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WinPho 8 Update Gap: Microsoft’s Got Some ‘Splaining to Do

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Eager Windows Phone adopters with WinPho 7 devices will be out of luck when WinPho 8 rolls out. Existing phones won’t be upgradable to the upcoming operating system. Microsoft will throw a sop to WinPho 7 device owners by issuing an update, WinPho 7.8. It will include some user interface features from Windows Phone 8,…

Samsung Galaxy Note 2 Goes for Phablet Fame

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

In a followup to its Galaxy Note hybrid phone-cum-mini-tablet, Samsung is reportedly planning to release its successor, the Galaxy Note 2, sometime this year. The Galaxy Note 2 will apparently arrive with a 5.5-inch screen — a fifth of an inch larger than the one found on the original Galaxy Note, which is itself an…

Amazon Smartphone Speculation Snowballs

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

New details about a possible forthcoming smartphone from Amazon continue to surface. The Internet retailer’s testing a smartphone right now and may begin mass production late this year or early in 2013, The Wall Street Journal reported. The phone could have a screen measuring between four and five inches. The putative Amazon smartphone could use…

RIM Rages Against the Dying of the Developer Light

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

A recent report from Baird Equity Research claims mobile developers are fleeing from Research In Motion in a mass exodus. However, RIM’s fighting back. The report’s findings are far from the truth, according to Alec Saunders, the vice president of developer relations for the BlackBerry maker. In fact, he wrote in a blog post Friday,…

Consumers on Smartphone Screens: Go Big or Go Home

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Smartphone customers in the U.S. want bigger screens on their devices, according to a study from T-Mobile. The phone provider, along with Kelton, polled more than 1,000 U.S. consumers starting last May and found that 77 percent of smartphone users prefer a device that has a 4.5-inch or larger screen over a smaller display. T-Mobile…

The Persistence of the Facebook Smartphone Myth

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

On Facebook’s earnings call Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg seemed to deny that the company would be developing its own branded smartphone, presumably an effort to put to rest growing speculation — mostly attributed to unnamed sources — about a Facebook phone under development at HTC. Building a smartphone, said Zuckerberg on the call, “wouldn’t really make…

MetroPCS’ Galaxy S Comes With a Built-In Boob Tube

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

MetroPCS on Friday launched what’s claimed to be the first smartphone in the U.S. offering mobile digital TV access. The Samsung Galaxy S Lightray 4G is available at US$460 at MetroPCS stores and at the company’s website. It will be the first MetroPCS smartphone to offer a mobile hotspot capability. This smartphone “is the first…

ARM Reaches Out With Muscular 2nd-Gen GPUs

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Mobile processor manufacturer ARM on Monday announced the second generation of its Mali T-600 family of graphics processor units (GPUs), based on ARM’s Midgard architecture. The new chips represent the second generation of Mali-T600 processors; the first was announced in November. “The graphics demands in smartphones, tablets and DTVs continue to accelerate,” Steve Steele, senior…

Nuance’s Nina Challenges Siri, and She Means Business

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

There is a new natural-language, speech-based virtual assistant in town: Nuance on Monday introduced Nina to rival Apple’s Siri. Nina can be used by smartphone application developers — or any other type of user who would like to deploy the technology’s mix of speech recognition, text-to-speech and voice biometric technology, for that matter. Nuance is…

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