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HTC Desire getting Froyo in Europe – UK next?
Owners of the HTC Desire have been drumming their fingers, waiting for HTC to answer the question. When are we getting Android 2.2/Froyo on our phones? Froyo – the internal codename for Android 2.2 – was launched a few months ago, but has only recently been starting to appear on actual handsets. The Google Nexus [...]
Pocket Gamer release free Top 50 classic iPhone games Ezine
Our sister site Pocket Gamer has just released a free Ezine, Top 50 Classic iPhone Games, intended to help newcomers and old hands explore the wild world of iPhone gaming. In the space of two years, the App Store’s games output has grown from a relatively obscure area of the gaming market into a multi-million [...]
LG Home Entertainment Hero competition – win a 3D entertainment system
When it comes to watching TV I tend to just flump down onto the sofa, idly raise the remote and press a few buttons, groaning about yet another repeat of Location Location, The Simpsons, or that Hollyoaks is somehow still going despite clearly being pants. Other people though go into a little more effort to [...]
Google Maps adds Places
Google has released an update to Google Maps for Android to version 4.4, adding a localised suggested venue option called ‘Places’. Places works a little (ok, a lot) like the location-based review site Yelp.com. Selecting the places option from the menu or launching Maps from the special Places icon that is installed when you upgrade, [...]
Google to copy-protect Android Market apps
Google is implementing a copy protection system for Apps purchased from the Android Market that run on Android 1.5 devices and higher. App piracy is a serious problem on Android – as well as torrentable freebies there are even some alternative app repositories that charge a fee to get at pirated commercial Android apps. Google’s new [...]
HP opts for webOS for its smartphones
HP has decided that while it does have a future in the smartphone market, it won’t be following so many of its rivals and making either a Windows Phone 7 or Android handset – it’s webOS all the way. HP acquired Palm#’s webOS operating system when it bought out the ailing company earlier this year. [...]
Acer Stream launching on August 9th exclusively through eXpansys
Acer has announced that its latest Android handset, Stream, will be available exclusively through online retailer eXpansys from August the 9th. The Stream is a Snapdragon 1Ghz, 3.7 inch (9.3 cm) AMOLED Android 2.1 smartphone, with a 5mp camera and 720p recording capabilities available out of the box. It comes with 512MB of RAM, 2GB [...]
HTC fitting Super-LCD screens to Desire and Nexus One
With supplies of AMOLED screens mysteriously drying up and causing stock shortages to non-Samsung produced handsets (hmm), HTC has struck a deal with Sony to fit new Desire and Nexus One handsets with its Super-LCD display. The SLCD technology, according to HTC’s blurb anyway, offers a ‘comparable visual experience’ to the AMOLED screens, but with [...]
Review: IMDb (Android)
The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is long established as the premier source for information about film, film makers and actors. One of the internet’s earliest success stories, no finer resource exists for figuring out just who ‘that man’ is in the obscure film you are currently watching on Bravo or which episodes of Casualty the [...]
Microsoft encouraging staff to develop Windows Phone 7 apps
Not merely content with persuading developers to write software for its new mobile platform using that powerful bargaining tool called ‘cold, hard cash’, Microsoft are now hoping its own staff will work on some as well in their spare time. A leaked internal memo sent by Andy Lees, the Senior Vice President of Microsoft’s Mobile [...]
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