Archive : Mobile

Microsoft is pitching Nokia Lumia 920 against the Samsung Galaxy S3. Microsoft announced today that they are planning to air the “ Windows Phone Challenge” touting the camera in the Nokia Lumia 920 vs. the Samsung Galaxy S3. Since we kicked off the Windows Phone Challenge over a year ago at CES (it was called “Smoked by Windows Phone” back then), the one question I’ve been consistently asked [...]

Google has had Chat feature since the launch of Gmail, the newer services too got the chat feature limited to the application, for instance – If you are working on a Google Doc on your corporate GDrive account, your colleague will not be able to text chat with you from Gtalk/Gchat. This is repordely going to change. Google reportedly plans to re-brand and unify its various chat services, like [...]

Samsung might have carved its own niche going head on against Apple in the smartphone arena, it’s well on  track to take on Apple’s rumoured smart watch market. Samsung has confirmed to Bloomberg the rumors that it’s working on a smartwatch to rival Apple’s product. Samsung’s mobile tech vice president Lee Young Hee has confirmed that the South Korean company  is working [...]

Pinterest, the third social network, announced some slight changes to the design of the site and some new features. Pinterest  has been testing the new look since January. Pinterest still has the big photos in a grid, just a bit bigger now,along the top of the homescreen is a new navigation bar. A new button in the top left, next to the search bar, gives out  a list of categories, including Animals, [...]

Apple is not taking lightly the launch of the so-called next iPhone  killer – Samsung Galaxy S 4, couple of days after the S4’s launch, Apple came out with a page explaining why its  smartphone is better than the other ones. “There’s iPhone. And then there’s everything else,” the page proclaims . Apple goes on to talk of all the reasons why iPhone is “unlike [...]

Dropbox is buying the Mailbox mobile app and Gmail client for the iPhone. The details of the deals weren’t disclosed. Mailbox would remain a separate app as the entire team joins Dropbox. Dropbox CEO Drew Houston told the WSJ that his company felt it “could help Mailbox reach a much different audience much faster.” “Like many of you, when we discovered Mailbox we fell in love—it was simple, [...]

A head-to-head comparison between Samsung Galaxy S4,  Apple iPhone 5, Htc One, Blackberry Z10 and Nokia Lumia 920.

After a lot of hype and leaks Samsung’s Galaxy S IV has finally arrived. Samsung unvieled its new 5-inch smartphone at a  event in New York City yesterday night. Galaxy S IV has to live up to its hugely successful predecessor the Samsung Galaxy S III which currently is the world’s most popular Android phone with sales of over 40 million devices. “With the GALAXY S 4, Samsung is again [...]

Twitter is reportedly introducing a standalone music app, which could be released on the iOS by the end of this month according to a Cnet report. Twitter purchased  music discovery startup We Are Hunted last year, according to the report. Since the acquisition, Twitter has been using its technology to develop an app called Twitter Music. The report add “Twitter Music, which is set to arrive [...]

Andy Rubin, who co founded Android a decade ago and spent several years at Apple as an engineer, spearheaded Android until now.  Google CEO Larry Page announced in a blog post that Android head Andy Rubin is moving on to other projects, and that Sundar Pichai is taking over. “Sergey and I first heard about Android back in 2004, when Andy Rubin came to visit us at Google. He believed that aligning [...]