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First Windows Phone from Acer: Allegro

Published on: 8th November, 2011

The Allegro smartphone of Acer is the first Windows Phone of the company. It has been confirmed for the market in European countries by its maker. The phone is known as the W4 before its arrival to India and will be sold as a low-cost handset. A unique characteristic of the new device is its [...]

Microsoft and Nokia to give out 25K Windows Phones for developers

Published on: 8th November, 2011

At Nokia World conference, Microsoft and Nokia have launched a program meant to encourage developers to write applications for Windows Phone devices. They have combined their forces to provide developers with Nokia Lumia 800 Windows Phones. Developers willing to write applications for the Microsoft platform would receive about 25,000 such devices. The Lumia 800, also [...]

T-Mobile and Google try to prevent Android hardware ban by ITC

Published on: 8th November, 2011

T-Mobile and Google attempted to prevent a possible ITC ban on HTC Android hardware with answers to ITC’s (International Trade Commission) requests for input on the win of Apple in the trade controversy before the hearing on the 6th of December. T-Mobile intended to deny an eventual ban regardless of whether the ruling upheld infringement [...]

T-Mobile blames iPhone’s 3G incompatibility with its networks

Published on: 8th November, 2011

T-Mobile recently complained about the lack of an iPhone on its network. News about a regional carrier, C Spire, that was receiving the new iPhone 4S, led to questions as why T-Mobile had not picked up the new phone. The carrier reiterated its position that an iPhone would be well received in its line-up, but [...]

Only 319K applications live out of 500K on Android

Published on: 8th November, 2011

A recent analysis of research2guidance showed over 500K Android applications, but also revealed some troubles it had to sustain them the way Apple does with its iOS App Store. The 500K milestone was hit in September, but only 319,161 applications were still alive on Android’s store. Out of them, about 37 percent have been pulled [...]

HTC ready to have more devices on Android 4.0

Published on: 8th November, 2011

HTC revealed some of its plans to upgrade handsets to Android 4.0. Although vague, it said it would upgrade as many devices as possible. The company promised to give more details in the weeks to come. No mention was made about what phones would be subject to this upgrade, but it seems that high-end phones [...]

Verizon says Galaxy Nexus comes before the end of the year

Published on: 8th November, 2011

Verizon confirmed last week that the Galaxy Nexus would appear before the end of 2011. This is the first carrier in the United Sates to sign on officially for the Android 4.0 handset. Few other details were also provided, other than the release date. Shipping of the Galaxy Nexus is believed to happen on the [...]

Coders hack Windows Phone folder support

Published on: 8th November, 2011

An unofficial workaround would enable the addition of custom folders to the interface of Windows Phone, according to developers at Windows Phone Hacker. It is aid that the feature uses secondary tiles generated dynamically, each of them containing different groups of applications, such as utilities for social networking. The developers are trying to refine the [...]

Google Voice coming back with iOS 5 crash bug fixed

Published on: 8th November, 2011

Google recently posted the promised update of Google Voice for iOS 5. The App Store release is expected to fix an important crash bug that often prevented user from actions like logging in or launching the application. This fix is the only update known. Google claimed to have sent an updated version of the application [...]

Insiders say iPhone 4S was permanently intended to show the current design

Published on: 8th November, 2011

According to tipsters, Apple’s iPhone 4S was always destined to have the same look as its predecessor. As John Gruber said, a remade shape was never intended. The device was since the beginning meant to represent an upgrade to the iPhone 4, the same way the iPhone 3GS was the newer, updated version of the [...]

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