A thorough inspection of Apple’s latest iOS 6.1 beta has revealed that Apple may be planning to introduce an iOS device with double the built-in storage of today’s highest capacity iPhones and iPads. The news comes from iDownloadBlog, and notes the usual 8GB, 16GB, 32GB and 64GB partition keys are joined by a new 128GB designation in the iOS 6.1...
Being a giant business in South Korea, Samsung certainly, let’s put it mildly, feels “at home” in local courts. No wonder they’ve successfully won a number of law suits against their biggest rival-Apple. The latest spin of the ongoing legal wars between the two rivals comes after the battle with Apple on alleged infringement on a patent. Samsung now claims...
Applications / Blackberry / BlackBerry OS / Mobile OS
by Phones Review · Published 01/17/2013 · Last modified 08/16/2013
Beyond any doubt, mapping is one of the most valued features of the modern smartphones and mobile devices. That said, a rich set of mapping APIs for BlackBerry 10 is here! Some of you may have already seen it in our API references for Cascades, and some may have even tried it. Now, with the latest SDK update (10.0.9.2318), we’ve...
Microsoft has released a number of updates, and among the usual fixes for Windows and other products there’s also an update for Windows RT. This one is an update specific for the company’s first tablet running the RT version of its Windows platform – the Microsoft Surface. The specific update provides System Firmware (UEFI) improvements to the tablet, including improvements...
Microsoft’s chief executive Steve Ballmer made a brief but very interesting appearance at Qualcomm’s keynote at the CES 2013. One of the most discussed parts of his statement seems to be what he said about Windows Phone sales. “Windows Phone was selling five times more devices than the same period last year,” – Ballmer said, referring to the periods around...
Windows RT is that kind of Windows, designed to run on ARM chips, and although it still has the classic desktop, no legacy apps can be used, because Microsoft has locked it down to only running apps from the Windows Store. So, as with all locked-down platforms, devs are hard at work on a jailbreak, and they just got a...
Here comes the first Windows Phone 8 OS update, provided by Microsoft. The new release version is named as “10211” and currently it has reached some HTCrap 8X devices. The notable new features of this update include: “WiFi” keep alive settings, Call reject with SMS, SMS draft, and SMS select all for mass deletion. In case you are rocking a...
AT&T / Carriers / Mobile OS / Phones / Samsung / Windows Phone
by Phones Review · Published 11/28/2012
Windows Phone Tango brings numerous small fixes to the OS via AT&T. The update includes multiple images in MMS, send ringtones (MMS), more reliable push notifications, new wallpapers and other neat optimizations. However, after the OS is updated users will be prompted to also install a new Samsung firmware update, to coincide with the OS upgrade. Usually firmware upgrades fix...
Most of you know well, that at the time a new gadget is released, the next ones are ready to hit the market. So every ‘new’ device becomes ‘old’ as soon as it comes to the shelves. With Apple products it’s no different. Now that 2012 is almost at its end, attention is turned to the new year and the...
Good news about the RIM BlackBerry 10! The company, as we know, was scheduling its new “berry” launch event for late January, but it didn’t really provide any information about when the hardware would actually become available. The good news is that according to some comments made for Reuters by the company’s COO, Kristian Tear, the BB10 phones will be...
