Our top London agent Vlad Savov just got his hands on the new Ubuntu phone OS and was able to get a quick look at some of the new OS's trademark features, including its new gesture-based interface. There's a bit of lag while swiping through the phone's different panels, but overall it looks to be...
An attractive OS, at first glance
With the public unveiling of BlackBerry 10 fast approaching, we're getting yet another look at RIM's forthcoming QWERTY smartphone. Last week the first images of the device — tentatively known as the X10 — surfaced online, with the hardware...
There have been several indications that Sony is planning to launch a new 5-inch 1080p smartphone at CES, with the latest evidence coming from the company itself. Engadget has spotted some official press renders of the Xperia Z and the Xperia ZL, codenamed Yuga and Odin respectively. Both of those monikers have cropped up several times in the past, but this slip-up — along with the previously...
While HP may have crushed the spirits of webOS fans last year, the Open webOS project brings a glimmer of hope to those faithful disciples of Palm's departed mobile operating system. It was ported to the Galaxy Nexus in short order, and now the same webOS Ports team has managed to get it up and running on the Nexus 7. While it's a jerky and feature-incomplete port at this time, a few key features appear to be working just fine — the Nexus 7 with webOS can connect to Wi-Fi and load pages in the browser, one of the cornerstone features of any good tablet. It's only an alpha release right now, but apparently it wasn't too challenging — WebOS Nation notes that the developer behind it got the port running in about a week over his winter break from college. While there's no doubt that this is a downgrade in functionality compared to the...
webOS continues to cheat death
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Nick Bilton at The New York Times writes that the Federal Aviation Administration's controversial rules prohibiting the use of electronic devices on aircraft have consequences that go far beyond traveler frustration. Bilton writes that "over the last year, flying with phones and other devices has...
Back in November, Finnish startup Jolla publicly unveiled its Sailfish mobile operating system to the world. The OS is based on MeeGo, a platform Nokia created but quickly abandoned in favor of Windows Phone. But with Sailfish, Jolla — which i...
It's looking increasingly likely that Sony will unveil a new 1080p, 5-inch smartphone at CES 2013 to compete with the Galaxy Note II and Droid DNA. We saw some pictures of the rumored Sony Yuga a few weeks ago, but now Chinese site ePrice has posted images of what appears to...
