After all the hype and hoopla, not to mention a week-long delay in its official unveiling, the world’s first Android Ice Cream Sandwich handset has been given the nod by Samsung and Google. Dubbed the Samsung Galaxy Prime, it packs in some stellar new features on top of its Android 4.0 OS. And best of all, we’ve confirmed it’ll be landing in Blighty soon too. Read on for all the details.
The Motorola Razr is back. The wildly popular super thin clam-shell of yesteryear has been transformed into one of the most souped up, insanely specced Android smartphones yet – as well as the thinnest.
HTC is spending money like it believes in the coming end of the Mayan calendar. Just months after snaffling up a majority stake in Beats By Dre, it’s bought another company, Inquisitive Minds, best known for its infant-friendly Zoodles software for laptops, tablets and smartphones.
You’d be hard pressed to argue that the Nintendo 3DS has met with the reception Ninety was hoping for. Even with a large price cut, the auto-stereoscopic gaming handheld has struggled to capture the imagination of gamers who’ve now come to expect the same standard of title available for a pittance on their smartphone. And now, another blow: yet another franchise synonymous with the DS family has just announced it’s heading to iPhone.
Google’s got something big up its sleeves for Wednesday: the official unveiling of the next big Android update, Ice Cream Sandwich, and likely the Samsung-made Google Nexus Prime phone alongside it.
Despite showing off some fascinating new tech headed to the platform back in May, we still don’t know all that much about ICS, or whether it’ll pack the voice control smarts to take on the iPhone 4S. But even if it does, there’s a bigger problem. If Google ever wants to take on Siri, it needs to tackle a hardware problem: headphones.
iCloud is now out for all Mac OS X Lion and iOS 5 users, quietly working its way in the background to store all your important details and data in a server in a faraway land. It does also work with PCs however, something Apple hasn’t made much of a song and dance about. If you’re a Windows iPhone user, you’ll want to check out this free new download which lets you monitor it straight from your desktop.
Grand Theft Auto 3 in your pocket? Yes please. Rockstar is releasing the game on iPhone and Android to celebrate the game’s tenth anniversary.
