Archives for November 2011

Apple Store v2.0 Arrives in the App Store

A new version of the Apple Store app has launched today which brings EasyPay and Personal Pickup options to the user. What these do is make the whole shopping experience that little bit easier when going to visit an Apple store.

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HTC Edge Quad-Core Smartphone Leaks

Pictures of the HTC Edge have been found. The Edge is likely to be the first smartphone in the world that runs a quad-core processor. Other technical speaks (leaked of course) show that it has a 4.7 inch screen. The device will be just over 10mm thick.

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Windows Phone Spotify Download is Now Available

We mentioned a few hours ago that Spotify was intending to launch its app for Windows Phone sometime this week. We have just been informed that the app is now available for download in the Marketplace.

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Android Powered Huawei MediaPad Launching in Europe in 2012

It appears that Huawei has delayed the launch of the MediaPad tablet. Initially it was going to be made available in Europe before the end of 2011 although it seems that the launch might not happen until 2012.

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Hong Kong Sells out of iPhone 4S Pre-orders Within 10 Minutes of Launch

Hong Kong seems to have taken the record for how quick a smartphone can sell out of pre-orders. In the case of the Apple iPhone 4S it took just 10 minutes for Apple to sell all available pre-orders. Most countries usually see a few hours worth of sales before the launch date shipping estimation suddenly changes to 1 to 2 weeks.

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Spotify Lands on Windows Phone Mango

Spotify will be launching this week on the Windows Phone Mango platform. The relatively new version of the OS will be getting the “most optimised version for mobile yet” from what we understand.

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iPhone Panorama Feature Found within iOS 5 Code

When iOS 5 was first announced one of the rumours surrounding the event mentioned a panorama option in the camera that would be coming. This didn’t happen when iOS 5 was released although we hear that the code is still within iOS 5 and is fairly easy to modify to activate it.

Below are a couple of screen shots showing what the interface looks like. In the camera app it appears just below the settings where you enable HDR and the grid.

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Barnes and Noble Nook Tablet Announced

A new tablet has been introduced by Barnes and Noble. The device is called the Nook Tablet and is the next device in the series of Nooks from B&N. Technical specs reveal that it has 1GB of RAM and runs a 1GHz dual-core processor.

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HDD Prices Rising

The price of hard disk drives is increasing due to the flooding in Thailand. The floods caused problems which has caused a shortage of HDDs which in turn has increased the pricing.

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iPhone 4 Could Get Siri Officially

Although the iPhone 4S was the only device to ship with Siri, we are now hearing rumours that Apple [AAPL] could launch Siri for the iPhone 4.

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Sony Ericsson Nozomi HD Smartphone Spotted

Sony Ericsson (or Sony as it will be soon known as) is working on another smartphone that is believed to be called the Sony Ericsson Nozomi HD. The new device was leaked and a picture of it can be seen below:

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Tweetie Founder Leaves Twitter

Tweetie was a Twitter client for both iOS and Macs. It launched in 2007 and became very popular, so much so that Twitter ended up buying the company along with hiring it’s founder Loren Brichter. We now hear that Loren is leaving Twitter to move on to other things:

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