While, originally, the HTC Flyer was released with Android 2.3 “Gingerbread”, an Android 3.2 “Honeycomb” ROM was leaked recently which, thanks to the crafty Android dev community, has been made available for the Flyer.
Just last week, the United States Department of Justice moved to stop the proposed merger between AT&T and T-Mobile. Sprint, another competitor in the United States carrier space, has is also suing to stop the merger between the two companies.
Censorship is a major issue in today's society. Whether it's the government, music, advertising or film industry, many things we see, read and hear are changed up, modified and amended in one way or another.
Three days ago, we heard about Samsung pulling their newly-announced Galaxy Tab 7.7 from the IFA show floor, possibly because of Apple injunctions against Samsung’s products in Germany. This was later indirectly confirmed by the company and today, more information has been revealed about the event as well as the Apple-Samsung case in general.
While the iPhone got its first screen recording app back in early 2010, Android is only getting a proper screen recording solution today. Well, it’s better late than never, as the screen recording app released today does a whole lot more than simple screen recording: it’s called ScreenCast & Screen Recorder and, well, it lets you record your phone’s screen and take screenshots.
It's rather unfortunate that Apple exercises as much control and as many restrictions as humanly possible throughout iOS, and is one of the main reasons why people wind up jailbreaking the device.
The debate on which is the best mobile operating system is one discussed frequently throughout the tech world. Google has the biggest reach - covering over half of the smartphone market with its various incarnations of Android, whilst many others believe that Apple's iOS is superior, and is only behind due to being closed source and running on arguably overpriced technology.
Apple has done a pretty good job of snuffing out most of the opportunities to share files between iDevices. iTunes is the center of the known universe from the fruit company's point of view, and allowing drag and drop potentially facilitates copyright theft, so no chance of that changing any time soon.
As Japanese blog Macotakara reports, Chinese manufacturers Foxconn and Pegatron are currently in full flow as they strive to meet the order demands set upon them by Apple. Foxconn is dealing with the vast majority at 85%, whilst Pegatron, which rather ironically sounds like a robot, is taking care of the remaining 15%.
Chinese search engine giant Baidu has announced their own mobile operating system today. It is called Baidu Yi OS and it is based on Android.
