If you’re still rockin’ a computer with everyone’s favorite OS, Windows Vista, and only have up to Service Pack 1 installed, Microsoft has a message for you: Upgrade or…upgrade. That is, upgrade to at least Service Pack 2 or just move on to Windows 7 entirely. While we’d highly suggest the latter, taking a mere bump in service packs is understandable. The official date for the transition is July 12, 2011. After said date, users will no...
I may get some flack from CrackBerry enthusiasts saying this, but, news that RIM turned down Nokia’s advances for a handy dandy partnership have me saying “Thank God” — though not in the way that you would think. I’m saying Thank God for Nokia. Unless RIM magically reveals some QNX-powered phones at MWC, they’ve got nothing in the smartphone arena that comes anywhere close to unseating any of the mid to high-end Android handsets and...
A few interesting Android tips popped up on our radar this morning. So without further adieu, the news… According to Google’s own, latest sales figures, Android 2.1+ has eclipsed 90% market penetration meaning a very healthy share of Android users have a relatively recently version of the friendly green giant running atop their hardware. Specifically, the number actually comes in a tad under 90% — 89.8% — but we’re not going to be that...
It was pretty much guaranteed, inevitable, and expected — Android has overtaken Symbian, this according to Canalys’ latest sales figures from Q4 2010. During that period, Android managed to ship on 32.4 million devices compared to Symbian’s 31 million. Now consider that just one quarter before (Q3), Android was only estimated to have shipped on 20.3 million devices. Quite the jump if you ask us. Though truth be told, Symbian has been on a decline for...
While Symbian^3 already has some multi-tasking features built into the core of the operating system, it doesn’t look quite as nice as the image above. So when promotional pictures (like said image above) are released, it naturally piques our interest. As of writing, there’s no official announcement/confirmation/denial by Nokia of what exactly we’re looking at. Nonetheless, it certainly can’t hurt Nokia’s attempts at stemming the loss of...
