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Not sure whether we should relate this to the iPad 3 announcement expected later in the day, but it’s not like a new top level category is added in Apple’s App Store ever day. The category is “Catalogs” and we got this information from the folks of TheFind.com, which Catalogue iPad app can now be…
Remember the Nokia Lumia 900 and the HTC Titan II? Both were announced two months ago, sans price or release date. Mary-Jo Foley from All About Windows said the Lumia 900 would be released on March 18th during episode 234 of the Windows Weekly podcast which aired in January. Now March 18th is just 11…
Nokia’s Lumia 800, the “first real Windows Phone” according to Stephen Elop, the company’s CEO, landed in India on the 16th of December. We’re barely three months out and the price has been slashed from 29,990 INR ($595) to 23,590 INR ($465). That’s a price drop of over 20% INR. Some sites like WMPoweruser are…
Nokia’s MeeGo running N9, the one and only device that’ll ever run said OS, is getting a new software update according to the guys at Nokia Conversations. They say that 70% of N9 owners have already had the update pushed out to them, and that the next 30% will have to wait another couple of…
Stephen Elop, the CEO of Nokia, got under a lot of people’s skin when he said that the Lumia 800 was the “first real Windows Phone”. Samsung, HTC, LG, they were making and selling Windows Phones for a full year before Nokia brought their device to the table. Shit talking aside, Nokia prides themselves on…
Windows Phone, and Nokia in general, are doing pretty bad in the U.S. right now. Both companies are hoping that’ll change when the Lumia 900 comes out. Said smartphone was announced at the Consumer Electronic Show in January, but we’ve yet to hear a concrete launch date or price point. Anyway, that’s just one device.…
LG’s performance at Mobile World Congress last week can best be described as underwhelming. The company announced a 5 inch smartphone/tablet that’s a terrible competitor to the Samsung Galaxy Note. They announced 3 new “stylish” smartphones that scream boring design. And of course they showed off yet another 3D enabled smartphone when no actually wants…
In its new report titled “Mobile TV: Applications, Devices and Opportunities 2012-2016,” Juniper Research talks about mobile TV usage. According to the research company, growing user satisfaction with mobile TV on tablets will push average monthly viewing times to 186 minutes per month in 2014. As users become more accustomed to viewing content on tablets,…
Last week at Mobile World Congress Sony announced a handful of new Android smartphones that sadly run Android Gingerbread instead of Ice Cream Sandwich. The highest end product in their new portfolio, the Xperia S, has a 4.3 inch 720p display, which is awesome, but it’s powered by the year old Qualcomm S3 processor. Today…
Wikitude unveiled new SDK based on its ARchitect Engine, allowing developers to integrate augmented reality experiences into their apps using JavaScript. Actually, the whole ARchitect Engine is made as a JavaScript framework that can be embedded in an HTML web view which sits atop the Wikitude camera view and enables developers to control the objects…