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 [...]
Beans spilt A promotional video, starring Microsoft senior vice-president and Windows Phone product manager Joe Belfiore, has been leaked to the chaps at Pocketnow.com leaving them no choice but to tell us what the company supposedly has in store for Windows Phone 8. The promotional video – supposedly aimed at [...]
“World’s first bamboo mobile smartphone” A British university student has designed a phone that stands out from the usual array of black, grey or white plastic numbers – by building it out of bamboo. The Bamboo phone is called ADzero and was designed by 23 year-old Middlesex University student Kieron-Scott [...]
The shape of your next handset What are our phones going to look like in 10 years time; see-through displays, Star Trek-style tricorders? Ton Brand from the GSM Alliance – the organisation that promotes standardisation between mobile networks – has a pretty good idea. As programme director of Embedded Mobile, [...]
The Galaxy Note has a 5.3-inch screen, making it almost tablet size. Photo: Jim Merithew/Wired.com The Samsung Galaxy Note is a beast of a phone. The Note’s gigantic 5.3-inch, Super AMOLED display makes it the largest “smartphone” we’ve seen so far. It’s practically a mini-tablet. In fact, a 5-inch touchscreen [...]
CES 2012: Thin and wet If you thought the Motorola RAZR was a thin phone you clearly haven’t seen the Fujitsu Arrows phone launched in Japan in December, but on show at International CES 2012 in Las Vegas for the rest of the world to see.? Claimed to be the [...]
Trio of LTE smartphones heading to AT&T? It’s full steam ahead for the Windows Phone 7 revolution it seems, with 4G fun coming next year, kicking off with the Nokia Ace. The Ace is one of three LTE-compatible handsets that Windows blogger Paul Thurrott has named on his site that [...]
After Tango Windows Phone 7 Apollo, the next major update to the mobile operating system, will be coming in Q4 2012, according to a roadmap that website WMPoweruser claims to have got its hands-on. Detailed in its brief layout are the launch dates and targeted areas for the forthcoming Tango [...]
Who wants it? HP?has finally made up its mind on the fate of webOS on Friday saying that it will make the mobile operating system open source in the hope that it will live on by being used by companies like HTC looking for a alternative to Android and Windows [...]
The smartest of them all What a year 2011 has been for the smartphone.?Consumers have been left with such a wealth of choice that the average phone shop has been transformed into a veritable pick ‘n mix of mobile excitement. There have, however, been a few handsets that shone out [...]