Nokia has just released the white color version of its MeeGo flagship. The white Nokia N9 was officially announced at this year Nokia World, but it's only now that you can actually purchase one.
We were contacted by one of our readers, who found white Nokia N9 units in a couple of Finnish retail stores. For now these only come in 64GB flavor but at least cost only as much as their black siblings €629.90.
No one likes waiting for software updates, but preparing such an update for release turns out to be a tougher ordeal than most people suspect. Sony Ericsson detailed their procedure of updating, which explains why we will have to wait a while before they release the promised Android Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) update, even though the ICS source code has been out for weeks.
The first stage is to merge the changes brought about by ICS into Sony Ericsson own source code and to resolve any issues that might arise from the merge.
ICS has been optimized for Texas Instruments, so Sony Ericsson has to throw those parts out and replace them with equivalent parts for the Qualcomm 8255 chipset, which they used across the 2011 Xperia lineup.
iTunes is exclusively for iPod and iPhone users, but that does not mean it has any Android syncing features built in. iSyncr is a great app for keeping your iTunes library synced to your Android handset, wirelessly. It supports selective playlist sync and automatic syncing. Here is a Quick Tutorial of the iSyncr!
What Is Syncing?
Sync is short for synchronization: keeping things up to date and coordinated across more than one device.
A great example would be how Apple portable devices sync. Once they are plugged into iTunes they receive all of the new content available on their PC on their mobile device in a few clicks. Sadly, Android phones come with no built in iTunes-syncing capabilities, but with a community like Android it was not long before a developer bridged the gap!
Getting Started
Apart from obvious basics, such as an Android device and a memory card, you will need just one app: iSyncr. It is not free, but once you begin to use it you will realise that the small price you pay is nothing compared to how much easier copying your music and videos and songs to your phone is.
iSyncr also has several add-ons such as WiFi syncing and a Mac version, but for this walkthrough I will be sticking with basic iSyncr package.
Step 1: Setting Up the App
iSyncr is a very simple app so the set up is relatively painless. Once you have installed the app (Download links Below), just open it. You will then be presented with an installation screen as detailed in the screenshots below.
The basic setup for iSyncr
Ensure that "install to USB storage" is selected, as this is necessary for your computer to detect the software. Once the installation has completed you will be redirected back to a grid of icons, each with a different function. These icons are not of much use unless the PC software is corrupt so we can leave them alone for now.
Step 2: Selecting What to Sync
Now you just need to sync your Music, Video and playlists.
To do this just plug your device in to your computer and mount the USB storage. Open the root folder of your phone and you will see a new file called "iSyncr.exe". This is the file that the installation process above installed for us; open it and you will be presented with a list of your iTunes playlists.
How to select what to sync
Now just select the playlists that you want to be copied to your phone. As you select your playlists you will see that the bar at the bottom of the window will begin to fill with the more playlists that you select: this represents the amount of space on your phone storage, and how much of that space will be taken up by your music.
Step 3: Beginning the Sync
Once you have all the media that you want accessible on your phone selected, and have ensured that there is sufficient space left on your device, click the "Sync" button. You will notice iTunes open on your computer automatically, and iSyncr will begin showing its progress on the sync.
While you are waiting for this to finish, feel free to minimize iTunes and do something else. Depending on the amount of items you selected to sync the time taken will vary greatly. For my 2GB of music it normally rests around the 20 minutes mark, which is very reasonable. Once it has completed syncing you can disconnect your phone.
Step 4: What Next
Once you have your first sync done and everything has been copied over successfully you are ready to enjoy a life free of drag-and-drop!
iSyncer Has a lot of very useful Free plug-ins that you can get form the market (Links below).
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Full and Lite versions
iSyncr Android (PC Users) | Lite version
iSyncr Android (Mac Users) | Lite version
Avast has just launched its Mobile Security app for Android, integrating the pure power of Theft Awarewith some amazing new features. Avast acquired ITAgents, the small company behind Theft Aware, back in September and promised to integrate it with its upcoming software. Even in its beta state, Avast Mobile Security looks to be a very strong contender among the dozens of other security apps floating around in the Android Market.
Included in Avast long list of features are options such as antivirus scans, privacy reports, SMS and call filters, a built-in firewall suppoer Root-isers too and a full suite of anti-theft features controlled via SMS, as well as a ton of other options that promise to keep your device totally safe, while also keeping it out of the wrong hands.
Rockstar announced that Grand Theft Auto III: 10 Year Anniversary Edition will be hitting Android and iOS smartphones and tablets next week. We got actual screenshots from the game, a list of compatible devices and even an exact pricing.
The title many of you have been looking forward to is going to cost 4.99 USD on both platforms and judging by those screenshots it will probably be worth it. iOS devices are all compatible but Only Tegra-powered Android Devices can run this Game.
ICANN started the process of approving the new .xxx domain name back in March of this year. After months of waiting people that wanted to buy the new domains can now officially get them. The addresses ending in .xxx are specifically for porn sites and was intended to allow people to identify and avoid porn sites or make it easier to find them depending on your perspective.
Already about 100,000 of the domains have been sold in a restricted sale that started in September. At least two of the big porn firms online have filed suit over the sale of .xxx domains. The ICM registry that oversaw the sale claims that the suits are without merit. The two suits claim that the industry did not need an .xxx domain and the decision to make one was flawed.
One of the most popular 3rd party launchers for Android devices got an update today, which brought a host of new features and some nice visual tune-ups. ADW Launcher Ex 1.3.3.5 comes with most of the eye-candy that you normally associate with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.
The update should allow the Launcher Ex to play nice with the host Ice Cream Sandwich smartphones and tablets, which are bound to come at the start of 2012. You get a new Dockbar, the option to create folders by dragging an app onto another on your homescreen and some new transition effects.
Download Here [GooglePlay]
Video Below!
Nokia unveiled its Nokia Maps 3D back in April of this year and they were certainly cool. Nokia has announced some really cool new features. One of the new features is the ability for the user to search for local attractions, restaurants, and shops. That means you can see the shop you want to visit and then get directions how to get there.
The directions are given on maps with photorealistic views of the locations you are looking for. You do have to install a plug-in to get the 3D maps. After installing that plug-in, you can enter addresses in the search field as well as business names and points of interest you want to see. It will then find the thing you are looking for and put it on the screen for you to check out.
Demo Below!
The first of several tweets by Sony employee Siddharth Sai G said that Ice Cream Sandwich should be expected to be available the first week in January for all 2011 Xperia handsets. The current range of Xperia smartphones released this year is Xperia active, arc, arc S, mini, mini pro, neo, neo V, Play, pro, Xperia ray and Live with Walkman. According to the same Sony employee, Sony Ericsson is also planning a skinless version of ICS for 2011/2012 line of devices. That is probably not going to happen as the software and services bundled with their Xperia phones is one of Sony Ericsson strengths.
Last week Sony Ericsson Italy posted a contrary post on Facebook saying the ICS was expected to be available around March 2012. We will not hold our breath while waiting, and the official channel for such Sony Ericsson announcement are as usual over at the Sony Ericsson product blog. They have not said anything about a future update since November 15th when the company promised free update for all Xperia 2011 models.
