We've been hearing a great deal about Apple's supposed smartwatch endeavors, with reports earlier on in the year suggesting that up to 100 members of staff had been assigned as a dedicated team tasked with building the foundations of the project. Some months on, and we're now hearing that the device, naturally suspected to be called the iWatch, will be making its way to the market later on next year, and will be the first piece of Apple hardware - unless another product arrives between now and then - to feature wireless charging.
The PlayStation 4 has just begun retailing in a further 16 additional countries atop the 32 that had already seen the release of the Sony machine, bringing the grand total of officially-selling nations up to 48. Although the inventory was rather scarce at launch, with the console selling out in many of its demographic hotspots, the Japanese company appears to be on top of the manufacturing process, or at least enough so to add so many new markets to the fold.
Every year, Microsoft holds its BUILD conference, consisting of a series of workshops for developers as well as a few keynote speeches outlining upcoming products and releases. Next year, BUILD will be held from April 2nd to April 4th in San Francisco, the Redmond company has confirmed, and with talk already circulating about the next version of Windows and indeed, Windows Phone, the conference will certainly mark a significant couple of days in the tech calendar.
It's a sad fact of the fast-moving tech world that a device doesn't even need to have released nowadays before we deem it acceptable to begin talking about its eventual successor, and despite the iPhone 5s being lauded by many as the best thing since sliced bread, we've already heard reports of the next iPhone boasting a larger display. Until we have any solid evidence, though, everything we hear or see is more than likely the figment of somebody's imagination, and the concepts below, which are most certainly conjured from deep within the creative minds of one design agency, show us what a curved iPhone 6c, alongside an iPhone Air, may look like.
Google's Nexus 5 recently made its long-awaited début after the Nexus 4 had held the fort as the flagship Nexus smartphone for well over a year. As per the release before it, the Nexus 5 has provided many Android fans with powerhouse of a handset for a very reasonable price, but as with its predecessor, it's far from flawless. Thanks to these shortcomings, it had been rumored that the search giant will come through with a revised version of the handset very soon, and this now appears to be the case as the image below shows.
OS X has long since been the de facto, Apple-based alternative to Microsoft's domineering Windows, but despite becoming more popular over the past decade thanks to some innovative, MacBook-shaped hardware, it's fair to say that the Cupertino's desktop operating system now plays second fiddle to its very own iOS. Week after week we get to take a look at varied OS X concepts of what the next version of iOS might entail, but in something of a rare treat, and one designer has pieced together an idea for OS X 11. Check it out after the break!
PebbleOS 1.14.1 has just gone live for the Pebble smartwatch. The new firmware update includes a bunch of new features and bug fixes for the popular smartwatch which works with both iPhone and Android devices.
Apple is known for its attention to detail, and that focus on the little things is probably why it sells its MacBooks with power bricks that have flick-out wings for wrapping the cord around. It's not a big thing, but it's just enough to make lugging a notebook computer around just that little bit easier.
With effortless syncing and a wide range of cloud services, manual file transfer is not as popular as it once was, but this hasn't stopped companies from trying to innovate in creating new products in this field. Having already checked out PhotoFast’s i-FlashDrive just yesterday, which allows iOS and Android devices to exchange various different kinds of files, Sony has now come up with a stylish, Android smartphone/tablet-compatible USB flash drive.
Microsoft's Windows Phone has failed to capture the hearts and minds of the great unwashed smartphone buying masses, even if it has managed to carve out a little corner of the sales pie chart to call its own. Unfortunately for Microsoft though, that little bit of market share isn't going to cut the mustard moving forward, especially with the acquisition of Nokia expected to move the mobile division of the Redmond firm onto the next step.
