New Smart Phones

Forest Runner

2012-10-31T20:08:00.001-07:00

Forest Runner para Android es un divertido juego de carreras de obstáculos, tendras que evitar todos los obstaculos que se interponen en tu camino a través del bosque.

El juego tiene dos finalidades, evitar los obstaculos y recoger la mayor cantidad de elementos mientras el protagonista no para de correr.

Los controlos son sencillos, tocando la pantalla o la rueda de desplazamiento podras saltar para evitar los obstáculos que van surgiendo en tu camino.

Algunas capturas del juego:

Para descargar el juego basta con escanear el siguiente código QR con Barcode Scanner o Bidi

Bruce Sterling on Earth-Friendly Pervasive Computing

2012-10-31T20:05:00.001-07:00

Noting that the word 'computer' is disappearing from technologists' vocabularies, science fiction author and futurist Bruce Sterling believes that as the Internet subsumes computing, we are truly on the path toward a highly embedded wireless network in which nearly everything is a node:

In 2007 the computer gave up taking over the world. Instead the world took over the computer. The Internet became a wholly owned subset of Reality 2.0. When the actual world invades the virtual world, it scatters the computer into tiny physical pieces, some no bigger than dust. "Intelligent printing," another modern darling, is semiconductor ink sprayed on cardboard. There's never been a humbler, cheaper "computer."

Sterling envisions a world in which the chips that drive it are powered by tiny amounts of ambient energy -- nearly any form of heat or light will do. Such chips would have such low power requirements that they wouldn't need a dedicated power source, and would use up hardly any natural resources.

Source: Futurismic

iOS 5.1 incluirá nuevo método de acceso a la cámara en pantalla de desbloqueo

2012-10-27T09:11:00.001-07:00

La versión 5.1 del sistema operativo móvil de Apple se acerca a pasos acelerados, y a raíz de aquello es que comienzan a aparecer filtraciones que nos revelan qué habrá de novedoso en el nuevo software, saliendo ahora un reporte que nos indica la introducción de un botón para el rápido acceso a la cámara fotográfica en el iPhone.

La captura de pantalla filtrada muestra que se incluirá un icono al lado del switch para desbloquear el equipo, el cual debe arrastrar hacia arriba para entrar directamente a la cámara, acelerando el proceso de toma de imágenes.

Además, esta fuente nos muestra otra imagen donde se confirma que Siri tendrá soporte para el idioma japonés en la próxima actualización 5.1 de iOS, algo que ya habíamos adelantado y que ahora se revela a través del menú de configuración del equipo. Esto nos deja con la pregunta: ¿Cuándo Siri en español? Y otra más sobre el tema anterior: ¿Les agrada esta nueva forma de entrar a la cámara?

The Gmail Public Labels API

2012-10-25T18:55:00.001-07:00

[This post is by Nadav Aharony, a product manager on the Android team — Tim Bray]

We're rolling out new developer features for the Gmail Android app: It now includes a public ContentProvider that you can use to retrieve label data. You can use this to access up-to-date unread counts for specific accounts' inboxes and labels.

To use the API, the Gmail app needs to be at version 2.3.6 or higher on Froyo or Gingerbread; 4.0.5 or higher on Honeycomb and ICS. Before using it, be sure you first check the Gmail app version; we've provided a handy GmailContract.canReadLabels(Context) method to help with this. Your app will need the com.google.android.gm.permission.READ_CONTENT_PROVIDER permission.

Finding the Gmail accounts set up on the device

The Labels API needs a valid Gmail account to build a query for per-label information. Assuming the GET_ACCOUNTS permission, the AccountManager can be used to fetch this information:

// Get the account list, and pick the first one  final String ACCOUNT_TYPE_GOOGLE = 'com.google';  final String[] FEATURES_MAIL = {          'service_mail'  };  AccountManager.get(this).getAccountsByTypeAndFeatures(ACCOUNT_TYPE_GOOGLE, FEATURES_MAIL,          new AccountManagerCallback() {              @Override              public void run(AccountManagerFuture future) {                  Account[] accounts = null;                  try {                      accounts = future.getResult();                      if (accounts != null && accounts.length > 0) {                          String selectedAccount = accounts[0].name;                          queryLabels(selectedAccount);                      }                    } catch (OperationCanceledException oce) {                      // TODO: handle exception                  } catch (IOException ioe) {                      // TODO: handle exception                  } catch (AuthenticatorException ae) {                      // TODO: handle exception                  }              }          }, null /* handler */);

Getting and accessing existing labels

Once you've got the email account, you can get a ContentProvider URI to query against. We've provided a simple support class called GmailContract.java for constructing the URI and defining the columns and relevant constants.