Sony Ericsson is really having a hard time keeping their Xperia Arc HD smartphone under wraps. Their upcoming flagship droid broke loose again and appeared on a couple of live shots, confirming some of its specs in the process.
The smartphone codenamed Nozomi, will sport a dual-core CPU, clocked at 1.5 GHz, a 12 megapixel camera and a 4.3-inch 720p screen. It will offer 1GB of RAM and 32 GB of storage, but there will be no microSD card slot, so you will not be able to expand that. A nicely sounding 1750 mAh battery will power the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc HD.
We are looking at here is the first image of the BlackBerry Milan, a slide-up QWERTY keyboard revealing BBX 10 device that shows the future of RIM-made smartphones in several clearly new features both in image and in rumor surrounding the device. The image is from CrackBerry where writer Kevin Michaluk notes he also has a set of tips on the device that make it a good indicator of what is to come from RIM in 2012. Rounded corners looking like the PlayBook and a higher density pixel array through the display are but two of the innovations coming down the chute.
On the bottom of the device you will find slightly sharper corners looking much more like what wehave heard about the "BlackBerry London" and the whole device is set to rack up what very much appears to be the tallest smartphone on earth award
Apple has just suffered a setback in China as the Intermediate People Court in Shenzhen rejected its lawsuit regarding the iPad naming rights. Apple was suing the local Proview Technology for infringing its iPad trademark, but the outcome was not in its favor.
According to the court order, Apple cannot use the iPad name in China, which might turn out to be quite a big deal as the company is aiming for a rapid expansion in the Chinese market. To make matters worse, Proview Technology, which registered the iPad trademark in 2000, is now suing the Cupertino-based electronics giant, seeking 10 billion Chinese yuan ($1.5 billion) in compensation.
Nokia Lumia 800 just topped the best-seller chart for KPN, one of the biggest carriers in the Netherlands. It has overtaken the former leader, the iPhone 4S, which is in second place.
The Nokia Lumia 800 is doing pretty well in France too. A Windows Phone app developer tracked the downloads of their app and saw the Lumia 800 shoot past the other WP7 phones over the last month. And the Lumia 800 has only been on sale in France for one month.
Verizon has made the DROID XYBOARD Android tablets official, the 4G LTE version of Motorola XOOM 2 . The 10.1-inch and 8.2-inch tablets each have a 1280 x 800 IPS display, 5-megapixel main camera and 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera, along with WiFi a/b/g/n and that all important EVDO Rev.A/LTE. An upgrade to Ice Cream Sandwich is expected in the new year.
The LTE connection can be shared out between up to eight WiFi-tethered clients using the hotspot feature, and each slate uses a 1.2GHz dual-core processor paired with 1GB of RAM. Android 3.2 Honeycomb comes loaded on both, and the 10.1-inch model also gets a stylus.
Both of the Verizon DROID XYBOARD tablets are expected to go on sale before the end of the year. The DROID XYBOARD 10.1 will be available at 16GB for 529.99 USD, 32GB for 629.99 USD and 64GB for 729.99 USD, while the DROID XYBOARD 8.2 will be available in in 16GB format for 429.99 USD and 32GB for 529.99 USD.
Facebook is getting ready to refresh its arsenal on Android. Facebook Android team is now putting the finishing touches on version 1.8 of the Facebook app for Android and there will be a whole new app coming also to Android, a location-based app to show yuo where is your friends now called "Nearby" from facebook too.
The new version of the app brings slightly cleaner UI and should supposedly improve navigation, menu and search functionality. We should be hearing more about it in the near future, when it is expected to hit the Android Market.
Opera software has announced today that it is now releasing a new version for its desktop browser for fans to download. The new version of the browser is Opera 11.6 and it has a bunch of new features.
The major new feature of the latest version of the browser is a revamped address field. It now has search suggestions to access sites faster and it has a star in the address field for bookmarking pages easily. The browser also has a new engine that offers significant improvements and makes the browser faster and more stable.
Archos G9 tablet with the latest version of the Android 4.0.1 Ice Cream Sandwich on it. The G9 is a cheaper tablet that sells for about 350 USD Only. The OS appears to be fully functional in many aspects on the tablet even though ICS has not launched.
The video shows the OS version to be 4.0.1 and the video goes though some of the transitions and the UI elements. The OS is very smooth looking with minimal lag and delay between actions and the movement of the screen. Zooming of photos is also very fluid and smooth with no stuttering.
Video Below!
LG just introduced a new member to its lineup of portable computers. The LG X-Note Z330 is a 1.21kg ultrabook with a 13.3-inch screen with a resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels. Just 14.7mm thick and with an extremely cool design, the Z330 is certainly among the hottest looking laptops to date.
The LG X-Note Z330 comes with either Core i7 2637M or Core i5 2467M CPU, 4GB or RAM and 120GB or 300GB SSD, which allow it to make a cold boot in the amazing 9.9 seconds. As per the ultrabook tradition there is no Externel GPU untit, so the Intel HD 3000 built into the CPU. The prices starts from 1,499 USD.
Now here is a technology I was not aware even existed. A company called Senseg has manufactured a new type of touchscreen that will actually allow you to feel a variety of virtual surfaces on your fingertip.
This is a whole lot different from haptic feedback which uses moving parts to vibrate a device this actually changes surface friction under your finger to correspond with the texture being displayed on screen.The applications of such technology are immense and virtually unlimited. Naturally, this will be super helpful to blind people helping them read braille, game designers will make their games much more fun and interesting.
Demo Video Below!
Verizon officially announced the white version of the Motorola DROID RAZR, It is Coming by this Month by Christmas.
It features the same 4.3-inch Super AMOLED Advanced screen, a dual-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A9 processor and 1GB of RAM.
Google has kicked off a new Android Market promotion to celebrate 10 billion downloads, offering ten days of offers on premium software. The 10 Billion Promo sees ten apps being released each day at just 0.10 USD in the US, with first day titles including SwiftKey X, SoundHound and SketchBook Mobile.
The remaining titles are Asphalt 6, Minecraft, Endomondo Sport, Great Little War Game, Fieldrunners HD, Color & Draw for kids and Paper Camera. Google hasn’t detailed the promotion yet, but we are assuming the line-up is likely to change daily as the celebration goes on for the next week and a half.
Wall Street Journal is now reporting that the Verizon version of the Upcoming Samsung Galaxy Nexus first Google ICS 4.0 phone will sell for 299.99 USD Not 199.99 USD as leaked before and with the usual 2-year contract.
Unfortunately people who are waiting for this phone to be released on the USA did not get any more specific release date than this month from Verizon.
The Chinese brand known for their controversial designs that closely resemble a certain product from Cupertino, has announced a new Android smartphone called the Meizu MX.
Specifications include a 4-inch, 960 x 640 resolution ASV display, 1.4GHz dual-core Samsung Exynos processor, 1GB RAM, 16GB built-in memory, 8 megapixel camera with 1080p video recording, VGA front camera, Bluetooth, WI-Fi, A-GPS, HSPA+ connectivity and a 1,600mAh battery. The phone will be running on Android 2.3.5 but will get the Ice Cream Sandwich update soon.
