Having put the e-reader market in it’s place and made a mark in the tablet market, Amazon have moved on to the mobile telephone market to see what can be achieved. Earlier today at a press conference, Amazon announced it’s first ever smartphone: Amazon Fire Phone. It’s deeply linked to Amazon (read: consumerism) in every…
Slingshot is a photo and video sharing application for smartphones that allows you to share everyday moments with lots of people at once. Sound familiar? Since Facebook already own Instagram – we must be talking about SnapChat! SnapChat turned down a deal to be bought out by Facebook, and so the company founded by Mark…
The latest update by the Unicode Consortium packs 2,834 new characters of which 250 are emojis. Unicode is one of many systems used to convert binary digital signals (1’s and 0’s) to characters you see on your screen. Unicode was drafted to be a universal code used by all manufacturers to ensure characters could be…
Huawei have made major gains in the smartphone market in the far east and want to show the rest of the world they are not stopping there. As a part of their new investment plan, the Chinese multinational want to open a new facility in Bristol which will be focused on researching IC chips, software…
If you’re like me, you enjoy using Google calender to stay organized and you love football. So how about you use Google calender to ensure you don’t miss a single game of this year’s world cup in Brazil? This simple tutorial will allow you to add the entire World Cup 2014 schedule to your Google…
It has taken much longer than most people anticipated but, weirdly, on a Sunday evening the Korean smartphone giant has finally released its first Tizen OS smartphone. The specifications prove the Tizen debutee to modestly powerful device packed with a 2.3GHz Quad-core Snapdragon processor, coupled with 2GB of RAM and 16GB of storage. Network LTE…
Communication bridges everyone, governments are trying so hard to adopt at least one major language. This language will bridge all differences brought about culture, distance and time. As of this day, English is still the international language. And communication is made easier with the availability of social networking services and applications that are designed to…
Google has recently added a new feature to it’s popular mapping service which enables users to look through an archive of streetview captures at the click of your mouse. Since 2007, Google streetview cars have been patrolling the very many cities on this planet taking full-dimensional images every few yards. Back at Google HQ these…
Apple’s iOS 7 update brought Moments to the Photos app which was a whole new way of organizing and viewing images and videos taken on your iOS device. It was praised for it’s simplicity and ability to engage viewers in snaps taken within a given time period or in a particular place (using geo-location fencing). Dropbox, also…
It’s fair to say that smartphone manufacturers tend to go over the top with specs when releasing flagship devices. Now-a-days mobile phones ship with multi-processor cores, HD graphics, stereo sound, large multi-touch screens and much more. Whether or not any of these hyper-specs are required is a matter of debate. Some may argue that better…
In what seemed to be a desperate move by Canadian smartphone giant Blackberry – the flagship instant messaging platform has been given an update. Blackberry have announced version 2.1 for their cross-platform instant messaging application. The update is available to both iOS and Android, but unlike speculations there is no support for Windows Phone just…