You can access any label, predefined or user-defined. The predefined labels include (you have to use symbolic constants rather than these strings, see below):

Priority Inbox
Starred
Chats
Sent
Drafts
All mail
Spam
Trash

To obtain a Cursor with information for all labels in an account, your app can either query this URI directly or use a CursorLoader. Here's an example:

Cursor c =       getContentResolver().query(GmailContract.Labels.getLabelsUri(selectedAccount),           null, null, null, null);

You can query and watch for changes on a single label by storing the URI value in the GmailContract.Labels.URI column from the cursor data.

The NAME value for pre-defined labels can vary by locale, so don't use GmailContract.Labels.NAME. Instead, identify pre-defined labels like Inbox, Sent or Drafts using the String value in the GmailContract.Labels.CANONICAL_NAME column. Here's an example:

// loop through the cursor and find the Inbox  if (c != null) {      final String inboxCanonicalName = GmailContract.Labels.LabelCanonicalName.CANONICAL_NAME_INBOX;      final int canonicalNameIndex = c.getColumnIndexOrThrow(GmailContract.Labels.CANONICAL_NAME);      while (c.moveToNext()) {          if (inboxCanonicalName.equals(c.getString(canonicalNameIndex))) {              // this row corresponds to the Inbox          }      }  }

If you choose to use a CursorLoader, it will keep the label counts up to date as they change over time.

Sample App

You can find a sample app that makes use of the new API here. The app provides a basic readout of label and message-count information.

People care about their incoming mail; we're looking forward to seeing what you do with access to this information. We're also open to suggestions as to how to improve and extend this new API.

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PocketPcLive/~3/HXHLAGwDqNs/microsofts-reply-on-the-privacy-lawsuit.html

2012-10-25T18:51:00.001-07:00

You may know this; a week back Reuters gave information to many news sites about a Michican woman who is suing Microsoft for collecting location data without the user's permission. As Windows Phone always demands for permission, in case of any personal queries about the customers, this issue makes most of them feel more disgusting.

Capcom Mobile Launches KENKEN for iPhone

2012-10-24T18:34:00.001-07:00

Capcom Mobile, a leading developer and publisher of mobile games, and NEXTOY today announced the launch of the hit puzzle game KENKEN on the Apple App Store for the iPhone and iPod touch. KENKEN: Train Your Brain!, features stunning graphics, intuitive controls and 250 new puzzles to challenge puzzle masters and casual gamers alike.

KENKEN has become a certified phenomenon with more that 1.5 million puzzle books sold and regular puzzles appearing in The New York Times, Boston Globe, Detroit Free Press, Readers Digest and on NYTimes.com.

The brainchild of Japanese Math teacher Tetsuya Miyamoto and made famous by puzzle master Will Shortz, KENKEN requires simple arithmetic calculations and logic to decipher the ingenious puzzles. Translated as 'wisdom squared' in Japanese, KENKEN involves addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

With difficulty levels from beginner to advanced, KENKEN puzzles improve logical thinking, concentration and perseverance.

If you've never played KENKEN it is in the same category as Sudoku but with a different twist. You can try it out online here and see what you think, or you can watch a how to play video here.

KENKEN: Train Your Brain is available from iTunes for $4.99.

Cellphone Calls from 29,000 feet

2012-10-23T19:24:00.001-07:00

Can You Hold On Honey? I Have to Climb This Mountain Real Quick.

For all you cell phone users out there planning on climbing Mt. Everest, you can breathe a little easier now. Earlier this week Nepal Telecom, Nepal's largest telecom company, announced that they plan to build a cell phone tower that will provide coverage for up to 3,000 calls at a time. One can only assume that limit will never be reached.

Nepal Telecom has a base of 2.8 million customers, about a tenth of all people from Nepal, and 60% of all cell phone users in the country. The company has installed seven satellite antennas around the mountain, and will be providing coverage as early as June this year. The Nepali company hopes to provide an alternative to those who have rely on satellite telephones when taking the climb.

Let's hope we never hear about an avalanche caused by a chatty climber.

Gavin Nachbar is a freelance writing cell phone talker who he, himself, never plans on climbing Mt. Everest.