Intel is set to toss some new processors out into the market early in 2012. A new roadmap leak has shown that in Q2 2012 Intel will launch the Core i 3000 series processors. The specific month pegged for the launch is April. Previously the chips had been pegged for a March or April launch. The Core i 3000 family of processors will be the first to hit the market using 22nm transistors.
There is no word on why March was taken off the table for launching the chips. The roadmap shows several of the Ivy Bridge i 3000 family parts coming in Q2 including the i7-3770K and 3770 in the performance segment. In Q2, the mainstream performance segments will be the i5-3570K, 3550, and 3450 parts along with the 3570 and 3470 in Q3.
Microsoft is expected to reveal its Windows 8 app store plans this week, detailing how it will challenge Apple thriving third-party download ecosystem with its new breed of notebooks, desktops and tablets. The unveil will come at an event on Tuesday, Fox News reports, and is expected to offer free and paid apps along with trial versions and in-app payment systems, just as on Microsoft Windows Phone platform.
However, legacy apps for the traditional Windows desktop will not be supported: instead, the store will offer Metro-style software. Legacy software will show up as a landing page within the store, linked to developers sites, while brick mortar sales of boxed apps as well as third-party download sites will still be supported.
The Windows 8 Store was confirmed in the pipeline several months ago, indeed the icon though not the functionality was present on the Windows 8 tablet we previewed back in September. Microsoft has refused to comment on its exact setup until this week.
Siri has now been ported to the iPhone 4, but this is no official Apple undertaking, but the work of Chinese hackers from CD-Team. The best part about it is that it works and is available on the iPhone 4 and iPod touch 4G, so be warned that trying it on an older device like the iPhone 3GS is just a waste of time.
As you already heard Cydia, you have probably rightly guessed that the first requirement for getting all of this to work is to jailbreak your device. Users have already tried it and have confirmed that it works. Some of them have complained about problems with the camera after installing the package, but allegedly there is already a fix for that, which again you can find at the source below. Before you get too excited, though, we would like to remind you that for newbies this might not be easy and it could void your warranty. The rest fellow adventurous geeks can proceed with caution.
The Xbox 360 fall update is coming tomorrow and it will bring tons of new stuff. But the first and most important change is the complete interface overhaul. Microsoft has put the Metro UI in charge.
The first new feature of the upcoming Xbox 360 firmware update is the Metro-styled dashboard. There is one horizontal bar at the top with different categories, each of them using Metro interface with live tiles. That way we have much more content showing on the screen and the sub-menus are almost extinct.
The commercial production of Samsung flexible AMOLED displays will begin by Q2 of 2012 in Samsung Mobile Display new factory that recently opened.
This will open the door to all kinds of gizmos, like phones and tablets, being graced with the bendable goodness.
The flexible AMOLEDs are layered on top of special plastic substrates, instead of the classic glass ones, and Samsung will expand mass production of the plastic substrates next year to meet its production goals. That surely opens the door to numerous possibilities, as diverse as lighting fixtures and high-resolution wrist watches, for example.
Demos Below!
If you are in the market for a new Android tablet and you think that he 199 USD tablet that is so popular right now is still too experience, check out the new MIPS offering for under 100 USD. The table is the first Android Ice Cream Sandwich tablet to be available. The tablet uses an Ingenic JZ4770 APU that uses a MIPS-based XBusrt CPU operating at 1GHz.
The tablet has a 7-inch screen, but the firm says that it will offer 8-inch and 9-inch devices soon. The new tablet is in Japan only right now, but it will come to the US and other countries soon. All of the versions of the tablet will have similar features. Those features include WiFi, a USB 2.0 port, HDMI 1.3, and a microSD card slot.
A high-res press photo of the recently leaked Sony Ericsson Nozomi has leaked.
From this press image we can clearly spot the front-facing camera on the top right corner of the device as well as the fact it is branded as a Sony Ericsson device, despite the recently announced acquisition of Ericsson share by Sony. And although the device is expected to run Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich out of the box, the company has decided to leave the three physical home, back and menu Android buttons.
The Samsung Galaxy Nexus with its 720p SuperAMOLED screen and ICS in shop windows in the US for a couple of weeks now, but that is the GSM version only. But those who want 4G LTE connectivity on Verizon network are still waiting now they have a chance to TRY the Samsung Galaxy Nexus on Samsung Experience Store in New York.
It is still not available for purchase there is no way test how the Galaxy Nexus i515 handles on Verizon LTE network. But The Galaxy Nexus is coming before christmas and then you can try it on the Verizon LTE network.
If you own an HTC Flyer tablet there is some good news coming out of France today. Apparently, the French are getting the update for the smartphone starting today. The new update brings the Flyer up to Android 3.2 Honeycomb. Flyer owners have been waiting for this update.
The update brings the software to 3.55.405.1. The update itself is 210MB and is coming OTA. Since the update is larger, do yourself a favor and grab it when available using WiFi. Apparently, this version of the update is for the 32GB version with WiFi and 3G connectivity.
Motorola recently announced a device called the MT917 for the Chinese market. It is basically the RAZR, but with a larger 4.5 inch screen that also boasts a full 720p resolution, 13 megapixel camera, and what we are assuming to be a larger battery. With a total of 8.5 mm thick. We argued that the MT917 should have been what Americans received instead of what is currently out on the market.
A photo have appeared on the internet that were taken with a device that has the model name RAZRMAX within the EXIF data. The photo is only 6 megapixels, so we cannot tell if the RAZRMAX is the MT917 or just another RAZR.
ATT Dell Venue Pro has got he Windows Phone Mango 7.5 update. It is rolling right now and your smartphone probably already prompted you to get the latest version of Microsoft windows phone platform. Before Updating Back-up all of your Data and charge your phone, Then Enjoy the Mango Update!
European HTC Sensation owners should check to see if they have an update for their device. This should be the case since HTC released version 1.50.401.1 in the usual HTC style, which is over-the-air.
Evgeni Pavlov, Product Manager at HTC Russia, tweeted that this particular update will include the following: "Twitter API, Qualcomm patch, Touch panel drivers, Market v.3 apps availability".
Apple and Samsung have been embroiled in a worldwide legal battle for months regarding the South Korean manufacturer smartphones and tablets infringing on the Cupertino company designs and patents. Documents have surfaced today revealing that in seeking to ban Samsung devices, Apple had to provide design workarounds to clarify exactly what sorts of designs would not be considered infringing. The list of alternatives is quite humorous.
When it comes to smartphones, Apple suggests Samsung to design devices that do not have a front surface that is black, do not have a shape that is rectangular or do not have rounded corners, and that the front surface should have substantial adornment as opposed to a sleek clean surface.
Verizon Galaxy Nexus will have some Pre-installed bloatware Verizon apps. As you may know, the Nexus phones have been known to come with a stock ROM from Google with nothing but Google own applications installed. The Galaxy Nexus will be the first to break this tradition and have some bloatware courtesy of Verizon. Most of these apps are Made to Help Customers back up their contacts and SIM information easily to the phone memory.
