With a strong suite of exclusive apps under the “S” brand – apps like Smart Stay, Social Tag, Smart Alerts, S Voice and S Beam – Samsung is making good use of the power of software to differentiate their Galaxy S III smartphone with high-end offerings from other Android smartphone manufacturers.
The Apple vs. Samsung battle, whilst a little tiresome at times, never fails to arouse interest within the technology sphere, and although Tim Cook's Apple is slightly more mellow than the company might have been when headed by Steve Jobs, the Cupertino outfit shows no sign of letting up on its bitter rival, ramping up efforts to block sales of the Korean electronics giant's Galaxy S III smartphone.
Yesterday’s hottest news was Apple’s big legal win against Samsung in the banning of their high-end Galaxy Nexus Android smartphone. The ruling came from US District Court Judge Lucy Koh who is convinced that Samsung’s device has caused “irreparable harm” to the sales of the Apple iPhone.
Ever wanted to be able to launch widgets and interact with your Android phone just by flicking it in a certain direction? Now you can, though the list of functions is a little smaller than we would perhaps like. Still, you can't have everything in life can you?
That title may seem like an odd question, and admittedly, it probably is. What is an iPhone moment, after all? Have I lost my mind? Possibly, but just follow along for a minute.
When Google took the wrapper off Android 4.1, Jelly Bean, the company unleashed a raft of new features, improvements and changes that has left the Android community either clamoring to buy the new Nexus 7 tablet, or to port the new release to their current smartphone. If you're a Galaxy Nexus owner then you're probably in luck, but if not you can still get a little taste of Jelly Bean on your Ice Cream Sandwich phone right now.
Popular Android root control app, Superuser, has seen an update recently, taking the app version number up to the heady heights of version 3.1. Security improvements are included, along with a raft of other changes that may or may not be of use to most of us in the Android hacking community.
The Nexus 7 hasn’t even been released yet, and the developer community has already achieved root on it thanks to the handy work of developer birdman and friends over on RootzWiki. We’ve written down a step-by-step guide on not just how to root your Nexus 7, but also how to unlock its bootloader and flash ClockworkMod Recovery. Check it out after the jump!
The Google Glass demo at Google I/O 2012 was undoubtedly the highlight of the keynote. It showed a bunch of skydivers skydiving and BMXers biking their way down to Moscone Center where they joined Google co-founder Sergey Brin to wrap up the day 1 keynote. The demo was widely talked about on the blogosphere and on social networks like Facebook, Reddit and Twitter.
Although we haven't heard about it as much as we have in recent times, the ongoing patents wars between the world's top technology companies is bubbling away in the background, with Apple and Samsung still managing to find themselves at the front of it all. Continuing with the legal battle we have become familiar with over the last twelve months, Apple have found themselves on the positive end of an initial ruling across the pond.
