You can video call on Android with these apps (Video)

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Video conferencing and even personal video calling has been around for quite some time. And although Apple may have put popularized it in mobile, it hardly invented the first video calling mobile app. In fact, there were a bevy of video calling applications available long before FaceTime came to be. Alas, Apple managed to create a proprietary video calling platform that’s only available to its own customers. And if you’re using something other than an iPad, iPhone, iPod or Mac, no matter how many times your mother ...

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Sony introduces Xperia M mid-range Android phone

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In all the sea of announcements from Computex, today Sony introduces Xperia M Android phone. It is a mid-ranger which will also be available in a dual-SIM setup, as the Xperia M dual. Black, white, purple (and yellow for the single SIM version) will be the color choices and the phone, together with the dual-SIM version, will land worldwide starting the third quarter of the year. Specs of the Xperia M include a four-inch screen with FWVGA resolution (at 854 x 480 pixels), dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor clocking at 1GHz, as well as 1GB of RAM. There’s also 4GB of internal ...

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New rules allow Canadian phone unlocks, nix termination fees after two years

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The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has unveiled a new code of conduct which will come into effect as of December 2, 2013, bringing some important changes. According to the new text Canadian phone unlocks will be possible after 90 days, or, if the device has been purchased in full, immediately. Another important provision refers to contract termination fees. Subscribers will be able terminate their contracts after two years, even if the contracted period is longer, without any cancellation fees. Also, if after 15 days (under specific usage limits), they are ...

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New Intel Atom processors revealed at Computex: Merrifield for smartphones, Bay Trail-T for tablets

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Executive Vice President Tom Kilroy just talked about the new Intel Atom processors at Computex 2013. The 22nm Intel Atom Merrifield, coming just half a year after the introduction of the Intel Lexington platform at CES in the beginning of 2013 (however, available early next year), is aimed at smartphones. ”With the new Intel Core processors introduced today, our next-generation Atom SoC for tablets and other 22nm products coming soon, the advances in Intel architecture are accelerating the pace of ...

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Smartphone OS marketshare April update: Android dominates, iOS grows, Windows Phone passes 5% threshold

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The latest smartphone OS marketshare numbers are in from Kantar and they refer to the three-month period that ended in April 2013. Google’s Android is still leading the chart of OS percentage share of smartphone sales, with its 51.7%, up from 50.3% in the same period ending in April last year. However, it’s growth is much slower than the one at which iOS is trending, up from 39.1% last year to 41.4% this April. Last year the gap between the two was 11.2% and this April it is down to 10.3%; not a spectacular decrease, but a steady trend, at least in the US. There is also good ...

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