Bruce Sterling on Earth-Friendly Pervasive Computing

2012-10-22T19:45:00.001-07:00

In 2007 the computer gave up taking over the world. Instead the world took over the computer. The Internet became a wholly owned subset of Reality 2.0. When the actual world invades the virtual world, it scatters the computer into tiny physical pieces, some no bigger than dust. "Intelligent printing," another modern darling, is semiconductor ink sprayed on cardboard. There's never been a humbler, cheaper "computer."

Updated SDK Tools and ADT revision 17

2012-10-21T20:12:00.001-07:00

Today we are releasing an update to the SDK Tools and the Eclipse plugin. Revision 17 brings a lot of new features and bug fixes in various areas such as Lint, the build system as well as the emulator.

Lint is a static checker which analyzes Android projects for a variety of issues around correctness, security, performance, usability and accessibility, checking your XML resources, bitmaps, ProGuard configuration files, source files and even compiled bytecode. It can be run from within Eclipse or from the command line.
New for r17:

Added check for Android API calls that require a version of Android higher than the minimum supported version. You can use the new @TargetApi annotation to specify local overrides for conditionally loaded code. For more information, read here.
Added over 40 new Lint rules for a total of over 80, including checks for performance, XML layouts, manifest and file handling. For a full list read here.
Added ability to suppress Lint warnings in Java code with the new @SuppressLint annotation, and in XML files with the new tools: namespace prefix and ignore attribute. For more information, read here.
Improved HTML and XML reporting and Eclipse integration. For more information, read here.

We've also made improvements to the build systems for Eclipse and Ant:

Added strict dependency support for 3rd party Jar files. You can read more information here.
Added support for custom views with custom attributes in libraries. Layouts using custom attributes must use the namespace URI http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto instead of the URI that includes the app package name. This URI is replaced with the app specific one at build time.
Added a feature that allows you to run some code only in debug mode. Builds now generate a class called BuildConfig containing a DEBUG constant that is automatically set according to your build type. You can check the (BuildConfig.DEBUG) constant in your code to run debug-only functions such as outputting debug logs.

The emulator is seeing some big improvements as well:

Thanks to contributions to AOSP from Intel, the emulator now supports running x86 system images in virtualization mode on Windows and Mac OS X. This allows the emulator running at near native speed. The drivers are available through the SDK Manager. Read more here.
After adding webcam support and sensor emulation, we are adding experimental support for Multi-Touch input through a tethered Android device. (Read more here)

Finally, we are also releasing an updated Support Library with the following improvements:

ShareCompat provides easy helper classes for both sending and receiving content for social sharing apps.
NavUtils and TaskStackBuilder provide cross-version support for implementing the Android Design guidelines for navigating within your app including the action bar's 'Up' button.
NotificationCompat.Builder provides a compatibility implementation of Android 3.0's Notification.Builder helper class for creating standardized system notifications.
A new Library Project adds support for GridLayout back to API level 7 and higher.

You can get more information about these changes in the SDK Tools Release Notes and ADT Release Notes.

2012-10-18T19:19:00.001-07:00

Calc-ConveR es mi primer proyecto para Tablets de 10' pulgadas, la idea parte de otro anterior proyecto para dispositivos móviles la Calculadora V.4.0 y de ahí parte la idea de llevar a las tabletas de 10' pulgadas y así tener mi primera experiencia con pantallas de mayor tamaño con Calc-ConveR. Básicamente su funcionamiento es muy sencillo , tiene la parte gráfica de las banderas que

Introducing Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) preview platform, and more

2012-10-16T19:22:00.001-07:00

[This post is by Angana Ghosh, Product Manager on the Android team]

At Google I/O today we announced the latest version of the Android platform, Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean). With Jelly Bean, we've made the great things about Android even better with improved system performance and enhanced user features.

Improvements include a smoother and more responsive UI across the system, a home screen that automatically adapts to fit your content, a powerful predictive keyboard, richer and more interactive notifications, larger payload sizes for Android Beam sharing and much more. For a lowdown on what's new, head over to the Jelly Bean platform highlights.

Of course, Jelly Bean wouldn't be complete without a healthy serving of new APIs for app developers. Here are some of the new APIs that Jelly Bean introduces:

Expandable notifications

Android Beam

Bi-directional text support

Gesture mode

Media codec access

Wi-Fi Direct service discoverability

Network bandwidth management

For a complete overview of new APIs in Jelly Bean, please read the API highlights document. Note that this is a preview of the Jelly Bean platform. While we're still finalizing the API implementations we wanted to give developers a look at the new API to begin planning app updates. We'll be releasing a final platform in a few weeks that you should use to build and publish applications for Android 4.1.

