After waving the white flag in retreat from American shores against an invasion of iOS and Android smartphones, Nokia has regrouped with the Lumia 900, a handsome upgrade to its overseas cousin, the Lumia 800 (by way of second cousin, the N9). Now strategic allies with Microsoft’s Windows Phone and carrier AT&T, can Nokia stage a comeback and reclaim lost ground?
The HTC One S follows swiftly on the heels of the One X in HTC’s new premium brand of Android 4.0-enabled handsets, bringing a svelte chassis, 7.8mm depth and a low-price of just £26 a month at launch – and we’re still waiting to hear word of a US launch too.
BlackBerry may quietly (or perhaps not so quietly) be
finessing it’s plans for world domination with its upcoming BBX
handsets, but it’s not letting the other operating system go to waste,
with a stream of BB7 devices being churned out right now, among them the
BlackBerry Bold 9790.
After playing it cool for a few years, RIM has apparently decided that there’s something to this touchscreen phone lark after all, releasing a budget all-touch device in the shape of the BlackBerry Curve 9380.
The Samsung Galaxy Nexus is the world’s first phone to run Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and comes with a plethora of top end tech, including a huge but still massively high resolution screen.
The Amazon Kindle Fire is what the tech world likes to coin a game-changer. A gadget with the potential to irrevocably alter a sector of the market to the point of no return.
Earlier in the year, Google announced the first phase of its Google Music service. The cloud-based offering enabled beta users to upload their own music collections, which could then be streamed to any device.
Google looks set to move into the music market this week, with the expected announcement of Google Music.
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