Hands eagerly pawed all over Windows Phones at CES 2012. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com Microsoft’s Windows Phone OS is often criticized for lagging far behind iOS and Android, the other major operating systems in the mobile space. But on Thursday, a leaked description of Microsoft’s next big mobile OS, Windows Phone [...]
3-minute hands-on The forthcoming HTC Ville has made a 3-minute video debut online, revealing a great deal about the incoming Android 4, Sense 4 handset. Although the specs have previously been rumoured and we’ve seen images of the new Android handset, the video leaves little to the imagination. First up [...]
Your smartphone, your choices One of the joys of Android is supposed to be customisation and yet few people even bother to change their wallpaper after unboxing their little darlings. One of the problems is that most of us have been scarred by our early live wallpaper experiences – the [...]
Your pictures, your wallpaper Sure, you’ve got a gallery app full of pictures on your mobile phone. Yes, you might even have the odd widget window on your desktop that connects to it too but, frankly, if you’re not using today’s App of the Day on your Android handset, you’re [...]
Apple crushed earnings in the first quarter. Photo: Bryan Derwalla/Wired.com There’s no slowing the Apple sales train. The company released its first-quarter earnings results to shareholders on Tuesday, blowing away analyst expectations and beating sales records across multiple categories. Apple sold 37.04 million iPhones in the first quarter of its [...]
But still activating 700,000 devices a day 700,000 is a big number. It is also just so happens to be the number of Android devices around the world that are activated every day according to Google?showing you just how popular the OS has become. “There are now over 700,000 Android [...]
The iOS App Store rakes in six times the revenues of the Android Market. Image: Distimo The Android Market and Apple App Store are locked in constant battle for the hearts and minds of mobile device users. Although Apple still holds a lead in the total number of app offerings, [...]
EXCLUSIVE: We offer something different Nokia?has claimed that the youth of today are fed up with the iPhone?and baffled by Android. In an exclusive interview with Pocket-lint, Niels Munksgaard, director of Portfolio, Product Marketing & Sales at Nokia Entertainment Global explained all: “What we see is that youth are pretty [...]
runMobileCompatibilityScript(‘myExperience1318798180001′, ‘anId’); brightcove.createExperiences(); This week on the Gadget Lab podcast, it’s gadgets, gadgets, gadgets: We’ve got a Dyson Hot space heater, an assortment of iPhone and iPad cases (and other nerdy stocking stuffers), and a sleigh-full of Android tablets. Reviews editor Michael Calore and staff writer Christina Bonnington [...]
On over half of devices Froyo has been toppled from its lofty perch as the the dominant Android version, being replaced by Gingerbread. The 2.3 variations equate for over 50 per cent of the Android market share, across all mobile devices, and the figures suggest that the fandroid community is [...]