Saturday, December 29, 2012

Windows 8 Store now has 35,000 apps

The App Store Windows 8 continues to grow. Each day adds a new app to the selection available in the Windows 8 Store and indeed in the last month 14,000 applications have been added by site MetroStore Scanner. With this, the store has managed to exceed the total of 35,000 applications available for download and will continue to grow even more. Obviously yet still has a long way to go to reach those with the greatest stores, currently Apple...

Galaxy S IV would be released in April and come with a S Pen

There are rumors that Samsung has already planned a date to launch the Galaxy S IV and future will be in the month of April next year. But that's not all, because it is said that the South Korean company will mix your Galaxy S series with the Galaxy Note and the result will be the successor to the Galaxy S III, and obviously will be the first time a smartphone that is not a Note has a S Pen stylus. Also worth noting that the S IV will have...

Friday, December 28, 2012

Facebook for Windows Phone gets a new update

If you're somebody who practically can not live without being connected to Facebook and also if you have a smartphone that runs Windows Phone, then we have good news for you. The biggest social network in the world announced the new version of its app for Windows Phone. The application has just been updated to version 2.8, but unfortunately were not made ​​aware of the changes that were made ​​to the app. Does that mean we must discover it...

ZTE Grand S, new smartphone of 6.9 mm thick

We have seen several devices that will be officially unveiled at CES 2013 in Las Vegas in just over a week, so let's take a look at another one: the Grand S ZTE, a new smartphone very thin. Early rumors indicated that the Grand S would have a thickness of 7.6 mm, but it seems that in reality it is only 6.9 mm, which puts him among the mobile world's thinnest, but still lacks a couple of millimeters to be as thin as the Oppo Find 5. Speaking...

This Christmas sales of smartphones and tablets were a record

Unsurprisingly devices mobile as smartphones and tablets are chosen as Christmas gifts because they are usually perfect and useful for everyone. What did surprise us a bit is the amount of tablets and smartphones that were sold in this past Christmas. Sales broke all records and what expectations. According to a report by the firm Flurry, the number of devices activated iOS and Android this Christmas were a total of 17.4 million. It is a...

Samsung will reach 500 million smartphones in 2013

The 2012 has been a very significant year for Samsung . He has had a very successful sales and Galaxy S3 has become one of the mobile world bestseller. It is estimated that the company has sold over 420 million units of smartphones around the globe. According to a report in the Korea Times, Samsung has no intention of staying put. The idea is to grow the company and achieve it sold 510 million smartphones in the world by the end of 2013....

Apple's new device could be a clock

For a long time there has been talk that Apple is planning to launch a new HDTV, but not too quick with that because the company seems to have other plans in mind. The idea is to create something Apple much smaller than a TV, something we can wear on our wrist: a clock. This device, which is probably known as iWatch or something similar (just in case I should clarify that is a guess, his name is not known yet), will be the equivalent of a...

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Firewall, a touch screen unusual

Designers Mike Allison and Aaron Sherwood have given new meaning to the concept of interactive touch screens. Firewall may sound a typical firewall using our computer , but in this case it refers to something completely different. Firewall is an interactive touch screen that takes things to another level. When you touch or press it, the screen is able to create a fire effect that will follow the movements of your hand. But that's not all,...