With Nokia's recent issues with poor sales and dodgy software, it's perhaps unsurprising that rumors are once again abound that the mobile phone behemoth is batting its eyelashes at a 3rd party operating system with the hopes of improving its ailing fortunes. This time it's Microsoft's Windows Phone 7.
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Oliver Haslam has written about technology for over a decade. His work has been published in print at Macworld and online pretty much everywhere else. If it plugs in or has a battery, it's fair game.
Yesterday Verizon made the iPhone 4 available for pre-order to its existing customers only, and managed to break the carrier's own sales records in just two hours. Perhaps most interestingly, those orders came in between the hours of 03:00 and 05:00. That's the morning folks!
Hey, prototypes have to be tested somewhere, right? According to a Reuters eyewitness, the next generation iPad was spied at today's News Corp announcement of The Daily.
During Google's big Honeycomb announcement today, the company also debuted its online App Store called, unimaginatively, the Android Market Web Store. Yes it's the Android Market in handy dandy web form, but there's more magic involved under the hood.
With Mobile World Congress taking place in a couple of weeks, it is expected we'll be treated to a raft of new phone announcements, and Samsung are getting ready to announce the new Galaxy S 2.
Reuters reports that for the first time in over ten years, Nokia's Symbian is no longer the world's number one smartphone platform. The new king? Google's Android.
Those Analysts just love to analyze don't they? This time it's Ming-Chi Kuo in a report for Concord Securities in Taiwan. According to AppleInsider, this particular analyst is making some not-so bold predictions about what will and will not be found packed inside the yet unannounced iPad 2.
Continuing the jailbreak theme today comes news that jailbreak supremo MuscleNerd has claimed that Geohot might release a new untethered jailbreak in the coming weeks.
It's been a week of new jailbreak apps and another new one was just announced. Developed by Chpwn, VoiceActivator is a tweak that opens up a world of new voice commands for iOS devices.
We told you recently about a funky new jailbreak app called 3DBoard that promises to give your iPhone's home screen that 3D effect. Well now it is available for download on the Cydia Store for jailbroken iPhones.
