American Airlines gave Android a sky-high boost earlier this month when it started offering the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 as an entertainment device for first-class passengers. American will deploy 6,000 Galaxy Tabs on Boeing 767 flights between New York’s JFK airport and Los Angeles, JFK and San Francisco, and Miami and Los Angeles. Passengers also …
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If you’ve been waiting to dump your BlackBerry for an iPhone because you don’t want to give up the free BlackBerry Messaging service that allows you to bypass carrier text messaging, then the wait is over. Earlier this week, Apple announced at its Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco that its new iMessage feature that will be baked into the …
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Lately I’ve noticed that the photos I’ve snapped with my iPhone 4 have looked less than sharp. Fuzzy, even. I tried a couple different photo apps, as well as some video recording; same result. I checked the lens to make sure it didn’t have any dust or other flotsam on it, and it seemed fine. But on closer inspection, with …
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The CNET application for Android is compatible with many handsets and tablets. Android Market As Android users begin to purchase additional mobile devices such as tablets, the issue of app compatibility rears its ugly head. Believe it or not, compatibility between Android handsets and applications can vary. On the handset side, developers are able to target specific models based on …
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Energized by the recent deal between Microsoft and Nokia, Windows Phone will grab the No. 2 spot ahead of Apple’s iOS in the global smartphone market by 2015, according to IDC’s latest Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. Windows Phone: coming on strong? Releasing some slight revisions from a report issued in March, IDC expects Windows Phone to capture 20.3 percent …
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Just weeks after the Samsung Chrono arrived at U.S. Cellular, it also lands at Cricket Wireless. The Chrono is about as simple a flip phone as you can get, with a VGA camera and Bluetooth support. It’s light (just three ounces), comfortable to use, and has a smooth, attractive body. It also manages to extract top-notch call voice quality, or …
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Looking for audio books, huh? Here are our favourite sources for free and paid audio books around the web. (Stock image by Michael Casey, CC2.0) Audio books can be tricky to locate; you might love the book, but hate the narration, or think you’d rather not pay triple the price just to hear the dulcet tones of Stephen Fry telling …
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Apple’s new online music services won’t come to the UK until 2012. The British record industry licensing body has confirmed our suspicions that iTunes in the Cloud and iTunes Match aren’t coming to these shores any time soon. The Performing Right Society (PRS), which sorts out licensing and royalties so artists, composers and labels get paid, is in talks with …
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Nokia’s introduced a free messaging service for people who use its phones. It’s called IM for Nokia, and it’s a simple instant-messaging client that you can download today from Nokia’s Ovi app store. Once the app is installed, you’ll need to log in using your Ovi account username and password. You can add friends to the service by inputting their …
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In most respects, the HTC Merge for U.S. Cellular is a fairly standard Android 2.2 Froyo smartphone. It’s got a decent but standard touch screen, a nice but not superlative 5-megapixel camera (with 720p HD video capture and playback, we might add,) and an unremarkable keyboard that’s nevertheless sufficient. The phone’s primary point of difference lurks below the back cover, …
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Code in Apple’s iOS 5 suggests the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad may soon be able to capture panoramic photographs. The code, uncovered by developers, includes the phrases ‘pano_option’, ‘saving_panorama” and ‘cancel_pano_button_title”, just beneath options for eradicating red eye. There’s speculation as to whether the software will allow two or more photos to be stitched together to create the panoramic effect, …
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A shot of an iPod Touch with what is purportedly a jailbroken version of iOS 5. Twitpic Apple’s new beta version of iOS 5 has been jailbroken for the second time this week, now opening the door for users to jailbreak their iOS 5 devices using the latest version of the popular Redsn0w tool. In a blog post today about …
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Apple is concerned about the onward march of Android‘s market share and will counter by releasing a new iPad and iPhone every six months. That’s the view of an analyst from a German bank we’ve never heard of. Adnaan Ahmad of Berenberg Bank suggests that Apple should halve the length of the update cycle for its phone and tablet in order to …
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Google has started to roll out device-compatibility checks in the Android Market app store. When you visit an app’s page in the Android Market, you’ll soon see a compatibility chart on the left-hand side. The chart tells you which Android devices registered to your Google account are compatible with the app. Although the Android Market has always displayed compatibility information, it …
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The BBC is to serve up its first 3D broadcast, live from Wimbledon. It’ll be ace. You’ll love it. Ace, d’y’geddit? Love, like in the tennis! Stick around, kid, there’s plenty more where that came from. Auntie Beeb will broadcast the men’s and women’s singles finals in 3D from Centre Court at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club …
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