All About Smartphones

Microsoft have decided to make it's very own Microsoft Office Mobile now available free of charge to Android and iOS devices.  The Office suite which was formerly a subscription based package on iOS didn't see so many users because of its subscription. However, making the app completely free to use have seen the app being downloaded greatly within the past 24hrs.  Truth be told; Microsoft Office is one of the best document editor out there. On PC, no other office package can compete squarely. However, on mobile devices, the office package have been found wanting due to Microsoft's tight hold on the package for too long. We have put the app to use on our iPhone and iPad and it has been very solidly built and usage is awesome too.  You can save files to Microsoft One Drive and sync them across your devices and access them quickly from the web interface of your outlook account easily. Download Microsoft Office Mobile for iOS and Android ...

New developments coming from the BlackBerry company, specifically from John Chen, CEO of BlackBerry is that there will be a strong crackdown on those personnel or individual that is responsible for leaking company's confidential information.   According to Chen, leaking information of products that are still at their infancy is more detrimental to the company than the good it can create. He furthermore stress the fact that he understands the enthusiasm and curiosity of fans to want to know about latest developments for BlackBerry products and software in the works but maintains that leaking these information is not good for business.  To this end, BlackBerry will therefore take legal actions against those people involved in releasing leaked BlackBerry OS updates and upcoming hardware both internally and externally.  What this means is that it may become less frequent how often we hear leaked information on BlackBerry's future intentions and activitie...

Oculus Virtual Reality (OVR) head gear is among the latest developments in the virtual reality and gaming world that has caught the attention of so many people including big companies like Google, Apple and the likes.  The company behind OVR head gear known as Oculus VR, had been very consistent with their Oculus Rift project thereby also forcing the likes of Sony to get serious with theirs. However, a very surprinsing turn of events just hit us.  Facebook have bought over the Oculus VR Technology company for a total sum of $2 Billion.  Facebook which recently spent $19 billion on Whatsapp has once again opened its banks to the OVR company.  The buy-over saw Facebook paying $400 million in cash while the remaining $1.6billion will be in Facebook stocks including a potential $300 million in bonuses. Oculus VR was a programme started to give hard core immersive experience of game environments. Therefore, it is quite puzzling as to why Facebo...

Just recently, @winocm tweeted that he was able to untethered jailbreak his iPhone 4 running Apple's newest iOS 7.1 firmware. In similar fashion, @iH8sn0w announced through hi tweeter account that his iPhone 4S running iOS 7.1 now has untethered jailbreak running on it. It was believed earlier that  only A4 devices like the iPhone 4 running iOS 7.1 could be susceptible to an untethered jailbreak, however, iH8sn0w have now demonstrated that his device which is an A5 device has also been jailbroken untethered.  The inal words from these two elite hackers is that there is no plan to release the jailbreak publicly for now. Not releasing the untethered jailbreak publicly makes sense as the exploded used could be used for iOS 8 jailbreak possibly. Releasing it now may allow Apple coders to patch the exploit hence making it difficult to get an iOS 8 untethered jailbreak in a good time.  We shall keep you posted on everything jailbreak as it becomes avail...

HTC, the Taiwanese comapny have finnally taken the wraps off its new flagship smartphone dubbed the HTC One M8.   The M8 which borrows a lot of design and form from its predecessor, the HTC One (2013 edition) comes with a good number of cool features and specification upgrades especially the finger print sensor located at the back of the device, close to the camera. Network and Bands The HTC M8 comes with network 2G/3G/4G LTE and equipped wit a nano SIM slot. The bands of the M8 makes it suitable to be used in almost every network of the world as it covers bands 2G: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900, 3G: HSPDA/850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900/2100 and 4G: 700/850/1700/1800/1900/2100/2600. Dimensions and Weight HTC M8 has dimensions 146.4 x 70.6 x 9.4 mm (5.76 x 2.78 x 0.37 in) and weighs a total of 160g. Hence it doesn't feel heavy at all when compared to other smartphones like the Samsung Galaxy S5. Display and Resolution Like its predecessor, the comes with a 1080p resolution miulitouch dis...

Nokia X is now on sale on Jumia and Slot website for slightly different prices; N19,595 on Jumia's website and N21,000 on Slot website . Nokia X which is one of the latest Nokia phones running the heavily modded form of Android with a touch of Windows Phone design. As of this writing, Nokia X+ and XL is not yet available for purchase in Nigeria but will be before the end of April according to sources. In case you have forgotten the features of Nokia X we will like to quickly refresh your memory. Nokia X is a dual SIM phone running Android 4.1.2 operating system on it. It has a multitouch 4.0 inch IPS LCD display with resolution  480 x 800. The Nokia X has 4GB of internal memory with an SD card slot that supports up to 32GB of memory card space. A RAM of 512MB is placed on the device As for processor, the Nokia X has a dual core 1.0GHz Cortex A5 Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8225 S4 Play processor with Adreno 203 GPU chip. The device has a 3.15mp ...

In case you find yourself on the hot seat at Who Wants To Be A Millionaire show and the question to get you to $1 million is "What is Android Wear"? we wouldn't expect you to have extensive understanding of Android Wear. To cut to the chase, Android Wear is the latest and newest form of Android operating system designed specifically for wearable computers as its usually called. That is, gadgets that you can wear on your body and Google is starting off with smartwatches. Android Wear was announced by Google on Tuesday 18th 2014 Motorola Moto 360 and LG G watch are going to be the first type of smartwatches based on Android Wear OS. Google believes that wearable computers are going to become very huge in the near future and wants to be a big player in that future. What Google seek to achieve is that information moves with you and you wont have to bother about carrying something heavy in your hand like a smartphone. An excerpt from Google's blog site...