However, you still have a choice, Ice Cream Sandwich comes with the ability to disable unwanted applications from the Settings menu. Mind you, you can only disable them and not delete them, which means they will still reside on your memory but will not be visible in the app launcher.
Verizon has not disabled this functionality, so you will still be able to disable their applications if you do not want to use them.
Samsung has just released the S Pen SDK version 1.0 beta. The SDK will allow devs to create S Pen-enabled apps that will take advantage of the included S Pen in Galaxy Note.
The SDK includes support for features like CanvasView, Width adjustment of Pen, eraser and undo/redo options.
LG Optimus Net P698 its a dual-SIM Android phone that has been announced in Russia, it is pretty much the same device under the hood except that it sports two SIM card slots.
The P698 Specs include a 3.2-inch HVGA touchscreen, 3.2-megapixel camera, 800MHz processor, Wi-Fi connectivity, GPS, Bluetooth 3.0, 3.5mm headset jack, 512MB of RAM, and 150MB of internal memory that is further expandable with microSD card-Slot.
Nokia Live View has just been updated. In the latest release (version 2.03) you will find:
- Performance improvements (fixes for install issues, crashes, slowness, freezes and bug fixes)
- Two views: camera viewfinder and list view. Tap on the circles on the menu bar to change the views
- Tutorial to guide through the Live View usage and feature set
The update is currently only available as a standalone update.
MobileIron, announced its New Android Application MobileIron 4.5, it provides the deepest security on the broadest set of Android devices, including brand new Ice Cream Sandwich smartphones. This new security suite also offers:
- Encryption enforcement for data at rest – allowing IT departments to set encryption policies
- Secure SSL VPN connectivity for data in motion – integration with Cisco AnyConnect
- Exchange account configuration with certificates – allows IT departments to authenticate device posture and user identity using certificates so that end-users can utilize the native e-mail, contacts, calendar, and tasks apps.
- Single MobileIron client for all Android devices
- Notification upon removal of Android administrative privileges
- Hardware lockdown – restricting camera, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth functions in high security environments.
The update to the official Google Ice Cream Sandwich Android 4.0 build for Nexus S that you have been waiting for long time is HERE, Word is that the build sent out today to some Google employees is an early build of Ice Cream Sandwich, so there is certainly some kinks to work out, but this is no 3rd party street nightly build folks, Google sends out the good stuff right away. For those of you waiting at home, you can also get Ice Cream Sandwich right this moment if you wish, but you will have to do some hacking to get it. Refer back to our post about the Rocket Launcher hidden in the system to see.
For those of you not understanding what all the fuss is about, Android 4.0 is the newest version of Google mobile operating system and one that takes the whole platform to a new level of integration.
Everyone knows it is been a tough year for Nokia, as the world biggest handset maker tries to turn the ship around and get back some momentum through itsalliance with Microsoft and a range ofshiny new Lumia handsets.
Even the company most hardcore supporters that is, users in its home territory of Finland seem to be defecting to rivals, with new figures from IDC showing that it has lost more than half of its smartphone market share there over the last 12 months.
According to a Finnish language report from Helsinki Taloussanomat, Nokia share of the smartphone market for the third quarter of 2011 has dropped to 31 percent thats down from 76 percent the same time last year.
MIUI is a ROM outside the one device they have developed across the platform, the only way you can get it on your device is to hack/Root it. Out News today is that there is a new version in the works, one made specifically for Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, and like its predecessors, it will both take all the best bits of the operating system and re-arranges them for a lovely dessert thats without compare.
Below you will see a neak peak on the ALPHA verison of it.
Apple attempts to have Samsung smartphones and tablets banned from sale in the US have been rejected in the US courts, with a ruling late on Friday throwing out the possibility of a preliminary injunction. "It is not clear that an injunction on Samsung accused devices would prevent Apple from being irreparably harmed" US District Judge Lucy Koh concluded in the San Jose court.
Reuters reports, arguing that Apple had not sufficiently demonstrated that its design patents would not be overturned in the eventual trial.
Verizon has just finished pushing out the latest update for the Galaxy Nexus bringing up the firmware to version 4.1.0. The radio (baseband) version seems to be the main reason for the update which should, in theory, improve performance of the device. Also included was the addition of a new screen saver for Gnex.
This newest OTA signals we are nearing the end of Verizon vigorous testing for the device and Thats mean the Device is Ready to be released by 11,December.
via (Galaxy Nexus Froum)
YouTube received a more polished design yesterday that focuses the user attention on the channels he/she follows and adds a video feed that reminds slightly of a twitter feed. The new homepage consists of a predominating gray background, bigger video thumbnails and a cleaner video watch page.
The redesign comes with a fresh homepage that has a dedicated channel bar on the left, displaying the ones you are subscribed to, trending, popular, music-oriented and entertainment ones, and ones that YouTube suggests to you based on your viewing activity.
You can also link your Google+ and Facebook profiles to get suggestions based on your friends activities. In the center of the new YouTube page you get a video feed from the channels you are currently subscribed to, displaying videos sorted by channel.
Demo Below!
After the releasing its controversial video on the web mocking Apple iPhone 4S and its fans waiting for its launch alike, Samsung has Now released Even two More Video of the same Ad and promise a Series of them coming soon.
Videos Below!
Sources from Microsoft has informed us that the public Windows 8 beta will be released in late February of 2012.
The timing of the public beta launch has been the subject of much debate in the technology community. It is expected that Windows 8 will be released in 2012, but the exact expected date for the completion and shipping of the forthcoming operating system remains undisclosed.
Microsoft estimating that Windows 8 should be released to manufacturers (RTM) in June. Given the newly known late February planned beta release, our estimate remains possible, if perhaps a bit optimistic.
Acer has officially announced the Iconia Tab A200. it runs Android 3.2 on a Tegra 2 processor promising affordability rather than cutting-edge specs. However, Acer has confirmed that the A200 is in line for an Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0 upgrade by January 2012.
The tab size is 260 x 175 x 12.4 mm slate weigths 720g and comes with 8/16GB of storage. A good 3,260 mAh battery for up to 8hrs of video playback or 400hrs of standby Acer reckons, together with 1GB of RAM and a full-sized USB port for connecting external peripherals like keyboards. A microSD card slot can be used to add to the storage, and the 10.1-inch display runs at 1280 x 800 resolution with a 2-megapixel front-facing camera.
Microsoft is considering dropping support for regular software on Windows 8 on ARM tablets, according to the latest leaks, leaving owners of the slates with only Metro-style apps to play with. Contrary to original suggestions from Microsoft, that developers although having to rewrite their x86 software to suit ARM chipsets would be able to release regular, desktop versions of their apps for Windows 8 tablets, that decision now looks like it will be reversed, ZDNet reports. It is suggested the turnaround could be part of Microsoft strategy to better challenge Apple iPad with consumer-centric devices.
Microsoft has said that Windows 8 ARM tablet owners would have a choice when it came to software. The new OS brings the Metro UI to PCs from Windows Phone, with a more finger-friendly, Live Tile based interface for touch use and general multitasking, and the regular desktop underneath if needed. Microsoft may limit ARM Windows 8 tablets only to that Metro UI, and apps that support it.
