Rovio has partnered with Lucasfilm to release the new Star Wars-themed spin off Angry Birds for various platforms including Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Mac and Windows. In this game, players guide a plucky group of birds inspired from protagonists of Star Wars franchise in their struggle against the notorious evil pigs. Players can swing lightsaber, use the Force and employ …
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Future Smartphones
Recent reports released by IDC, a technology research firm, showed that Android OS now represents about 75 percent for about 75 percent of the worldwide smartphone industry. Apple may have huge success in the United States and many developed countries, but it only grabs 15 percent of share in the global phone market. Apple is still on the top in …
Compared to the Mango (Windows Phone 7.5), the Windows Phone 8 “Apollo” comes with plenty of goodies under the hood. But if the revamped tile-based interface and much smoother animation just don’t cut it out for you, a few other features may will. Microsoft is working with Devicescape to offer support for more than 11 million WiFi hotspots around the …
Green Throttle Games has unveiled its upcoming controller, called the Atlas. Like other controllers in the market, the Atlas is designed to remedy issues faced by mobile games when using touch-only devices. The controller can be connected through simple Bluetooth connection and it supports HDMI-out connection through microHDMI or mobile high-definition link. Green Throttle has released a video promotion, which …
It appears, Microsoft won’t add the central notification feature to the Windows Phone 8 and there’s a good argument behind this decision: Live Tiles can also display any real-time information. Previously, a Microsoft official admitted that the company might actually add a notification system similar to what we see on the iOS and Android today, if it hasn’t run out …
Mobile phones are growing as influential mobile devices and they have become a very vital part in our life. It’s clear that features phones priced above $100 are on the way out. Many component makers are working really hard to provide the most advanced products. Intel is now preparing an impressive mobile processor with 48 cores and it could be …
ARM debuts the first 64-bit mobile architecture and it also unveils future Cortex processor based on the new architecture. This is the most advanced architecture the British firm has ever released and AMD also reveals a plan to use it to design new processor for low-wattage servers. Dubbed Cortex A57 and Cortex A53, these new processors are due for release …
We normally see prices of devices with high-end components drop pretty quickly. There was a time when phones with a 1GHz single-core processor were considered the big thing. Now, quad-core processors are new beasts in the industry, but we are now starting to see budget devices with this powerful component. The ZTE U950 boasts some impressive specs for its affordable …
Microsoft’s plan to make a strong entry into the mobile industry will be restarted with the release of various Windows Phone 8 devices. Recent sales of handsets powered by Windows Phone 7.x have been pretty weak and the company couldn’t get much a bounce in sales while it partnered only with Nokia. Nokia sales continue to collapse by about 63 …
Micromax has released a smartphone with dual-SIM capability, the Superfone Canvas 2 A110, which is a direct improvement over the Canvas A100. Both use 5” 854 x 480 IPS capacitive display, Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and even the same starting price. Obviously, the components used under the hood are remarkably better. For starters, the new phone is powered by …