LG Electronics announced the XE1 and XE2, a couple of sleek, 2.5-inch portable hard drives which feature an USB 3.0 interface and both drives come in 500GB, 750GB and 1TB capacities, the same size and shape, but have a different finish glossy on the XE1, matte on the XE2………
As we know, Viber lets users make free phone calls and send free text messages with their mobile phone. Due to its simple set up, call quality, and reliability Viber has become the fastest growing VoIP application with over 10M installs. Additionally, Viber is introducing several Android-only features in the beta release. Checkout more detail about Viber for your Android.
The worldwide smartphone market has grown 79.7% year-over-year with smartphone vendors shipping a total of 99.6 million units in in the first quarter of 2011, market research firm IDC reports and Nokia is still the world’s biggest smartphone manufacturer market share, its decline has been amazingly fast.Samsung shipments rise 350 percent and has more than quadrupled its output to 10.8 million shipments in the quarter.The other big gainer is Apple, with 10 million more iPhones shipped, but the truth is that all the top five vendors are showing double-digit growth and IDC has also released data for Western Europe that shows Nokia has lost the top spot both in terms of smartphones…………
BeBook Live tablet delivers the goods for Froyo diehards and has a seven-inch multitouch color screen, a 2MP front facing camera, 1080p HDMI out, Flash support, and 4GB of built-in memory. Powered by Android 2.2, which will no doubt feel downright antiquated when it launches in June for $279…….
The American company IDC has published a report about the most important smartphone manufacturers worldwide. Apple ranks second in this top, just behind Nokia. But there is only a slight difference between the two companies since Nokia has sold 5, 5 million smart phones more than Apple. Last year Nokia lost 15% of their market share and this percentage was equally divided among Apple, Samsung, HTC and the other manufacturers. As for Apple, they increased their market share by 3% and sold 10 million smart phones more compared to the same period of the last year.
Steve Balmer showed up at Blackberry World and gave the news that Microsoft was planning to invest seriously in RIM and thus create a stronger partnership with the Canadians. Microsoft is going to invest in the Blackberry platform so that Bing becomes the default search engine. According to a Microsoft spokeswoman, they are planning to introduce Bing as a default search engine for US and international select markets starting from this years’ season holidays.
Amazon’s tablet said to be shipping later this year and not only is Amazon’s Taiwanese-based components manufacturer Quanta Computer rumored to be readying their mysterious tablet for later this year, but also the media tablet will feature a Fringe Field Switching LCD display and touch panel from Amazon fave E Ink Holdings, a company better known for the technology behind the Kindle’s EPD e-paper displays………..
Microsoft has launched a number of ads showing how much faster Windows Phone 7 is in completing real life tasks than other smartphones. In the below video you will see a comparison between iPhone 4 and Samsung Focus which is equiped with Windows Phone 7 (WP7) operating system on using social networks.