Google Has Release an OTA Update to The Samsung Galaxy Nexus volume bug to all Galaxy Nexus users.
The Galaxy Nexus is the first Android phone to arrive running Ice Cream Sandwich, the latest version of Google mobile operating system. But its launch was hampered by a glitch that meant the phone volume would spontaneously drop, meaning calls would suddenly go silent and you would miss notifications.
This spooky glitch affected the phone when it was using over a 2G connection on the 900MHz frequency which makes the Galaxy Nexus Colume drop. You can go ahead now and Update your phone, Enjoy your ICS!
Google is supporting the modding community with their latest device and have just released the factory stock boot image for the Samsung Galaxy Nexus with 4.0.1 ICS. For those that know what they are doing with modding Android this should be something you are very familiar with. It is nice to see Google dropping this for everyone so quick too.
For those new to the modding community. Now you can tweak, hack, and flash all sorts of different ROM or themes as you would like and as long as you do not completely kill your shiny new Galaxy Nexus this boot image from Google will take you completely back to factory out of the box state making your Galaxy Nexus shiny and new again with the Stock ICS ROM.
Casio Bluetooth 4.0 smartwatch plans are nearing fruition, with the first pairing of a low-power wireless watch and Android smartphone headed to Japan NTT DoCoMo in the next few days. The NEXT MEDIA PP N-01D offers the usual Japanese niceties, like a 4-inch WVGA AMOLED touchscreen, wireless charging, 8.1-megapixel camera, along with water and dust resilience, but can be paired with a special Casio MEDIAS PP-SHOCK GB-6900 watch. Hooked up via a frugal Bluetooth 4.0 connection, the watch shows incoming call and email information, as well as allowing you to reject incoming calls.
Finally, the watch time is automatically kept up to date via the smartphone connection. The system was initially demonstrated back at CES 2011 in January, taking advantage of Bluetooth 4.0 advances in reducing power consumption to maintain a persistent link without draining the battery.
The Samsung Galaxy Nexus is now available at Vodafone UK stores for free starting from 41 Pound on a two-year contract.
One of Android hottest has been available in the US unlocked for about 750 USD since last month. And it did launch in the UK to O2 and was listed by Phones4u too. Vodafone UK finally hopped on to the Galaxy Nexus bandwagon and offers the ICS droid in a variety of 5 plans, all of which two year.
Interestingly the Carphone Warehouse has the Galaxy Nexus is listed for free on a 36 quid a month deal with Vodafone, Orange and O2 UK, which is 5 pounds cheaper than the Vodafone deal.
Carrier IQ maintains they summarize performance information to help improve the quality of a carrier customer experiences, but what if you do not want anyone else to have access to the sort of fine-grained data that Carrier IQ is capable of accessing? Here is how you can figure out if your phone is affected, and how to go about fixing things if it is.
Does your phone have Carrier IQ?
Eckhart original report has shown that Carrier IQ has been discovered on HTC and Samsung devices, and that CarrierIQ counts Sprint among their domestic carrier clients. AT&T also appears to use Carrier IQ on their devices: a member of the XDA-dev forums called AT&T and was told that Carrier IQ is indeed preloaded on the HTC Vivid. Other carriers, including Verizon, Vodafone, and O2 have all denied that they use Carrier IQ on their devices.
Nokia and RIM were also among the companies that Eckhart claimed CarrierIQ provided their "mobile intelligence" services to, but they have vociferously denied the connection. The Verge also reports that the three devices in Google Nexus line are free of the logging service, so Nexus devotees can rest easy.
What do I do about it?
Well, you could just live with it, but I will admit that it is not a terribly appealing option. iOS users who want to disable logging have it pretty easy here: chpwn believes that in iOS 5, CarrierIQ is enabled during the initial setup process if you opt-in to sending log back to Apple. Since that is the case, all it takes to disable Carrier IQ is to jump into Settings/About/Diagnostics & Usage, and change the setting to Do not send.
Uninstall Carrier IQ with the Logging Test app.
This is about as straightforward as the process gets: once you have installed the aforementioned app, pay the $1 for the Pro key in the Android Market. Once you have done that, the option to remove Carrier IQ will be unlocked in the app, although ExtremeTech notes that the process may not always be successful.
Vodafone acknowledged the issue last week and yesterday released a fix that should get rid of the problem.
Vodafone Comment on the Bug Solution: "To clarify, there's no device software update necessary to get GPS working, the issue was found to be on the server side. We have put a fix in place and your device should now be working as normal. If it's not working right away, removing the battery and rebooting your device will get it up and running."
As Intel pushes its Ultrabook platform there are more and more SSDs hitting the market that are seemingly aimed right at the Ultrabook makers and users out there. Samsung is the latest to offer a new SSD that would be perfect for the Ultrabook realm called the mSATA SSD PM830. Samsung has announced that the SSD is now in full production.
Enter SurfCube 3D for Windows Phone. Now we are not exactly sure whether or not Windows Phone supports alternative browsers in the Android style way of allowing new browsing engines or in the iOS style of allowing custom skins, but we really like what we sre seeing here.
A Video below demos the easy to use interface that is essentially a three dimensional cube, and best of all it actually renders websites that the stock Windows Phone web browser simply shows. In other words, they atre telling Facebook servers that this device is not a Windows Phone requesting a webpage to render, but instead an Android or iOS device.
Video Below!
Except the code optimizations and the new features, below the creamy surface of Android 4.0.1 Google developers have had some fun. What the Android dev team did is add a screensaver, which displays the icons of all your applications flying towards you in a Star Wars-like manner.
The new screensaver feature is called "Dreams" and to activate it you have to dig a bit deeper in the OS itself, but it is not impossible as the video will demonstrate below. All you need is the homescreen replacement app LauncherPro and a minute of free time. The flying icons are not only kind of cool, but you tap on one, the corresponding application launches.
Videos Below!
In the last few days, a Discussion was spreading around that the iPhone 4S Siri would not provide information on birth control or abortions even though it would respond to requests about drugs, murder and other things. Apple said this was a glitch and it should not be interpreted as the company endorsing any side of that debate.
"Our customers want to use Siri to find out all types of information, and while it can find a lot, it does not always find what you want" said Natalie Kerris, a spokeswoman for Apple, to the New York Times. "These are not intentional omissions meant to offend anyone. It simply means that as we bring Siri from beta to a final product, we find places where we can do better, and we will in the coming weeks."
If the smartphones get thinner, the components inside the device must get thinner too. Thats why Sharp has a new camera sensor for the smartphone market that it hails as the thinnest CMOS camera sensor launched.
The sensor is only 5.47mm thick and has a 12.1MP resolution. It also has 1/3.2 type optical image stabilization. That means that it is thin and has clear high-resolution images. Sharp will start shipping the new sensor in 12, February 2012.
From the confines of Chinese forums we found this little excerpt from what is claimed to be an official picture of theSony Ericsson Nozomi. The side render coincides with what we have seen leaked in flesh and blood in the wild before, and confirms the phone is coming in white.
