Forget Apple AirPrint — you can now print to any printer connected to a Windows computer from your mobile phone or tablet, including the iPhone and iPad. The bringer of this papery bounty is Google Cloud Print, which beams documents from your mobile Web browser to your printer, via you computer. To use it, install …
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Nokia has rescued Windows Phone 7 from being a “niche” mobile operating system, according to a major British app developer. Despite Nokia CEO Stephen Elop referring to Symbian as “a burning platform“, it seems Microsoft has the most to gain from its partnership with Nokia. Steve Purdham, CEO of We7, told us that it “had no plans to do Windows 7 until the announcement” …
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The Samsung Galaxy S 2 is more than just the follow-up to one of our favourite phones, the Galaxy S. It’s a big-screen beauty with an awesome dual-core processor, and it’s likely to break speed limits as well as your bank balance. We’ve balled up everything that you need to know about the Galaxy S 2 into this tasty dumpling …
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SamFirmware The Samsung Galaxy S is officially still chilling with Android 2.2 Froyo. But if you’re fed up with frozen yogurt and you want to try a little Gingerbread, an update to bump up the phone to Android 2.3.2 has appeared online at the SamFirmware forum. Read more of “Samsung Galaxy S Android 2.3 Gingerbread update leaked” at Crave UK.
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MeeGo isn’t going anywhere, says Nokia. The company will be releasing its second MeeGo phone, the Nokia N950, this year. The Nokia N950 will be the successor to the N900, and it will be similarly targeted at geeky developers who want to have fun in the Linux-based software sandbox, GSM Arena reports. The MeeGo-powered N950 was confirmed by Nokia’s CTO, Rich …
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Samsung 2nd TV is an app for watching and controlling your telly from your Samsung Galaxy S 2 smart phone or Galaxy Tab tablet. If your family is watching a film and you hear the distant ping of your microwave telling you the popcorn’s ready, you can stream the live TV signal to your phone or tablet over Wi-Fi so …
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The Samsung Galaxy S II reboots one of our favourite smart phones right up the jacksie, adding a dual-core processor and squaring the case’s corners. The Galaxy S is a fun and powerful phone, but its successor looks to improve on some of our least favourite galactic features. The iPhone-wannabe case design has been smartened up, for example, with some …
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Samsung is working on an app that uses the Earth’s magnetic field to detect your smart phone or tablet’s exact location, in order to automatically launch specific apps. If you want to switch from watching a video on your tablet to watching it on the big screen, for example, you could pop your Samsung Galaxy S 2 on to your …
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Nokia’s new CEO, Stephen Elop, has opened fire on his own company in a roasting-hot leaked memo entitled “Standing on a burning platform”, in which he bemoans Nokia’s perilous position, its market share under siege from Apple, Android and cheap Chinese phone makers. Published by Engadget and confirmed by multiple sources, including BBC News (despite some scepticism online), the internal …
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The LG Optimus 2X is the first of many dual-core phones fighting for our pocket space this year, amid claims that two brains are better than one. We’ve put the bi-lobed beauty through its paces in a series of benchmarks to see how the numbers stack up. We used four benchmarking apps that are free from the Android Market — …
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