Archive for October, 2011 - Page 17

Nokia took the Nokia World 2011 stage today in London to announce, as expected, its first Windows Phone 7.5 Mango handsets, which we kept seeing in various leaks in the weeks preceding the event.

When Ice Cream Sandwich was launched, we’ve heard a lot of public outcry about how some phones haven’t even gotten Gingerbread upgrades yet. It doesn’t help that Gingerbread has been out way before Honeycomb, and that’s been quite some time ago as well. Owners of Motorola DROID Pro and DROID [...]

More and more BlackBerry smartphone users are switching to other platforms. Are users angry at RIM for the worldwide BlackBerry service outages? Or are they just more interested in the iPhone 4S?

RIM has recently released an update on its efforts to develop the BlackBerry PlayBook 2.0 upgrade. Some of the much-awaited updates like native BBM will not be included, though.

It looks like I spoke too soon when I questioned Nintendo’s motives in introducing two new DSi XL bundles instead of 3DS bundles for the holidays, because it has also announced two new 3DS bundles for Europe and Australia, which will both be releasing just in time for the holiday [...]

Amid all the fuss about Android, patents and licensing from various other companies, it seems Apple has scored a big win, as the US Patent and Trademarks Office has confirmed the company’s patent application for slide-to-unlock.

As expected, the first two Nexus smartphones, the Nexus One and the Nexus S, are probably going to be the first devices to be upgraded to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich once the Galaxy Nexus becomes official, since they’re both running clean, “vanilla” Android versions.

We’ve only known of Grand Theft Auto V‘s existence for a few hours now, but already the rumors have started flying. Are we really that surprised? No – after all, Grand Theft Auto V is going to be one of the biggest games of… well, whatever year it launches. That’s [...]

After hackers managed to install a semi-functional version of Siri on the iPhone 4 and iPad 2 we’re not surprised to see the iPod touch to be the next obvious choice for some smart developers out there that would love their last-generation iPod touch run Siri.