According to a firm called ‘Flurry’ we could see a burst of activity in Windows Phone 7 projects thanks to developers and the Nokia-Microsoft-tie-up.
Sources indicated that even well before Nokia and Microsoft revealed the tie up earlier last week, the speculati
on of the new joint venture caused a surge in developer interest.
Flurry says that they saw a 66% jump in Windows Phone 7 projects starting ahead of the announcement.
Flurry compare against Android
Anyone could see this one coming and it’s finally been confirmed – 3D TV’s have slipped under £600 and there are a lot of reasons for this.
One of the main reasons is Samsung have managed to develop a 3D TV which you do have to wear the geeky glasses to watc
h it, but when you are sick of the glasses, within the touch of a button you can switch it back to 2D – great!
Two, 3D TV’s were released well before they should have been. We saw 3D in the cinemas and we could accept having to wear the glasses for an hour and a half to watch Avatar and the manufactures decided to jump on the band wagon and get 3D released as soon as possible.
Three, ‘Autoscopic 3D TV’s’ – you will start to hear this acronym a lot more in 2011 as it basically means 3D TV’s without the geeky glasses.
As an affluent gamer myself, I like to try out all of the latest games from Dead Space 2 through to Grand Turismo but I find that every time I go into the game shops, there’s always a newer version of Guitar Hero and Band Hero and I do find it quite hard to believe how people will spend a hundred or so pounds on all of the hardware and game just for Christmas or a birthday.
But it seems as if the US games publisher Activision have finally decided enough is enough and axed the game Guitar Hero after their latest edition failed to meet sales expectations – and I wonder why.
The publisher said in their financial statement that the game series was being discontinued because: “the popularity of music-themed video games has faded” and yes, it is rather true.
We don’t usually blog about stuff about this but when I originally saw the article on Engadget, it made me laugh quite a bit.
We all know that China are renoun for making their knock-off tablets and iPhones but a knock-off clone Steve Jobs, could it really be? And the answer is yes – they have managed to super-exceed themselves.
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HTC have unveiled a lot at the MWC 2011 from tablets through to new smart phones – so here is the run-down of all the new smart phones.
HTC Wildfire S
The Wildfire S is going to be HTC’s new budget-low-end Android phone and the successor to the Wildfire which proved quite a good seller due to Android being on a low contract each month.
Microsoft’s CEO Steve Bullmer took centre stage the other day back at the Mobile World Congress2011 in Barcelona to show off their next update eagerly due for Windows Phone 7.
The update is due to be released ‘later this year’ according to Microsoft and bring forward multi-tasking, cloud supp
ort and more to Microsoft’s smartphone OS.
Windows Phone 7’s current multi-tasking is more along the line of fast apps easily switching so the applications aren’t actually running in the background, they save their current state in the memory so you can pull them back quickly with little lag – hence the dedicated back button.
We were all planning on Dell unveiling their 10-inch tablet at CES2011 but no – no they didn’t. Dell managed to hold it off until their ‘Dell means business’ event in San Francisco just the other day.
It’s pretty self explanatory what happened at the event and it is exactly what it says on the tin – Dell unveiled a he
ll of a lot of products…39 to be precise and every one of them to target the business market.
Dell called this launch event- “the biggest product launch in the history of the company”.
It seems as if Apple is so happy with the cloud and the success of their App Store for Mac’s, they are considering moving their boxed software from their retail outlets onto the App Store.
The Mac App Store launched last month for the latest version of Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard, and it is set to become one of the more crucial
components for the upcoming Mac OS X Lion, expected to be released this summer.
According to Mac Rumours who originally wrote the article, the ‘space free’ from the Mac software could be used to stack more eye catching products like iPad’s, other iOS devices and accessories.
As all manufactures are in the unveiling stage with CES2011 and MWC2011, were we expecting something from Orange? In all honesty – I wasn’t.
But it seems as if the network giant has unveiled a 7-inch Android tablet with 3G technology. No specifications have been unveiled yet but we can confirm is the ability for 3G, 7-inch capacitive touch screen and Android – Android 2.1 (really?).
With Motorola putting Honeycomb on their new tablet line-up and the spotlight all around Android 3.0 Honeycomb, isn’t Android 2.1 a little old?
Currently have three PC’s in your family all running on Windows XP or Windows Vista and want to upgrade to Windows 7 but find its too expensive? Amazon have downed the price of their Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade Family Pack.
At £108.04 inc. VAT + delivery, it’s a rather luring price for home users if they want to move across to a more reli
able and stable platform with some great added extras. With an upgrade license of £36.01 per seat, its less than a third off the full RRP
The benefit of this package is that even if you are a 64-bit user or 32-bit, the disc which comes in the box is compatible with both versions allowing more flexibility for a user which is great.
