Microsoft Windows Phone 8 – the to-be upcoming phone from software giant Microsoft, details have been revealed. The phone codename “Apollo” – will be based on the Windows 8 kernel and not on Windows CE are current versions. The company is expecting to have 100,000 Windows Phone 7.5 compatible app available in the market at the time when WP8 make its debut. A...
Google yesterday revealed a service that it had developed, codenamed Bouncer – which provides automated scanning of Android Market for potentially malicious software without disrupting the Android’s user experience or requiring developers to go through an application approval process. Last year Android ecosystem accounts for increase of 250% YOY in device activations...
Google recently released an interesting set of data showing that mobile phone owners are mostly using which Android operating system. Gingerbread (and in particular versions Android versions 2.3.3 – 2.3.7) make up a dominant 58.6 percent of handsets while its latest flavour — Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) — accounts for one percent of phones. The data was taken...
Samsung Galaxy S2 – the one that we know with 1.2GHz, but the South Korean company “might” be working towards two things to bring in addition to the current Galaxy S2 – first, the company is planning to bring the new version with “Plus” category – name as Samsung Galaxy S2 Plus, and second bumping the newer version to 1.5GHz. According to the An3DBenchXL’s...
According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors shipped 427.4 million units in 4Q11 compared to 402.8 million units in the fourth quarter of 2010. The 6.1% year-over-year growth was higher than IDC’s forecast of 4.4% for the quarter, but weaker than the 9.3% growth in 3Q11. The worldwide mobile phone market grew...
Nokia, which last week post its Q4 2011 financial figures of an operating loss of €954 million and decision to use Windows phone (for which Microsoft paid the Finnish company $250 million) – will results into the major impact in the company’s earning throughout most of the part of the year – Nokia’s Chairman Jorma Ollila said. Ollila told Finnish National broadcaster YLE, “For a significant part of the year the transition will be seen in the results.” Nokia reported a 73% fall in its Q4 earnings. “Nokia will...
Samsung has confirmed that the company will not launch Galaxy S3 at the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona – but more proposed to hold a separate event to launch the new device. TechRadar received the confirmation from Samsung that the Galaxy S3, successor to its popular S2, won’t be appearing at MWC 2012. “Samsung is looking forward to introducing...
If you still able to memorize that last week we told you about Samsung‘s upcoming next-generation 2GHz tablets that it is likely to announce at Mobile World Congress next month. An another leak today added to that [1][2] rumor – on its not completely pointed to that announcement, but somehow notes the specifications of one of the two brand of company’s new...
Crackberry is reporting an image that seems to be a new design of the rumoured Blackberry London prototype, which RIM calls a ‘Superphone’. The device which will launch after two other models code named Laguna and Lisbon – which arrive in US, while the London would be headed to the UK. The device is equipped with both TI OMAP5 and Qualcomm chipsets are being...
With the Research in Motion (RIM) drastic change on early last week announced Thorsten Heins as company’s new President and Chief Executive Officer. Mike Lazaridis, who worked with the company as co-chief executive officer left the position at the time. “It was very hard,” Lazaridis said in an interview with The Record this week. The company announced that...
