Ever since it was launched, the Samung Galaxy S had a strong following among smartphone users, becoming one of the best selling Android phones available thanks to its powerful hardware and feature set, but, as its usually the case with any device, there's still room for some improvement, the Android community managing to release a fix that can offer up to a threefold increase in speed.If you are a Galaxy S user then you must have noted by now that, although your phone packs a fast 1GHz Samsung Hummingbird processor, it will occasionally pause for a few fractions of a second, or even seconds, making it feel sluggish and unresp... [read more >>] One of the things we really like about some of the world's largest consumer-electronics manufacturers is the fact that they've started to coordinate efforts across their numerous divisions, thus being able to provide customers with an unitary user experience, regardless of the nature of the products they're handling. And one of the best examples of such a forward-thinking company is Sony, who's quite active in bringing together its various branches and products.One of the best examples is the XMB (Xross Media Bar), an user interface that's starting to become the norm in the case of other Sony products, not just its ... [read more >>] As some of you might remember, back at IFA 2009, Softpedia had the chance to witness first-hand the birth of a whole new trend in consumer electronics, namely that of 3D HDTVs, high-end devices meant to bring the whole 3D-entertainment concept into the home, after previously being restricted just to the IMAX venues or 3D cinemas. Since then, many things have changed, CES 2010 marking a full-out invasion of 3D display solutions coming from pretty much all of the big names in the TV segment.Being able to view 3D movies without ever leaving one's own home seemed just a distant dream a couple of years ago, but it's now closer than eve... [read more >>] Ever since its launch back at MWC, Microsoft's next-generation operating system for smartphones, Windows Phone 7, has enjoyed quite a high level of attention from the media and users alike, simply because this OS is considered the Redmond-based company's only chance of reviving its mobile offerings. The software giant provided further details on this OS during its MIX event, and they've even released an emulator, which, however, targets application developers in particular.Installing the aforementioned emulator is not exactly the easiest possible process, and, for this reason, the number of people who actually got to see firs... [read more >>] Rumors regarding a possible operating system by Google have been floating around the Internet since... well, pretty much forever (or at least a couple of years), the whole world expecting the search engine giant to tackle this field as well, especially after releasing the Android operating system for mobiles. These speculations became even more intense this year, when Google acknowledged the fact that it was actually working on an OS designed mostly for the netbook and ultra-portable segment and built around its own browser, the Chrome OS.In any case, things became a lot clearer yesterday, when Google unveiled a few more details regarding t... [read more >>] Push Gmail has been one feature a lot of handheld users out there have been craving for over the past couple of years. Of course, several third-party solutions appeared (such as the GPush iPhone app we were talking about a month or so ago), but it wasn't something available for free, and, more importantly, it was restricted to iPhone users. However, Google has finally decided to provide Gmail with push functionality, which can be very easily activated by any user, even the less tech-savvy ones. And here's a quick guide to what you'll have to do, according to the Official Gmail Blog. So, first of all, you should know that the... [read more >>] As you might have noticed ever since it was first announced, we've got somewhat of a penchant for one of HTC's latest smartphones, the Hero, which is, by far, one of the most interesting mobile communication devices we've seen in a while, blending a very cool looking exterior design with a host of useful features, and, of course, that one of a kind (well, at least, for now) Sense UI.However, despite its many merits, the Hero does have some shortcomings as well. And while we've tackled the issue of sync-ing in Windows 7 in one of our previous articles, it's time to talk about another of the Hero's negative aspec... [read more >>] As some of you probably know by now, HTC has been making some pretty spectacular pushes on the smartphone segment over the past couple of years, one of the company's latest masterpieces, announced only a short while ago, being the Hero model, which packs some of the most coveted features in the modern mobile world, including here Google's famous mobile-targeted operating system, the Android.Now, since this is a next-generation handheld, most of us would expect it to be able to work quite well with all the next-generation operating systems out there, the most outstanding such issue being the fact that people who are already running... [read more >>] Pretty much everyone must have heard by now about Google's famous Android operating system for handhelds, which, despite providing some pretty interesting features as far as the level of integration with various Google services is concerned, is still rather far from having reached the level of popularity enjoyed by other similar operating systems, such as Symbian or Windows Mobile. However, its potential is much more impressive, given the fact that it can be easily ported to run on x86 systems.And proving their on-going commitment for developing this operating system, the developers from Google have just released a Live CD with the lat... [read more >>] Some time ago, I wrote a guide on how to run PlayStation 2 games on your computer using a console emulator. This time, I’m planning a tutorial un how to emulate GameCube games (PS2 rival) at decent speeds on your computer. This emulator is rumored to also play Nintendo Wii games, but I’ll make an update regarding that rumor as soon as I can confirm it.Now, for those of you that don’t know exactly what the GameCube is, you should know that the GC is a sixth generation console and direct competitor of the PlayStation 2. Titles such as Resident Evil Zero or Resident Evil 1 remake made the GameCube a sought after console by ga... [read more >>] |