Microsoft is set to release Windows Phone 8 later this year, and Windows Phone 7.8 as an upgrade for 7.5 users, and here leaked is a picture of a yellow Lumia device, running either WP 7.8 or 8.
Here you can see the upgraded start screen, as well as looking like having a pretty big screen, maybe a Lumia 910? Who knows!
While plenty of handsets will be getting the Android 4.1 update Jelly Bean, it seems devices only a year old could be missing out, and Sony is first to break the news, that most of the devices in 2011 will not receive Google’s latest and greatest Android operating system.
Are you disappointed by this news? What phone do you currently own, and is it getting the all important update?
We’ve already had the home button and also the sim tray, but now we have the earpiece and headphone jack, which supposedly look like features from Apple’s next iPhone, releasing in the last quarter of 2012 rumoured.
Check it out for yourself!
A new thing here at Tech Square are ‘Daily Deals’, where we will hunt out some of the best technology and gaming deals across the internet. From computers and tablets, games consoles, games and more! So, here’s today’s ‘Daily Deal’.
Windows Phone and Nokia have helped Microsoft rapidly over the last few months, their Lumia range has proven a big success for the two companies, and have introduced several people to the Windows Phone platform.
The mid-range Nokia Lumia 710, can now be found online at Carphone Warehouse for JUST £129.95, avaliable on a selection on networks, which the phone and £10 top up coming in at £139.95, it is a very good deal indeed!
Check it out! http://www.carphonewarehouse.com/mobiles/mobile-phones/NOKIA-LUMIA-710/PPAY
Checkout a hands on video of the Samsung Galaxy S3. Are you excited about this phone?
The Samsung Galaxy SIII. It’s beautiful, stunning, amazing, in every aspect possible, and it’s really hard not to look at this thing a 2nd time. The device contains a lot of the features speculated over the past few months, and a range of ones we didn’t. But let’s round up the Samsung Galaxy S III. Corner to corner.
Firstly, the hardware, the phone snaps up at just 8.6mm, making it one of the thinnest smartphones ever. The phone brings an 8MP camera, a 4.8″ AMOLED display, plus a HD front facing camera, which impacts much of the new technology we’ll get round to in a minute. But what we are all excited for, is the 1.4GHz Exynos processor, that will make this phone next to ‘rapid’.
Software is also amazing and fits the phone perfectly, packing Android’s latest OS, Ice Cream Sandwich. The phone uses some of the worlds, ‘state-of-the-art’ technology, including face recognition features. For example, you only have to look at the phone to unlock it, and the phone also falls asleep when you do. The phone will also NEVER fall asleep when you are looking at it. Which If I’m honest, did annoy me, not just on phones, but also iPods and also tablets. Samsung will hopefully keep innovating us with features like this, and it seems like Apple has some catching up to do.
While the phone seems ‘out of this world’, it seems like the phone still has major competition, with the HTC One X proving to be one of HTC’s most successful device, selling millions and also proving itself worthy of it’s quad-core processor it’s packing. Samsung is trying to erect this possibility by placing ‘Samsung Pins’ across London, which will allow users to try out the Galaxy S III for themselves before buying it. This should help flood in customers from every corner of the globe. And these will places throughout the capital.
With the phone coming at us on May 30th, available in two colours. Marble White and Pebble Blue. This phone will possibly ‘blowout’ the competition, and will be available on many networks, including Vodafone and 02. But no word on pricing just yet.
So, are you excited for this phone coming later this month? Let us know in the comments section and also mine and Tech Square’s Twitter!
Will Samsung’s new S3 come with a ‘Siri’ like feature, this seems to be the case, as you can simply type your message by speech, and do multiple things similar to Apple’s siri. We’ll have more on this in the future!
Also has the ability ‘Smart Message’, which will let you know of important messages, for example, if you get a message several times, or even just once, it will buzz not just once, but 5 times, other technical details also, we’ll have more!
Samsung have FINALLY announced in London, the new Galaxy S III! Boosting an 8MP camera, 4.8″ touchscreen, and not forgetting, that 1.4GHz Exynos processor. Also includes 1GB ram and also, eye recognition, so the phone is always on when you are looking at it!
The phone will release in over 100 counrties on a wide range of carries, so lets take a look at the phone shall we? The Galaxy S3. More news on the way!
Minutes to spare, get ready for the Samsung event introducing the ‘next big thing’
Live at 7pm UK time in London!
Stay tuned for upcoming posts!
