So incase you havent heard of the drama yet, earlier this month, Microsoft made a pretty decent YouTube app for Windows Phone 8 but Google has issues with it because it did not show advertising and allowed users to download videos from YouTube, which is a strict no-no. Now Google themselves have stated officially that they're not going to make official apps for Windows Phone, so Microsoft's app was the only ...

Nokia released a Man of Steel App exclusively for their Lumia Windows Phones this week, in partnership with the Superman themed movie of the same name. It appears Nokia has struck a deal with the Man of Steel movie, which it has also started promoting in this new campaign. Lumia owners can enjoy media such as wallpapers, character information and even an interactive game that puts you soaring through the sk ...

Apple has been ranked as the world's most valuable brand, with Google in second place, in the 2013 BrandZ list of top global brands. The list is published by research agency Millward Brown Optimor, and puts Google's brand value at $113.669 billion, which is way behind Apple's $185.071 billion. Last year IBM was at number two, but is now in third place behind Google, with a brand value estimated at $112.536 ...

Inspite of Google not announcing it at I/O 2013 earlier this month, Android 4.3 appears to definitely be under development, popping up on server logs around the interwebs. And today, Android 4.3 was caught in the wild, running on a Nexus 4. Found at a Thai mobile expo, the images are of Android 4.3 build JWR45B and while it's not an exhaustive look at what's new, there are some interesting new tweaks like t ...

Rejoice true believers! The much-anticipated Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean Update for the Sony Xperia S is now finally rolling out. I'm so happy for Xperia S owners, that I'm not even going to mention how Android 4.1 is still not the latest version of Android out there..... Whoops. Still, good news for owners of last year's Sony flagship, and the update should bring it up to par with the Sony Xperia Z in terms o ...

Samsung launched a new cheap Android phone in India today. Say hello to the Samsung Galaxy Star. Aww. The Galaxy Star boasts a design similar to the Galaxy S3, Galaxy S4, Galaxy Grand, Galaxy Note II and various other recent Galaxy phones, and features a 3.0 inch display at QVGA resolution, a single core 1GHz processor with 512MB of RAM, 4GB of internal storage with a microSD slot, 2 Megapixel camera, Wifi, ...

Nokia posted on their blog yesterday, detailing out how the antenna works in their new Lumia 925, and how the aluminium that wrapped around the sides of the Windows Phone is utilised. Apparently the entire 'ring' of metal around the phone, acts as it's radio system, with different stripes seperating the other sections of metal from the antennas, which consist of a main antenna at the bottom with two more to ...

Right on schedule with their announcement last month, the Amazon App Store for Android is now available in India, Australia, Mexico and Brazil among almost 200 other countries. Previously the app store was only available in a handful of countries like the USA, UK, Germany and parts of Europe, so the international expansion is much appreciated. Once you enable 'installation of apps from unknown sources' in y ...

HTC did kinda deny this last week, but rumors of a 'Google Edition' HTC One running stock Android, are still making the rounds today. According to Russell Holly at Geek, HTC is working on a version of the HTC One without it's Sense software customizations, and is aiming for a US launch which is supposedly "imminent." The reason this is being considered as an actuality, is because Holly also previously leake ...

Powermat announced today, that they will be acquiring Finnish wireless charging rival PowerKiss, which sees both companies combining under the Powermat brand. This brings together more than 2500 wireless charging spots in coffee shops, airports, and stores in the USA and Europe. Both companies had also once allied under the Power Matters Alliance (PMA), to combat against rival Wireless Power Consortium (WPC ...

Popular email app for iOS, Mailbox, has seen a pretty successful run on iPhone and iPod Touch so far, but there's been a huge demand for an iPad-native version, for folks to get to inbox zero on a much larger screen. And hey hey, that's just what the latest update brings along! Mailbox v1.3 now supports the iPad, so you can swipe away at your inbox using the app. What's New in Version 1.3 - now optimized fo ...

Facebook's officially endorsed smartphone, the HTC First, hasnt been doing so great y'all. Mostly because not too many people actually cared about a Facebook-user-interface on a phone, as is evident from the reviews that Facebook Home for Android has been getting. As a result, AT&T slashed the phone's price but still didnt manage to sell many units, which has resulted in Facebook postponing the UK launc ...

Shazam for iPad just got a huge update that allows you to find a song and then listen to it on Spotify or Rdio. There's also a new UI home screen, and an auto-tagging mode that'll passively listen to any music in the background. A NEW version of Shazam is here. If you've got an iPad Shazam now has a redesigned discovery home screen, improved tag result layout and new features exclusive to iPad! - Auto taggi ...

Along with the HTC Desire 600 that was announced for the EMEA region, which will be coming to China as the Desire 606w, HTC China's website also listed a new HTC Desire 608t. It features the same design as the HTC Desire SV, but has a TD-SCDMA radio for China Mobile, Dual-SIM, Android 4.1 with HTC Sense 5 on top, BoomSound front stereo speakers, 4.5 inch 960 x 540 Super LCD 2, 1.2GHz quad-core qualcomm proc ...

HTC has sold five million units of their new flagship smartphone, the HTC One. The figure is pretty impressive, and contradict rumors of HTC's struggles. The company has been facing production issues with the HTC One, which has seen limited availability in some parts of the world, which as a result meant that HTC could not keep up with Samsung, who announced 10 million units of their Galaxy S4 shipped so fa ...