Imagine knowing that a text message contained good or bad news before evening opening it. Well, that’s about to become a reality, and it doesn’t require you to take on psychic powers: it’s all done by an app on your Android phone.
Take Two Games believes that its 2013 financial year will be “one of [its] best years ever”, which could point to a Christmas release for Grand Theft Auto 5. The publisher announced a drop in profits for its fiscal third quarter of 2011, but CEO Strauss Zelnick is bullish about its prospects in the near future.
A huge leak this week has revealed a mountain of facts about the upcoming Windows Phone 8, which is currently codenamed Apollo and will be strongly flavoured by the upcoming desktop and tablet version of Windows 8. Read on for a deep dive into what we can expect.
Here’s some fanboy ammo for you: it appears that iOS apps may crash more than Android apps, going against the typical mantra that iOS for iPhone is typically more stable than Google’s mobile operating system. Mobile app monitoring startup Crittercism spent 1 to 15 December 2011 busily compiling crash data, and its findings are very interesting indeed. Put on your gas mask: a flame war is brewing.
It’s long been rumoured that BlackBerry Messenger will eventually be released for iOS and Android, but one analyst now believes that’s very unlikely. Jefferies’ Peter Misek predicts that RIM will abandon its plans to develop BBM apps for competitors’ devices in favour of “direct competition” with them.
The Pentax K-01 is the latest mirrorless interchangeable lens camera to break cover – and if offerings from Sony, Panasonic, Olympus, Samsung et al leave you cold, its achingly retro-modern looks may stir a fire in your belly. The K-01, you see, comes fresh from the drawing board of famed designer Marc Newson, who has stuff on display at New York’s Museum of Modern Art and everything.