Motorola Olympus enters rumor land, boasts Android and Tegra 2
Posted in Featured | Jan 11, 2012 |
Tegra 2 seems to be the hottest thing in Android town – the Motorola Olympus is yet another dual-core Android that has entered the rumor mill. Apparently, there is a second Olympus too though there’s not a shred of info on it.
The Tegra 2 platform is becoming commonplace in rumors of upcoming high-end......
Samsung Launches the Galaxy S Smartphone with 4-inch AMOLED
Posted in Featured | Jan 11, 2012 |
Samsung has just launched its latest mobile phone offering, the new Samsung Galaxy S. Featuring a 4-inch AMOLED screen and a 1GHz mobile processor running the latest Android OS, the Samsung Galaxy S promises vibrant HD video handling, rich augmented reality content through Layar Reality Browser and advanced locat......
Updated: Hands on: LG Optimus review
Posted in Featured | Jan 11, 2012 |
LG has been a bit staid in the Android race so far – it promised so much but hasn’t really delivered as yet.The Optimus (which is the new name for the LG GT540) follows up the GW620 Intouch Max from the Koreans’ Android stable – the latter might have been a nice device but it was a far cry......
Cognitive radio in Nokia Research Center’s pipeline
Posted in Featured | Jan 11, 2012 |
ESPOO, Finland – Free bandwidth is shrinking fast. With more and more of us bagging smartphones, it’ll soon become a bit of a bun fight to watch videos, send emails and make calls everywhere and anywhere. According to a recent study by Informa, mobile internet traffic handled by mobile operators will ......
Nanotechnology at Nokia Research Center Cambridge
Posted in Featured | Jan 11, 2012 |
CAMBRIDGE, England – Typically, a human hair is about 70 micrometers thick. The lead image for this article shows a human hair with the words Cambridge and Nokia written on it by Focused Ion Beam (FIB). The line width of each of the letters is 150 nanometers. The nanowires used by the team at Nokia Research......
Big increase in people using phones as sat navs
Posted in Featured | Jan 11, 2012 |
It’s hardly shocking news, but ComScore figures have shown an 86 per cent increase in the use of phones for navigation in the UK. With phones increasingly coming with GPS chips and mapping services like Google Maps and Ovi Maps, the rise of mobile phones as satellite navigation devices is clearly on the ris......
App Friday: Android backup apps
Posted in Featured | Jan 11, 2012 |
By Thomas Newton on Friday, 18th June 2010 Downloads One of the great things about Android is that all of your phone numbers and app purchases are automatically backed up – they’re synced to your gmail account. This means that whenever an update to a newer version of the Android software is sent out t......
Apple iPhone 4
Posted in Featured | Jan 11, 2012 |
This is believed to be the next iPhone. The device is now boxier, with the rear side now flat, instead of rounded. As it seems, the screen is about the same size (or slightly smaller), but with higher resolution (presumably 960×640 pixels). The other new stuff includes a front-facing video call camera, bigge......
Nokia E7 might be delayed until January 2011, costs 700 euro?
Posted in Featured | Jan 11, 2012 |
Two weeks ago Nokia has reported the QWERTY slider E7 will launch in December. But a popular online retailer lists the E7 for January 2011 availability on a quite hefty price.
Despite Nokia’s Twitter announcement, Expansys is listing the E7 on pre-order for 585 pounds (695 euro) and 10 January as a release ......
Updates Coming to iBooks
Posted in Featured | Jan 11, 2012 |
We’ve grown used to our favorite Apple apps getting loads of new features when the iOS updates. No longer are we stuck with the tyranny of the hated Marker Felt in Notes, and Safari got some slick new updates that weren’t in any advertisements. But what about the iPad’s built in reader?
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