Articles By Alex Angove
ICS Headed to Galaxy S II March 10
It’s about time. Beginning on March 10, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) will be rolling out to Samsung Galaxy S II devices around the world. This rollout is for the global version of the GS2 and thus won’t help out most US owners, but there should hopefully be an update for the current 3 different Galaxy S II variants on the US market soon.
New iPad's Quad-Core Lack is Fine
If we’ve said it once then we’ve said it a thousand times. Dual-core processors are cool, quad-core processors are cooler and neither of them are 100% necessary in the current mobile market. Yes, they’re faster and can handle more complex calculations. They also allow for better and faster apps to be developed. But right now there just aren’t that many available apps that require that much raw power.
The New iPad
Apple announced the New iPad today and we have to say that overall we’re very happy with the sound of it. Other than the name, which is actually “New iPad” we feel any huge disappointments or mind-breakingly confusing issues with the announcement. Yes, the New iPad only sports a dual-core processor, unlike the quad-core of many Android tablets that are on their way, but we’re actually happy about that. We’ll tell you why in the next post but right now we’re going to go over some of the basic specs and upgrades found in the New iPad.
Nokia World 2012 Will Be In Helsinki
We have admit that we’ve never been too excited about a Nokia World event before. Until Nokia made the move to Windows Phone its new and upcoming devices always seemed to be a little lacklustre when compared to the cutting edge designs of the competition. As an operating system (OS), Symbian simply couldn’t keep up with iOS, Android and even BlackBerry OS. This meant that no matter what Nokia did it always seemed around a full generation behind what anyone else was doing.
Google Play Replaces Android Market
Google is replacing its long-serving Android Market with a new service called Google Play. Google Play is a more cloud-oriented utility that unifies your desktop and Android devices in order to provide a more seamless experience across media and apps.
ASUS May Produce 1st Nexus Tablet
Among the speculation of who will be making the next Google Nexus phone (LG is looking good right now) in the lead up to the release of Android: Jellybean, some talk of an ASUS manufactured Nexus tablet has started to surface. It’d certainly be an interesting and understandable move for Google to get behind a flagship tablet in the hopes to show the market what its OS updates can do from the outset, much like with the Nexus smartphones, rather than waiting for manufacturers to distribute the updates themselves.
Nokia PureView on Windows Phone
It was puzzling to say the least when Nokia unveiled its new 808 PureView camera-centric smartphone at MWC. Puzzling not because of its niche target market, nor because of its seemingly overpowered 41MP sensor. What really had us scratching our heads was that Nokia was proudly announcing this fantastic new camera technology and that it was headed straight for the all-but-dead Symbian operating system (OS).
This iPad is Fake, We Wish it Wasn’t
In the lead up to Apple’s iPad 3 announcement we’re seeing a lot of fake “leaked info” crop up everywhere and, as such, we’re having to spend a bit more time searching for the good stuff than usual. During out digital travels we stumbled across an interesting video on BGR’s site featuring an obviously fake, yet very awesome future iPad “demonstration”.
The Samsung Galaxy Beam is Cool
You’re probably sick by now of hearing us lament over the lack of niche phones in the market and the seemingly unrelenting pushing forward of processing power without much effort going to enhancing other areas of smartphone performance or even offering something completely new. Fortunately for us big companies like Samsung do occasionally come out with something intriguing and of late it even seems to be becoming more of a trend, with intriguing shinies cropping up with more and more regularity. The latest Samsung piece of interest is the Samsung Galaxy Beam, but first we'd like to point out some of the other cool stuff we've been seeing in the past year or so.
iPad 3 May Be Scarce/Called iPad HD
It looks like our hopes of Apple learning from past mistakes will be shattered. Reports are coming in that the iPad 3 will see severe supply shortages that may persist in to Q2 of this year. At the same time we’re hearing that the next Apple tablet may even not be called the iPad 3 at all, but rather the iPad HD.
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