While the iPhone and Android OS are known for their gorgeous UI candy, Nokia’s Symbian OS isn’t going to win any beauty contests. Nokia is hard at work on something much, much more attractive for Symbian^4. The mobile company has released its UI concept proposal documents, including some sexy screenshots of the new Orbit and [...]
Rumors have been flying about an update to Windows Mobile next month, but it was an open question whether it would be Windows Mobile 6.6 or 7. Well, the gadget blogosphere is leaning toward 7. Our sister site, Engadget, saw some confirmation from mobile phone manufacturer LG that WinMo 7 would be out this year, [...]
So, get this: while Windows 7 only accounts for 6% of the global operating system market, 23% of Steam gamers are using Windows 7! The breakdown shows a lot of statistics, including average processor speed (2.5GHz) and NVIDIA (65%) versus ATI (30%). You can even see the split between 32- and 64-bit versions of Windows [...]
You’ve probably noticed a complete lack of iPad/iTablet/iSlate news around these parts. That’s because we don’t cover gadgets, nor do we cover hyperbolic crotch-grabbing fanboy speculation. But now that it’s finally been announced (forever will it go down in history that we watched Steve Jobs sit in a leather chair and surf on his iPad), [...]
I don’t like reporting news without exact numbers, especially when making claims like this, but the Director of Marketing at Microsoft is fairly confident about this one: “Windows 7 is by far the fastest selling Operating System in history.” He doesn’t give the exact number of activated licenses (why not?) but he does cite some [...]
Freescale just demonstrated a tablet at CES running Chrome OS, and there will no doubt be plenty of other manufacturers joining them later this year when Google finally releases their finished code. But why wait – and why shell out cash for a new device you probably don’t need anyway? Grab Hexxeh’s latest build and [...]
In its ongoing effort to give every new version of its smartphone operating system a confusingly different name, Microsoft has pulled back the veil covering Windows Phone 7 Series, which will replace Windows Mobile 6.5.3, which in a roundabout fashion replaced Windows Mobile 2003SE, Pocket PC and Windows CE. But enough about the new name. [...]
An announcement from Microsoft regarding Windows Mobile 7 has been a long time coming. There was even talk of simply abandoning the ailing Windows Mobile platform. News today would suggest that it is coming though, but not until 2011. It’s not clear yet, without a comment from Microsoft, if this new information supersedes TechRadar’s report [...]
Ah, speculations. Where would we be without them? Now that the iPad is out, we can finally start speculating on other things. One of these is Windows 8. I’m actually not convinced it’s all that fascinating — the paint is barely dry on Windows 7! SP1 isn’t even out yet, which makes it practically still [...]
Earlier today Microsoft introduced the world to the latest version of the Windows Mobile operating system: Windows Phone 7 Series. While we aren’t expecting any phones running this OS to be available until later this year, the company had a number of demo units on-hand at Mobile World Congress, and the web is starting to [...]
