BoomBoom Racing ($0.99) by Activ8 Game studios Co., Ltd. puts you behind the wheel of a large automobile. And you may ask yourself, “Where does this highway go to?” Or you may ask yourself “Why have aliens taken control of Earth’s cars?” It seems invaders are controlling the cars to drain the planet’s energy (don’t ask me)
If you want an LTE-capable Windows phone on AT&T with a bottom bargain price, up until now you’ve been a bit stuck. Fortunately, at CTIA 2012, Samsung unveiled the Samsung Focus 2. The Focus 2 is a $49 Windows phone that performs admirably – even when compared to heavyweight contenders like the Nokia Lumia 900. While the Lumia 900 will certainly beat it in a variety of tests, like best display, most internal storage, as well as outdoor reading tests – because Microsoft so strictly regulates Windows Phone specs it was only a matter of time until cheaper alternatives overtook the industry
If you want an LTE-capable Windows phone on AT&T with a bottom bargain price, up until now you’ve been a bit stuck. Fortunately, at CTIA 2012, Samsung unveiled the Samsung Focus 2. The Focus 2 is a $49 Windows phone that performs admirably – even when compared to heavyweight contenders like the Nokia Lumia 900
In a world full of obscure product names, the Kyocera Hydro C5170 is actually, aptly named. We got a hands on look at the Kyocera Hydro on the show floor at CTIA 2012 and according to a Kyocera spokesperson, the handset is “Certified waterproof for IPX5, protection against water jets and IPX7, protection against water immersion for up to 30 minutes in up to 1 meter.” What this means to the average user is that gone are the days of dropping your cell phone in the toilet and having your trusted sidekick literally go belly-up. Expected to come out in the second half of 2012, aside from being waterproof for up 30 minutes in 1 meter of water, the Kyocera Hydro is a rather standard model
It looks like we’ve had the first glimpse of a handset running Samsung’s new operating system, Tizen. TechRadar reported back in January that Samsung was planning on merging its own Bada mobile OS with the open-source Tizen project. The Linux-based Tizen operating system has been smartened up by Samsung, as the photo and video leak shows off some familiar looking icons including settings and internet browser. Only at the prototype stage The handset itself is just a prototype, with very few apps on display and it purely provides a bare-bones experience of the UI