For Android devices with the Google Play, we launched the following at Google I/O today:

Smart app updates

App encryption

Google Cloud Messaging for Android

Learn more

Starting from today, over 20 Android sessions at Google I/O will deep-dive in many of these areas. Join us in-person or follow us live.

Updated SDK Tools and ADT revision 17

2012-10-15T17:14:00.001-07:00

Added check for Android API calls that require a version of Android higher than the minimum supported version. You can use the new @TargetApi annotation to specify local overrides for conditionally loaded code. For more information, read here.
Added over 40 new Lint rules for a total of over 80, including checks for performance, XML layouts, manifest and file handling. For a full list read here.
Added ability to suppress Lint warnings in Java code with the new @SuppressLint annotation, and in XML files with the new tools: namespace prefix and ignore attribute. For more information, read here.
Improved HTML and XML reporting and Eclipse integration. For more information, read here.

We've also made improvements to the build systems for Eclipse and Ant:

Added strict dependency support for 3rd party Jar files. You can read more information here.
Added support for custom views with custom attributes in libraries. Layouts using custom attributes must use the namespace URI http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto instead of the URI that includes the app package name. This URI is replaced with the app specific one at build time.
Added a feature that allows you to run some code only in debug mode. Builds now generate a class called BuildConfig containing a DEBUG constant that is automatically set according to your build type. You can check the (BuildConfig.DEBUG) constant in your code to run debug-only functions such as outputting debug logs.

The emulator is seeing some big improvements as well:

Thanks to contributions to AOSP from Intel, the emulator now supports running x86 system images in virtualization mode on Windows and Mac OS X. This allows the emulator running at near native speed. The drivers are available through the SDK Manager. Read more here.
After adding webcam support and sensor emulation, we are adding experimental support for Multi-Touch input through a tethered Android device. (Read more here)

Finally, we are also releasing an updated Support Library with the following improvements:

ShareCompat provides easy helper classes for both sending and receiving content for social sharing apps.
NavUtils and TaskStackBuilder provide cross-version support for implementing the Android Design guidelines for navigating within your app including the action bar's 'Up' button.
NotificationCompat.Builder provides a compatibility implementation of Android 3.0's Notification.Builder helper class for creating standardized system notifications.
A new Library Project adds support for GridLayout back to API level 7 and higher.

You can get more information about these changes in the SDK Tools Release Notes and ADT Release Notes.

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PocketPcLive/~3/qF-srUIktoA/mango-gives-microsofts-plan-for-tango-and-wpv.html

2012-10-15T11:00:00.000-07:00

Folks watch this week's Windows Phone view as the video content has a bunch of this week's good and bad stuffs about Microsoft's Windows Phone platform. This edition speaks more about the Windows Phone Mango devices being leaked and of course, great credits go to some developers posting their App testing logs.

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PocketPcLive/~3/Z2dh_TEixCY/windows-7-catches-up-market-share-in-us.html

2012-10-14T14:46:00.001-07:00

It was recently revealed that after about 5 monthes of AT&T and T-Mobile phones running the OS, its market share has grown to almost 2%.

DIY Mobile Networks

2012-10-13T19:42:00.001-07:00

Ever dreamed of having your own mobile phone network? If so, Sonopia offers customizable, 'virtual' mobile networks for small businesses and nonprofit groups. Partnering with Verizon, Sonopia has offered networks to churches, rock bands, sports teams, and the National Wildlife Fund. Nonprofits can offers as an incentive to prospective customers a donation of profits to charitable causes.

Sonopia charges no setup fees, so even the smallest groups -- and even individuals -- can establish their own mobile networks.

Source: Springwise

Dogfight

2012-09-22T21:10:00.001-07:00

Dogfight para Android es un simular de aviación basado en la Primera Guerra Mundial, lleno de acción y por supuesto combates aéreos.

Podrás ponerte a los mandos del mítico Barón Rojo y emular sus éxitos o por el contrario puedes ser un piloto de la RAF encargado de derribar al mítico piloto alemán.

Es un juego online, por lo que tendrás que estar conectado a internet, pero disfrutaras de combates masivos o simplemente volando durante las prácticas.

El juego dispone de diferentes niveles, desde los más básicos hasta llegar a ser un Dogfight y poder combatir en toda regla contra los aviones enemigos.

