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BBM / Blackberry Messenger comes to Android and iOS!

Blackberry's parent company RIM have announced that their extremely popular BBM application will come to Android and iOS later this year. No windows phone mention though. For a long time BBM has been exclusive to Blackberry's devices, with lots of users in the UK this is an interesting move. According to RIM's CEO Thorsten Heins the Blackberry 10 platform is good enough to cope without the exclusivity of BB ...

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Nexus 7 Screen Issues

I was going to review the Nexus 7 recently, but after receiving it and using it for a while, I had to send it back due to me being one of the unfortunate people to receive a slightly faulty version of the tablet. The issue comes form a slightly mis-glued screen, or something of the sort, causing the screen to lift up a little bit. When pressed down, it pops back up with a little noise. Although some people ...

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Angry Birds breaks 20 million downloads mark and counting…

Angry Birds breaks 20 million downloads mark and counting... The latest instalment to the hugely successful Angry Birds franchise has hit an all-time high with a whopping 20 MILLION downloads of the new Angry Birds Space during the first week on the App store. The games developer, Rovio while launching Space on Thursday 22nd March revealed also that Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seasons and Angry Birds Rio have ...

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300million Android Activations total, including 12Million tablets

Andy Rubin today at MWC confirmed Android's success with a total of 300million android activations or 5 times the population of the UK. Awesome! This sure will inspire developers and is an incredible milestone for the Android OS and Google as a whole. Considering that but a month ago the 250million mark was reached, Android's rate of growth is frankly incredible. The juggernaut that is Android continues to ...

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HTC announces Sense 4.0

HTC has just announced a major update to its Sense skin for its new "One" line of Android devices. A number of the features were rumored in the months leading up to MWC with a leak back in January, but the announcement makes features like ImageSense, Dropbox integration, and WiFi sync official. ImageSense brings a number of improvements to the camera- shots take 0.7 seconds, the camera detects ambient light ...

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Why Google is flawed (editorial)

Google, the giant of the web, is flawed right down to the base of its business model. In fact its future is lead by this key idea, connecting people to its ads. Google makes all of its money from ads. In fact although it get a 30% cut from android app sales, this basically funds the running of android services, not even development. So how is google ever going to make more money? Nobody knows, but here's my ...

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Androids latest figures are extremely positive!

Google has just announced that there are a staggering number of android activation in total now, up to 250million, which is frankly insane. Furthermore 700,000 android devices are activated each day, making for a staggering increase day after day. Furthermore 11 billion apps have been downloaded by android users, the equivalent of 1 billion in six weeks, or an average of 2/3 an app a week, unfortunately sti ...

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Apple account for 25% of the computer market!

According to the latest figures, Apple Inc has a marketshare of 25% when counting the Mac line of computers as well as iPads. iPads of course account for over 70% of the tablet market, which has already engulfed the netbook market, and with the ultra-books help eventually the laptop market. This is the first time that Apple's iPads have been included into the report. With Windows 8 tablets on the horizon an ...

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BriskSaber iPhone App Review

[video width="560" height="315" id="ORVvCYeKpA4" type="youtube"] Download app at: http://mylikes.com/l/1sYd5 Download the BriskSaber App for iPhone and Android here http://mylikes.com/l/1sYd5 Check out this awesome free game from Brisk and Star Wars. You can fight as the Empire OR the Rebellion. Nice. The Review:      The game is simple. Players control a lightsaber and use it to slice and dice their enemie ...

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Gorilla Glass 2 to make a CES 2012 Landing!

Gorilla Glass 2 to make a CES 2012 Landing! Corning, the manufacturer of Gorilla Glass is set to make its debut of its next-generation Gorilla Glass 2 at next week's Consumer & Electronics show (CES 2012). As you might have guessed the first-generation Gorilla Glass was featured on popular devices like the iPad, iPhone, Android and HTC smartphones and even the Kindle Fire. It seems everyone is excited t ...

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10 Essential Android Games 2012

We've been playing with all of the possible games on a variety of devices, note not all of the android games are available on every android device! Angry Birds, Rio and Seasons, all three of these are great and must be installed on your device considering they're free! A must for downloading, although it is extremely repetitive its definitely addictive, find it on the Market Fruit Ninja, an amazing game wit ...

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Android activated 3.7 million smartphones over the Christmas weekend!

Android activated 3.7 million smartphones over the Christmas weekend! Senior Vice President of Mobile at Google Andy Rubin (pictured above) has announced that Android saw a whopping 3.7 million activations on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Estimated figures before this happened suggested that Google were seeing around 700,000 handset activation but it seems the Christmas Holiday has had quite the impact. ...

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No update coming to original Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab devices!

After a long wait Samsung have confirmed that no Ice Cream Sandwich, Android 4.0, will come to their popular legacy devices. In fact it seems as though its not even  hardware problem, as the Nexus S currently running Ice Cream Sandwich shares its internals with the Galaxy S. Furthermore they argue that they are unable to run ICS and Touchwiz at the same time because of their smaller ROM and RAM than that of ...

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Galaxy Nexus Review!

The Galaxy Nexus is the first device ever to run Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, and also the third nexus device ever. This series of devices is popular with developers because it gets the android updates the quickest and offers stock android. Furthermore the developer community is also massive for this device is already. In fact the device has already developed a massive following on XDA. When the Nexus wa ...

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Galaxy Nexus released in the UK!

The Galaxy nexus has been released in the UK. The phone was the first to feature Google's latest Ice Cream Sandwich,v4.0,greatly anticipated by the Android community. In fact this device is cutting edge, with an NFC Chip, a zero shutter lag camera, as well as the very best specs; A 1.2GHz dual core, and a frankly amazing 4.65inch Super Amoled Screen. It is now on sale from Phones 4U, and will hopefully go o ...

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