iPhone apps are facing the future. Face-recognition features will be available to developers creating apps for iOS 5, the next version of Apple’s software for the iPhone 5 and next iPad. Apple’s face recognition is included in the iOS 5 application programming interface (API) so app developers can add face-chasing features to their games and …
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The News of the World phone hacking scandal exploded across every aspect of public life with such force — Charlie Brooker called it EverythingGate — that we’ve become a bit touchy about every security loophole we encounter. Today we learn that Android devices store passwords as plain text. That sounds unsecure, but should we be worried? Passwords for email accounts …
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The Nokia N9 may not be coming to the UK. The first — and only — phone to use doomed operating system MeeGo is heading to Europe but won’t cross the channel to Blighty, if one early indication is to be believed. The evidence: the Nokia website now includes a page where you can sign up for email updates when …
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What’s this? The first hint of a release date for the Nokia N9? A European website is offering the hotly anticipated, much-debated, MeeGo-powered smart phone from 19 August — but with Nokia yet to confirm whether it’ll come to the UK at all, we need your help. Free the Nokia N9! Kazakhstan site TexhoDom is offering lucky Kazakhs the chance …
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Nokia’s sales have nosedived, with the troubled Finnish company announcing an eye-watering £427m loss. Ouch. Nokia today announced its results for the second quarter of 2011, and it’s been a wince-inducing three months. Smart-phone sales fell by a third as Nokia struggled to compete with Android phones and the iPhone. Overall, Nokia’s phone sales fell by 18 per cent in the last three …
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You look like you work out — what do you bench? When you’re in the gym and you want to get your tunes on, the new water-resistant Sony NWZ-W260 Sports Walkman can spot you. It’s 25 per cent lighter than previous entries to the W series, wireless sporty Walkmans that clip round your ears then clip together when not in …
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If you can’t decide between a tablet or a smart phone, then rock down to Avenue Q with the Samsung Galaxy Q. The rumoured 5-inch Android device is a combination of tablet and smart phone, meeting somewhere in the middle. Yahoo News Korea reports the 5.3-inch device will take a bow at fast-approaching technology blow-out IFA in Berlin in September. …
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You’re fit but my gosh — don’t you just know it, as The Streets’ tower block laureate Mike Skinner once sang. Perhaps that’s where Samsung got the name of the Samsung Galaxy Fit, officially announced today. Maybe that means we could soon see the Samsung Galaxy Mug or Galaxy Wasn’t Famous. Or maybe not. So how fit is the Fit? …
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Say hello to the Nokia E6 and its buttons. Like most phones these days we’ve seen the E6 before: photos and video of the new phone leaked to the Internet recently, showing off its physical Qwerty keyboard, but now we’ve got all the official details. The screen is a 2.46-inch touchscreen offering a whopping 326ppi resolution. At the back is …
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Pictures of the Nokia E6-00 in action have hit the Internet. A user of Italian forum Nokiateca has posted the first photos and videos (since removed) of the mobile phone turned on and running Symbian. The E6-00, which has yet to be officially announced by Nokia, packs a Qwerty keyboard and a 4:3 screen. It’s a relatively meagre 480×640-pixel display …
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