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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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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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Samsung crowns Android as the King of mobile

Posted September 4, 2010 by Mike Evans

Samsung was relatively late to the Android party, letting HTC, Motorola and Sony Ericsson take the plaudits for the top Android phones while it cautiously dipped its toe into the Android world with a rather luke-warm Android phone in the…

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Video: iPhone4 vs WinPho7 vs Android 2.2 Web browsing compared

Posted August 25, 2010 by Mike Evans

If you were wondering which of the new generation of smartphones will give you a better Web browsing experience, then check out this superb video from the guys at PocketNow. In rthe video, they compare the iPhone 4, Android 2.2…

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Apple: “There is no Antennagate”

Posted July 16, 2010 by Mike Evans

Steve Jobs is just finishing off his press conference as I write this, explaining to the assembled journalists exactly what happened with Apple’s iPhone 4 “Antennagate” debacle.
Actually what he actually said was “… there is no Antennagate… there is…

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Apple’s alarming step to becoming Big Brother

Posted July 14, 2010 by Mike Evans

In the scariest example of life imitating art, Apple has become Big Brother, the looming figure it overthrew in its award-winning advert in 1984.
Not content with pretending the iPhone antenna issue doesn’t exist (“it’s the network’s fault, honest!”), Apple…

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Mobile Phone Industry

Nokia spells out the future of Symbian and MeeGo

Posted July 11, 2010 by admin

The Nokia N8 will be the only Nokia N-Series phone to use Symbian^3 – all future N-Series phones will use Symbian^4, with the company’s new MeeGo OS being reserved for the “computing space.”
That’s the stated aim of Anssi Vanjoki,…

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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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Microsoft taxes Android phones

Posted April 28, 2010 by Mike Evans

As you probably know, HTC is being sued by Apple for allegedly using its patents. Now Microsoft has come out with a similar claim, but rather than suing HTC, it’s simply licensing its patented technology to the company.
Not just…

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Coming Soon

Android 2.2 (Froyo) to support Flash 10.1

Posted April 28, 2010 by Mike Evans

Get ready for a flood of Android news, as today seems to be another Android day!
First up is news of a new version of Android that’ll be out soon with at least one headline new feature. Android 2.2 will…

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Live blogging the Apple iPhone 4 event

Posted April 8, 2010 by admin

After all the hype of the Pad’s release last week, attention has now shifted to the Apple iPhone 4, details of which will apparently be announced in 20 minutes time at 18:00 GMT.
So I thought I’d live blog the…

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