Let me start off by saying that voice control is nothing new. Apple didn’t invent the technology. What makes Siri different is how popular it has become. It is not limited to only phone related functions, but can pull valuable information from the web too. For a worthy contender to match its capabilities will take some serious horsepower.
According to a report published earlier today, Apple is, unsurprisingly, very much ahead of other smartphone manufacturers when it comes to brand loyalty.
I go to Starbucks pretty often, I’m a big fan of their iPhone app that allows me to pay for my coffee by having the barista scan a code on my screen. The process is quick and easy and I have fun earning stars and checking the balance of all my gift cards. By next year, a scan-less method will be more popular and available with more merchants and on more phones.
With the Symbian OS having been swiftly eclipsed in the battle of the mobile operating systems, Finnish outfit Nokia is trying to reinvent itself via Microsoft's Windows Phone interface.
Let's face it, internet tethering is one of the most useful features throughout the smartphone market, allowing any device to become a makeshift hotspot with just a few simple actions.
You're a Windows 7 user, right? You like that nice user interface, complete with all that blue glass and with all those, well, windows. More importantly, you like it because it isn't Vista, mainly. Lets take that liking to a whole new level shall we?
According to a statistics reports; Apple is still the #1 smartphone manufacturer in USA while Android maintains its lead as the #1 mobile OS.
Facebook can be pretty slow with updating their native apps for different smartphone platforms. Their Android app was left ignored for quite some time before it was finally brought in line with their iOS app (which is considered the best out of all of them) and their iPad app, which reportedly had been ready since May, was only released earlier this month. Facebook has been especially not giving their Windows Phone app due attention as it has been updated today after what seems like months. It brings support for Windows Phone 7.5 Mango, which was released just a few weeks ago.
No sooner is a new software or product released, does the attention turn to what's up next, or what the future holds for us.
If there's one thing we all seem to enjoy doing, it's looking into the future and making weird and wonderful predictions about what the future will be like, and how our world will be changed dramatically by the technology around us.
