One of the men who invented Android has declared that phone manufacturers and networks should make more of an effort to change the way Google’s mobile operating system works. Yeah, I know what you’re thinking — is he nuts? But bear with us: he may have a point. Speaking at a conference on open sourcery, …
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The Samsung Galaxy S3 is the best-selling phone in the world — beating the iPhone for the first time. The latest sales figures from the numbercrunchers at Strategy Analytics show the S3 top at the tills, shifting 18 million phones in the last three months. Meanwhile 16.2 million iPhone 4S blowers changed hands. The quad-core, 4.8-inch S3 deserves every bit of …
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The Samsung Galaxy Note 2 could be getting some Windows Phone competition: ZTE has revealed a possible 5.9-inch device with an enormous 1080p screen. A ZTE boss posted the picture above on the Chinese site Weibo, spotted by WMPoweruser. Alongside the snap — which shows the older Windows Phone logo — he describes the screen as a full high-definition job, …
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Now playing: Watch this: Virgin TV Anywhere hands-on 1:33 Time to ditch the remote — and even ditch your telly. Virgin TV Anywhere is a new app that lets Virgin customers control their telly from anywhere in the world from your iPhone 5 or iPad, and even watch TV on your tablet or phone. Virgin showed me how the app …
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People with iPads download five times as many apps as all Android tablets combined, another stark reminder of how much Apple dominates the tablet market. But can the Google Nexus 7 and Kindle Fire HD change that? The figures on app downloads come from ABI Research’s Mobile Application Markets Research Service, which tots up numbers of app downloads and the …
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Microsoft has confirmed in a non-apology in a service note on its website that only half of the claimed storage for its Surface tablet is available for your music, movies and photos. Like any computer, tablet or in fact any gadget, the Surface needs some space to fill with important admin stuff like the operating system software and the built-in …
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Most Android phones are still two generations of software behind, but Google’s latest figures also reveal Ice Cream Sandwich has reached a quarter of Android blowers. The two-year-old Gingerbread version of Google’s Android software is still found on 54 per cent of Android-powered phones and tablets. Subsequent updates have taken a while to spread to Android phones: Ice Cream Sandwich …
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The update for the Google Nexus 7 to Android 4.2 Jelly Bean has been delayed — and Asus blames Google. Google originally stated the 4.2 update would be available for 29 October, but there’s no sign of the new software. “We’re still waiting on Google for the update,” says Asus, emphasising, “We haven’t put out an official statement as it …
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The Google Nexus 4 hits O2 from 13 November — but with its shockingly low price tag, we struggle to see why you’d buy it on a contract from any network — and we’re not the only ones, as the oxygenated operator struggled to defend its pricing to discerning punters. The Nexus 4 is shaping up to be an awesome …
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Brits just can’t get enough of the iPhone, it seems. New figures show sales of iOS devices climbing in the UK, growing faster than Android sales — but our continental amis and amigos are less impressed with Apple. Numbers from Kantar WorldPanel ComTech show that sales of iOS devices rose by 10 per cent here in the UK in the three months …
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