During the Apple iPad event today, CEO Tim Cook casually mentioned that iOS 5.1 will be available today. In addition to Siri support for Japanese, the OS has a few other new tricks, here’s what to expect.
According to The Verge, a reliable source says that the latest codename for the Android roadmap will be Key Lime Pie, which, of course, falls in with their alphabetical, dessert-themed naming system, and will arrive after Jelly Bean.
We’ve known since last year that Mozilla has been working on an Android-based phone OS. But it’s just announced at the Mobile World Congress that it’s teaming up with Spanish telco Telefonica to roll out devices by the end of 2012.
You might not recall, but when the BlackBerry PlayBook came out last year it was close — oh, so close — to being a respectable iPad competitor. But the omission of native email, calendars and contacts was a fatal flaw, both for reviewers and the buying public.
Late last year, Samsung said that it would be rolling out Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich to its Galaxy devices in the “first quarter” of 2012, starting with the Galaxy S II and Galaxy Note. A version of the official ICS ROM was leaked for the SGSII earlier this month, and now a more recent build appears to have hit forums.
The Portuguese-language blog BlogdoiPhone has somehow gotten its hands on a Pre-GM build of the upcoming iOS 5.1 update. Here’s what could be in store for the expected March 9th-ish update.
Android 4.0 — aka Ice Cream Sandwich — is such a lovely and tasteful software update for Android phones that I’d be kicking and crying if my phone didn’t have it. Well, it looks like Motorola owners should start kicking and crying because they have a painfully long wait before they even sniff Ice Cream Sandwich. We’re talking like Motorola doesn’t even know when’s it coming long.
This is an interesting idea; HTC’s stated that it’ll release an ‘early access preview’ of Ice Cream Sandwich across the Sensation and Sensation XE handsets tomorrow. The only catch? You’ve got to be in Europe, and it’s limited to only a couple of hundred devices.
Purported screenshots of the soon to be announced Windows Phone 7.6 Tango have emerged on a Russian forum. There are a handful of new features, but what’s really interesting is how little seems to have changed.
RIM’s Playbook tablet hasn’t exactly been a blockbuster success (or even much of a “success”) since its initial launch last year — due in part to a clunky UI and lack of basic features. However, according to a report by 4NBB, the vastly improved Playbook OS 2 could start rolling out next week.
