commentary Like it or not, chances are that one of your most prized relationships is with your smartphone. You love a phone design or you viscerally hate it; you can’t stand this wallpaper, so you add that one. Your phone’s design or color is a statement of your identity. Like all products it says something …
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Samsung Focus S, Focus Flash (photos) +3 more See all photos So far the Samsung Focus S and Focus Flash have remained shy, but now they’ve gotten over a little of their stage fright. Microsoft offered a good, clear view of the two Windows Phone 7.5 Mango smartphones at D Asia today. There’s no pricing or availability yet, but we …
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Android fans, say goodbye to bloatware. CNET has recently confirmed with Google that the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update will let users disable any application, even those apps that the manufacturer and carrier preinstall as part of their business deals. The ability to shut down unwanted apps also extends to the browser and Gmail. For years, Android users have …
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What a night! Samsung may have tripped over its own feet in keeping the Samsung Galaxy Nexus under wraps until the official announcement in Hong Kong tonight, but there was plenty to learn when it came to Android 4.0, code-named Ice Cream Sandwich. I couldn’t grab every screenshot that flashed by through the YouTube stream, but I do walk you …
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It’s been a wild day in Android land. Earlier this morning, Motorola and Verizon pulled back the curtain on the sleek, gorgeous, and positively anorexic Motorola Droid Razr, only to have the spotlight stolen by the double-whammy of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus and Google’s Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS. (Compare the specs here.) The phone is bound for the …
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The CNET crew is poised to bring you complete coverage of the launch of Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus smartphone, along with Google’s Android Ice Cream Sandwich operating system, from the companies’ joint event tonight in Hong Kong. There’s hardly a need to guess at the design, thanks to a trigger-happy Samsung employee, who seems to have briefly published the top-secret Web …
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This morning when RIM announced BBX, the next-generation operating system that will power BlackBerry smartphones and tablets, the BlackBerry-maker offered few details about what the OS does, how it will propel RIM forward, and when we can expect to see it on working devices. It’s been known almost since RIM first announced the QNX-based PlayBook last year that the platform …
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RIM blew a chance to re-energize developers and BlackBerry consumers by announcing new smartphones and tablets at its annual BlackBerry Developers Conference today in San Francisco. RIM’s founder, president, and co-CEO Mike Lazaridis proudly unveiled BBX–the next-generation marriage of its QNX-plus-BlackBerry OS operating system for future devices–but failed to connect vague descriptions of the forthcoming platform with real-life devices. There …
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Struggling BlackBerry maker RIM knows it has to change if it’s to hold the interest of developers–and that means making the new operating system, BBX, a friendlier place for Android developers to play. That’s the subtext at the BlackBerry Developer Conference in San Francisco today, which played out in live demos of Android games that have been ported over to …
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When it comes to GPS-based friend-finding apps, you either love them or you don’t. Google has been a big believer on its Android platform for some time, integrating Google Latitude into all of its Android phones. Apple’s iOS 5 update brings a separate downloadable app, Find My Friends (shortened to Find Friends once it installs). In many cases, it’s another …
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