Tag Archives : Smartphone

Source - OkCupid.com A study by Dating site OkCupid has revealed that people who use iPhones have more sex than those who don’t. Few female iPhone owners had twice as many sexual partners as other smart phone users, the research said. The study looked at the data hidden in the images that users uploaded as profile pictures to see which cameras were used to take them and having many of the [...]

Facebook app Facebook users on Android platform may not have to  envy the much slicker and more friendly Facebook app for iPhone any longer. Facebook app for Android  got updated to version 1.3.0 yesterday and the latest Android version is absolutely improving and fast catching up with the Facebook version on iPhone. Version 1.3.0 adds some key new features like Events (like birthdays) , friend [...]

Smartphone Market share Q2 2010 Apple’s iPhone may be  hitting the headlines for right or wrong reasons and getting more than adequate  attention, but, that does not guarantee better market share, likewise, the erstwhile Finnish mobile czar Nokia may be not making as much noise (barring few digs at Apple) as it use to,nevertheless, that hasnt stopped it from retaining a substantial lead in [...]

Samsung Wave Samsung was earlier confirmed as one of Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 launch partner. Samsung’s first Windows Phone 7 device news in now in open  thanks to the Bluetooth Special Interest Group which is a Bluetooth specifications group. The handset named Cetus has a 4-inch OLED screen, 5MP camera, front facing camera, GPS, Bluetooth and all the other gubbins you have come to expect [...]

iPad Killer? Rumors about Blackberry makers RIM (Research In Motion) coming out with a touch-screen tablet similar to Apple’s iPad got more credibility when RIM registered blackpad.com. The latest on Blackpad comes through two anonymous sources saying RIM’s Blackpad is coming by November– and it’s coming to take on Apple’s iPad. The new device will  run the as-yet-unreleased [...]

Samsung Galaxy S ad Not content with the  marketing gimmick of  announcing free Samsung Galaxy S devices to disgruntled iPhone users,  in the latest ad for its Galaxy S smartphone, Samsung simply says “Hello,”  but, it  features bars of network characters making up the Ls in the word Hello and but everyone who has seen  and heard (who  hasnt) about  the signal issues on the iPhone 4  [...]

Antennagate has seen Apple sparring with its rivals which started when the new iPhone 4 reception problems began. Nokia took a dig by releasing a tongue-in-cheek ‘How do you hold your Nokia?’ feature , Steve Jobs retaliated during the iPhone 4 press conference and presented data that showed that its competitors phones, including Samsung Omnia II faced the issues which was quickly rebutted by [...]

Apple Apple said yesterday that the white version of iPhone 4 will not be available until later this year. During the iPhone 4 press conference last Friday, Steve Jobs said  that the white phone would be available by late July. Apple’s explanation for the new delay is devoid of  details. In a press release the company said: “White models of Apple’s new iPhone 4 have continued to be more [...]

According to an online dashboard Google provides to developers, nearly 60 percent of all Google Android devices that recently accessed the Android Market are running Android Froyo  or Android  Eclair. It took nearly nine months since Android 2.0 was introduced, but more than half of those frequenting the Android Market have the most recent and polished versions of Google’s mobile platform. 55.5 [...]

Google has announced last week  that it will close its Web store once the latest  shipment of Nexus One phones are sold out and sell only through its carrier partners, including Vodafone in U.K. and that day has arrived, and that was fast, we did not anticipate that it would be sold out so  soon. As shown in the image above, Google’s official online store for the phone now just shows an ominous [...]