Latest Gadgets, Tablets and Smartphones
Windows Phone now has a video chat app thanks to a new app called Tango. The app allows second generation Windows Phone smartphones to be used for making video calls.
The application works on devices such as the Samsung Focus S and the HTC Radar as well as others.
Virgin Media has announced that 20 million people in the UK now have access to 100Mb broadband services. The roll-out of the 100Mbps service began about a year ago.
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.
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.
Firefox 8 will officially be released tomorrow although we have found out today that you can actually download the final version now. When it officially launches tomorrow you’ll simply be able to visit the main page of Mozilla and you’ll then see an option to download version 8 of Firefox.
If you want it today, read on below to see how you can get it.
One of the requirements of using Siri on the iPhone 4S is that you have some sort of a data connection. This could be either a wireless or 3G connection to the Internet. The reason for this is that everything you say is packaged up and sent to Apple so that it can process your voice and then tell the iPhone 4S how it needs to respond… this is of course a very simple way of explaining how Siri works.
As it requires your data plan in some instances, one thing you might want to watch out for is how much data each question takes. Thankfully, someone has done all the hard work and has managed to calculate an average of how much data per query.
Yesterday we mentioned that Google was about to roll out a new update for Google TV. The rollout has now begun with Sony Google TVs getting the 2.0 update.
Google [GOOG] has announced that it will be rolling out a new update this week to bring more features to Google TV.
Nokia has finally unveiled its first Windows Phone device. It is called the Nokia Lumia 800 and has been dubbed the “first real Windows Phone”.
The new smartphone is similar to the Nokia N9 in design. Inside, it has some decent specs which show a 1.4GHz CPU, 16GB of internal storage and a camera that has an f2.2 aperture that works well with low light.
Here in the UK, the O2 network has confirmed that the Samsung Galaxy Nexus will be launching in November. We have known this from other details posted previously, but now that a landing page has arrived it all seems a little more official.
Apple held a memorial event last week on the Cupertino Apple campus. The event was for all Apple campus staff as well for all other staff in retail locations around the world. Apple stores shut down for a few hours so that staff could watch it.
Apple has now posted the video online for all to watch.
The 3rd quarter 2011 results posted by Verizon show that the iPhone 4 has done particularly well. It was announced that they saw two million iPhone 4 smartphones sold within the 3 months of the quarter. Remember that this is the iPhone 4 and not the 4S we are speaking about here. Moving on to the iPhone 4S, specific numbers were not provided but it did comment that sales were extremely strong at launch and that they are still struggling to get more stock to satisfy demand.
