There are independent reports from multiple sources today that the Galaxy S III will only launch in marble white on May 29th, as the pebble blue model has been suffering from an unspecified manufacturing issue. According to several Samsung representatives who don’t want to be named, the company has destroyed upwards of 600,000 pebble blue [...]
Some interesting rumours of the Nexus tablet have come to light after TechnoBuffalo received word from a trusted source that the slate will launch during Google I/O next month. The information seems to confirm that the tablet will be manufactured by Asus and will sport a quad-core Tegra 3 chip and a 7-inch screen of [...]
Apple is not known for giving things away for free, but there have been glimpses over the years of its kinder, consumer-friendly side. In the past they’ve handed out promo cards for free apps at participating Starbucks locations, and have made available free songs from popular artists. Now they are now doing an “App of [...]
According to sources at Pocket-lint, Facebook is looking to purchase Norwegian browser makers Opera Software for an undisclosed (but likely sizeable) sum. The appeal is obvious: as Facebook moves to expand its presence not just on its main site, but across the entire internet, Opera would be a relatively easy and powerful gateway to embedding [...]
It appears that a few important members of the now-open-source webOS team are moving over to Google from HP. Despite announcing in January that webOS would be open-sourced and bits of pieces of the Enyo framework would be released between then and a final September unveiling, the unnamed members of the team have likely decided [...]
They promised it was coming and it’s here! The first untethered jailbreak for the new iPad, plus any other iOS device running 5.1.1, has been made available under the name Absinthe 2.0. It works very similar to the last one-click app, and is available for Windows, OS X and Linux. pod2g, the main exploit finder [...]
Nvidia’s quad-core Tegra 3 chipset is doing quite well, if comments made by the company general manager are to be believed. During an investors’ conference today, Mike Rayfield claimed that 30 smartphones will be released in 2012 running Nvidia’s latest silicon, and that some of them will ship with its Icera-based i410 LTE baseband. At [...]
The Windows 8 tablet market is something we haven’t really touched on since the hardware isn’t there yet to be considered “mobile,” but reference designs are coming fast and furious. The specs for Dell’s first Windows 8 tablet, the Latitude 10, have been leaked and, like most of its contemporaries, it will run an x86-based Intel [...]
Facebook has launched a Camera app for iOS that allows users to see photos and albums as well as upload pictures in bulk, with the option of added Instagram-like filters. If this all sounds very confusing, it should: the team began work on the app months ago, before the $1 billion Instagram purchase was even [...]
Google, like Apple, Microsoft and RIM, takes a portion of each app sold from its growing Play Store. In Google’s case it is 30% off the top, a sizeable portion of revenue from an already-tough market. But the Play Store is not the only way of distributing and promoting apps and games. Because We May [...]