
Opinion: What will Windows 8 ARM slates be? Because they won’t be PCs
Windows 8, Microsoft has been saying for some time, is Windows “re-imagined for a new generation of computing devices”. There will still be familiar PCs…
Windows 8, Microsoft has been saying for some time, is Windows “re-imagined for a new generation of computing devices”. There will still be familiar PCs…
A dual core processor in your smartphone; that has to be twice as good as a single core, right? Wrong. A dual-core phone or a…
The iPhone isn’t the only way for mobile app makers to make serious money. Windows Phone may lag behind the Android and iPhone app stores,…
Android and the iPhone dominate the app store market with more than 500,000 apps submitted for each platform. Windows Phone has a far more modest…
Last year CES was full of wrist cases for turning an iPod Nano into a watch; this year the Dick Tracey look came courtesy of…
As well as demonstrating the reference handset it’s built to demonstrate how Android will run on the new ‘Medfield’ Atom CPUs it’s launching for smartphones,…
A lot of PC makers have tried to do ‘kitchen PCs’ but outside the US most kitchens don’t have room for a PC, and most…
Explaining Nokia’s tactics at the announcement of the Lumia 900 on the AT&T network in the US, CEO Stephen Elop continued the military metaphors of…
Although Acer spent most of the time at its CES press conference today talking about the Aspire S5 Ultrabook (that’s so thin the ports are…
Tucked away in the corner of Acer’s CES press conference was the Allegro Windows Phone handset we’d heard rumours of at the end of last…
Android phones and tablets, iPhones and iPads, BlackBerry and PlayBook, Windows Phone and Windows tablets; when you get a device with a much larger screen,…
Mobile app development competitions are two a penny; it seems like every smartphone platform is offering coders money and fame to write apps that will…
When Nokia announced that it was picking Windows Phone as its future because it would be too hard to differentiate its Android phones from the…
There are lots of quick messaging tools for the various smartphones on the market, from text messages, to cross-platform group MMS tools like WhatsAp to…
There’s more fun coming to Windows Phone, with an update of the official Facebook app due in the Windows Phone Marketplace next week and an…
Your smartphone isn’t just your phone; it’s your address book, your personal diary, your online banking system and fairly soon it could be your wallet,…
Microsoft recently handed out 5000 Samsung tablets running Windows 8 to developers at its Build conference, in a bid to encourage app development. These apps…
Just about every smartphone these days is based on an ARM chip of some kind. Many of them are built on the same combination of…
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