Qualcomm’s supply issues could keep the iPhone 4S as Apple’s flagship smartphone longer than expected. Apple A Qualcomm conference call Wednesday, according to Reuters, brought Qualcomm’s supply constraint issues to light. CEO Paul Jacobs, addressing analysts on the call, stated, “At this stage we cannot secure enough supply to meet the increasing demand we are …
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Samsung has bagsied a bunch of new names for future phones. Forthcoming phones and tablets could be named the Samsung Galaxy Metrix, Galaxy Velvet or Galaxy Legend. So Samsung wants to name its new phones after what sounds like an 80s video game, a toilet roll and the HTC Legend? Brilliant! Samsung has filed for trademark protection for the three …
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A Windows Phone ‘evangelist’ who recently claimed that all existing Windows Phone devices would be updated to Windows Phone 8 has said that he made a mistake. In a post on his blog titled ‘My comments on Windows Phone’, Nuno Silva writes, “The point I was trying to make was simply that existing Windows Phone applications will run on the …
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AT&T has been involved in the speech recognition space for years. And now, the company wants to share with others what it’s achieved. The company announced today that it will make several AT&T Watson Speech application programming interfaces (APIs) available to developers in June. With the help of those APIs, developers will be able to create new apps and services …
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According to an industry note from investment banking firm Piper Jaffray, Apple will most likely continue its trend of October launches and wait until this fall to release the iPhone 5. This later release date is said to be due to a supply issue with Qualcomm’s 28-nanometer modem chip, which will enable the new iPhone to be LTE-compatible. “We expect …
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Spotify has finally got around to updating its Android app, following complaints about the software failing to play ball with Android devices running Ice Cream Sandwich. This would be the “major update” the music-streaming service promised several weeks ago. The new version is in beta right now, but you can download it anyway for a sneak peek. Spotify has promised a “top-to-bottom” …
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Two weeks and counting. Yes, in two weeks’ time the Samsung Galaxy S3, possibly the most hotly anticipated mobile phone ever, makes its debut. And in the meantime, we’ve had a new glimpse of the S3 in the wild — but it looks very different to what we’ll see in two weeks time. Gizmodo Brazil shows off photos of what …
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Now playing: Watch this: Phone News: Galaxy S3 imminent 2:41 In this week’s episode of Phone News, we discuss the imminent arrival of the Samsung Galaxy S3 — and its not-so-revolutionary design — how the iPhone 5 might be made of liquid metal and Nokia’s PureView 808 super camera phone is priced ready for the UK. The CNET UK office …
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New reports hitting the Iinternet today indicate that Verizon is ready to serve up Android 4.0 updates to a pair of their products. According to details passed to Droid Life, both the Motorola Xoom and HTC Rezound should see Ice Cream Sandwich over the next two to three weeks. Up first will be Motorola Xoom tablet, which should receive the …
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The iPhone continues to be a boon for subscriber growth for Verizon. The New York-based telecommunications giant posted a first-quarter profit of $1.69 billion, or 59 cents a share, compared with a year-ago profit of $1.44 billion, or 51 cents a share. Revenue rose 4.6 percent to $28.46 billion. Analysts, on average, had forecast earnings of 58 cents a share …
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MP3s are very convenient and supported by many devices from portables to car audio systems. But no matter how high the bit rate of an MP3 file, it’s still a lossy format, meaning some of the sound quality is lost during the conversion from a CD. FLAC is a lossless audio codec that doesn’t lose any sound quality during conversion, …
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Now playing: Watch this: Tech Time Machine: 20th April 1:04 Milk that lasts! Movies with talking actors! What will they think of next? We’re not entirely sure, to be honest, but we look into pasteurisation and Vitaphone’s attempt to kill off the silent movie era on this episode of Tech Time Machine.
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Now playing: Watch this: The Editors’ Choice winning Blu-ray player from Panasonic 2:25 If I had to recommend just one Blu-ray player for 2012, it would be Panasonic’s DMP-BDT220 ($130 street price). It’s in the sweet spot of Panasonic’s Blu-ray lineup, with built-in Wi-Fi and an excellent set of streaming-media services, including Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon Instant, Vudu, MLB.TV, and …
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The Panasonic TH-PHD8UK, cerca 2005, was dumb as a bag of hammers. When it comes to smart TVs, manufacturers are basically charging money for nuthin.’ Or to put it in less dire terms, the smart TV suites included in today’s TVs offer little value. That’s not to say I don’t enjoy Netflix, Amazon Instant, and HBO Go as much as …
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Draw Something (iPhone|Android) hit it big at the iTunes App Store by following a simple concept: draw a picture that describes a word, then send it to a friend to guess the word. The game took off immediately at the iTunes App Store for its close resemblance to board game Pictionary, but there were still rumblings from users of features …
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