Granted, the image is very small, and the technical specifications are cut out, but you can still see the word "Dual" which would confirm once again that we might be having the first mutlicore Android handset from the company in the face of the Sony Ericsson Nozomi. Another proof is the 1920x1xxx line under the camera section, which would imply 1080p HD video capture that we usually associate with dual-core handsets.
Best Buy has just tipped to be getting the Ice Cream Sandwich in stock on December 11. According to the leaked screenshot above.
There are also a few confusing spec inaccuracies, such as the thickness and weight of the handset according to Best Buy records, but that could well be a simple error in data entry. Earlier rumors had tipped a December 8 release for the Verizon smartphone, though neither Samsung nor Google has committed to any date publicly.
ATT and Samsung just announced that a white version of the 4G LTE Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket to make its way to the stores for the holiday season. This is a great opportunity if you want to get your hands on the 4G monster, but black is just a tad too serious for your liking.
Underneath the white shell, the Galaxy S II Skyrocket is the same underneath, featuring a 4.5-inch Super AMOLED Plus display, 1.5GHz dual-core CPU and a gig of RAM.
The long Waited Assus Eee Pad Transformer Prime will go on sale in the US from December 8, the company has confirmed, a week after Taiwanese sales begin on December 1. However, European tableteers will have to wait until January 2012 for the Tegra 3 tablet, ASUS Taiwan told NetbookNews, with exact release dates depending on each specific country.
Pricing for the Transformer Prime had already been confirmed, back when ASUS initially announced the quadcore tablet. The 32GB version is 499 USD in the US, while the 64GB model is 599USD the clever battery/keyboard dock, which adds full QWERTY input, extra ports and greater runtime to the slate section, is 149USD.
O2 UK users can now add the Nokia Lumia 800 to the list of ideas for a holiday gift. The official site of the British carrier lists the Windows Phone handset as "Coming soon: December".
That is as specific as their site got, but their Twitter account pinpoints December 9 as the exact date that the Lumia 800 will go on sale. There is nothing on the color options though only the black one is featured on O2 site and there is no mention of the other colors.
Surely it was disappointing to discover that the Google latest and greatest has no Flash support. But it was even more shocking, although a bit expected, to learn that Adobe is abandoning the mobile Flash in favor of HTML5.
Anyway, Adobe has previously stated that it will add support for the Galaxy Nexus in its Android Flash runtimes and now we know when this December.
Official Statement
We have received some questions regarding support for Adobe Flash Player 11.1 and AIR 3.1 on the Galaxy Nexus. To be clear, the Galaxy Nexus does not initially support Adobe Flash Player 11.1 and AIR 3.1. Devices and software updates from our partners which introduce new technologies are being developed on varied schedules that are different from our own, which means that the Adobe runtimes may not always be optimized or supported on devices until a subsequent release. We will provide a minor update to the runtimes to support the Galaxy Nexus in December.
Greg DeMichillie is the Senior Director of Product Management for Interactive Development
HP will announce a decision regarding the future of webOS within the next two weeks, CEO Meg Whitman has confirmed, as the company attempts to hold off Apple and readies its first Windows 8 tablet. Apple could well overtake HP in 2012, Whitman said in interview with French paper Le Figaro, though the chief exec said the products she has introduced into the pipeline should make the company more competitive when they arrive in 2013.
Many have been waiting on HP official position on webOS, with rumors swirling that the company isstill looking to offload the platform it acquired as part of the Palm buy several years back. "This is not an easy decision, because we have a team of 600 people which is in limbo" Whitman suggested. "We need to have another operating system."
Google just announced the new version of its Maps app for Android. The mapping and navigation software got indoor maps and navigation, allowing you to find your way around malls, airports, IKEAs and whatnot.
Google Maps 6.0 is also said to be able to detect on what floor of the building you are and adjust the map data appropriately, so you will only be seeing what is around you. According to the developers, the location algorithm is finely tuned, so it should work as well indoors as it does outdoors.
Sony Ericsson has announced and then temporarily backtracked from a partnership with cloud company Box.net, first revealing that buyers of its Android smartphones would get 50GB free storage before clarifying that the offer was not ready for primetime. According to a hastily yanked post on the Sony Ericsson blog, simply by downloading the Box.net app smartphone users would get 50GB of space to store video, music, documents and other files.
However, Sony Ericsson followed up with a clarification that the deal was not quite ready, and admitted that the announcement post had gone up mistakenly. "While we are really excited about working with Box down the road, this offer is not active today" the company wrote today. "We are in the midst of finalising the details of this promotion and are working to provide this offer very soon to all Xperia customers."
Google has updated their Android Market website to allow any user, with the Android Market installed of course, to push applications for automatic download on their devices. Many rooted devices have not had a problem with this feature before the update, but those that owned a NOOK Color, HP TouchPad, or the new Kindle Fire were not recognized before the update.
They clearly want its users to take advantage of the ability to download applications from their website and push them to their rooted phones and tablets. This update clearly helps both parties, although it still has a few bugs. One of which includes the Android Market constantly requesting to update applications that were not directly installed from the Android Market.
Some juicy rumors from the realm of Mac just surfaced online. According to the often reliable DigiTimes, Apple will be launching a 15" MacBook Air at the start of 2012.
The 15" MacBook Air will come to support the 11.6" and 13" versions in their fight against the Ultrabook army, which is quickly growing in numbers. Unfortunately, there is still no information on the hardware specs of the 15" Air, but we will be keeping an eye for more info about it.
And it appears that Apple will not stop the expansion of its lineup of ultra slim laptops there. Another piece of online gossip has it that Apple is also working on adding a 17" Air to its portfolio.
It is time for an update for all you gamers out there playing any of the newest round of ground-breaking NVIDIA-powered PC games, this GeForce 290.36 Beta Driver release correcting bugs and adding features you might never have known were there in the first place, NVIDIA lets us know that players of Batman: Arkham City, Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, should certainly update to this newest driver set, and Battlefield 3 as well as Crysis 2 will receive fixes for tiny broken bits like the "random appearance of triangular artifacts" in the former game.
The Siri hacks continue, with Apple voice control system now capable unofficially at least of managing Spotify on your desktop. The handiwork of mobile developer Simon Maddox, the plugin reacts to natural artist requests, such as "Spotify, play me some Nirvana", and automatically queues up songs.
As well as creating playlists, it is also possible to use the system to control actual playback. Saying "pause," "play the next song," "play the previous song" and "what song is this?" is all supported the plugin Maddox released uses the same SiriProxy software as we saw controlling Plex media playback among other things.
Video DEMO Below!
Samsung and Google may not have released their fix for the Galaxy Nexus volume flaw yet, but that has not stopped the Android modding community from addressing the problem itself. A patch said to be the official release to address the problem which sees volume fluctuate when the 2G 900MHz band is used has been released, ahead of Samsung own schedule which is believed to have temporarily stopped shipments.
Details of Samsung fix are unclear, though according to retailers the company has recalled shipments of the Galaxy Nexus and intends to replace them with a fixed version. Thats been seen as an indication that the fault is a software one that can at least be addressed by a software patch though neither Samsung nor Google will say anything more than that they are working on it.
