Android phones have trouble dialing 911 (or 999) and Lenovo is teaming up with Disney to send you on Jedi Adventures! All on this week's show!
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WhatsApp extends support for BlackBerry, Nokia until July 2017
Encrypted messaging app WhatsApp first announced its big move on the last day of February. We now know that the move will not fully take place before the last of the year as originally promised.
The Facebook-owned company has updated its original post that announced the end of WhatsApp support on several older mobile software platforms.
But if you have a Nokia S40, a Symbian S60 or a BlackBerry OS (including BB10) device, fret a little less — WhatsApp announced it will continue support for your device through June 30, 2017.
Those of you who have smartphones running any version of Android earlier than 2.3 Gingerbread will still be locked out at the end of the year — and even then, good luck firing up the Google Play Store. Windows Phone 7 and iOS 6 users will also find the same to happen to you. The company is advising that you upgrade your phone.
With over a billion users, WhatsApp is turning the page on millions of them — beginning in just days.
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Will the Nokia X2 run Symbian or Android?
Nokia has killed Symbian, as a direct effect of the Microsoft strategic alliance, when the Finns decided to go Windows Phone. Last summer, Nokia was reported to stop shipping Symbian phones altogether, and the 808 PureView was the last of its (Symbian) breed. Now that Nokia is a part of Microsoft –its devices division anyways– we’re looking forward to what is believed to be the Nokia X2.There are less than 20 hours (at the time of ...
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Hackers blackmailed Nokia with smartphone encryption keys?
Smartphone manufacturers frequently go to enormous lengths to help keep our devices secure. Part of that role is regulatory, keeping unwanted apps out of centralized app stores. Other protections are technical, using software to keep one step ahead of ne’er-do-wells. One such technical protection is code signing, allowing developers to use an encryption key to let end users verify that code came from a known trusted source; this is why you can safely sideload updates to Google’s Android apps ...
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PureView vs PureView: Nokia Lumia 1020 vs Nokia 808
Shortly after meeting him in person for the first time at IFA 2012, I sat in a Berlin bar with Managing Editor Anton D. Nagy and we talked about our hopes for the future of smartphones. He’d just given me a gander at his prize Nokia 808 PureView, and despite its bulk and its dated software platform, I wanted it. More precisely: I wanted a Windows Phone version of it. Fast forward to MWC 2013. Anton and I were ...
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Whatsapp reaches 300M users, launches voice messaging to celebrate
The competition for the dominating service of cross-platform messaging has lasted for a while, and with BlackBerry working hard on bringing BBM to Android and iOS, it was only a matter of time before the existing incumbent did something about it. Whatsapp has proven to be one of the best options that we all have to communicate with just about any smartphone platform in the market, and they’ve got more up their sleeve. The company has now officially confirmed that they’ve reached a staggering 300 million users, which shows a growth of as much as 50 million in just six weeks. To ...
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Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom vs Nokia 808 PureView (Video)
If the Nokia 808 PureView was considered by many to be a camera with a phone, we are now then right in calling the Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom a phone with a camera. …or vice versa. Anyways, both of these phones are built with different concepts and principles in mind. The PureView achieves lossless zoom by cropping towards the sensors 1:1 ratio, while the Galaxy S4 zoom simply extends its optical lenses so that you can achieve 10x optical zoom for your images. Let’s see how the two stack up against each other!
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Nokia to stop shipping Symbian phones this summer
Symbian phones will be no longer shipped by Nokia starting this summer, according to a recent report. The Nokia 808 PureView was the last new Symbian-phone manufactured, running the platform which was renamed to Nokia (Belle). Ever since the 808, the company has been shipping Symbian phones to markets where the platform was still relevant. However, it quickly lost market share and is now on the edge of extinction. With this final stab, the platform and its phones will be completely abandoned. Nokia is ...
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Apple Increases Lead Over Samsung In the U.S.
Apple increases lead over Samsung in the U.S., according to the latest numbers from comScore, referring to the quarter ending March 2013. We’ve recently seen a visualization of Apple and Samsung growth over time but as far as these two main competitors are concerned, in America, the iPhone-maker is still holding its number-one spot. Apple grew from 36.3% last December to 39% at the end of March 2013, as far as the share of total smartphone subscribers is concerned. Samsung has also seen a growth, ...
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The Fat Lady Sings: Did Nokia Just Confirm 808 PureView as Final Symbian?
Back before Nokia’s 808 PureView launched with its utterly fantastic imaging capabilities, before we even knew its final name, we had heard rumors that the handset would be the last in a long line of Symbian smartphones. Nokia had already made it clear that Windows Phone was the future, but rather than slamming the door on Symbian outright, it planned for