Posted by admin on December 29, 2011 under Mobile Applications, Uncategorized | 
As in every year during winter holidays, the Cupertino company offers for a period of 12 days free content from its iTunes app store for the European and Canadian users. The offer entitled “12 Days of Christmas” kicked off on boxing day with a selection of tracks by Coldplay.
Every year Apple offers for free more applications, songs and games to the European users of devices running Apple’s iOS. The “12 Days of Christmas” giveaway was launched yesterday with a suite of songs from the British band Coldplay. Gifts are available for free for exactly 24 hours after their posting, the giveaway lasting, as you probably realized, 12 days.
In order to facilitate the access to gifts, Apple also launched a dedicated application that is updated daily with new offers. The application is on the App Store and can be downloaded, of course, for free.
The “12 Days of Christmas” application is compatible with iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad 2, iPad and the fourth generation of iPods. The application is available in Europe and Canada.
Posted by admin on December 28, 2011 under Apple News |
According to two documents filed by the Californian company at the U.S. Bureau of Patents and Trademark Apple is looking to further develop batteries for its mobie devices based on the use of hydrogen cell techology.
According to sources close to the situation, Apple intends to introduce a technology that converts hydrogen and oxygen in water and electricity. The technology giant wrote in its application that these fuel cells can reach high levels of electric density, which will provide the devices with electricity that will last for days, even weeks.
Also, Apple engineers mention that hydrogen batteries could be smaller and lighter than ordinary batteries. The introduction of these devices could solve one of the greatest problems of smartphones, which are using a lot of power.
Besides this motivation, Apple stated in its application that hydrogen technology will free the U.S. by the need of using fossil fuels that obliges the maintenance of complicated relationships with governments in the Middle East and that could prevent disasters caused by oil spills.
If successful, this could be a major development for Apple who have become synonymous with poor battery life. Whilst this was improved sightly with the launch of the iPhone 4 it is still a major issue for the devices which are geared around so much internet connectivity.
Posted by admin on under Industry News |
Year-end is the time to look back and think about the best mobile devices released in 2011, the greatest mobile technology successes and disappointments. In 2011, mobile technology and communication reached the stature of 4G and the rise of the tablets; however it wasn’t a year without its failures. From network blackouts to customers’ dissatisfaction with some of the most prominent mobile companies, we are looking at the top mobile technology successes and disappointments of 2011.
2011 Biggest Mobile Technology Successes
Android Total Market Supremacy
Needless to say, Android success in 2011 is unprecedented. The platform had zero market presence just a couple years ago and in 2011 managed to debar all major platforms. Furthermore, there are no signs of a slow down – with over 500,000 device activations daily, Android total mobile market domination seems to remain throughout 2012.
4G Mobile Technology Growth
This year wasn’t just an exemplary year for the U.S. growth of 4G mobile technology. 2011 was the year of the 4G race – all major mobile operators are striving to develop their 4G mobile networks. How fast and how well they manage to accomplish that will play a lead role in how each mobile provider will move into 2012.
Mobile Payments
Predictions that 2011 would be the year of ‘mobile wallets’ hasn’t really come true. Nevertheless, 2011 was an year of significant developments in mobile payments infrastructure. Banks, credit card processors, e-commerce and brick-and-mortar retailers made serious progress towards allowing customers to pay for goods via their mobile phones.
2011 Biggest Mobile Technology Disappointments
GSM Phones Vulnerability to Hackers’ Attacks
Mobile technology vulnerability to hackers’ attacks has been an ongoing issue for the past several years. Nevertheless, a new study revealed that mobile phone hacking is actually easier than people expected. According to researchers, GSM networks, still used by approximately 80 percent of all mobile phone users worldwide, did not provide adequate security against hacking attacks. They found that not only any GSM phone can be ‘hijacked’ but now hackers can do that on a large scale and in a very short time frame. The findings of the study are particularly disappointing as once network security is breached, hackers can unlimited number of calls or send out unlimited number of text messages and GSM phone users can only find out when they receive their mobile phone bill.
BlackBerry Outage
Blackberry users will hardly forget 2011 October’s Blackberry outage when a failed switching mechanism crippled Blackberry network for several days. The longest service interruption for BalckBerry’s 12 year history, notorious as the ‘BlackBerry Blackout’, affected millions of BlackBerry customers in Europe, North America and Africa who were unable to receive and send out emails – BlackBerry mobile devices key feature.
Vodafone’s Network Continuing Problems
Vodafone customers started to experience network problems in 2010 and unfortunately issues with connectivity and reception issues continued into 2011. Vodafone representatives blamed the software upgrade at first and later simply admitted they ‘could have done a better job’. Vodafone substandard performance led to thousands of disappointed customers, lawsuits and court battles for compensations.
More to Come in 2012
The world of mobile phones and moble technology is a very exciting place right now and it is a sure bet we will have even more develoments and disappointments to talk about in 2012. NFC technology is likely to change the way we look at our moble devices and trasform them from being a communication tool, to a lifestyle tool. And with Android and Apple now in a flat out turf war 2012 could be a very interesting time indeed in the world of mobile.
