Firefox 9.0 for Android launched, it’s optimized for tablets
Firefox for Android has been updated to reach version 9.0 – a version that’s optimized for large tablet screen sizes. On tablets, in landscape mode, Firefox tabs now appear as thumbnails on the left,...
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Samsung to push Bada 2.0 updates to its Wave range in Q1 2012
Back in September, Samsung announced that all of its older Wave smartphones would be updated to Bada 2.0 starting Q4 2011. Not long after that, the company has excluded the Wave 525 and Wave 533...
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Select Verizon Android phones getting Trend Micro’s Mobile Security app
Verizon Wireless is thinking that some of its Android handsets may need extra software protection, so it has partnered with Trend Micro to introduce its Mobile Security Personal Edition app. The...
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Google updates Search for Android Gingerbread, Honeycomb and Froyo
The Google Search application for Android (versions 2.2 Froyo, 2.3 Gingerbread and 3.x Honeycomb) has been updated yesterday. The update makes the app faster, and obviously allows users to find what...
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Microsoft’s Windows Phone Marketplace now hosts more than 60,000 apps
Less than a month after we’ve reported that Windows Phone Marketplace has hit the 50,000 published apps mark, we’re now seeing that more than 10,000 new apps have been added since then. In other words,...
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Skype app for Nokia Belle (Symbian) available for download
Skype and Symbian have always (?) been good friends, so it’s only natural for the latest iteration of Symbian to get a Skype app. Of course, since Nokia decided to kill off the Symbian brand, the...
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Verizon rolls out software updates for Motorola Droid Razr and Razr Maxx
Verizon Wireless has decided to roll out software updates to its two Razr Droids – the original Motorola Droid Razr, and the new Motorola Droid Razr Maxx. Since the smartphones run identical software,...
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Google+ iPhone app updated with Instant Upload and What’s Hot stream
Google has updated the official Google+ app for iPhone to version 1.0.9.4278. The refreshed app brings features that are already available in the Android app, as well as on the Google+ mobile website,...
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Android 5 Jelly Bean to get native Atrix like lapdock switching between...
It’s amazing how little Android Jelly Bean information has leaked to the net up to now. I mean – Android 4/Ice Cream Sandwich is officially out for more the 4 months already. Google has talked about it...
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4G LTE may screw up TV reception for 900K Brits
900K British households may see their free terrestrial TV reception disrupted by nationwide rollout of 4G LTE services next year. British telecom regulator Ofcom is preparing to auction off radio...
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MWC 2012: Your phone will become your computer. Ubuntu for Android video demo
The slogan “Your phone is your computer” has been around for years. But it always meant very little and was just a marketing tool for smartphone vendors to promote their wares. Yes, with the...
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Mozilla Boot to Gecko (B2G). Hey, look, it actually works! The first...
Back in July, when Mozilla announced their Boot to Gecko mobile OS initiative, I thought: “What the heck?! How on Earth are they going to do it? How long will it take? Is it even possible to build...
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Europe: Android 4.0 ICS update for Samsung Galaxy S II rolling-out now....
It’s finally happening: Samsung has officially announced that the Galaxy S II is getting Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich starting today in some European markets (including Sweden, Poland, and Hungary),...
View ArticleNokia didn’t have any smartphones until late 2011. Only smarter phones. And...
After Nokia issued a profit warning last week, I was trying to wrap my head around the steepness of its decline in smartphones. And then I realized that we’ve been looking at this thing the wrong way....
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Samsung is wrapping up Bada smartphone development efforts. Platform end of...
Samsung is wrapping up the development of Bada smartphones, with platform’s end of life coming in about a year, says Mobile-Review.com’s Eldar Murtazin. According to Eldar, there will be no platform...
View ArticleNokia CEO confirms – Microsoft in discussions with carriers how to turn Skype...
Now we know one of the reasons why Microsoft decided to buy Skype a year ago. There was a lot of speculation back then of what its plans for Skype are. While Microsoft didn’t go beyond some general...
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Microsoft Surface and Surface Pro tablets. A big kick in the arse to Wintel...
After almost two years of Windows Phone failures, it seems that Microsoft had it enough relying on the hardware partners to break in to the new post PC device markets. So it decided to make the whole...
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Android Jelly Bean 4.1 likely to be announced at Google I/O, Jelly Bean...
Google has just confirmed the existence, and the upcoming release of Android Jelly Bean. Like it did before unveiling all previous Android versions, the company has put a Jelly Bean statue (well, not...
View ArticleMozilla rebrands Boot to Gecko to Firefox Mobile OS. Looks more real with...
Mozilla Foundation had some news to share with us about its HTML5/JavaScript based Boot to Gecko mobile OS initiative. Most of them, pretty good – I’m starting to think the new OS may actually have a...
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Microsoft’s 100 times faster High Performance Touch technology described in...
Remember that video of High-Performance Touch (HPT) technology Microsoft Research demoed few months ago? The one that showed them reducing delay between touch event, and the changes on display from 100...
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