Algunas imágenes del juego

Un vídeo del juego

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Para descargar el juego basta con escanear el siguiente código QR con Barcode Scanner o Bidi

Speed Anatomy

2012-09-19T13:39:00.001-07:00

Speed Anatomy para Android es un divertido juego para aprender de forma amena y divertida anatomía.

El juego nos pondrá aprueba sobre cuanto sabemos sobre anatomía del cuerpo humano, para ello nos mostrará imágenes del cuerpo humano y tendremos que tocar sobre la parte del cuerpo que nos indica los más rápido y preciso posible.

Speed Anatomy dispone de 28 niveles de juego y 300 partes del cuerpo, para ver algunas partes pequeñas del cuerpo tendremos que utilizar una lupa.

Un entretenido juego para aprender anatomia o para pasar un buen rato descubriendo nuestro cuerpo. Algunas capturas del juego:

Para descargar el juego Speed Anatomy basta con escanear el siguiente código QR con Barcode Scanner o Bidi

Palm Pre Arrives June 6

2012-09-18T20:31:00.001-07:00

Sprint (NYSE: S) today announced pricing and nationwide availability for the highly anticipated Palm Pre phone, offered exclusively from Sprint.

Palm Pre will be available nationwide on June 6 in Sprint stores, Best Buy, Radio Shack, select Wal-Mart stores and online at Sprint.com for $199.99 with a two-year service agreement and after a $100 mail-in rebate.

Sprint has high hopes for the device:

"It's the highest confidence I've ever had going into a device launch that this is going to be a blockbuster," said Kevin Packingham, senior vice president for product and technology development at Sprint. "I'm pretty sure we'll know within the first week."

System Explorer Completo administrador de tareas

2012-09-11T20:49:00.001-07:00

Pues de seguro te pasa como a muchos, no estás satisfecho con el administrador de tareas que te brinda windows, si este es el caso te propongo que pruebes esta versión de System Explorer un programa desarrollado por Mister Group y distribuido en la condición de programa gratuito.

System Explorer 3.8 posee una serie de características que superan con creces al Task Manager (administrador de tareas del windows) que lo hacen una utilidad atractiva y simple de usar, entre sus características principales cuenta con un administrador de procesos que muestra las tareas y procesos que se están ejecutando con sus respectivos parámetros, además posee un escaner de procesos con el cual puedes comprobar la seguridad de tu pc, por si existe alguna posible infección viral, este proceso se lanza luego de preguntarte si deseas hacer la comprobación de seguridad y compara los procesos en ejecución contra una base de datos de programas maliciosos on-line, según los desarrolladores del software. System Explorer posee entre otras bondades, un gráfico del rendimiento del cpu, memoria y acceso al disco con colores totalmente personalizables, además de todo ello una característica que lo hace muy relevante, sobretodo cuando tenemos dudas sobre la seguridad de nuestro sistema y es que en la lista de procesos aparece una columna de seguridad que te permite comprobar aquellos programas que no han sido chequeados por el utilitario, los cuales muestra con una marca relevante. Por último el programa cuenta con un utilitario para desinstalar aplicaciones, es completamente configurable y puedes si lo decides en sus opciones reemplazar de manera automática el administrador de tareas de windows.

Sin lugar a dudas System explorer es resumiendo un utilitario preciso, sencillo y de mucha utilidad para mantener sano tu sistema operativo.

Compatibilidad: Microsoft Windows 7/ XP/Vista

Descargar System Explorer 3.8.6 (3.87 MB)

Version de Pruebas de Windows 8

2012-09-10T19:27:00.000-07:00

La versión de prueba de Windows 8 llega al millón de descargas, a tan sólo 24 horas después de su lanzamiento.
La esperada versión del sistema operativo Windows, de Microsoft, se presentó en el Mobile World Congress que ha tenido lugar esta semana en Barcelona. El producto de Microsoft se puede utilizar en todo tipo de dispositivos incluyendo los tablets y smartphones y por supuesto los ordenadores personales.
Después de varios meses de espera, la compañía de software más grande del mundo presentó un operativo con un enfoque principalmente táctil que permite su utilización en tablets sin embargo está también optimizado para equipos de sobremesa y con un control mediante ratón.
Tal era la expectación por la llegada de esta nueva versión de Windows que la compañía ha anunciado que la Consumer Preview ha conseguido un millón de descargas durante las primeras 24 horas, según ha confirmado la compañía en su cuenta Building Windows 8 de Twitter.
Según afirmó el presidente de Windows y Windows Live, Steven Sinofsky, durante la presentación de Windows 8 en el MWC, la Consumer preview antes conocida como Beta, cuenta con más de 100.000 mejoras con respecto a la de desarrolladores mostrada en septiembre de 2011.

