TELUS just announced that the HTC One would go on sale April 19th, though it’s yet to post pricing. We expect other carriers to launch the phone on the same day, but only Rogers has posted a price, $149.99 on a three-year term. We had an inkling the One would be coming to Canada around [...]
The excitement today may be around a questionable Instagram app, but Viber users will be happy to know the app is now available on Windows Phone 8 devices. Available with free VoIP calls to users on all of its platforms — iOS, Android and BlackBerry — Viber is one of the most popular alternatives to [...]
In what could be a very big spoiler or a great spoof, trustworthy Twitter account @evleaks posted a render of the ‘HTC First’, a plain-looking smartphone with a few signs of Facebook integration. While there are no obvious marks to indicate the social network’s branding, the phone’s colour scheme and rounded home button point to [...]
Long known for its PC-based benchmark suite, Futuremark has released its first mobile testing app, 3DMark, for Android. Because it uses standard resolutions (720p and 1080p) on OpenGL ES 2.0 benchmark results are apples-to-apples on both Android and, eventually, iOS. How it does this is simple: instead of rendering the tests at the phone or tablet’s [...]
Nimbuzz, one of the most popular chat consolidator apps across multiple platforms, has updated its Windows Phone app today with support for wide live tiles and fast resume. The company was one of the earliest to release a Windows Phone app, but it has stayed underdeveloped and a poor performer. Taking advantage of WP8′s double-wide [...]
TuneIn, the excellent service for listening to music, talk, comedy and other, added TuneIn Live to its iOS app at the end of February. The update is now live on the Play Store for Android users, and it brings the same great music, talk and comedy discovery to smartphones and tablets. TuneIn Live displays the content [...]
As we continue our trek towards Thursday, when Facebook announces its inevitable “Home on Android,” Android Police has recently turned up a build of the new software destined to be paired with the HTC Myst device. It looks like the specs were correct: the Myst will sport a 4.3-inch 720p display and a 1.5Ghz Snapdragon [...]
10000000 may not look like much, but that’s the point. The always-running puzzle game has roots in the match-three genre but it goes beyond that, with a system of power-ups and in-game currency that works to keep you motivated. Motivated to do what, exactly? Get out of the seemingly-endless dungeon by amassing an impossible score of, [...]
One of the most consistent criticisms lobbed at Windows Phone 7 and later WP8, was its lack of a unified notification hub, somewhere you can go to check all your missed calls, texts, tweets, news briefs and so on. Microsoft claims that its combination of one-off toast notifications and live tiles, which can be configured [...]
Feedly hasn’t taken the Google Reader shutdown news lightly; it has promised not only a smooth transition for users relying on the service, but improvements to its core functionality. What started as a desktop extension for consolidating and aggregating news in an attractive way, Feedly has since launched mobile apps on Android and iOS that [...]