According to the latest Android developer data a mere 24.3 percent of Android smarpthones run Android Gingerbread 2.3 or higher. This fall the Motorola XT531 joins that exclusive group when it goes on sale as the Motorola FIRE XT in Europe and Motorola SPICE XT in Latin America. This budget-minded dual-SIM smartphone packs a punch.
August, 2011
Speculation over the camera sensor used in the upcoming iPhone 5 is at an all time high. Today, OmniVision announced its new OV8850 eight-megapixel sensor which delivers, “a 20 percent improvement in peak quantum efficiency in all color channels, a 35 percent improvement in low-light sensitivity and a 45 percent increase in full-well capacity in an extremely compact and power efficient package.” Did we mention it manages to do so in a 20 percent slimmer design than existing eight-megapixel modules?
Hoping to step up productivity with your Android Honeycomb tablet? Logitech has just unveiled its first tablet mouse designed specifically for large Android 3.1 slates. The Bluetooth laser mouse works on nearly any surface and operates at a maximum range of 30 feet.
Replacing a laptop with a tablet can be a strenuous transition, even for the most touch-friendly souls. Logitech has realized the market for an Android tablet mouse and attacked full-steam with today’s announcement. The Logitech tablet mouse includes two AA batteries and comes bundled with a travel pouch for protection. Read more
Nokia Sweden has launched a timer which counts down to the impending release of the Nokia N9. In just 49 days, Sweden will become the first country to land the 3.9-inch FWVGA resolution all touchscreen MeeGo smartphone. Undoubtedly a sign that launches will follow shortly in the more than 23 additional countries.
HTC has bought Dashwire, a Seattle-based company which builds back up, remote access and device syncing. While HTC already has HTCSense.com fighter.
The deal gives HTC an easy way to share documents, music, video and images between PCs, Macs and Android devices. Dashwire’s software can also sync a whole lot of other data including contacts, messages, calendars and voicemail. While HTC hasn’t revealed what it plans to do with Dashwire yet, we expect to see some of its technology baked into future versions of Sense.
There’s another interesting element to the acquisition. Dashwire bought up a batch of patents related to mobile syncing back in April. Adding those to its war chest could help HTC in its ongoing lawsuits with Apple. So while the purchase may just be all about making future HTC phones better, there’s that other level to consider.
Out TBC | £TBC | HTC
Here’s a nice bit of Friday entertainment: Bungie has released a documentary, O Brave New World, charting its twenty year from packaging copies of Pathways Into Darkness by hand to conquering gaming with Halo.
The 55 minute film, which you can watch after the break, commemorates the studio handing over Halo development to 343 Industries and includes some glimpses of Bungie at work on its next game, an MMO for Activision.
A new symbol which seems to relate to that new Bungie universe pops up throughout the documentary and appears again at the very end to tease us. Click through to take a look for yourself and hit the comments to share your Halo memories and what you want Bungie to do next…
We’re just over three months away from getting out hands on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and while PS3, Xbox 360 and PC players have all been satiated with news, Wii owners have been waiting for word on their version. Now we’ve got it. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 on the Wii is being handled by Treyarch.
The news was revealed by Infinity Ward’s Robert Bowling on the One of Swords podcast. He bigged up the studio’s previous experience porting its own work on Call of Duty: Black Ops to the Wii as an example of its ability to translate warfare to the world of the Wiimote. No other details on the Call of Duty: Modern Wafare 3 Wii version have been revealed yet.
Out November | £TBC | Call of Duty (via One of Swords)