Simon Prakash, Apple’s former senior director of product integrity, has just been hired by fierce rivals Google to begin work on a supposed “secret project”, details of which are currently unknown.
The smartphone industry is full of analytics, metrics and research companies that love nothing more than tearing through sales figures and producing lovely graphs and pie charts which detail every little intricacy about a company’s product sales. Needless to say, in recent times a lot of this attention has been centered around Apple and Samsung, not only because they are constantly competing against each other to be the largest smartphone vendor in the world, but also because the two electronic giants also seem hell bent on battling it out in the courts.
Google recently introduced PIN protection for Android Market. Its objective, of course, is to ensure kids don’t accidentally buy apps with your credit card credentials stored on your phone. Today, we came across a very simple, straightforward method to basically bypass this protection. Check it out after the break.
Believe it or not, the BlackBerry PlayBook was actually quite well-received from a technical point of view. The tablet device looked good, had decent and competitive specifications and aside from the glaring omission of native email handling, was a very accomplished device. So just what went wrong?
An alleged press shot of a new powered-by-Android-4.0 Samsung smartphone has been “leaked”, Redmond Pie has learned. Details after the jump.
It has finally been confirmed, folks! Samsung has formally announced that the successor to the wildly popular Galaxy S II will be unveiled at a dedicated non-MWC event in the first half of this year, close to its launch. Details after the jump!
While all the talk has been about whether Samsung would announce the Galaxy S III at the upcoming Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, the Korean company has taken us all by surprise by announcing a different handset.
For those of you who are involved in the business of modifying, tweaking or tinkering with the Android operating system, you will more than likely be aware of certain recovery methods and solutions which make an attempt to use the touchscreen display of the device for navigation purposes. You will also more be aware that until now, the offerings out there don't exactly do a good job of touchscreen implementation.
Oh my, things just keep on getting worse and worse if you're an Android user who's concerned about security. It's the one thing that fans of more closed systems such as iOS and the App Store will always throw at those who favor open - security can never be as tight.
Microsoft and its Windows Phone 7 have a big year ahead of themselves. Google and Apple currently have the mobile space all-but sewn up, and even old stalwarts like BlackBerry are struggling to compete with the new hotness that is iOS and Android.
