Hewlett Packard famously exited the smartphone and tablet industry back in 2011 when they made the business decision to retire webOS. After concentrating its collective efforts on a number of different industries, HP will today announce its plans to re-enter the mobile space by introducing two "phablets" that will initially be introduced into the Indian marketplace. The 6 and 7-inch VoiceTab devices are billed as tablets, but will come enabled with voice features that will bring calling capabilities to the hardware.
Square Enix's Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition is all set to launch on January 28th for the PlayStation 4, and considering it's among the first of the major titles to hit the next-generation platform it's likely to generate a great deal of attention. In an attempt to show off the staggering differences between the PS4 and PS3, gaming site IGN has taken the opportunity to produce a side-by-side gameplay video that highlights just how far Lara Croft has come in her quest to make it onto Sony's powerful PlayStation 4 platform.
So here's an interesting question, and one that hadn't really crossed our minds until just now. It's a valid question, if you dig deep enough, too. What if Google was a real person? And by real, we mean, a real person with skin and bones, not just a company, or a search engine.
Well here’s a stroke of good news, we're sure you'll agree. According to TechCrunch the once hugely popular and still much loved Winamp media player and Shoutcast streaming service are to live on, even after AOL announced that it was to die late last year. In fact, both did come to the end of their natural days on December 30th, but it seems they will be resurrected thanks to a deal that sees a Belgian firm take ownership of the pair.
When Apple launched the iPhone 5s and 5c, and along with it released iOS 7 to the masses, it was a move unlike any other that the company had made since it launched the iPhone back in 2007. You see, iOS 7 was not just a visual overhaul - it was something revolutionary to the iDevice users, who’d be accustomed to the same look and feel for their devices since they got hold of one. iOS 7, and how Jony Ive executed it, have received accolades of praise for being simplistic, elegant and beautiful, not to mention fully functional as a smartphone and tablet operating system. It may even serve as the foundation for the fruit company’s future Human Interface Guidelines for every production interface.
Arguably the most distinguishing feature of the iPhone 5s was its Touch ID fingerprint sensor, which made it all the more unique not just from all other iPhones, iPod touches and iPads, but rather, any other smartphone on the market as well. However, one issue that this caused potentially for the newest iPhone’s availability was low production rates, resulting in long wait times for even early adopters. Now, according to a recent report from DigiTimes, the TSMC, Apple’s supplier for fingerprint sensors, is not only gearing up to initiate production in Q2 this year, but also on a larger scale, in hopes to meet the production needs and demands for the upcoming iPhone 6 that is probably going to get released at the end of this year.
Following on from its introduction of the Xperia Z1S and Xperia Z1 Compact smartphones at CES, Sony has introduced two additional devices to compliment the Xperia range. The Xperia T2 Ultra and the Xperia E1 are built with relatively modest specifications and look like they will be aimed at the lower entry level smartphone market rather than those looking for a powerhouse device to compete with the best of Android.
Despite its flaws, Google Glass is gaining popularity by the day, and hence, every aspect of life has started taking into account the advent of new technology that didn’t exist earlier. A new app for Google Glass, aimed specifically at drivers, helps you stay awake during long drives in your car, as that’s the dedicated purpose of DriveSafe.
Even though you can pick up an iPhone 5s with up to 64GB of storage space while the iPad ranges push the boat all the way out to 128GB, most of us still like to de-clutter wherever possible. Whether this takes the form of moving our media content to the cloud or simply deleting apps as and when they're no longer needed, it's nice to have a substantial amount of space spare. One way you can save space in the beta'd iOS 7.1 is by removing unwanted OTA updates that have been downloaded onto your device, and as discovered by the folks at Macerkopf, you'll be able to save yourself a tidy 1GB!
Jailbreaking is all about customization, and if there's one area of iOS that people like to fettle in all kinds of weird and wonderful ways, it's the iOS lock screen. In fact, some of our favorite jailbreak tweaks are customizations for the lock screen, so when we heard about Unlockr, we were rather intrigued.
