June, 2012

• 20 June

  Samsung’s S Beam teaches Android a new trick

  

  In opening up its Android operating system, Google ensured one thing: that handset-makers would have the room they needed to dress up Google’s little green OS however they please. With S Beam on the Samsung Galaxy S III, Samsung took a good feature, Android Beam, and made it great. For the uninitiated, Android Beam uses …

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• 20 June

  Google exec: “Surface is a very complicated strategy to pull off”

  

  Sundar Pichai, senior vice president of Chrome, speaking at Google I/O in May 2011. Stephen Shankland/CNET Google’s senior vice president of Chrome and Apps, Sundar Pichai, gave Microsoft some credit for innovating with its new Surface platform. “I think form factors need a lot of innovation,” he said in reference to Surface. “It looks like they put serious effort into …

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• 20 June

  Acer Iconia A510 Olympic edition streams London 2012 free

  

  Acer is hoping to sprint back into the tablet race with a special edition of the quad-core Acer Iconia A510. Like the Samsung Galaxy S3, which is the official Olympic phone, the Iconia A510 is themed around the London 2012 Olympic games. Decked out in black or silver, the A510 sports an Olympic logo and lets you watch the games …

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• 20 June

  A closer look at the Samsung Galaxy S III’s sharing features

  

  The Samsung Galaxy S III comes with a huge number of new features. Packed with services like S Voice and S Beam, the guys over at Samsung made sure its most recent flagship phone will keep users interested for a long time. (We should know, they sent us a 50-page print-out guide for us detailing everything). One of its most …

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• 20 June

  Google ramping up development of Android Siri rival

  

  Google is accelerating its efforts to beat Apple’s voice-controlled butler Siri, according to the Wall Street Journal. Citing “people familiar with the matter”, the Journal reckons Google is speeding up plans to launch an Android-based Siri competitor, rumoured to be called Google Assistant. Android has featured voice-control tech for ages, letting phone owners bark orders into their mobiles using Voice …

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• 20 June

  Samsung Galaxy S III, HTC One X compared

  

  If you’re a loyal AT&T subscriber, love Android, and need a new phone badly, you’ve got a tough choice ahead. Both of today’s hottest handsets, the Samsung Galaxy S III and HTC One X, are yours for the taking. The problem is figuring out which one is a better option. These two superphones are each winners in their own right, …

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• 20 June

  Software company hopes to speed up mobile connections

  

  Smith Micro Software, a company that normally stays behind the scenes of mobile service carriers, has released an iOS product that aims to let consumers connect to Wi-Fi in lieu of clogged networks. The company today announced its NetWise SmartSpot tool, which switches users to Wi-Fi when it’s available and switches back to networks when the Wi-Fi is out of …

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• 20 June

  Windows Phone 8 upgrade catch may dash Nokia’s U.S. dreams

  

  commentary Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 operating system looks great. Too bad anyone who actually cared enough to buy a Windows Phone over the past two years will be left out in the cold. Microsoft today unveiled Windows Phone 8 and confirmed old phones wouldn’t be able to upgrade to the new version. Chalk it up to another brilliant move by …

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• 20 June

  Qualcomm confirms Snapdragon S4 processor for Windows Phone

  

  Support for multi-core processors was one of the biggest pieces of news to come from Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 unveiling today. Qualcomm has just confirmed that it will supply its dual-core Snapdragon S4 Plus chipset to power future Windows phones. The Snapdragon S4 is Qualcomm’s fastest chip to date and goes up to clock speeds of 1.7GHz per core. It …

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• 20 June

  Microsoft posts video of Windows Phone Summit

  

  Microsoft took the wraps off Windows Phone 8, the next iteration of its mobile software for smartphones, during the Windows Phone Summit in San Francisco today. Windows Phone 8 promises to get people talking with its hardware implications, mobile payments, and tighter relations to the Windows platform. But if you weren’t one of the few in attendance or just want …

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