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Not sure why every handset maker thinks it needs a custom Android UI, but hey – that’s the just the world works these days. Sure there were times when pure Android experience wasn’t good enough, but Ice cream Sandwich pretty much rocks even in its basic form. ZTE is joining this (crazy?) trend with its…
Samsung keeps updating its S Pen SDK, allowing developers to make apps that run on the Galaxy Note devices. Version 2.0 of the SDK is out, packing a number of improvements over the previous release (version 1.5), including: SCanvasView Class inherited from CanvasView has been added – so that developers can animate their drawings and…
Samsung is teaming-up with Qualcomm and ARM to launch the secure video HD service utilizing Qualcomm’s Snapdragon StudioAccess and ARM’s TrustZone technologies. As a result, folks with select Samsung devices will be able to watch “brilliant HD videos” directly on their mobile device through Samsung Media Hub. The scheme starts with the Galaxy Note, which…
Samsung Brightside, that feature phone with a touchscreen and side-sliding QWERTY keyboard we told you about before, is almost live in Verizon Wireless’ portfolio. The “everything but cool” device packs a 3.1-inch display and 3.2-megapixel camera. Moreover, there are social networking, email and IM clients preloaded, as well as a web browser, document viewer and…
With iPad 3 just around the corner, activity on eBay’s electronics trade-in program surged, big time. According to information we got, eBay Instant Sale generated more than 125,000 tablet trade-in offers since launch rumors began to surface in early February, representing more than ten times greater figure than the number of offers generated for the…
StumbleUpon is one of the companies selected by Google to show off its app at the big Android booth in Barcelona. The web discovery service used the opportunity to launch a new version of its application for Android smartphones and tablets, as well as iOS-based devices. The main new thing of the updated Android app…
Your private photos stored in the iPhone are not as private as you may think they are. You see, iOS app developers can potentially access and copy your entire gallery to a remote server. Moreover, if location data is included within the photos, developers can find out your whereabouts. To make things even trickier, potential…
Yandex, the new owner of SPB Software, is using Mobile World Congress to launch SPB Yandex Shell 3D for Android tablets. Similarly to the smartphone version, the tablet UI also comes with glasses-free 3D UI, allowing interested mobile operators and OEMs to differentiate their products from the competition, which may or may not have its…
Marin’s live at the Windows 8 Consumer Preview event in Barcelona, and is bringing you all the goods from the event to the IntoMobile twitter account. Microsoft has made the Consumer Preview available for download to the general public, and those brave enough to test the new operating systems on their PCs can do so…
For as long as we can remember we’ve been extremely envious of the Japanese. Their phones, despite being nothing more than glorified feature phones, have some of the most ridiculous hardware specifications on the market. Recently that’s changed however, and handsets from the likes of Apple and Samsung have all but closed that spec gap,…