Indian handset manufacturers not on the menu for Microsoft
- Category: Mobile/Tablet OS
- Saturday, 12 May 2012 17:35
- by Kunal Khullar
With Windows Phone catching up the smartphone market, Microsoft is pretty happy with the way things are going. They have tied up with many handset manufacturers, however if you notice, the company has not shown any interest in local handset manufacturers in the country.
There are a huge number of companies manufacturing handsets here in India, but somehow we don’t see Microsoft very keen on partnering with any of them.
There are a huge number of companies manufacturing handsets here in India, but somehow we don’t see Microsoft very keen on partnering with any of them.
First developer preview of Tizen OS [Video]
- Category: Mobile/Tablet OS
- Tuesday, 08 May 2012 15:12
- by Kunal Khullar
Remember Tizen OS? Intel’s last hope for a decent mobile platform? Well, after the merger with Bada OS, the platform has made its first appearance in a video. Thanks to Vaibhav from The Handheld Blog, we get to see OS in action. Although it is the developer version and there are going to be loads of changes, it gives us an idea as to how the OS will feel like.
The developer device seems to be a chunky smartphone with a 720p HD display and a 1.2GHz dual-core ARM chipset, other than that there isn’t any confirmation as to what kind of specifications we might see the platform running on.
The developer device seems to be a chunky smartphone with a 720p HD display and a 1.2GHz dual-core ARM chipset, other than that there isn’t any confirmation as to what kind of specifications we might see the platform running on.
Stats show Android ICS is steadily growing, Gingerbread still rules
- Category: Mobile/Tablet OS
- Wednesday, 02 May 2012 11:54
- by Kunal Khullar
With many device manufacturers bringing in the new Android ICS update to their devices, we can see that the latest OS version is steadily growing month over month.
The stats released by Google show a breakdown of all the versions of Android in which Android 2.3 Gingerbread is still on the top.
The stats released by Google show a breakdown of all the versions of Android in which Android 2.3 Gingerbread is still on the top.
Windows Phone 8 may allow Customization and Differentiation to OEMs
- Category: Mobile/Tablet OS
- Thursday, 19 April 2012 10:53
- by Amol Mathur
We know that Microsoft’s Windows Phone OS is not the best OS out there if we compare it to the iOS or Android, but then the OS is only growing and improving with each of its upgrade as Microsoft is learning from it's mistakes.
OEMs feel that the main drawback of Windows Phone OS is that it doesn’t allow them to customize the OS and thus there goes on to be no differentiating factor between devices. Now according to a high level agenda that Netbooknews, Microsoft is going to address the OEMs on the Customization and Differentiation options at the upcoming Apollo MO Summit in Reading, UK.
Windows Phone 8 will arrive for current device (or not)
- Category: Mobile/Tablet OS
- Wednesday, 18 April 2012 19:17
- by Amol Mathur
While all the current Windows Phone owners and those who are planning to buy one are in confusion as to whether their devices will get an upgrade to the much-awaited Windows Phone 8 (Apollo) on their devices or not, here’s some good news.
According to an interview, with Portuguese forum Zwame, Microsoft evangelist Nuno Silva, said that Windows Phone 8 (Apollo) will be coming to all current phones.
What is 'Rooting' in Android? Its Advantages and Disadvantages
- Category: Mobile/Tablet OS
- Tuesday, 17 April 2012 13:33
- by Kunal Khullar
If you are an Android device user, you might have heard of the term ‘Rooting’. So what is it? Some hacking process maybe? Well, let us explain what the whole deal about rooting is.
So basically if you manage to root your Android device you can gain privileged control which also called root access within Android's subsystem. Android is based on the Linux kernel so rooting an Android device is similar to accessing administrative permissions on Linux OS.
A Trojan Horse posing as legit Angry Birds Space app spreading in Android space
- Category: Mobile/Tablet OS
- Friday, 13 April 2012 11:37
- by Amol Mathur
And again! We do know that Android OS is prone to Malware and the newest of them doing the rounds is a Trojan Horse. We also know that these malwares disguise themselves as a legit app and the same is hapeening in this case. The new virus identified as Andr/KongFu-L is disguising itself as the popular Angry Birds Space game for Android.
The Trojan Horse has been detected by Sophos and it is spreading through unofficial Android stores that supply Android apps.
Windows Phone 8 'Apollo' build appears in a stats app
- Category: Mobile/Tablet OS
- Thursday, 12 April 2012 15:10
- by Amol Mathur
In the past few days we have seen references to the ongoing testing of Windows Phone 8 OS in a leaked Nokia advertising poster and then the browsers of the OS appeared in Hitlinks’ browser details.
Today thanks to the app “I’m a WP7” we are getting to know that Microsoft is indeed testing the OS internally.
Today thanks to the app “I’m a WP7” we are getting to know that Microsoft is indeed testing the OS internally.
TigerBot, the newest Android malware can be controlled from a remote location
- Category: Mobile/Tablet OS
- Tuesday, 10 April 2012 16:21
- by Amol Mathur
If you ask us what’s new today, we’ll say nothing, as we have yet another discovery of a serious malware over the Android platform and hey we are now habitual to them. Aren't we?
Again this time it is NQ Mobile which has come across the malware in question called the TigerBot. This malware is actually circulating via non-official Android channels and is specially made for Android’s SMS, i.e. it spreads via SMS. The TigerBot’s functioning is quite different from regular malwares as it hides into the compromised device is the form of legit apps like Flash or System.
More Windows Phone 8 references pop up, thanks to test devices visiting web
- Category: Mobile/Tablet OS
- Monday, 09 April 2012 18:33
- by Amol Mathur
Windows Phone Mango 7.5 truly went on to save Microsoft from a deadly exit from the mobile phone market and Microsoft is now betting all its money and resources on the development of the next version of the Windows Phone codenamed ‘Windows Phone Apollo’ and which may officially go on to be called Windows Phone 8.
And now a little analytics report from Hitlinks has revealed that there are a few Windows Phone 8 testing devices out there which are visiting the web on a regular basis.