In a blog post yesterday, Canonical announced that official Ubuntu Phone OS images will be available for the Galaxy Nexus & Nexus 4 devices from the 21st February 2013. Now, before you all race of to go and download the image and start flashing your devices, you should take note that these images are development releases only, and what that means is that they are likely to be buggy, unstable... »
We’ve reported on Firefox OS regularly since it was announced in the middle of 2012, and today we’re going to be reporting on yet another sneak preview of Firefox OS right from your browser. We’ve already told you how you can try Firefox OS in Linux and on the Raspberry Pi but now using a pretty cool website dubbed “Building Firefox OS”, you can try Firefox OS stra... »
Is Unity for your laptop not enough? Do you want classic GNOME 2 on your phone? Two launchers for Android currently working through beta phase are available in Google’s Play Store and both let you skin your device to look and feel like an Ubuntu desktop. Ubuntu Launcher is the simpler of the two and consists of a single home screen, complete with Ubuntu 12.04′s default purple ... »
News on the Firefox OS front has been a little thin on the ground lately, however that’s been blown out of the water today with news of two funky new handsets for devs to try out. The devices have been dubbed with the names Keon and Peak, with the former sporting a Firefoxesque Orange casing, a single-core 1GHz processor, 512MB of RAM, 4GB of internal storage, 3.5-inch HVGA display, 3MP c... »
Announced at CES 2013, the ZTE Grand S is the new high end smartphone that the Chinese company wanted to deliver to consumers, may be later this year and show that it can design and made beautiful looking mobile device. About the ZTE Grand S ZTE Grand S is one of the devices that is part of Grand Series, a collection of high end smartphones made by the company. This one is the first of line that... »
At CES 2013, Samsung have announced a brand new device, the Samsung Galaxy SII Plus. Still incorporating the same design as the original Galaxy SII, the SII Plus comes with a 4.3 inch Super Amoled WVGA display (480 x 800 pixels). The device will also be sporting Android JellyBean 4.1.2, a 1.2GHz Dual Core processor and 1GB of RAM. The rear facing camera is 8 megapixels to shoot HD photos and a 2... »
Canonical has had a successful 2012 with the releases of Ubuntu 12.04, 12.10 and recently Ubuntu for Google’s Nexus 7. Now with the new year, Canonical has unveiled it’s new product; Ubuntu for Phones. The Software Ubuntu for Phones defines itself to be used more with gestures rather than relying on buttons and taps to accomplish tasks in a way that is fast and easy. An example of th... »
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Recently I wrote an article with a very interesting infographic about the rise of Android over the last five years. Since then we have been working with CouponAudit to create another infographic that puts some more meat on the bones as to who is actually using all these shiny new smartphones that are on the market today. Following our research the information contained below does make for some ve... »