’s to compete with the plethora of new toucschreen interfaces from virtually every other mobile manufacturer.
In fact, now that…

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Mobile Software

In-depth 17 minute video review of Windows Phone 7 Series

Posted March 9, 2010 by Mike Evans

Microsoft teased us at MWC 2010 last month with its new Windows Mobile 7 Series. Although we saw quite a few screenshots of the new mobile OS, the videos that were shown were frustratingly brief.
Today at last, our frustration…

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First Windows Phone 7 Series phone caught on video

Posted February 28, 2010 by Mike Evans

Just two short weeks after Microsoft announced its new Windows Phone 7 Series mobile OS comes news of the first Windows Phone 7 Series, er, phone! Made by LG, the new WinPho phone is a slider with a 5 megapixel…

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