Earlier this week we've seen LG deliver its "tethering" update to Optimus 7 wave-one Windows Phones proving that the hardware capabilities are there and just need to be enabled. On a similar note, HTC is reportedly rolling out an Internet Sharing update for the HTC Mozart.
The region for the roll-out seems to be India, according to reports, and it adds that certain "Internet Sharing" option in the Settings page, allowing you to turn your Windows Phone in a portable hotspot. In contrast, there were some Mozart updates that did not include the tethering functionality and all this seems to be depending on the specific carrier and whether it allows for hotspot features or not
No, you're not looking at the Samsung Focus and not even at the Google Nexus S. This is allegedly the Lenovo S2, the company's first take at Windows Phone. If we could see the required Windows buttons we'd be sold but since we can't, we'll just leave it in the "R" category.
Anyways, the screen shows what appears to be Windows Phone Mango and wishful thinking makes us believe the small hump on the right bottom side (first and last pic) is a dedicated camera button. We tampered a bit with the last picture to reveal what was on the screen and we could see a Windows button (and no other) plus something far from the default Camera application. At least there's a front-facer there!
If last year there was the "antenna-gate" regarding the iPhone 4, this year seems to be the "battery-gate" concerning the new iPhone 4S. Many users are complaining of poor battery life and Apple is contacting them for more details.
According to recent reports, Apple engineers are contacting iPhone 4S owners and even asking some of them to install diag and monitoring programs on the device trying to figure out what the problem is. Apple doesn't seem to know what the source of the problem is and various reports point fingers towards either one of iCloud, Notification Center, Location Services, and Reminders. According to other claims, the battery drain is directly related to the Data Connection and things appear to be normal while on WiFi. Are you experiencing such problems or have you been contacted by Apple?
Shazam Encore is offered by RIM for free in the BlackBerry App World as a "thank you gift" but it might as well be there for anyone to grab as thecompany already handed out $100-worth softwaretrying to make it up to its users for the service outage.
Anyways, the software is free of charge for a limited time (a $5.99 USD value), compliments of BlackBerry and you can have unlimited music tags on your BlackBerry. There's also support for RIM'sBlackBerry OS 7 so if you're a music enthusiast you might not want to pass on this deal.
After unboxing and taking a look at the hardwareon the MeeGo-powered Nokia N9, we are now taking a look at the camera capabilities on thephone. We're looking at both imaging and recording.
The Nokia N9 features an f/2.2 eight-megapixel auto focus camera with Carl Zeiss optics, dual LED flash and super wide 28mm lens, delivering 16:9 720p video recording with stereo sound. The camera is particularly interesting because it will be the same one Nokia uses on the recently announced Nokia Lumia 800 Windows Phone. Let's take a look at the samples below! Note: YouTube somewhat degraded the video quality in terms of occasional pixel blocks and framerate loss.
