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Article | 21/12/2011 Ice Cream Sandwich destined for Samsung Galaxy S II in early 2012
Samsung Galaxy S II owners will be upgraded to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich in the first quarter of 2012, the Korean manufacturer has announced.
Article | 20/12/2011 Facebook adds Timeline to iPhone app
Facebook now lets iPhone owners view its new Timeline layout and has added several extra handy features in an app update pushed out to iPhone users on...
Article | 8/12/2011 Android Market celebrates 10 billion downloads with 10-cent app sale
Guess what? Your favorite Android app may be just 10 cents right now, thanks to the Android Market's 10 billion downloads celebration.
Article | 7/12/2011 Smartphone reliability and satisfaction: iPhone tops the list
PC World readers like their iPhones. More survey participants own this model than any other phone, and an unusually high proportion of them praised it...
Article | 2/12/2011 iPhone 4S users satisfied with Phone, but not its battery life
Users of Apple's iPhone 4S are even more satisfied than iPhone 4 users last year, with 96 percent somewhat or very satisfied, according to a survey fr...
Article | 1/12/2011 This is the first full-length movie filmed with a smartphone
It's crazy how much more advanced phone cameras have gotten over last few years. Five years ago, they were mere curiosities; today they can record HD ...
Article | 1/12/2011 Apple iPhone 4 "Self-Combusts" on airplane
In what appears to be a one-off incident and not a general manufacturing flaw, a passenger's iPhone 4 "self-combusted" on an Australian flight last Fr...
Article | 1/12/2011 Test drive Windows Phone Mango on your Android or iPhone
Sick of your iPhone or Android handset? Want to try out Windows Phone Mango? Microsoft is letting Android and iPhone users try Windows Phone 7.5 Mango...
Article | 29/11/2011 Motorola Droid 4 adds a keyboard to RAZR
What happens if you take the RAZR design and add a slide-out QWERTY keyboard? Meet the Motorola Droid 4, the latest recruit in the Android army, break...
Article | 23/11/2011 Facebook phone? No thanks
Once again, a Facebook phone is the talk of the tech world, despite Mark Zuckerberg's insistence that his company is not building a smartphone.
Article | 22/11/2011 Adobe: Flash for Ice Cream Sandwich by year-end
Adobe's plans to stop developing mobile Flash Player will have to wait a little longer, as the company works on bringing Flash to Android Ice Cream Sa...
Article | 22/11/2011 Asus Padfone combo smartphone-tablet specs leaked
In the five months since Asus announced the Asus Padfone, few details have been revealed about this Android smartphone that can turn into a tablet.
Article | 15/11/2011 How to boost your smartphone battery life
Do you know where your smartphone is? Unless you're using it to read PCWorld.com, your phone is probably plugged into an outlet somewhere to charge, b...
Article | 11/11/2011 5 hidden features in iOS 5
Who knew Apple's iOS 5 mobile operating system held so many secrets? Developers and sleuthing hackers have been hard at work since Apple released the ...
Article | 11/11/2011 Enable iOS 5's hidden panoramic mode without jailbreaking
Want to get your hands on the hidden panoramic feature buried inside iOS5, but don’t want it bad enough to go through the pain of jailbreaking your de...