Tag Archives : Apple

Image via Wikipedia Planning on pre-ordering an iPad but hate to wait for the 2 weeks delivery time or avoiding the queues at the 27 Apple stores in Britian, here is some good news. DSGI (Dixons Store Group International ) which owns PC World, Currys and Dixons has 60-day exclusive to sell Apple’s tablet computer in 139 stores according to the news leaked to Times by an insider. A DSGi spokesperson [...]

Image by osde8info via Flickr Folks, its official. Google has formally announced Android 2.2 update named Froyo ( following Google’s alphabetized dessert naming convention, is the next one called Gateau?)  on the second day of Google Conference at the Moscone West, San Francisco. Most of the features which Sporkings.com have written about earlier does find a place,   Android Froyo will [...]

Image via CrunchBase The Apple  iPad users in UK and other countries who have got the device from US -as its not internationally available until May 28 –  had no options for buying apps directly through the device from Apple iTunes store, and this was one of the more frustrating aspects of owning an iPad outside the US.  This  inability to access the App Store on device is now a thing [...]

Image by Todd Barnard via Flickr Google has given a face lift and updated the layout and look to its Android Market website which  is a marketplace for Android developers to sell applications developed for phones running Android OS . Cosmetically, it’s a tad better than what it use to be , but it still looks very sparse and hideous  in comparison to Apple’s iTunes. Search option is [...]

Froyo – Google Android OS’s 2.2 version seems to have more up its sleeves than what we reported earlier. While developers, Android users and followers wait patiently for Google to announce Android OS’s next major update, more new details on its features continue to trickle in. Google is expected to show off Android 2.2 Froyo update at the upcoming Google I/O conference [...]

Image via CrunchBase After the discovery of an iPhone 4G (fourth generation) prototype in a California bar few days ago belonging to an Apple Engineer which ended up with gizmodo.com who proclaimed it the real mcCoy and reviewed the features extensively,  another 4G  iPhone handset that was leaked out was displayed by Vietnamese site – Taoviet. A brand new 16GB iPhone 4G was flaunted in [...]

Image via Wikipedia If you think just because iPhone is still every where it tops the sales chart – think again. For the first time since its launch, Android-based smart phones outsold the iPhone in the U.S. in the first quarter  of 2010.  Android  continues to shake up the U.S. mobile phone market, it moved past Apple to take the number-two position among smartphone operating systems, [...]

Image via CrunchBase Apple iPad is finally coming to UK, Apple have opened up pre – orders and released mobile network & pricing information for UK versions of  iPad tablet device after they previously put back the UK release date due to high demand in the US where it has reached the landmark of selling a million devices last week. There is  a choice of three carriers  – [...]

It’s become a familiar cycle now. Apple launch an exciting new product, it hits the US market first, leaving the rest of the World waiting around for a month (or two, in this case). When the product finally reaches UK shores, we suffer what has become known as the ‘Apple Tax’. This is a price-bump which is often argued to be a result of VAT or exchange rates, a myth we proved [...]

Image via CrunchBase Steve Jobs has released a statement clarifying his opinion on Adobe’s Flash platform and it’s place on the web / mobile: Apple has a long relationship with Adobe. In fact, we met Adobe’s founders when they were in their proverbial garage. Apple was their first big customer, adopting their Postscript language for our new Laserwriter printer. Apple invested in Adobe [...]