Mobile

Samsung Galaxy S users were left in the dark earlier this year after they were told by Samsung that they would not be getting an official Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update. But thanks to consumer power, Samsung agreed to offer their Galaxy S a “Value Pack” that would bring …

It’s now becoming quite common for the odd scuffle at Apple stores over in China but this one shows that the trouble can start even before the store opens and from the most unlikely people. It seems that the Dalian shopping mall was unhappy at a new shopping centre opening …

In a highly competitive smartphone market there are bound to be winners and losers at the end of the financial year. Rising star Huawei hopes to be one of the winners. In a recent interview with Mobile World Live yesterday Huawei's Chairman of Devices, Richard Yu, discussed the future of …

Half of all American homes own at least one Apple product, according to research from CNBC. The CNBC ‘All America Economic Survey‘ shows that at least 55 million homes have a single Apple device, such as an iPod, iPad, Macintosh or iPhone. The research adds that at least one in …

Research In Motion, the creator of BlackBerry phones have announced that they are abandoning the consumer smartphone market to concentrate on business users. This return to their ‘roots' has been seen as a positive move for the company, as they will divert all resources to the area of their business …

It looks like this summer will be a hot one, and not just the weather. The new Google 7” tablet looks set to be released this year and with it will come one of the hottest price wars we’ve seen to a long while. Google have decided to go in …

Are you looking to get new car insurance? Battling to find the cheapest, most competitve deal? They fear not, because MoneySupermarket have developed an application which will work on the iPhone, Android and iPad. They claim that people who use and buy insurance from MoneySuperMarket will save an average of …

Amazon have experienced a high level of success with the Kindle Fire in America, achieving strong sales in the budget sector of the tablet market. The latest news indicates that they are preparing to launch at least two more tablet computers later this year. Digitimes have said that the number …

If our UK readers are looking for a new smartphone, two of HTC's new trio of Androids are now up for pre-order with Vodafone UK. The HTC One X flagship and the One S will be available for free on two year contracts starting at just 36 GBP a month. …

It would be fair to say that the iPad 3 launch was positive. Much of the press, including Kitguru raved about the new high resolution retina screen and gaming prowess. There was little to dislike, apart from the slightly added weight when compared to the iPad 2. Over the last …

Tim Cook, Apple CEO has decided to visit China this week, on a relationship building exercise, visiting many dignitaries and partner factories. One of the high profile press events occurred at a troubled Foxconn factory in China. China is a huge market for all the major technology players, and they …

Earlier today Google's Jean-Baptiste Queru has given word that Android Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0.4 will soon be available through the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). This build apparently brings about an incremental update with “a few hundred changes over Android 4.0.3,” although it is not yet clear what many of …

The Apple hype machine keeps on rolling, and with every new release of the iPad we have publications who buy them, just to tear them apart and to show everyone what is inside. A huge portion of the iPad 3 comprises the new battery system to compensate for the added …

Always big on the customer service, Apple has decided in Australia that advertising The New iPad (3) as being 4G, while it is not in fact compatible with the local 4G network, was a mistake. Will the UK follow suit? In a nod to global corporate speak, Apple has decided …

After many months of Ivy Bridge talk and still another month or so to go before its supposed launch date, it's been discovered that there doesn't appear to be any Core i3 models coming out for notebooks; rather, Ivy Bridge mobile parts will be confined to Intel's Core i7, Core …

In business, it's important to get your products out first when there is an opportunity. Arriving at the FA Cup Finals one day late, with a hot dog that's 10x better, is a poor decision. However, it's also possible to go too soon. Right now, an array of Chinese factories …

Apple CEO Tim Cook has traveled to China to talk with government officials as he tries to clear up a raft of problems in this heavy growth market. Cook has never been to China, since taking over from the late Steve Jobs last year. He is keeping to a guarded …

New, double resolution images have been found in the second developer build of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. This means that new Macintosh computers could very well ship with a Retina display, or HiDPi mode. We have all seen how the ultra high resolution panels have improved the iPad 3, …

Over the weekend Nvidia dropped the NDA on it's Geforce GTX 680 graphics card based on their new Kepler architecture. Which in the case of the GTX 680, Kepler beats the AMD competition, the 7970 on many levels with some degree of ease. As a result of a successful launch (excluding a …

Research In Motion have been knocked off the top spot in hometown Canada for the first time, to be replaced by Apple's, with their iPhone. The maker of Blackberry smartphones shipped 2.08 million Blackberry phones last year in Canada compared to Apple's 2.85 million, according to data complied by Bloomberg …

If you walk into an electronics store these days you (should) find a bunch of tablets on display near the laptops. If you're curious as to what is offer you'll find tablets mostly with screens roughly 10 inches in size such as the Asus Transformer Prime or the Apple iPad. …

Microsoft have a plan which targets China. The plan is to overtake Apple, by offering a wide range of handsets at lower prices. Passing Apple will be the first step in a longer term goal of market dominance. Simon Leung, Microsoft's Chairman and chief executive officer for the Greater China …

Apple's iPhoto application has proven popular with the audience, achieving over 1 million downloads in the last ten days alone. This new iOS application was released beside the new iPad 3 a short while ago. According to The Loop, those are genuine user downloads, not multiple downloads from the same …

Many of the Samsung Galaxy S III “leaked” specifications and pictures in the last week are obvious fakes but GSM Helpdesk has come across some information plus an image which at first seems a bit more legitamate then usual. At first all seems well, until you realise it looks awfully …

Emoticons are useful for one thing only; to portray emotion through text, or to fool people by putting a 🙂 when you really feel :@. Emoticons are the one thing that gets texting or instant messaging close to the emotional connection level of a phone call or face to face …

The iPad3 is coming under fire (pun intended) from a certain audience who are claiming that it is overheating. The Mac forums have been seeing an increase in complaints from users that there is an unusual level of heat emitting from the lower left side of the iPad when it …

Ever since Google's mobile operating system, Android, was first released way back in late 2008 it has been Linux without quite being Linux. This is largely in part due to disagreements between developers but thanks to some resolutions Android code has been integrated into the Linux 3.3 kernel. “Various Android …

The whole point of the Walkman-iPod revolution was that entertainment suddenly became very personal. You could have 50 people on a bus and every single one of them might be nodding their head to a different beat. The next generation of accessory is/was/will be about making the experience into a …

Apple launched the iPad 3 on Friday and sales figures in last night are very healthy indeed. Apple sent out a press release yesterday and have confirmed that they have sold 3 million iPad's so far. “The new iPad is a blockbuster with three million sold―the strongest iPad launch yet,” …

The iPad 3 has taken the industry by storm in the last week however the people at Chipworks have taken a closer look at the internals. The new A5x upgraded processor has had the die size increased by 35 percent to accommodate the new quad core graphics processing unit. They …