It has been suggested over the past year or so that the iPhone 5 was the last device to receive input from late Steve Jobs. Moreover, it has also been said that it was Jobs' last project, which he worked on as the rest of the company focused on the largely unchanged iPhone 4S, and a feature-length post over at Businessweek sheds some light on this.
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NASA's Curiosity rover, which recently saw pop star will.i.am broadcast from on the surface of Mars, is quickly becoming the master achiever of unprecedented feats, and now holds acclaim as the first to check-in from another planet, courtesy of Foursquare.
Whenever a new smartphone hits the market, there are a few key areas we, as consumers, focus our attentions on. Storage space, camera quality, processor speed, design, display size - these are all factors we tend to take into consideration - however, in line with the widespread push to look after the planet, more and more consumers are looking to see which smartphone is the least harmful to the environment.
Google is expected to drop a handful of Nexus series devices this fall, and according to an alleged mobile retailer database listing, the Samsung-manufactured Nexus 2 will be one of those handsets, along with a 32GB iteration of the ASUS-made Nexus 7 tablet.
To many of us tech-orientated folk, there's something really fascinating about a wristwatch which, to some degree, manages to offer the features we've become accustomed to with our various other mobile gadgets. Much has been made over Apple's purported "iWatch" over the past couple of years, and although the fruit company hasn't even so much as hinted such a device would be on the way, various patents filed have been more than suggestive. Now, Mountain View-based Google looks as though it might get in on the act, filing a patent of its own for what looks to be a so-called "smartwatch."
Although speculation regarding the so-called "iPad Mini" has, for the most part, been quiet recently due to the release of Apple's iPhone 5, the rumor mill is back in business, and along with the easily-attainable Chinese mockup of the device which has been doing the rounds frequently, UkrainianiPhone has released some shots of the device unseen in the wild hitherto.
It's almost a year to the day that Apple co-founder Steve Jobs passed, and in the past twelve months, we've seen a marked uprising in previously unreleased, unseen and unheard content concerning the former Apple CEO. Recently in August, a rare twenty minute audio recording of Steve Jobs speaking at the 1983 International Design Conference in Aspen began doing the rounds, anybody wishing to listen in could do so by heading over to the Center for Design Innovation’s website.
Windows Phone 8, which will be released later this month along with the various other editions of Microsoft's new-look operating system, is highly anticipated in the mobile industry, and there are a variety of reasons behind this. Although it's a promising platform in itself, the initial devices - notably Nokia's Lumia 920 - have a lot of prospective smartphone purchasers salivating, and to add to that, it looks as though Microsoft will indeed be releasing its own brand of smartphone for its fledgling ecosystem.
Apple Vs Samsung Patent Spat And iPhone 5 Launch Both Saw Boost In Galaxy S III Sales, Study Reveals
Apple and Samsung, fierce competitors in a number of categories and markets, are primarily the vendors of the two biggest smartphones, and after the pair fought a brutal patent war in San Jose, the outcome saw sales of the Korean company's flagship Galaxy S III increase significantly. Moreover, the release of Apple's iPhone 5 - which sold in record numbers with 5 million units pushed on the first weekend alone - also saw consumers flock for the Galaxy S III, presumably having assessed the Cupertino's offering and deciding to opt for the quad-core handset.
Whether, in actuality, smartphones and tablets make us more organized, functional beings is a matter of debate, but certainly, being in possession of a device offering calls, SMS, web, e-mail and pretty much everything in between, is supposed to make our daily digital (and indeed, non-digital) errands just that little bit easier to run.
