Tag: Android
Microsoft's Ballmer calls Apple "controlling", Android "wild"
Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer has laid into his competition in the mobile space, calling Apple's iPhone and iPad ecosystem "highly priced" and "highly controlled", while he considers Android to be "wild" and "uncontrolled". Speaking to LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, a…
Disgo 9104 tablet: Ice Cream Sandwich on the cheap
Android Ice Cream Sandwich on a tablet for less than £180? That's what the Disgo 9104 promises to deliver. At £179.99 it offers a 9.7-inch capacitive IPS display running at a 1024 x 768 resolution, 1.2 GHz Boxchip Cortex A8…
5-inch HD Sony Yuga smartphone appears online
Sony's great-big smartphone hope for 2013, the Sony Yuga, has leaked online, spilling the ebans on its specs as well as a handful of images of the device. Also known as the Sony C6603, it features a 5-inch touchscreen display…
APP OF THE DAY: Angry Birds Star Wars (iPhone, iPad, Android, WP8)
Did you sense a disturbance in the force this morning? That's probably because Angry Birds Star Wars has launched for practically every single mobile platform today. Hitting the respective app stores for iPads, iPhones, iPod Touch, Android devices, Windows Phone…
Samsung Galaxy S3: 30 million handsets sold in 5 months
Are you reading this on a Samsung Galaxy S3 handset? Then you're one of the THIRTY MILLION who coughed up the cash for Samsung's flagship smartphone in the past 5 months since it launched. Samsung confirmed the gigantic sales milestone…
Samsung Galaxy Camera hits UK stores on 8 November
Samsung's camera-come-Android-device hybrid the Samsung Galaxy Camera will go on sale in the UK on 8 November, the South Korean tech giant has confirmed. First revealed at IFA 2012 (you can view our hands-on with the camera in the video…
iPad losing tablet market share as Samsung's Android slate sales grow
Research firm IDC has just revealed findings on the Q3 tablet market share. And while Apple's iPad still sits on top of the pile, Samsung are leading the charge of growing Android tablet sales. Though maintaining pole position with 50.4%…
Three million Samsung Galaxy Note 2 handsets sold in just over a month
Samsung's Galaxy Note 2 giant phone is proving popular, with the South Korean firm confirming that more than three million of the handsets have been sold in just over a month. Dwarfing the initial sales of the first Note by…
HTC Facebook Phone codenamed HTC Opera UL on the way?
The rumours of a Facebook phone once again rear their heads, with news again coming in that HTC may be making a phone for the social networking giants. A Taiwanese source for Pocket-Lint has revealed the HTC Opera UL, billed…
Google Nexus 4 to be O2 network exclusive: Pricing revealed
O2 have announced that the Google Nexus 4, the new LG-built Android smartphone flagship reference device, will be coming exclusively to their network first. Hitting stores on Tuesday 13 November, the Nexus 4 will be available through O2's 24-month On…
