Author: Peter Murphy

  • HTC Cha Cha gets a CPU Upgrade!

    HTC Cha Cha gets a CPU Upgrade!

    The Cha Cha, (or in Spain the Cha Cha Cha), is an unusual device from HTC, in that it’s Facebook focused, has a dedicated Facebook button, a full qwerty keyboard, and a significantly different form factor to most of the current HTC devices. It’s really a budget phone, running Android focused mainly at your kids.…

  • No early Mango release, just a developer phone

    Most of you would remember some of the hype around Mango being available early for registered developers, it was a bit exciting to think that I might get early access to the next major update for Windows Phone. Whilst it’s not true that they won’t, that news has changed a bit, or been restructured at…

  • HTC announces HTCDev and the OpenSense SDK

    HTC seem to be embracing the wide developer community, utilising their devices. With the recent news that HTC will be delivering their Android devices with the bootloader unlocked, removing a huge obstacle, for Android developers with HTC Handsets, we start to see a change in attitude, that recognises the open source nature of Google’s mobile…

  • Microsoft Windows 8 preview blurs the boundaries between mobile and desktop computing

    I’m going to preface this post with a quote:  “A Computer on every desk, and in every home, running Microsoft Software” -Bill Gates, 1986 No one at the time, would have thought that you could add to that quote today, “In every courier bag and pocket”. With Windows Phone, Microsoft moved away from an Icon…

  • Official Gingerbread Update for Sprints Evo 4G to arrive on June 6

    Official Gingerbread Update for Sprints Evo 4G to arrive on June 6

    A build of the Gingerbread Rom for the Evo 4G, leaked back in April, so maybe you’re already sporting Android 2.3.3 on you’re Evo! If you are one of the patient, do things by the book sorts, we have some good news. You can start preparing the farewell party for the Froyo version you’ve been…

  • Windows Phone updates, after Mango comes Apollo

    We’re anxiously awaiting the next update for Windows Phone, codenamed Mango, which supposedly hit around September of this year (if Microsoft can adhere to their proposed timeline). What we know as the Windows Phone 7.5 update (Mango) is bringing a huge amount of features to the platform, that will bring it up to parity, if…

  • Is this the HTC Mazaa, 12 megapixel Windows Phone?

    A while back I posted some leaked images, of a Windows Phone that looked very similar to the HTC Trophy, but was said to have a lot of new features. At the time, I tried to reference the name, Mazaa, referred to a Mango flavoured Coca Cola, and it looks like that was probably the…