The live event for the Galaxy S III in London starts tonight at 7, for everyone else, here are the other times
TechSquare will have round the hour updates on the event, with regular posts and content, you can also check out TechnoBuffalo’s LiveBlog event!
http://www.technobuffalo.com/companies/samsung/samsung-galaxy-s-iii-liveblog/
Apple have officially announced that WWDC will be held in San Francisco, and will start the week commencing June 11th.
“We have a great WWDC planned this year and can’t wait to share the latest news about iOS and OS X Mountain Lion with developers,” said Philip Schiller.”
WWDC can hope to bring the latest in the Mac OS line, and maybe even some new products launched to market, but one can hazard a guess on what we will see.
People are also saying Apple could announce there new iPhone this event, but usually Apple hold on for a year of the last iPhone, and WWDC usually consists of software and Mac products.
The infomous HTC One range has had a huge success with the One S and the One X released in the last few weeks, proving to be two of HTC’s best devices, with the One X offering a huge quad-core processor, but as you would expect, these handsets come at a cost, proving to cost over £400 in some cases, and the One S proving to be slightly less.
But anyone interested in the One range, and wanting Ice Cream Sandwich, but not the money to blow, will soon be able to buy the HTC One V from selected online retailers, like Play and Amazon.
The phone is avaliable for £226.10 on Amazon, and will be released on April 26th according to them, but it is apparant that the phone will be making it’s way t0 most carriers by the 23rd, and will be boarding an 8MP Camera, dual core processor, and also beats audio.
The highly popular Windows Phone from Nokia, the Nokia 710, as been made affordable by a lot of UK tariffs, making the phone available from sub £200, but now at Carphone Warehouse, is now on offer for just £129.95+£10 top up.
Incase your interested, here are the selected networks and prices. If you want to visit this deal yourself, click here! http://www.carphonewarehouse.com/mobiles/mobile-phones/NOKIA-LUMIA-710/PPAY
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Back in January when Nokia first announced their first Pureview phone, everyone assumed that this phone will run the Symbian Belle operating system, but most people interested didn’t care, and really were interested in the 41 mega pixel camera on offer.
But however the Finnish group did however state that this device WOULD be making it’s way over to the Windows Phone platform after all, and if this does happen, this would be a huge boost for Microsoft and Windows Phone.
You happy this phone is making its way over to Windows Phone?
The HTC Titan was arguably one of the best Windows Phone/HTC devices that was released in 2011, and only 5 months down the line, the Titan II has been announced, and three months later, released onto the market.
The phones main feature is the whopping 16mp rear facing camera, and for all the other specs, here they are:
Looks good don’t you think?
Motorola themselves announced earlier that they will be releasing their latest Motorola RAZR MAXX device sometime in May. But only being announced for Europe and the Middle East, what about countries like America and Canada?
The phone is set to feature a 4.3″ Super AMOLED touch-screen, on board with a 1.2GHz processor, and also 1GB ram, along with the Android Operating System.
However Motorola hasn’t fully announced what verion of Android the RAZR MAXX will ship with, but as being a high-end phone, hopefully we can see Honeycombe 3.2, or even Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0!
Are you excited for Motorola’s new device releasing next month?
With Angry Birds Space making it’s way across the likes of iOS and Android. Windows Phone 7 uses appear to be left out.
Rovio confirmed that WP7 will not be receiving the inevitable new Angry Birds title, as it will cost too much, and the OS isn’t big enough.
But Rovio CEO Mikael Hed quickly changed the statement that Microsoft and Rovio are working on bringing Angry Birds Space to the Windows Phone 7 market!
You excited by this news? Or do you believe still that Rovio will undertake a ‘silly’ move to bring this game to the Windows Phone 7 marketplace? Comment below!
Since the release of the new iPad last week, iPhone 5 rumors have been surfing our screens, a few days ago we had rumours of a 4.6″ screen to now having the 3.5″ screen we know and love, but the bigger screens avaliable to market are beginning to catch peoples eyes. And I think this is one thing Apple could do to regain much of it’s ground, but we’ll see in Autumn what exactly Apple have planned.
Any thought what we could see in the next iPhone?
We know 2011 wasn’t the overall best year for LG, LG we’re known for providing budget touch screen handsets for the lower range market, such as the LG Cookie. Which sold millions worldwide. We’re not interested in budget phones now, and mobiles are much more advanced now anyway, but LG plan to get the ball back up and rolling in 2012, by hopefully shipping around 80 million phones, and 35 million smartphones.
The company has struggled to compete with the likes of Samsung’s Galaxy range, and also Apple’s iPhone domination. But LG is hoping to pick up the pieces with their new handset the ‘LG Optimus 4X HD’ will help LG on it’s feet, hosting a quad-core processor, and high definition screen
Will you be considering picking up the 4X HD when it arrives to UK shelves?
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