Late yesterday, Microsoft whipped the covers off Windows 8. It’s still early days: We won’t get our hands on it, or see it on shelves, for around 12 months, but here are eight reasons Microsoft’s next OS is shaping up to be nothing short of awesome.
September, 2011
Facebook might not have seemed too phased by the launch of Google+, but the social network’s newest feature seems to replicate Google’s way of doing things rather closely. Last night, Zuckerberg and co announced Improved Friend Lists, to organise all your contacts into easier to manage groups. Sounds a bit like Google+ Circles, you say? That’s because it is. In fact, it’s almost exactly the same.
The HTC Sensation XE has arrived, marking the first collaboration between the Taiwanese phone manufacturer and Beats Audio, after the partnership was announced last month. It’s not just a bundled pair of swizzle earbuds though – read on for all the improvements.
Got a Nintendo 3DS? Then you’ll want to un-boggle those eyes, sit up straight and pay attention: Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata has popped up on stage at a Nintendo party just before the Tokyo Game Show to announce impending software updates for your three-dimensional console. What’s in store? Details after the jump.
We’ve seen many companies try and fail to craft the ultimate smart watch over the years, from LG to Sony Ericsson, but the only one that’s ever looked promising is Fossil’s Meta Watch platform, which connects a digital watch to your phone simply by using Bluetooth to deliver alerts to your wrist.
That’s just got a huge boost today, with news that a group of investors has bought out the Meta Watch from Fossil – including a former high-ranking Nokia exec.
I’m not a Windows Phone user myself, but I’ve reviewed just about every single Windows Phone 7 handset that’s been released in the last year, including the lesser spotted Dell Venue Pro. And I like it: it’s cheery and easy to use, and with the upcoming Mango update, will just about achieve feature parity with its competitors, iOS and Android.
I’m always keen on more choice and competition when it comes to tech however, so though you wouldn’t catch an Android dork like me dead with an LG Optimus 7, I’ve been following Windows Phone’s first year of existence anxiously, hoping Microsoft can pull it off. Which is why reports this weekend that Samsung could be pulling out of Windows Phone altogether fill me with fear for both Redmond and Nokia’s future.
Remember that porn bunker we told you about yesterday? The one set to keep the internet awash with smut even after the prophesied 2012 apocalypse? We’ve just been passed the blueprints for it. These guys are taking the end of the world very seriously indeed.