Windows Phone 7 is quickly becoming the underdog story of late 2010. With a reported 3000 apps and 15000 developers, the newly refreshed mobile OS is set to shake up the smartphone market this holiday season, will you be joining in?
November, 2010
Want to start that Friday feeling a little early? Read our roundup of all the latest gadget news here, and we’ll put you in that mood hours ahead of schedule! Read on for everything in our teatime tech roundup.
MySpace unveiled the latest of its new looks today but is that simply too late? Akira The Don, friend of Electricpig and self-made musical phenomenon (alright, that was a bit of sucking up – we want our own theme song) has quit MySpace with a biting blog post and even harsher video which you can see if you click through. If a man with 7000 friends and at least one song on 500,000 plays has bugged out, what hope has MySpace got?
From our tests and our polls, it seems that lots of you have first hand experience of Wi-Fi NotSpots. We’ve focused on Wi-Fi hotspots that require a subscription or payment, and now we want to know, if you’ve used a Wi-Fi NotSpot, have you ever tried to get a refund? If so, how easy was it? Click and tell, and click through to tell us more in the comments. Don’t forget to join the Facebook Group, and if you’re in a Wi-Fi NotSpot, tweet us @electricpig with your location and provider, hashtag #notspots.
Rupert Murdoch announced that he would be publishing an iPad only newspaper staffed by 100 journalists earlier in the week, and now Richard Branson has come out of the woodwork and squared up to Murdoch, announcing that he’s also after a piece of the iPad-only publication pie.
The famous slur against Android Market came from the podfather himself, Steve Jobs, who said that if users wanted porn, they should get an Android. But an announcement yesterday looks set to change that a little. Eric Chu, from the Android Developer Ecosystem said in a post that all apps in the Android Market would be showing content ratings within a few weeks.
Another Nexus S Android 2.3 Gingerbread leak is here, the latest in a steady stream. This leaks brings us some shonky snaps of the slick body of the Nexus S, plus a whole bunch of speculative specs for Android 2.3, which we’re now all but certain is Gingerbread, with Honeycomb now tipped to be the Android tablet OS, 3.0. Click through for more info and photos.
iTunes is one of the most well-used bits of Apple software. It’s a beast, and it’s safe to say it’s staying that way for the foreseeable future. While we love iTunes, and use it every day, we think there’s still a long way to go until it’s a perfect service. What’s the one thing you would do to improve iTunes? Click and tell…