Updates from Apple’s iPhone Event As expected, Apple unveiled the iPhone 5S, the ‘cheaper’ iPhone 5C and iOS7 operating system at the much anticipated iPnone Event yesterday. Both the iPhone models will be available for purchase from Sept 20th and iOS7 will be available on September 18th. Source: NYtimes / Apple 500 GB HDD for mobile
Xiaomi Mi3: the fastest smartphone Chinese mobile phone manufacturer Xiamoi and their soon-to-be Vice President, Hugo Barra (from Android) promise nothing less than the fastest of all time when it comes to the Mi3. At $327 & $408 for the 16 GB and 64 GB models the device would be even cheaper than the Google
Instagram reaches 150 million active users While announcing they’ve reached 150 million active users, Instagram told The Wall Street Journal that they’re preparing to introduce advertising and should be ready to begin selling ads within the next year. However, there’s no word yet about what ads on Instagram would look like. Source: The Next Web Facebook
Two all-in-one 3D Printers announced on Kickstarter Imagine a machine that can scan, reproduce, and fax copies of real, three dimensional objects. Two companies, Radiant Fabrication and AIO Robotics have both launched Kickstarter campaigns on the same day to make these projects a reality. How much will you pay for one of these awesome devices?
The Smart Watch war is heating up! The IFA 2013 was the launch pad for some awesome devices! Samsung unveiled Galaxy Gear smartwatch – notifications, control music playback, range of watch faces, 1.9-megapixel camera, a speaker and two microphones Galaxy Note 3 –5.7 inches Super AMOLED display, 3GB of RAM and a 2.3GHz quad-core processor
One billion activations for Android Head of Android, Chrome and Apps, Sundar Pichai, announced that over 1 billion Android devices have been activated to date. Another mind-blowing stat is that there are at least 1.5 million activations taking place per day! Source: Android Central Android 4.4, aka Android KitKat is upon us! Sundar Pichai, Head
Self-destructive Tweets now possible! “Spirit for Twitter” is an App that lets you schedule your tweets to be deleted within a specified time period. You can add an expiration date to your tweets using a simple hashtag. E.g. #1m, #2h Source: The Verge A $7.2 billion affair – Microsoft buys Nokia’s devices unit Yes,
Windows 8 rushes to 7.41% market share Latest stats indicate that Windows is still the most popular OS with a massive 91.19% market share. Out of this, Windows 7 remains the most popular with 45% share and Windows 8 has shown a lot of promise by rapidly claiming 7.41%. XP and Vista have 33.66% and
Woohoo! Yet another awesome Google+ update! Google+’s newest update, a bookmark feature, makes it easier to consume content in the stream! Simple press “New posts” and a resume button and ribbon is added, allowing you to jump between the newly added posts and where you’ve read up to in the stream. Source: Google Plus Daily
Twitter rolls out awesome updates! Twitter’s latest update makes it easier to keep up with conversations on the social network. Now it shows conversations in chronological order. Tweets in a conversation are connected using a vertical line. Along with this, Twitter has also rolled out a ‘report abuse button’. Source: Mashable Google rolls out HD
