The Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3i is a budget friendly laptop that should handle basic computing …
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Video: Microsoft Previews Windows Phone 7, Kinect, and More
Last night at a press event in New York City, Vin Rock and I got to preview a bunch of new Microsoft products coming out this year, including some new builds of Windows Phone 7. Being that we’re both fairly well-known celebrities, we got to go in early and check things out while everyone else stood outside in the muggy heat. Take a look at some of our video footage below. There were a couple …
Continue readingAlmost 10,000 Android Apps May Know Everything About You
About 20% of the Android Apps in the Android Marketplace may have total access to your personal information as well as the ability to do things with your phone without your immediate knowledge and permission. Some of the apps were found to have the ability to do things like make calls and send text messages without the mobile user doing anything. For instance, five percent of the apps can place calls to any number and …
Continue readingA Windows Phone 7 Voice Recognition Button Appears
Microsoft still won’t tell us anything about Windows Phone 7’s voice recognition support or what kind of TellMe software integration might be going on in there, but we noticed the Bing app now has a little microphone button on the right side of the input field. The Microsoft representative showing us this phone obviously wasn’t allowed to talk about it, but we’re excited to see that there’s being some work done on the voice/audio interface …
Continue readingWindows Phone 7 Marketplace in Action
Did you miss out on TechEd 2010 and want to see the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace? Here is the full session about Windows Phone 7’s marketplace at TechED 2010. In this video you can see the Marketplace application on a real LG Panther phone, a beta version of the Trial API and more information about unlocking phones for developers. (via LiveSide.net Originally published on Pocketnow on June 23, 2010. More Software articles from the Pocketnow …
Continue readingThe Problem with Android: Its Users
Chris Pirillo has written an article which can pretty easily be considered flame bait for the Android community. What I find interesting are his points about usability and how Android users defend their choice of operating system. What’s most interesting is how these things compare to the Windows Mobile issues of 2007. Back in 2007, when the first iPhone came out, Windows Mobile was clearly superior in terms of functionality, customizability, and even the number …
Continue readingOrange launches HD Voice Trials
Orange has started HD Voice Trials in the UK. The video below illustrates the difference in quality between regular voice audio as you might hear it now, to the high definition voice quality that’s currently being implemented. Oddly, the second half of the video becomes silent during the interviews, so I’m not sure what kind of HD voice recording capabilities were happening there nor do I know what was being said. Anyway, the full press …
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