When Siri was introduced back in early October, it was regarded as one of iPhone 4S’s greatest features. Siri, as most of you already know, is a voice-based personal assistant and a knowledge navigator that uses natural language processing to let users give it a wide variety of questions and commands in everyday language. It then taps into services like Yelp!, Google, Wolfram-Alpha and iOS system apps to give the required answer.
Instagram is one of those beautifully simple concept that has millions of amateur and professional photographers alike completely hooked. You take a photo, edit, and share. And that, as they say, is that.
The smartphone industry is full of analytics, metrics and research companies that love nothing more than tearing through sales figures and producing lovely graphs and pie charts which detail every little intricacy about a company’s product sales. Needless to say, in recent times a lot of this attention has been centered around Apple and Samsung, not only because they are constantly competing against each other to be the largest smartphone vendor in the world, but also because the two electronic giants also seem hell bent on battling it out in the courts.
Samsung’s Galaxy S II smartphone was released around in the world back in May-June 2011 and we are now closing into the reveal and release of its successor - the Galaxy S III.
I remember the old days of having to carry about different A4-sized pads of paper for different lectures in my bag when going to university. Getting home at the end of the day and having to face the laborious task of going through each notepad trying to collate my notes and put them into some kind of workable order. Needless to say, the novelty of keeping on top of things soon wore off and left me with notepads and notepads of unorganized, badly taken notes which probably affected my performance.
Google’s Nexus series of “Android experience” smartphones are always first in line when it comes to getting the latest updates to the Android OS. The latest Nexus device - the Samsung Galaxy Nexus - is currently on Android 4.0.2 and, today, we’ve received news of a leaked build of Android 4.0.4 for the Verizon Galaxy Nexus.
Developer koush’s ClockworkMod Recovery is the most popular custom recovery today. It is used and recommended by just about every Android enthusiast out there because of its availability on a wide variety of devices.
Google recently introduced PIN protection for Android Market. Its objective, of course, is to ensure kids don’t accidentally buy apps with your credit card credentials stored on your phone. Today, we came across a very simple, straightforward method to basically bypass this protection. Check it out after the break.
Mobile ads are getting more and more belligerent these days. From the usual in-app ads, to whole widgets dedicated to serving ads and even pushing ads to the notification bar. Unsolicited notification bars ads space are, perhaps, the most annoying of the lot because a. they use up space in the notification bar b. it is often difficult to tell which app is responsible for them.
Believe it or not, the BlackBerry PlayBook was actually quite well-received from a technical point of view. The tablet device looked good, had decent and competitive specifications and aside from the glaring omission of native email handling, was a very accomplished device. So just what went wrong?
