Want to transfer Android apps to a Windows Phone? Microsoft would like to help
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It’s emerged that Microsoft has applied for a patent on a service that enables applications from rival platforms such as Android and iOS to be migrated to Windows Phone.
The service would at first suggest similar Microsoft endorsed applications to the ones Android and iPhone users have on their phone. If there are none – [...]
Twitter suggests who to follow according to your web history
Separate the wheat from the chaff
Twitter is changing the way it recommends to its users who to follow based on the websites they frequent.
Previously, when a new Tweeter signs up the suggestions tend to be the likes of Justin Bieber, Kim Kardashian and Rihanna. In other words those with mammoth amounts of followers.
However, the new [...]
Diablo III collector’s edition pictures and hands-on
Diablo III marks the return of one of the all-time great PC game series. Ten years in development, the game is now live and ticking along nicely on PCs the world over.
It’s available in several different versions, but for the true fan there can be only one choice; the collector’s edition. Pocket-lint has got [...]
WEBSITE OF THE DAY: Lend With Care
Lend a few quid and change a life
How often do you lend your mates money? Quite often? Good on you if you do. It’s what friends are for.
And what did they do with the money? Buy a round of drinks? A CD maybe? Do you really care?
Possibly not. But at lendwithcare.org you could actually change [...]
APP OF THE DAY: ubiCabs review (Android & iPhone)
Minicab?
Travel apps are all the rage, especially when it comes to getting around in the Big Smoke. There are bus checkers and train finders coming out of our app store ears, but the most recent trend has been for getting about in the privacy of a car hired just for you. Yes, we all know [...]
Motorola RAZR MAXX pictures and hands-on
“Longest talktime of any smartphone”
Just how important is a good battery life on a smartphone to you? Very according to Motorola. With that in mind its been busy working away at its Motorola RAZR MAXX, a smartphone that doesn’t skimp on features, but most importantly won’t die on you before the day’s out.
The Motorola RAZR [...]
LG Optimus UI 3.0 goes head-to-head with Samsung TouchWiz and HTC Sense
LG ups the UI ante
LG is upping its game in the user interface stakes by upgrading its custom Android menu system to the Optimus UI 3.0.?
The new user interface will debut on the LG Optimus LTE II when it arrives in Korea, but will also be preloaded on the LG Optimus 4X HD, which will [...]
ITV Digital website offers split screen Euro 2012 experience
Game footage and news feed on one page
Football fans will be able to enjoy (or commiserate as the case made be) this summer’s European Championship via a split-screen facility on ITV Digital’s dedicated Euro 2012 website.
Optimised for both smartphones and tablets, the site will broadcast any games being shown on the ITV channel at the [...]
Apple’s next iPhone to house bigger screen to compete with rival smartphones
At least 4-inches
According to reports, Apple’s next-generation iPhone will have a screen that measures at least 4-inches as it looks to compete with rival flagship phones.
Apple has been rumoured to be considering increasing its display size since the iPhone 4S arrived with a conservative 3.5-inches, the same dimensions as all previous models.
However, the Wall Street [...]
Three unveils details of cheaper MiFi device for Wi-Fi on the go
Cheaper, we just don’t know by how much
UK operator Three has again joined forces with Huawei to launch a new value MiFi device, enabling you to get Wi-Fi anywhere you can get a Three phone signal.
Ok caveat first, despite Three informing Pocket-lint that it will be cheaper than the previous Huawei E586 MiFi device, Three [...]
