Over-the-air, or OTA updates make the process of reeling in new features and security patches a great deal easier on mobile device users. The rigmarole of connecting a device to a computer while the magic happened was a common occurrence just a few years ago, but such is the fast-moving nature of the mobile field, that any update can now easily applied with a few simple taps - whether at home or on the fly. For those rocking the Galaxy Nexus or a Nexus S, an airborne bundle of joy is heading your way, and if it hasn't already reached your device, we'll show you how to pluck it from the skies.
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Earlier, we revealed the a 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display was likely to drop alongside the iPad Mini later this month, and to add to those two significant releases, it looks as though the Mac mini will be getting a refresh in the image of the WWDC enhancements offered to the MacBook Air and Pro ranges.
The elusive iPad Mini is, despite the setback of the announcement date having been incorrectly predicted, set to be arriving in the coming weeks, and although the specification of the device has seemed relatively assured for some time, pricing hasn't. With the smaller slate supposedly preserving Apple's dominance in fending off the growing list of cheaper tablets, the cost of the iPad Mini will be a large attributing factor to wither it serves its purpose, and a leaked snap of a German retailer's internal database appears to have shed a little light on the matter.
Quite a few months ago, we learned Google could be plotting to release a bunch of Nexus branded devices this fall (as many as five), and the way rumors and speculation have been flying around with regards to a number of would-be Nexus OEMs, that forecast is looking more and more on the money. Sony is the latest company to join the rumor mill, and its supposed "Nexus X" device has now allegedly been spotted in the wild.
Although Facebook's IPO may not have taken off as successfully as Mark Zuckerberg and his team would perhaps have liked, there's little doubting the work ethic of Facebook in 2012. The mobile app finally seems to have been taken care of, and among a continual stream of new features and performance enhancements, the News Feed now supports the use of emoticons in comments.
There are plenty of dev-teams and individual enthusiasts spending the majority of their time looking for new loopholes and gaps missed by Apple's security team, and as well as often highlighting potential threats to users, the work is also done for the purpose of jailbreaking and unlocking.
In order to keep itself in the news amid the iPhone 5, iPad Mini, and various Nexus / Android hype, Nokia has been taking shots at rivaling OEMs (mainly Apple), and in the very latest, the Finnish company has made a point of displaying the Lumia 920's uniqueness.
We're getting mightily close to the purported launch bracket of the rumored "iPad Mini," and although Apple has been familiarly tight-lipped about everything, the tech world seems dead-set on what the Cupertino has up its sleeve. So confident, in fact, that a mock-up of the device has been doing the rounds for some time, and even though we've seen shots of it on numerous occasions, Chinese tech blog Wretch.cc has delivered some close-up shots.
The Nexus 7 tablet, which was the brainchild of a collaborative effort between Google and ASUS, proved to be a huge hit with consumers thanks largely to its low starting price and Android 4.1 Jelly Bean implementation. Talk has been rife recently regarding a 32GB model - offering a little more storage for folk who find 8 and 16GB configurations as requiring too space management - and to throw a little more weight behind the murmurings, a 32GB Nexus 7 looks to have made an appearance in Japan.
Recently, there's been a marked uprising in apps related to the comic book genre, and now, digital comic publisher Madefire has joined the party with its universal app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Unlike many of your typical comic apps, which stick to a digitalization of the traditional paper editions of comics books, Madefire's app takes advantage of "motion book" technology - making the entire experience more enthralling and aesthetically-pleasing at the same time.