The fix requires that you unlock the bootloader of the Galaxy Nexus, but beyond that it is a case of punching in a few commands. It is worth noting that your phone will be wiped in the process, but if you have been plagued by the volume bug you probably will not begrudge that too much.
If you like Samsung smartphones with alternative operating systems you might want to listen up with the Wave 3 smartphone launching globally. The Wave 3 is a nice looking smartphone that runs the Samsung bada OS. We were hands on with the Wave 3 back in early September.
Samsung calls the Wave 3 smartphone its flagship offering and it has a 4-inch WVGA super AMOLED screen. The Wave 3 also runs a 1.4GHz processor and has a 5MP rear camera with autofocus and a LED flash along with a VGA resolution front camera. It operates on networks that will let it work in countries around the world.
The Wave 3 runs BADA 2.0 and as of today, it is available in Germany, Italy, Russia, as well as the French market it first launched in. Samsung notes the smartphone will come to other countries later this year.
There are hoards of Android users around the world with smartphones of different brands that are waiting in anticipation to see if their device will be upgraded to Android 4.0 when the OS launches. That launch is expected to happen in early 2012. The new OS will bring lots of new features and capability to various devices on the market already.
The lucky devices are LG Optimus 3D, Optimus 2X, Optimus Black and Optimus LTE. The upgrade roadmap will be announced in December on the official LG Facebook page.
HTC issued an official statement, regarding the IPCom potential ban of the sales of their 3G products in Germany. On Friday the Taiwanese company withdrew its appeal against the court decision of 2009 to grant an injunction against the HTC 3G devices.
HTC full statement:
To clarify reports regarding IPCom patent litigation on the Commercial Times (Taiwan), Economic Daily News, etc. on November 27, 2011.
On November 25, 2011, HTC withdrew its appeal in the IPCom EP1186189 case, finding that the appeal had become redundant since the German Federal Patent Court had previously held the relevant claim of the patent to be invalid. IPCom’s original injunction covered only one HTC handset, which is now no longer sold in Germany. Furthermore, HTC has modified its implementation of the UMTS standards, so even in the unlikely case that the Mannheim court reinstates an injunction, it will have no impact on HTC’s sales in Germany. HTC hereby clarifies that this does not have any impact on HTC business in Germany.
The iPhone 5 rumors is back with a 4-inch LCD that has Sony Mobile Display Corporation and Hitachi displays are working on it. It is rumored that these two household names will team up with Toshiba Mobile Display in the spring of 2012 to create the "Japan Display".
There is really no solid proof to any of this, and we know now easy it is to fall victim to the next iPhone hype, so take this information with a bag of salt. If it actually turns out to be true that the next iPhone 5 will feature a 4-inch and if it keeps the 960 x 640 resolution, the screen ppi will fall around the 290 mark so goodby Retina. To keep the Retina the new display should be no bigger than 3.8 inches that will give it a ppi of around 300.
Apple May increase the resolution of the iPhone5 to 720p to keep the Retina and the ppi High and also the 4-inch secreen.
The Microsoft Kinect for the Xbox 360 turned out to be a really cool device that was useful form a lot more than the gaming controller it was meant to be. With rumors of a new Xbox 720 game console leaked it would make sense that some rumors of a new Kinect would be making waves as well. According to the latest set of rumors the Kinect 2 is in the works.
According to the source of the rumors, the new Kinect 2 will have very impressive accuracy. In fact, the accuracy of the new device is claimed to be good enough to lip read. According to devs supposedly familiar with the new device, it is also able to determine what direction the players are facing and it can even tell if the player is angry.
Further supporting the Android Community amateur legal opinion that German courts are full of dunkoffs, IPCom patent injunction against HTC has been held up in that country. The initial ruling was made two years ago, with HTC almost immediately appealing. Now the original ruling has been upheld, and HTC will be forced to either capitulate to IPCom demands or halt sales in Germany.
The patent in question has to do with low-level 3G technologies that many consider absolutely essential. The ruling sets up a dangerous precedent essentially any phone maker or carrier operating in Germany may have to bow before IPCom, a firm made up exclusively of patent holdings think of it as a corporate patent troll. The company is already suing European arms of Vodafone and T-Mobile for the same technology, and in Germany at least, this precedent means they're likely to win. You can dive into the legalese over at FOSS Patents.
A future PlayStation 3 firmware update will enable Vita Remote Play on all games, Eurogamer has learnt.
However, this will be only at the PlayStation Portable 480x272 resolution, which will be upscaled to fill the screen.
Vita OLED display is actually capable of displaying games at 960×544 pixel resolution. Vita Remote Play is how Sony new handheld interacts with the PS3.
In a Tokyo Game Show demonstration Sony Shuhei Yoshida played a brief section of Killzone 3 streamed into the device from a PlayStation 3 unit, noting how a few of the Dual Shock buttons missing on the Vita are mapped to the touchscreen.
Vita can also be used in co-operative play with PS3 games. While a colleague played through a specially constructed LittleBigPlanet 2 level with a Dual Shock controller, Yoshida controlled an aeroplane via the Vita touch screen, helping Sackboy reach his goal by altering the environment.
Demo Below!
This unusual looking lime green N9 has been demoed on video showcasing its ability to switch between not just one, but seven different mobile operating systems. Of course it is not some special edition or in house unit leaked from the Finns but in fact a peculiar "Nok-off" straight from the back streets of Shanzai, China.
This Chinese impostor, although not quite living up to the hardware specs of the real-deal does have the unique power to switch between MeeGo, iOS 5.0, Windows Phone 7, BBOS, HTC Sense, Samsung TouchWiz and Symbian Anna.
Check the
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Verizon will soon release a firmware update for the DROID Charge smartphone. Set to be released on 29,November the new software will add Gingerbread to Samsung smartphone, packing a number of improvements and fixes including:
- Updated Download Manager app from where you can manage all of your downloads from web browsing, email attachments and other apps.
- Improved word selection and Copy/Paste functionality.
- New widgets, icons and screens with refreshed colors.
- Added device and SD card encryption VPN enhancements integrate IPSec VPN clients into device security settings.
- Updated Calendar options ability to display event times in your home time zone when traveling; Dismiss individual reminders.
- Pause, Wait and Password have been added into the voicemail speed dial entry for manual entry/storage.
- Increased intensity of the vibration alert.
- Added Software Upgrade Assistant (SUA).
- Reduced volume of the Low Battery Notification sound has been reduced.
The unique-looking Sony Tablet P was announced way back in April along with its bigger brother, the Tablet S. The latter went on sale a while back but those hoping to get their hands on the Tablet P have been put on hold.
Not any more, at least in the UK, where the device has just appeared for pre-order on Sony online store for a whopping £499 ($771). Even by UK generally high prices that is quite a lot. In fact it is even more than the bigger Tablet S, which costs £349.
What you get for that kind of money is a unique dual display design that split the user interface into two parts. As you scroll across a webpage, for example, you can see is sliding across the two screens as if it were just one large single display. Each of the displays are 5.5-inch in size and have a resolution of 1024 x 400. This allows the device to fold in half like a spectacle-case and carried around in your pocket with ease.
