RIM Blackberry 10: iPhone iOS clone?

 

Research in Motion has already confirmed that BlackBerry 10 smartphones won’t be shipping until late this year. This will not help them if they are trying to get into the good graces of Smartphone buyers.  CrackBerry showed a preview of what’s to come. They will have home screen widgets. They also have  iOS-styled folders and integrated video calling.

The new BlackBerry 10 widgets look like they were cut and paste from Windows and Android. The new folder icon shows you a preview of the applications inside and a dedicated video chat button. The BlackBerry 10 OS looks like it is years ahead of  RIM’s current OS but will it be enough to get people to buy a Blackberry? I think the answer to that is no. It is way too late in the game right now. They would have to do something that is a game changer. BGR reported that the BlackBerry London will be the first BlackBerry 10 smartphone to market. It  is scheduled for a late September release but realistically it’s looking more like  October.

Windows 8: This is how to download your copy

I know you want it. I have tested it out and it is fast and very pretty. Although there are a lot of bugs in this thing. Not to be expected, after all it is a preview beta. Windows 8 can now download and installed. The Developer Preview edition as it is called should tell you that it is not for everyone and should not be installed on your main system.  Microsoft’s Developer Preview is a prebeta version showing off the operating system at its current stage. Meaning that it is just there to look pretty. The thing is that although designed for developers, no registration is required, so anyone can download and install it.

No need to go to bit torrents or any P2P network. The Windows 8 Preview comes in three different packages:

• 64-bit version with developer tools
• 64-bit version of just the OS
• 32-bit version of the OS.

All three come as ISO image files.  You will need an img burner software to burn this on to a disk. ImgBurn works very well.

You can download it right here: Windows 8

Written out: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/br229516

Microsoft takes over another company on the decline. This time Nokia; Shareholders react accordingly

First Yahoo now Nokia. It seems that Microsoft has a jones for taking over companies that are on there way down.  Nokia CEO Steven Elop effectively ended Nokia’s history as an ecosystem  and said here you take it over Microsoft Windows Phone.

Nokia’s share holders must have thought the same thing because the stock took a nose dive today. At one point it was 14% down.  It was to be expected though. Nokia is really taking a beating on the public markets now.

The stock is not the only thing that has left. Over 1K employees left work early today.  They were after all most affected. Nokia’s Tampere office have crafted the OS through the years. So what do you do when you find out your company has given up on your work, effectively giving up on you?  Apparently they walked away from their jobs today before Elop has a chance to fire them later.  These people are smart though, they use their flexible work schedules to enable this.

Android Event Will Battle iPad Event For Press Love On February 2

Google is hosting an event next week to show off the latest version of Android, codenamed “Honeycomb” a bit more.

This event follows Google’s recent release of a preview version of the SDK for Honeycomb. And back in January, they released a preview video of the new OS.

No word on who will be on hand to show off Android 3.0 at this event yet, but Andy Rubin is a safe bet. More interesting will be if soon-to-be CEO Larry Page shows up as well.

Palm joins the tablet party

 

As expected Palm joins the tablet party. Endgadget must be really hated right now by HP. They just ruined HP’s February 9th event. They have posted internal webOS tablet pictures and information.

The Palm Tablet looks just like a  iPad.  There’s speakers, front facing camera, and a micro-USB port and Palm OS. It will be WiFi-only as well as models for AT&T 3G, and Verizon LTE versions of the Opal arriving in September 2011, and on AT&T LTE in July 2012. I am sure more will come out on this through out the day. We will keep you posted.

 

Nook Color gets over clocked

1st  Ubuntu was ported to the Nook Color and now hackers at the XDA Developers have overclocked  it to run at speeds up to 1GHz. The custom kernel ups the speed of the CPU while running it at a lower voltage, which means longer battery life. The system became unstable at the 1GHz level, but there were no problems at 950MHz.  The code is at XDA. Go try it out.

Now when the Kindle comes out with color it should be interesting to see what hacks come out for it. Until then there is no point to get a Kindle if you can do so much with that Nook Color.