The rumors of some sort of Facebook phone arriving sometime in the future have been circulating for a while now, with HTC being touted as a hardware partner. Now though it seems minnows INQ are hard at work getting ready to bring a handset to market.
During Google's big Honeycomb announcement today, the company also debuted its online App Store called, unimaginatively, the Android Market Web Store. Yes it's the Android Market in handy dandy web form, but there's more magic involved under the hood.
With Mobile World Congress taking place in a couple of weeks, it is expected we'll be treated to a raft of new phone announcements, and Samsung are getting ready to announce the new Galaxy S 2.
Reuters reports that for the first time in over ten years, Nokia's Symbian is no longer the world's number one smartphone platform. The new king? Google's Android.
Android 2.3.1 Gingerbread has been finally released for iPhone 3G, 2G and iPod touch (1st-gen). Android ports for iPhone 4, iPad and iPhone 3GS are said to be coming soon.
Microsoft sold over 2 million Windows Phone 7 (WP7) powered devices during the last quarter according to Greg Sullivan, senior product manager at Microsoft.
With Facebook's 600m users it was surely only a matter of time before the king of the social networks decided it wanted to enter the mobile phone fray, and according to City AM that time could well be as early as February.
It's nothing new that the much-loved HTC HD2 can be hacked in order to install either Android or Windows Phone 7, but how about dual-booting?
Developer Steven Troughton-Smith has managed to run MeeGo OS on Google’s Nexus S phone. He has managed to run it via rootfs image on the internal memory, which means that you don’t have to risk flashing your phone to get it running alongside Android 2.3 Gingerbread. This feat also marks MeeGo as the first non-Android based OS to have been ported successfully on the Nexus S.
Hackers have finally managed to port Android 2.3 Gingerbread on a jailbroken iPhone 3G. It looks a bit sluggish, but that is to be expected, everything else seems to be working fine as can be seen in the video embedded below.
