2011 was a year made up of mixed fortunes for Cupertino-based Apple. From a trading and financial aspect; they went from strength to strength with success of the iPad 2 and the iPhone 4S becoming their most successful product launch in the companies history with 4 million units being sold in the first three days. Let us not forget that the share price also breached the $400 mark in 2011 for the first time.
It has been just over twelve months since the Motorola Xoom Android tablet was unveiled at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show, making it the first tablet device to be sold with the Android 3.0 Honeycomb operating system. The tablet supports up to 720p video playback with a 2 megapixel front facing camera for video calling, along with a 5 megapixel rear camera which records video in 720p.
Take two technologies that have yet to really get off the ground and mash them together. What do you get? OnLive's gaming service working on a Google TV of course!
BlueStacks is a name that we've been hearing about for a few months now, and CES 2012 is where things have really begun to heat up for the company's App Player application.
Can you imagine a world where we could create a living version of both a typical iOS and Android user then pit them against each in various tasks to find out once and for all which the is the best operating system? Yeah, that would be pretty sensational, but unfortunately it isn't going to happen, not anytime soon anyway. The people at BlueStacks have come up with, in my opinion, is the next best thing by creating the rather odd looking 'Mr. Android'.
Have you ever wanted to make your own GIF image? You know, those lulzy, short animated images that are so popular on the internet? While there are ways to make one on the desktop using Photoshop or GIMP, these methods aren’t all that simple. If you have an Android device ready, you can use an app like GifStitch to, well, stitch together a bunch of images to create your very own GIF! Details and a little how-to tutorial available after the jump!
The folks from SamMobile sure are fast! Just a few days after releasing a leaked version of Android 4.0.3 ICS for Galaxy S II, they’ve come up with a leaked version of a Value Pack for the Ice Cream Sandwich-deprived Galaxy S (which Samsung, by the way, doesn’t even intend to release), and we’ve got a step-by-step guide ready after the jump on how to install / flash this leaked ROM to your Galaxy S GT-i9000!
I'm a social kinda guy. I like to share things, sometimes too much in fact. Heck, I told the world I was going to be a father by posting a photo of our first scan yesterday, and it was awesome!
The patent war between Apple and Samsung shows no sign of letting up, and the latest developments will only serve to keep the pair simmering along, ready to pounce at a moment's notice.
The Samsung Galaxy Nexus is one of the latest touch screen devices to be released to the masses running the latest 4.0 version of the Android operating system, codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich. For those of you out there who aren't fanatical about all things Android, the Galaxy Nexus is a device developed collaboratively between the Korean giant Samsung and Google.
