We’ve all praised Microsoft for the death of Internet Explorer in part of the company’s Windows 10 announcements. We haven’t really seen Microsoft’s Spartan browser compared to others, but the features shown off at the event were cool enough to have ...
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Pockentow Daily gets an average of 300 to 500 comments a day, and sometimes even a thousand. We’d like to thank you all for participating in our question of the day, and we love your feedback so much, that we decided that since we can’t respond to ever single one of your comments, we should at least feature a couple in a weekly video.This is the Pocketnow Daily Recap. Since we only have 3 minutes on every Daily video to go through the hottest news, the weekly recap ...
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This past week, we got to see a bit of what Microsoft was planning for Windows Phone. Microsoft even checked off a few items on our wish list, which we appreciated. One other little nugget that Microsoft dropped on us was that new flagship hardware was coming. There were few real details about from whom, or when. It was just an “oh by the way” on the way out the door. Perhaps we will see ...
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Samsung, despite being something of a copy-cat, makes great hardware. It’s smartphones, especially those in the Galaxy S family, are fabulous pieces of hardware. Phablets like the Note, and the Note Edge cater to those of us who want larger devices, but don’t want to pack around a tablet (or a tablet and a smartphone, too). That said, there are a growing number of situations and circumstances where a tablet is simply the right tool for the job. Thanks to what we’ve seen from Microsoft in Windows 10, Samsung tablets will soon have some real competition.Where we came from
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Windows 10, Windows Holographic, and an 84-inch Microsoft Surface – say whaaaaat? A Galaxy S6 Edge with dual curves and an HTC M9 with a square camera? Get outta town! Hackers hacking the very fabric of the cellular network to listen in on your calls to grandma? Shut the front door.And hold on to your hats, because that’s not all. BlackBerry’s CEO seems to think net neutrality entitles his smartphones to more third-party apps, Google might be dipping its toes in MVNO waters once more, and Sharp –bless it– refuses to let flip-phones die!The techno-world is going plum ...
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This week’s Windows 10 event brought us a lot of reasons to be excited about Microsoft’s next-gen OS, not the least of which being the early access that interested users will be able to get in giving it a spin on their phones. Some rumors clued us in to what Microsoft’s possible plans, and the event itself confirmed them: the preview for phones would land sometime in February. ...
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Watch today’s Pocketnow Daily as we talk about Apple’s current market share in countries like South Korea, something that affects Samsung and LG. Then we talk about Microsoft’s plans to make the Lumia Camera a default on Windows 10 smartphones. HTC follows as we see more leaks of the One M9, and lacking some hardware. Samsung then takes the stage as we learn more about the ring controls in the Samsung Orbis. We end today’s show talking about the possibility of Google becoming an MVNO.All this and more after the break.Stories:–
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Watch today’s Pocketnow Daily as we talk about Microsoft confirmation on when we can expect another flagship Windows Phone. We then talk more about Microsoft, and this time it’s about the sad future that Windows RT and the Surface RT and Surface 2 will face. Qualcomm and LG follow as we discuss more on the Snapdragon 810, in a contradicting way to how Samsung was complaining about it recently. Then we move the spotlight over to Whatsapp as the service is now available on the web. We end today’s show talking about the Apple Watch, and how its battery won’t ...
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Microsoft sure had a lot to share at yesterday’s Windows 10 event, including both new hardware and software. On the hardware front, the HoloLens was easily the flashier of those new offerings, but we also got to see Microsoft’s new collaborative wall-mounted slate, the Surface Hub. We heard about how easy it would be to interact with, and how it would be available in both 55-inch and 84-inch sizes, but beyond that ...
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The Microsoft Surface line-up has been a mixed bag of success and failure. We highly praise Microsoft for its Surface Pro line-up, but we haven’t felt the same about its Surface RT, up to the point where we really didn’t pay much attention to the launch of the Surface 2 for a ...
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Over the past few days we’ve been hearing tons about Windows 10 – Microsoft’s new and improved operating system with a renewed focus on the future – but details have been relatively sparse about hardware. Sure, we’ve heard about the HoloLens and Surface ...
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Windows 10 is coming to existing Windows Phone models, right? At least, the initial word from Microsoft was that “all Lumia Windows Phone 8” models would get Windows 10 updates. And then at yesterday’s event, Microsoft pushed beyond that Lumia limitation and clarified that Windows Phone 8.1 models in general – presumably including those from other OEMs – will be upgrading to Windows 10. Sounds pretty good, right? ...
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While Microsoft’s Windows 10 event in Redmond today was by no means a short one – we had plenty of content to go over in-depth during our Editorial Roundtable – there were a few things that were left out of the presentation. One of those things is cause for celebration (or not, depending on how you’d like to look at it), and that’s the Windows 10 default camera app: Lumia Camera.The same camera app ...
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Here’s the thing. I don’t get Google Glass. I never have. At first, it seemed like a Bluetooth headset, only more pretentious. It was a vague concept that you can use to “connect without disconnecting,” or while “staying in the moment” or some other kind of marketing drivel. Then it was priced at $1,500, and I only stopped laughing about that last week, which is when they coincidentally pulled Google Glass off the shelves, presumably with a dust buster close at hand.Earlier, we were ...
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If you’re running out of battery while in the middle of an important WhatsApp conversation because of all that screen-on time (or simply because you type faster on your computer than on your smartphone), you can take your chats to your computer, with the new WhatsApp Web functionality officially announced today.While all your messages “still live on your phone”, as the official blog post states, WhatsApp Web basically mirrors your chats on your computer’s browser. However, only Chrome is supported at the moment (with the promise of more browsers to be added soon), ...
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