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Android / Windows Phone
by Anton D. Nagy | May 24, 2013 4:39 AMRead OnTopic Jolla unveiled their first phone this week, together with "the other half", which brings an interesting concept to the mobile world. HTC's executives are leaving the company which makes us wonder whether this is a good or a bad things. Samsung officially sold 10 million Galaxy S 4 units through its global channels and unofficial sources talk about 5 million HTC ...
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Windows Phone
by Stephen Schenck | May 23, 2013 8:01 PMRead OnMicrosoft finds itself in a somewhat unique place in the electronics industry, with products in both the smartphone and console gaming spheres. Sure, Sony hits both those notes, but there's a big difference between manufacturing smartphones and having direct control over a smartphone platform. In theory, that should lead to some fantastically tight integration between ...
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Multi-Platform
by Jaime Rivera | May 23, 2013 7:00 PMRead OnWatch today's Pocketnow Daily as we talk about LG's demo of a smartphone with no bezel, and the possibilities of it ever happening. We later talk about Samsung, the sales results of the Galaxy S 4 and their future Developer Edition. We later go through how the Facebook phone is now being pulled away from the UK because of the obvious bad results on sales, even though ...
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Android / Windows Phone
by Taylor Martin | May 23, 2013 6:27 PMRead OnNokia is a name that is synonymous with great build quality and hardware, awesome mobile cameras, and now Windows Phone. Nokia penned a deal with Microsoft in 2011, pushing its efforts to improve Symbian as a leading smartphone OS and the MeeGo project with Intel to the back burner. As we've learned, however, Nokia's decision to go all-in on Windows Phone ...
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iOS / Windows Phone
by Stephen Schenck | May 23, 2013 4:38 PM
Read OnMicrosoft continues to try and stir-up interest in its tablet offerings, taking the latest step of putting up a page on its site to let visitors do a spec-by-spec comparison between the iPad and a number of Windows 8 and Windows RT tablets. A small controversy has ensued following the page's publication, as some people try and claim that Microsoft is misleading the ...
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Windows Phone
by Taylor Martin | May 23, 2013 4:18 PMRead OnWhen someone uses a particular platform for any given time, they become invested in the ecosystem – the apps, the built-in and related services, and the way everything syncs up perfectly and seamlessly. You become invested in the platform and the user experience. And switching to any other platform is certainly more difficult than just a context switch and getting ...
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Pocketnow Weekly 045: HTC’s death spiral, Jolla’s rebirth, and yet another Nokia EOS rumor (Podcast)by Michael Fisher | May 23, 2013 1:47 PMRead On
Here at Pocketnow, we like other tech sites. We share the same news space, we share a lot of editorial opinions, and we trade jokes and barbs on the Twitters, the Facebooks, and even in the godforsaken comments section. We're even starting to interact face-to-face with our foreign contemporaries in on-air venues like the Pocketnow VIP, but here at the Weekly, we ...
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Multi-Platform
by Anton D. Nagy | May 23, 2013 4:14 AMRead OnWe've been huge fans of future possible sapphire solutions for smartphones ever since MWC. We've also visited the factory that can make this possible. Sapphire is known to be an extremely tough material, almost impossible to scratch. It has its own downside though: it's also very brittle. Gorilla Glass, on the other hand, is less brittle, but, it is much easier to ...
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Android / Windows Phone
by Jaime Rivera | May 22, 2013 7:00 PMRead OnWatch today's Pocketnow Daily as we talk about LG's new Optimus GJ and what's different from the previous Optimus G, if there really is any difference. Then we talk about Microsoft and how it had to water-down its YouTube app for Windows Phone 8 due to a petition from Google. Speaking of Google, their new Google Drive is next as it got significantly revamped in mobile. ...
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Android / Windows Phone
by Michael Fisher | May 22, 2013 6:45 PMRead OnIt's become a trope in mobile tech: write an article about Nokia, and someone will leave a comment suggesting that all the beleaguered company needs to do to return to prominence is build an Android phone. Mark my words: it'll even happen on this article, despite the contravening headline. And, fanboys being fanboys, a flame war (or at least a small brush fire) will ...
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Android / Windows Phone
by Jaime Rivera | May 22, 2013 5:37 PMRead OnWhen Henry Ford was asked almost a century ago why he focused so intensely on making automobiles a mainstream in complete contradiction to what the experts thought at the time, his response was simple - "If I would've asked people what they wanted, they would've asked for a faster horse". When Steve Jobs almost had a heart attack because Steve Wozniak had to honor a ...
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Windows Phone
by Stephen Schenck | May 22, 2013 5:21 PMRead OnIn case you haven't been following, Microsoft and Google have gotten themselves into a minor tiff over YouTube. It started earlier this month when Microsoft updated its YouTube app for Windows Phone. This brought a lot of new functionality, but as was quickly pointed out, seemed to violate some YouTube policies, specifically with how it allowed downloads and didn't ...
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Windows Phone
by Stephen Schenck | May 22, 2013 3:58 PMRead OnWhile we didn't get a chance to see Nokia's rumored EOS, a 41-megapixel PureView Windows Phone handset, at the company's press event the other week, hope remains that this smartphone is still in the running to make its debut soon. We've recently looked into rumors from sources claiming to have had a glimpse at the hardware, but weren't left with a clearer idea of when ...
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Multi-Platform
by Taylor Martin | May 22, 2013 9:45 AMRead OnOver the years, Bluetooth has become one of those terms you simply expect to see when reading through the specifications of a phone – any phone. It's a given that most smart devices have it. Laptops, smartphones, tablets, and most wireless peripherals or connected accessories utilize Bluetooth in some way or another. And the use cases for Bluetooth stretch far and ...
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Android / Windows Phone
by Anton D. Nagy | May 22, 2013 4:54 AMRead OnThe captain is the last one to abandon a sinking ship. HTC's Peter Chou promised that he'd resign as the CEO of the company if the HTC One isn't going to bring the Taiwanese manufacturer above the floating line. However, until then, some important crew members have either left, leaving, or urging fellow HTC-ers to leave. Is HTC sinking? Jason Gordon, HTC's vice ...
