HTC has revealed plans to launch a white version of the Sensation handset, which will also bring Android Ice Cream Sandwich along for the ride. The Ice White version of the device will launch on March 1, while adding Android 4.0 into the mix makes it the first in the HTC Sensation series to pack the latest version of Google’s mobile OS. The newly-painted Sensation could also be the first device to boast HTC’s refined Sense 4.0 UI, although that’s yet to be confirmed. A dutch press release also states that devices its counterparts the Sensation XE, Sensation XL will also be getting an Android 4.0 update “soon.” Cutting down on the clutter?
MyScript Notes Mobile ($7.99) by Vision Objects MyScript Notes Mobile is for iPad only. This may come as a disappointment to folks who have been enjoying the free MyScript Memo on their iPhones and iPod touches. I found other things about it to be disappointing as well
Google has announced it is using a new service called “Bouncer” to keep malware-harbouring apps out of the Android Market. The service automatically scans new apps, existing apps and even developer accounts to root out malware, spyware and trojans. It even looks for indicators that “an application might be misbehaving”, in a manner not unlike TV’s Super Nanny, we imagine. 2011 saw over 11 billion apps downloaded from Android Market while at the same time there was a 40 percent decrease in “potentially-malicious” downloads
In a new study conducted by the mobile application monitoring company Crittercism, it is noted that iOS application crash more often than their Android counterparts. The results, as you can see in the above and below images, speak for themselves: most applications crash under iOS 5.0.1, while Android apps appear to be rather more stable. iOS vs
Apple has been forced to pull most of its iPad and iPhone ranges from its website in Germany as the result of an injunction enforced by Motorola. It’s all down to one of Motorola’s patents covering wireless communications, which Apple is using but has not licensed from the phone company. The patent in question is over a “method for performing a countdown function during a mobile-originated transfer for a packet radio system”. That old chestnut This means that the Apple iPhone 3G, 3GS and 4 have all been pulled from Apple’s German website, as well as the iPad and iPad 2; the iPhone 4S is unaffected by the ban, however