In the race for newer, brighter and faster tablets we’ve lost our touch with the basics. No matter how fast, no matter how bright, no matter how rugged a device is, at the end of the day it has to be running to be of use. If the tablet is meant for outdoor use, then this is felt even more.
Mozilla is working hard to make its Firefox OS a dominant player in the mobile OS market. It has already secured hardware partnerships with some big brands. But the thing that is crucial to its success is the developers who will be building apps the users need. And to lure the developers under the umbrella of Firefox OS, Mozilla has floated a new scheme.
According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, online retail giant Amazon is working on a smartphone with 3D display. But that’s not all. The retailer is also rumored to be working on a budget smartphone and a set-top box.
The world’s largest hard drive company Seagate is getting serious about Solid State Drives (SSDs). Yesterday, the company unveiled the Seagate 600 SSD, its first-ever consumer-to-enterprise solid state drive that will be sold along with Cupertino, Calif.-based company’s hard disks and hybrid hard drives, or storage devices that combine both speedy flash memory chips and high-capacity hard disks.
ARM has been able to assert a significant influence over the smartphone market, with its powerful System-on-Chip offerings. But now, Intel plans to change this by hoping to trump ARM’s chips with its new ‘Silvermont’ microarchitecture.
If you want to keep an eye on what is going on at your home while you are away, you can make use of some very affordable solutions. Among these are a category of new apps which can turn your smartphone into a remote security camera for the sake of home monitoring.
There’s a lot of rumors going around these days about anticipated phones showing up in Android benchmark databases. Ever since search giant Google acquired Motorola Mobile, people have been waiting anxiously for Google to premiere a phone which will be able to give a tough fight to other fabulous smartphones. However, at present there are a number of rumors suggesting that Google’s highly anticipated Motorola X Phone will be out sometime this summer possibly in August.
Samsung has been able to garner a dedicated fan-following for its Galaxy Note line-up. Galaxy Note (I) turned out to be a success while banking on it, Galaxy Note II also managed even better sales. Now, Samsung is preparing Galaxy Note III, and the handset’s images and specifications have leaked on to the web.