The Nokia Lumia 900 or “Ace,” also code-named the Eloko, is in large speculation right now as we approach CES, at which Nokia is rumored to announce the Lumia 900 on AT&T with 4G-LTE service. At the moment, no plans are public for the availability of the Lumia 900 in Europe or Asia. Twitter user [...]
A recent holiday promotion featuring a Windows Phone slated the Nokia “Ace” or 900 left us grasping on to what little information we have about upcoming Windows Phone devices. The holiday promotion, while only displaying half of the device at a time, could have been enough to identify with Microsoft’s mystery device seen in a [...]
Holiday promotions have begun to get a little sloppy, with already the Droid 4 leaked in a BestBuy Reward Zone promotion and now Nokia leaking their upcoming Ace Windows Phone device in a holiday greeting. The Ace, confirmed to PocketNow by Paul Thurrott, will be one of three (Nokia Ace, HTC Radiant, and Samsung Mendel) Windows [...]
The Droid 4, Motorola’s upcoming contribution to the Droid series on Verizon, has been leaked various times and the leaks are beginning to become more and more boring. The advertisement, spotted on BestBuy’s Reward Zone, leaves the device unnamed but shows the same renders as previously leaked and continues to include Verizon labeling. Next time we see [...]
Sony Ericsson has been up to a lot lately, with recent signs of the Sony Ericsson Nypon and Nozomi. Now, another Sony Ericsson device under the Xperia branding, the Ion. The Ion, at this point, is just a name found on paper. It was actually discovered after Sony Ericsson filed for the trademark of the [...]
It was only recently that Samsung announced the Samsung Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab wouldn’t receive the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update. Why the Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab wouldn’t be getting the update is TouchWiz, a Samsung owned user interface modification for Android. TouchWiz takes up too much RAM and ROM for ICS to run [...]
There has been much talk about @pod2g and his untethered jailbreak expedition for iOS 5.0.1 and when an iPhone 4S jailbreak will become available. As of today, @pod2g has released an untethered jailbreak for iOS 5.0.1 that works for non-A5 devices. A list of compatible devices plus instructions can be found below: The untether is [...]
The Windows Phone Marketplace is as rapidly growing or even growing faster than competing Apple App Store and Android Marketplace, which have been available for much longer and had much more of a chance to win over developers. Microsoft offers a great platform with a framework that works all around for the rest of their [...]
Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system started out as all OS’s do, with the necessities first and extras to come in future updates. Windows Phone, with version 7.0.7008.0, introduced copy & paste, a vital extra for a seamless operating system. Multitasking was still missing, several updates later and the 7.10.7740.16 or the Tango firmware update had been pushed [...]
Chpwn, a famous hacker in the jailbreak-scene, has released his Siri port, which simplifies the process up until the part of point of authorization. Spire, the name of the Siri port, is downloadable via Cydia for jailbroken devices, taking up 100MB of space. At this point, you use an iPhone 4S and a proxy server [...]
Jaxbot, the Windows Phone hacker that introduced multitasking prior to its official inception via the Windows Phone 7.5 or Mango update, has begun a new project to better the Windows Phone. His project, dubbed “WindowBreak,” sets out to create a universal unlock for Windows Phone devices. WindowBreak is functional on Samsung devices at the moment [...]
We have been expecting the release of the Droid 4 for a long time, the wait beginning with leaked documents and now the wait continues with a leaked document. VZBuzz reports Verizon has officially postponed the release of the Droid 4 up until February 2, 2012. The wait may be for more press buildup or [...]
Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android have been at war for a long time, but primarily the war has been between fanboy. Battles of this war consist of opinionated mud-slinging and statistical use. Andy Rubin was pleased to announce today on his Google Plus and Twitter that over 700,000 Android devices are activated every day. He [...]
Google has started the rollout of a major update to the fledging Gmail app already available on iOS. The update contains several new welcomed features (not to mention ‘sought after’), including the ability to set a custom signature for messages, as well as a vacation response. Both, are available under the gear icon at the [...]