Other than the interesting display arrangement you get a 1GHz dual-core Tegra 2 processor, 1GB of RAM, 4GB internal memory with microSD card slot, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi with DLNA, GPS, 5 megapixel rear camera, VGA front camera, accelerometer, gyroscope, digital compass and Android 3.2 Honeycomb.
Today we have some official images of the handset and a specification chart, courtesy of Droid Life. These images show us that the new DROID 4 does look strikingly similar to the DROID RAZR as long as it is closed. Even the back has a similar look with a bump at the top that has become common on the DROID handsets.
Under the display is a spacious looking full QWERTY keypad with a white backlight that shines through the gaps between the keys.
As for the specifications, the DROID 4 has a 4.0-inch qHD display with Gorilla Glass protection, dual-core 1.2GHz processor, 1GB RAM, 8 megapixel camera with 1080p video recording, HD front facing camera, 4G LTE connectivity and a 1,785mAh battery.
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Halfbrick Studios today announced that Fruit Ninja: Puss in Boots will be avilable as Amazon free app of the day on Nov. 28. (It will be 0.99 USD after that promotion) It is largely the same Fruit Ninja we have come to know and love, but it is got the furball from the last couple of Shreck movies incorporated.
Demo Below!
Just like Samsung did with Asphalt 6 HD couple of months back, they are now offering another car racing game Need for Speed Hot Pursuit for free. It goes for 6.99 USD on the Android Market but Galaxy S II users will be able to download the game for free from the Samsung Apps store.
However, unlike last time, the game is not available in all the regions but users can easily download the game with a workaround.
The easiest way is to head over to this XDA-Developers thread and download the APK file or if your phone is rooted, follow these simple instructions:
- Download Market Enabler from Android Market
- Change the Market region to UK, Germany or Italy
- Open Samsung Apps and then "Accept"
- You should see the game in the store, download it
GetJar 3.5 BETA will be launching update notifications for Android apps allowing developers to notify their users when there is something new with their app.
For instance, users can be notified if there are new levels in a game, some new features are added, or simply bugs have been fixed. Additionally, GetJar suggests using updates as an engagement toolm like sending out an update can be a friendly reminder about an app that a user may have forgotten about.
We have just posted some news about an HTC smartphone called the HTC Ville. It is due out next April and it will feature Google Android 4.0 and HTC Sense 4.0 software.
Google Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich will be the first version of the Android operating system designed to work on both phones and tablets.
HTC Sense is designed to run on top of Android, offering a custom app launcher, home screen widgets, and a handful of additional apps. HTC also backs up some of your preferences and data online if you sign in with an HTC Sense account so HTC smartphone users often wind up using Google and HTC accounts on their devices.
In the early days of Android, HTC earned a reputation for making the operating system prettier and easier to use with its Sense software. But as Android has matured, Sense has earned a reputation as one of the reasons it takes HTC several months to release a software update after Google releases a new version of Android.
The developer of many useful utilities Fahrbot Mobile launched Undelete for Android (BETA) the application can recover any type of deleted file from your memory card or internal storage. You will need to have root access in order for Undelete to work and even then you should not expect miracles. For instance, the chances are slim for recovering a file you deleted a year ago the app is best used with recently deleted files.
The Undelete application is said to come with fast scanning logic, and works with all types of files, including images, video, music, archives and binaries. However, only FAT is supported and on Tegra 2 devices, it can only work with files stored on the external SD card.
Sharp has long been rumored to be a runner up as a major display supplier for Apple and now new reports suggest that the company has successfully won the bid and has already been supplying screens for Apple iPhones. Citing sources familiar with the matter, the WSJ reveals that Sharp will be supplying Apple next-gen iPads with LCD screens that are manufactured at Sharp Kameyama No. 2 plant in central Japan.
The source also claims that the Apple is investing in Sharp Japanese manufacturing facilities. Although no investment figure was divulged, we have heard rumors from analysts previously that Apple planned to invest $1 billion. The move is part of Apple efforts to work with multiple component makers to ensure sufficient supply of parts for its iPhones and iPads.
The next most powerful Android device on earth is now available for pre-order from Best Buy, that being the Asus Transformer Prime, an NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor toting 10.1-inch Honeycomb tablet.
This device is available for pre order in two forms: one with a gray back, the other with a champagne back. Both models have 32GB of data storage built-in with a microSD card slot to expand by an additional 32GB if you wish. They have also got the official champagne-colored keyboard dock and a mystery portable dock which we must assume is the gray-colored keyboard dock, both up for 149.99 USD and at pre-order status as well.
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Three will make Android 2.3.6 available for the Samsung Galaxy S next year, after scrapping plans to bring the older 2.3.4 version of Google platform to the handset.
In response to a Galaxy S owner enquiry on Twitter about the long-awaited 2.3.4 edition of Android, Three stated: "We decided to release 2.3.6, which will be available in Jan. This brings more fixes than previous 2."
Microsoft Windows 8 will be out on fall 2012, but security researchers has already found a way to exploit the platform. They created a Windows 8 bootkit that can bypass the User Account Control using just 14KB of exploit code. It is said to be the first proof-of-concept to find a vulnerability in Windows 8 by a simple code that will force restarting your PC, Demo Video Below!
The exploit works on the current Windows 8 developer preview version, allowing a hacker to run command prompts under the SYSTEM account once exploited. It bypasses the User Account Control completely and does not prompt the end user. This small .exe file can exploit Windows XP, Vista, and 7 and Windows Server 2003.
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Nokia is planning to hold a huge event to celebrate the birth of their first Windows Phone smartphone. The company sent out invitations for a huge light show that will use the Millbank Tower on the Thames as a screen.
On November 28 Nokia will be employing 16 projectors, 800 windows, 200 workmen and 3 D3 servers to create "the biggest video-mapping project ever attempted in the UK" . The star of the show will be deadmau5 DJ, who will play an exclusive set to the backdrop of an amazing 4D animation.
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New and more detailed image of the HTC Ville leaked today that shows the HTC thinnest Android-Smartphone. The device shown in this picture is said to measure in at less than 8mm thin and has Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich onboard, powered by a dual-core processor. BGR tipped for a February 2012 launch.
The HTC Ville is expected to feature a 4.3-inch Super AMOLED display with qHD resolution that slightly wraps around the edges. Some of the main specs revealed so far include a 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 dual-core processor and an 8-megapixel rear-facing camera with higher-quality optics capable of 1080p HD video capture. Other specs include HSPA+ connectivity, Beats Audio support, and a decent sized 1,650 mAh battery.
The black Lumia 800 launched in the UK just last week, and already Three UK is delivering on Nokia promise to follow shortly with cyan: the carrier has announced that the aqua-hued version will arrive in local stores today.
The alternative color is still listed for pre-order on Three is online store, so you will have to hit the pavement to pick one up for now. If cyan does not float your boat, Nokia has said the pink version of the well-reviewed phone should launch a few weeks after the cyan Lumia 800. Look for it to hit stores sometime next month.
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