Tag Archives : Smartphone

We all know God is a Geek [shameless plug] but is it high time that God learns to use (and bless) a smartphone? Well that’s what I’d believe if I were to follow the words of David Parrott, a London Clergyman who sought blessings for laptops and smartphones on the altar of 17th century St. Lawrence Jewry Church yesterday. Parrott is adamant to modernize the traditional Plough Monday church service [...]

Image by Daniel Greene via Flickr With so much hype over the new Google phone, does it have a chance of living up to the expectations? I promised myself I wouldn’t use the term “iPhone killer” in this article, but with so people asking this question, I have to at least consider it. The answer is this; Yes, the Google Nexus One offers a huge competition to Apple’s iPhone. Will [...]

The title says it all. However, is this so? During Apple’s Q4 earnings call today, someone asked what does Apple think about its increasing competition. The answer was at least bold. “They’re still catching up with the first iPhone.” – Tim Cook, Apple’s COO. There are a lot of Android phones coming out and it looks like Apple has a very clear stance. They think the new smartphones are behind [...]

Image via CrunchBase “The Donuts are ready” said Google on Tuesday. These Donuts are for the smartphone developers from all around the world that can’t wait to get their hands on the next version of Android. Its codename: Donut. The Android 1.6 software development kit is now available for anyone to download from here. However, please note that Donut is not, in any way, a major release! [...]

Image by rustybrick via Flickr In its first ever developer conference at San Jose, California, on Tuesday, Verizon Wireless announced its own V cast application store as a direct competitor to Apple and its App Store. The new application is expected to come out in the forth quarter of 2009. The V cast applications store will allow developers all over the world to distribute and monetize [...]

Image via Wikipedia Etisalat is an UAE telecoms firm with over 145,000 users. Recently, it has prompted an update by text. The update was supposedly aimed at improving performance. However, crashes started to appear right after many users downloaded and installed it. Battery life was also significantly reduced. RIM (Research in Motion), the maker of Blackberry, stated that this update was [...]

We all know about the world’s most popular smartphone operating system, Symbian. Starting in October, Symbian will provide one of the world’s largest mobile applications (or apps) database. The project is called Horizon and comes in response to Apple’s statement on Tuesday that it’s App Store hit 1.5 billion downloads in just a year. Although many manufacturers, mobile network operators, [...]

Image by Getty Images via Daylife We’ve been hunting deals high and low, trying to get our hands on the iPhone 3GS at the cheapest possible price. Some of us may have been on the fence, but let’s face it, it’s not a question of “will I get the 3GS”, more “when will I get the 3GS”. So we’ve found that if you order your iPhone 3GS through Mobiles.co.uk [...]

It’s been rumoured that iPhone 3.0 will have TV and Film Direct Downloads straight to the iPhone, similar to the iTunes desktop service. This news comes from Open Salon, where you can see screenshots of the iTunes iPhone app going through the motions of trying to download a movie. We at Sporkings are very interested in iPhone app development and as such have iPhone 3.0 already running, we noticed [...]

It looks like the rumours will indeed be confirmed true. According to the Guardian, o2 will be releasing the new Palm Pre by the end of the year. This means o2 outdid both Orange and Vodafone with this all-important exclusivity deal, which is surprising as Vodafone has a history with Palm, having been loyal to the Palm Treo Pro for the last few years. The American system of mobile phone network exclusivity [...]