Chinese search engine Baidu was rumored last year to be working on its very own OS, based on a cloud solution. Called Yi, this OS hasn’t been spotted on any real device, up until today when a picture of a smartphone leaked. Now rumors are saying that we’re supposed to expect an official debut of the new OS this week. The mobile operating...
Tizen OS has been getting a lot of press this year, since everyone is looking for that other OS to be famous, aside from Android, iOS and Windows Phone. BlackBerry OS doesn’t even count anymore, while Bada has been getting a lot of sales over the past years. Now Tizen is back in the news, through a leak that shows a Samsung prototype running this...
If you want to access the bulk of the functions on your smartphone via the PC, there’s an app called AirDroid that you may be interested in. In order to use it you’ll have to use a smartphone and PC that rely on the same wireless network. All you need to do is download the app on the handset, start it and you’ll see an address and...
Romanian developer Robert Neagu created an application called FaceVault, that’s used to unlock your iPhone using face recognition, but only for a special locker area on the device. Once again, this is not a method to lock or unlock your phone’s main functioning mode, but only that photo locker. We found out about this nifty little app from...
Mozilla’s Boot to Gecko OS project is evolving pretty fast, even fast enough to now get an early 2013 commercial release time frame promised. Keep in mind that actually this isn’t the first OS based on web browser technology. For example, the webOS user interface was made in HTML and JavaScript, so basically webOS was an overevolved web...
We’ve just found out from Mobilissimo.ro that the guys of XDA have done it again, offering an unlocked version of the official Last.fm app for Android. This one is version 1.9.7, with a workaround that allows international paid subscribers enjoy their music on their handsets and listen to the radio even if they’re outside of the US, UK and...
We’ve heard about an Army app store before, but never thought we’d see this project come to fruition so fast. The US Army just announced a prototype of the Army Software Marketplace, a web based app store that provides applications for handsets and tablets used by soldiers. For now only iOS apps are available, but Android ones are also...
The guys of Mobilissimo.ro came up with a way to get some more storage out of Dropbox. That way you can get an extra 3 GB, if you follow their tutorial. It involves installing the .apk you find here, one that has been taken from HTC Sense and customized. Then you’ll have to login and wait for the confirmation email and uninstall the software we...
In case you didn’t know, Mozilla has an operating system in development, known as the Boot2Gecko and this project now involves a bunch of new partners and a fresh demo shown at MWC 2012. Mozilla had a booth in Barcelona at MWC and announced a couple of partners in a recent blog post. One of the main partners will be mobile network operator Telefonica,...
Swype is that nifty little input system that replaces tapping individual keys with tracing lines between letters without lifting your finger from the screen. Thus you create patterns recognized by Swype as words… easy as pie right? Well, not if you’re on Android 4.0 ICS that only today received a beta version of the software. Galaxy Nexus...
