A lot of users have been eagerly waiting for the release of Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone. The good news for us now are that our wait may prove worth it with a Korean daily claiming that Galaxy S III will sport a 4.65-inch Super AMOLED Plus display which will have a stunning 1280 x 720 display! This is a huge step forth from S II which has a 4.52-inch Super AMOLED Plus display with 800 x 480 resolution.
Nokia’s Symbian platform is very widely-used despite the fact that the company is already shipping out Lumia smartphones and has plans of replacing Symbian with later releases. Naturally, Nokia keeps shipping out updates and support for the Symbian platform. Nokia released Nokia Belle a while ago and now, images of Nokia Carla, apparently the next update for Symbian, have now surfaced. Interestingly, these images depict a number of new features that may come to the Symbian platform soon.
AT&T brings Samsung Rugby Smart 4G phone powered by Google’s Android operating system specially for those who needs a more durabable devices. The physical strength to handle whatever you throw at it. The special features of this phone provides water intrusion protection submersible to 1m for 30 minutes and dust proof. So an ideal device for active lifestyle consumers as well as enterprise customers whose smartphone has to take a beating. That is not all! The phone runs by a single-core 1.4 GHz processor to spreed up your corporate email, navigation, enhanced web browsing is supported and access to an abundance of content on the Android Marketplace.
Touchscreen joysticks are quite common and enable a pretty precise navigation on the screen. But, the problem with such a joystick system is that while you are using it, you are unable to get a full-screen view. Now, a research group at Keio University has devised a new solution through which, you can convert your smartphone’s camera into a joystick.
With the mobile platform expanding rapidly and millions of users flocking to mobile devices every month, it is becoming increasingly hard for the companies to keep their systems damage-proof. According to a report by Juniper Research, mobile firms around the globe lose a whooping $58 billion each year to fraud and billing errors. And Africa and Middle East account for the greatest percentage of these losses.
UDID code is a 40-character-long unique identification number which distinguishes your particular Apple device from all the rest. The UDID code can be accessed by apps and app developers as well as different ad networks that display ads on your device. While this is kind of essential for many mobile ad networks, it can be used to seriously breach the security of your device and steal your personal info. And now, Apple seems to be working to make that impossible.
The market share of both Android and iOS combined is rapidly increasing in the U.S smartphone market. And this is happening at the expense of other smartphone vendors, especially RIM. According to a report about the US smartphone purchases made in the last three months, 90% of these devices were either Android or iOS.
After a lot of wait and speculation and eager anticipation on the end of the users, Samsung is finally rolling out the Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) upgrade for Galaxy S II users. Samsung did a detailed post recently about this update and that how the company worked things out to deliver it. Included in the post are details and a number of new features that Galaxy S users also get to have, such as Face Unlock and Blink Detection.
Although Google is the primary force behind the Android platform and has been working hard to make Android smartphones a success, reports suggest that a major chunk of Google’s mobile ad revenues come from iPhone, and not from Android smartphones. One would say that if iOS devices were to fail in the market, this could seriously hurt Google’s finances because it would lose not millions, but billions, in mobile ad revenues it currently gets from iPhone.
Graphics Properties Holdings is the same company which took over Silicon Graphics in 2009, just when the latter was on the verge of bankruptcy. With this acquisition, Graphics Properties was able to get 60 issued US patents. And ever since then, Graphics Properties has been trying to leverage these patents to sue smartphone vendors over their designs, without much success. Now, it has launched another spree of lawsuits against Apple, Samsung, Sony, RIM, HTC, LG and Sony.
Microsoft and Nokia, in their Windows Phone alliance, are seriously gearing up to make the Windows-Nokia smartphone a success. While we are still to see some flagship release on the Lumia front, the two companies are busy meanwhile in expanding the supporting ecosystem. Now, both have pooled $24 million to initiate an apps development program at Aalto University, Finland.
Microsoft had launched the ‘Smoked by Windows Phone’ campaign rather ambitiously, hoping that with its own hand-picked tests, it can easily show off that Windows Phone was better than nearly every other smartphone. Even then, Sahas Katta was able to beat Windows Phone with his Galaxy Nexus. Microsoft relented and made excuses formerly but now the company has announced a laptop, a smartphone and an apology for Sahas.
With the release of Nvidia’s Kepler GPUs, the spirits of the personnel at the company are really high. While as users, we are still to exploit the full potential of the line of GPUs, the company itself seems confident that with the Kepler line-up, the world is ready for the next level of phones, being touted as superphones, obviously a supposed successor to smartphones. This was reflected in a recent email by Nvidia’s CEO.
If you are roaming around in China and you come across a store which is plastered with the landmark color of Android, green, with a large Android logo right across its face, you will most probably think of it as an official Android store. Even when a tiny little text underneath reads something else in Chinese. That’s precisely the case with a store at Zuhai, Guandong province.
Research-in-Motion (RIM) has been rather struggling with its BlackBerry handsets. With Apple and Android’s onslaught into the smartphone market, BB has been steadily losing its share. However, the company is quite hopeful with its upcoming BB 10 device and for the right reasons. Now RIM has announced that it will hand out 2,000 prototypes using BlackBerry 10 to the developers at the BlackBerry Jam Conference in May.
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