Entre las características que destacan en Windows 8, se encuentra el modo 'funcionamiento en espera', que permite que el buzón de entrada se vaya actualizando aunque el equipo esté suspendido.

Asimismo, el 'administrador de tareas' permitirá pausar aplicaciones y dejarlas 'stand by' hasta que se vuelvan a usar, para reducir la utilización de recursos. Además, los equipos con Windows 8 podrán arrancar en tan solo en 8 segundos (un tiempo récord para el SO de Microsoft, lo que viene de juego con el 8 de la versión del sistema). Entre otras características notorias desaparece el Botón e Inicio de siempre, además de incluir Internet Explorer 10.

Las especificaciones mínimas para poder utilizarlas: procesador de 1Ghz, 1 o 2 Gb de RAM (dependiendo de si es 32 o 64 bit), 16 o 20 Gb de espacio libre en el disco duro, una resolución mínima de 1024 x 768 píxeles en la pantalla y soporte de gráficos DirectX 9.

Si estás interesado la puedes descargar de aquí:

Windows 8 'Consumer Preview

En la página de Microsoft tienen colgado un preview.

Paradise Island

2012-09-09T19:49:00.001-07:00

Paradise Island para Android es un juego de rol donde podremos construir nuestro propio imperio turistico.

El juego te permite crear y gestionar una isla turistica, donde debes recibir a los turistas, entretenerlos para que se encuentren satisfechos y asi poder ganar dinero.

Algunas tareas que podemos realizar:

- Construcción de todo tipo de edificios en la isla
- Mejorar sus edificios, reparación de ellos y obtener beneficios;
- Ampliar su propiedad mediante la compra de nuevas piezas de la tierra y las zonas de mar
- Crea tu isla, con edificios singulares y las plantas;
- Compite con tus amigos

Algunas imágenes del juego

videochat porno

Un juego muy entretenido, similar a los Sims, pero en tu telefono movil.

Para descargar el juego basta con escanear el siguiente código QR con Barcode Scanner o Bidi

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PocketPcLive/~3/qF-srUIktoA/mango-gives-microsofts-plan-for-tango-and-wpv.html

2012-09-04T18:34:00.001-07:00

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PocketPcLive/~3/b0KcvZonoq0/carl-cameras-critiques-on-mollys-review.html

2012-09-02T07:54:00.000-07:00

You may remember the recent challenges of Brandon Watson to Molly Wood to try Windows Phone 7, as she was frequently complaining about Andriod. She came up with some video reviews on her blog; one can see some of them in CBS news too.

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PocketPcLive/~3/47HIO3NdOpE/windows-phone-mango-launch-is-a-rumor-says-joe-belfiore.html

2012-08-31T19:33:00.001-07:00

There was a talk about Microsoft's plans on the launch of its updated Windows Phone version Mango, on September 1st. This was a rumor, says Microsoft's Joe Belfiore through twitter. The OS being released at the beginning of next month would make us feel that it requires IFA 2011 for the upcoming version in Berlin and also this will give us an advantage over Apple iOS.

AT&T Leads in Smartphone Users

2012-08-29T20:56:00.001-07:00

Citing independent market research, AT&T announced its customer base now boasts twice as many smartphone users as any other U.S. mobile operator, reporting that close to 32% of its postpaid subscribers now use an integrated device. According to AT&T, more new and existing customers activated integrated devices in Q1 than the carrier added in new postpaid subscribers. AT&T credits the smartphone user growth to its 3G network and nearly 20,000 U.S. WiFi hotspots.

"AT&T made a big push to be the mobile broadband and smartphone leader many years ago and it's clearly paying off in a big way for us and our customers," said David Christopher, chief marketing officer, AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets. "We've taken integrated devices mainstream and nearly a third of our postpaid customers use one. Our industry-leading 3G and Wi-Fi networks make mobile data accessible to everyone—from road warriors with advanced smartphones to texting teens with quick messaging phones. We offer something for everyone."

This is an impressive statistic as smartphone users outspend non-smartphone users considerably and are generally more profitable as well.