Thorsten Heins, BlackBerry’s CEO, has been on a mission to bring back the glory days of the smartphone maker. A huge sign of adoption occurred last week when BlackBerry revealed that an unknown partner signed up to purchase 1 million BlackBerry 10 smartphones – this was the “largest ever single purchase order in BlackBerry’s history.”
Now Heins has laid a burn on the iPhone, pointing out that its software is starting to look a bit dated. He is currently visiting Australia for the launch of the Z10 and had some choice words for their competitors, namely Apple.
Heins said “Apple did a fantastic job in bringing [...]
With the beta test of Google+ we’ve seen an across the board redesign of most of Google’s services. Google search got the black bar on top. Gmail got two new themes for users to try out. Now it’s YouTube’s turn.
Google has announced the availability of the Cosmic Panda Interface for users to test. The interface sports a clean and professional look which gives more emphasis to video space. The interface is designed to be quite dark, which might be an effort by Google to reduce electricity consumption across the world.
The [...]
Nokia is all set to revamp its brand image, with the coming of a new era for Nokia it is a great move to change the looks of this legendary mobile phone brand. For starters Nokia has replaced its famous Nokia Sans font with a new “Nokia Pure” typeface.
“the letters [of the new font] flow into each other somewhat, creating the impression of forward movement.”
The new typeface will be used throughout the user interface — in areas such as the user menu and dial pad — on future Nokia phones, hopefully on their much awaited and upcoming Windows Phone 7 Series.
Marc Driessen, Nokia Benelux product manager has let out some details on the unannounced updates that Nokia will be offering to Symbian Lovers. Talks about a symbian revamp have been going on for quite some time now, but now the companys own people are spilling the juicy details. According to Driessen, Nokia is targeting a major UI overhaul in the fall, an update rumored to include
dedicated pull-down status bar up top new iconography new flexible widgets simplified navigation bar better menusAny of those sound familiar to the “rejected by Nokia” OS?
It is also [...]
The Nokia E6 caught earlier, has been detailed yet again in this cleaner more visible picture, and what more this time the display is actually turned on.
The UI looks nice and clean, with large touchable icons. Whats more , the grid layout also looks half decent. YOu can also see the updated Symbian^3 operating system with 4 homescreen dots and different widget placements.
The only thing bothering us is the fact, that despite announcing the discontinuation of Symbian on Smart-phones, Nokia is still persistently set on releasing Symbian based phones this year, which will become obsolete once the company ditches the OS for Redmond’s [...]
You have a Jailbroken iPhone/iPod/iPad? Do you love the new Metro UI from Microsoft Windows Phone 7? Then this bit of information might just make you very very excited! Don’t get naughty!
The video below previews a beta version of a Theme designed by Wynd, The theme is called OS7 and is fairly easy to Install. Check out the video Below and head on over to the source link to try it for yourself.
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