BANGCRASHCREAK *coughcough* We’re free! 7 days in Mobile, TechRadar’s alternative and mostly fictitious look at the week’s events, has freed itself from its prison under the disused BenQ Siemens HQ and has returned to find the world is a wholly different place. We won’t tell you how we came to be entombed in a coffin made entirely of Windows Mobile handsets – but let’s just say a certain unicorn was pretty unhappy with certain people ‘censoring his words on the beautiful BlackBerry Storm’.
Beyond Siri: simplifying commands Showing off to non-iPhone owning friends has never been easier. Pick up your phone in the pub, confidently say ‘Siri, what’s the circumference of the Earth divided by the radius of the Moon?’ and barely seconds later, you’re the only one there who knows the answer is 23.065.
Microsoft is looking to build on the success of 2011’s biggest selling console, by rolling out its popular Xbox Live gaming platform to Android and iOS devices. Xbox Live games are currently only compatible with Windows Phone devices, but Microsoft has realised that its huge fan base will be using a range of mobile devices. Microsoft has already released a Xbox Live app for iOS, but minus any gaming features. A spokesperson for Microsoft said; “While the Xbox Live experiences and games always work best on the Windows platform, we understand that some Xbox fans may be using other types of devices.
iTunes users spent an incredible $120m (£77m) on music and apps on December 25th. The company revealed the figure during Tuesday’s first fiscal quarter earnings call for 2012 where it announced all-time record iPhone and iPad sales .
If you visited AppAdvice today, you probably noticed our “blackout.” And, unless you’ve been living under a rock of late, you’re probably aware exactly what and why we are protesting. For those somehow still in the dark, the American congressional SOPA and PIPA bills threaten to destroy the internet as we know it , supplanting the free flow of information with a far-reaching, blanketed, mindless censorship the likes of which we’ve only seen in the most dystopian of popular fiction. And, unfortunately, jailbreakers might be more immediately affected than anyone (if that’s even possible).