Cell Phone News
Nokia Acquires Smarterphone OS
It appears that even that the recent success of the Nokia Windows Phone debut with the Lumia 800 and 710 handsets just isn’t enough for the Finnish giant. Nokia has acquired a new operating system (OS) by the name of Smarterphone, despite seeing reasonable success with the MeeGo OS with the Nokia N9 just a short while ago.
3.7 Mil Android Devices for Christmas
Andy Rubin, Senior Vice President of Mobile at Google, announced via his Twitter than over 3.7 million Android devices were activated over last Christmas weekend. This is a huge boost over normal, but already impressive number of daily Android activations that currently sits at around 700 thousand new units per day.
Galaxy Ace Plus Announced
Continuing in the long line of confusingly similarly named handsets is Samsung’s recently announced Galaxy Ace Plus. As is inferred by the moniker, the Galaxy Ace Plus is the newest model in the Galaxy Ace line. If you’re unfamiliar with the original Samsung Galaxy Ace, it’s basically a budget option of the more popular Samsung Galaxy S product line for folks who don’t feel the need to spend top dollar on a new smartphone, but still don’t want last-year’s model.
Apple Media Event Coming in Late Jan
Apple is rumored to be planning a big media-centric event in New York (yes, The Big Apple) in late January. However, from the sound of things it’s sounding like it mightn’t be too big of a deal. The word around the web is that we aren’t going to be seeing anything major like an iPad 3, iPhone 5, iPhone nano, new iPod Touch or any other kind of hardware beginning with “i”. In fact, it’s sounding like the event will be mostly focused on publishing or advertising.
HTC Sensation XE Review
The HTC Sensation XE is one of HTC’s current leading devices, offering a similar yet enhanced experience than the original HTC Sensation. Some of the differences between the two devices are obvious due to the very nature of the XE, such as Beats Audio integration or its faster processor, and some are less obvious, even unexpected.
Google Pauses Nexus S ICS Updates
Google recently announced that the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update would be rolling out to Google Nexus S devices over the course of the next month. That rollout has now apparently been put on hold in some areas while Google collects and monitors feedback.
Sony Tablet S Gets PS3 Controller
Sony’s released what sounds like a pretty simple, yet clever update for its PlayStation certified tablet: the Sony Tablet S. Continuing in the traditions of the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play, the Sony Tablet S has access to the PlayStation Sore via Android. That means movies, games and more. Up until now those games could only be enjoyed in a very limited fashion, as on-screen controllers are usually pretty difficult to handle when compared to the real deal. Now Tablet S users will be able to get that full PS game experience right on their tablets.
iPad Mini Rumours Surface Again
Amongst the bevy of retina screen/to-the-edge displays/super battery/keyboard/even more outlandish iPad rumors from last season one in particular seemed to be the most wide-spread: the iPad Mini. We thought the rumor had died, due to no other evidence than it inexplicably disappearing from tech blogs and geek forums alike.
British Telecom Suing Google
British Telecom (BT) has become the latest in a long line of companies to lunch a law suit against Google. Last Thursday in Delaware, BT filed a suit claiming that Google was infringing upon over six of its patents. After Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility things seemed to calm down just a tiny bit in the legal wars, so we hope this isn’t an indication of a continuance of hostilities.
Ice Cream Sandwich Soon for Nexus S
Google recently announced an official rollout of Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich, to GSM/UMTS versions of the popular Google Nexus S over the coming month via its Google+ account. The speedy availability of the update is a positive indication of what we hope to become a future trend across Android devices. Google hopes that Ice Cream Sandwich will be the version of Android to herald in a new era of reduced fragmentation of Android versions across numerous devices. Basically what that means is that from Ice Cream Sandwich onwards it will apparently be easier for manufacturers to update their devices, allowing companies like Samsung or HTC to release Android updates much faster than they have previously been able to.
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