This may start a flame war, but in my opinion there is no doubt that smartphones released after 2007 have a design that is, in one way or another, inspired and influenced by the design of the original iPhone. Physical keyboards are almost completely dead, front side of smartphones are quite often dominated by their display etc. etc.
It is becoming increasingly difficult to keep up with what is going on with Apple and Samsung as they continue to battle it out with each other over the alleged infringement of various patents. We've already had the major trial and verdict in San Jose, with Samsung being told they are liable to the tune of $1.05 billion for breaching a number of Apple patents, as well as a Japanese court ruling in Samsung's favor in a separate case regarding a utility patent that centers around transferring data between two devices. Court rulings and alleged infringements in different markets all over the world make this a difficult one to get your head around.
Have you ever wanted to mix two images together? Maybe it’s for double exposure photography or for just pulling off a face swap (interchanging the faces of two or more people in one photo), that’s up to you. Well, you know what this segues into: there’s an app for that. Check it out after the jump.
If you are one of those individuals who happen to be in the market for a new tablet in the coming weeks or so, then the recent leaked images of the new Amazon Kindle Fire may be of some interest to you. Amazon has showcased the current generation Kindle Fire as out of stock, obviously setting off speculation that they are about to furnish the marketplace with a new and improved version of their relatively popular tablet, something that seemed to be confirmed with the release of an image yesterday, purported to be of the new Kindle Fire.
If you are a regular user of the Twitter micro-blogging platform and also happen to own an iPhone or iPad or use an OS X powered Mac, then the chances are that you have either heard of, or extensively used the Tweetbot Twitter app in one form or another. It's pretty much old news but Tweetbot is quite simply one of the most successful iOS Twitter apps available and has enjoyed huge success with the iPhone and iPad versions.
Movie remakes are, in the eyes of the die-hard film buffs, often a recipe for disaster. Most of the classics have come back for a second innings, and the likes of The Karate Kid, The A Team, and Nightmare On Elm Street all have one thing in common - they were nowhere near as good as the originals.
Windows Phone, whilst not having found a significant user-base just yet, is widely considered as the only threat to the dominance of Google's Android and Apple's iOS operating systems, and despite having only released a handful of devices with Windows Phone 7.x, the anticipation regarding Windows Phone 8 is almost as great as that of the desktop edition.
With only twelve days to go before Apple is rumored to be announcing its next iPhone, it just wouldn't be right if we had a whole day without any coverage of the device, dubbed the iPhone 5, and like so many of the recent leaks, this one arrives courtesy of the French blog Nowhereelse.fr. The source of most next-gen iPhone bits and pieces, today sees a side-by-side comparison of the iPhone 5 and the iPhone 4S, and even though we were under no illusions the new device was longer than its predecessor, the image certainly puts things into perspective.
If you've been sitting back looking at Windows XP or the Windows Vista boot screen on your PC when it is loading and trying to convince yourself that upgrading to Windows 8 would be the most reasonable thing to do, then the fact that Microsoft's new operating system comes bundled with a little bit of the Xbox experience may just do the trick and convince you. Microsoft have some pretty fantastic products and services, with Windows, the Xbox gaming console and their Windows Phone platform, they have a pretty solid product line up.
Although Samsung is still in the process of hiding in the shadows of the consumer technology industry in an attempt to lick their wounds that are a result of their rather large defeat against Apple in California, they have managed to present their case in a Japanese court and notch up what can only be classed as an extremely small victory over the Cupertino-based iPhone giants. Although the case is in no way as large as the recent happenings that have been going on in San Jose recently, a victory is still a victory and Samsung will walk away from this one with their heads held a little higher.
