360 Panorama App For Android Launched (Video)

The 360 Panorama app has been available for Apple’s iPhone for a while now, good news if you own an Android smartphone as 360 Panorama is now available for Android smartphones.

360 Panorama for Android will work with any Android device running Android 2.3 or above, and the app will help you take 360 degree panoramic photos with you handset, the video below shows how it works.




The 360 Panorama App for Android is now available for $0.99 from the Android Market, and you can also find out more details over at the developers website.

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Nokia Lumia 800 Suffering From Battery Issues?

It looks like Apple’s iPhone 4S may not be the only new smartphone that is having battery problems, as it would appear a number of owners of Nokia’s fist Windows Phone smartphone, the Lumia 800 are having battery issues with the device.

Some users are reporting that the battery life on the Lumia 800 is getting worse after repeated charges of the device, whilst another users has said that his battery drops by around 25 percent overnight when it is not being used.



It isn’t clear as yet just how many Nokia Lumia 800 owners are experiencing the battery problems, if you have a Lumia 800 and have had any battery problems leave a comment below and let us know.

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Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime Running Ice Cream Sandwich Teaser (video)

Nvidia has today released a teaser video showing a glimpse of Google’s Ice Cream Sandwich Android operating system running on the new Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime, which is equipped with Nvidia’s new Tegra 3 quad-core processor.
Watch Nvidia’s quick demo showing Google’s  Android 4.0 OS, Ice Cream Sandwich running on an Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime, after the break.

The demo shows a few very quick glimpses of what you can expect from the new Eee Pad Transformer Prime with its new Tegra 3 processor. You can also see Google’s Ice Cream Sandwich Android operating system running on the older Eee Pad Transformer tablet device here.

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Asus Eee Pad Transformer Gets Android 4.0 ICS Port (Video)

Asus will launch their first Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich tablet next month, the Asus Transformer Prime, and the company has already confirmed that the original Asus Eee Pad Transformer will be getting the update in the near future.

The video below shows the Eee Pad Transformer Prime running an unofficial port of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, and the majority of the functions seem to work so far including the touchscreen, WiFi, Bluetooth and the web browser.



We still don’t have any date from Asus on when they will launch the official Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update for the original Eee Pad Transformer, as soon as we get some more information we will let you guys know.

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HTC Wildfire S Headed TO MetroPCS

The HTC Wildfire S has been available in the US for a while through T-Mobile and US cellular and now the device is headed to MetroPCS, and it should be available some time this week for $179 plus taxes without a contract.

The HTC Wildfire S comes with a 3.2 inch touchscreen display with a resolution of 320 x 480 pixels, plus Android 2.3 Gingerbread and HTC Sense 3.0



Processing is provided by a 600MHz processor, and comes with 512MB of RAM and 512MB of ROM, plus a microSD card slot, and a five megapixel camera with built in auto-focus and a flas, and Wifi And Bluetooth 3.0.

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SkyLight Transforms Your Smartphone In To A Microscope Viewer And Camera (video)

A new concept which has been designed to transform your smartphone in to a microscope viewer, has just started its journey from concept to manufacture over on the Kickstarter website.

Once your smartphone is attached to the SkyLight adapter, you can then use your smartphones camera and video recorder to take records of specimens, and easily distribute them either via email or social networks. Watch the video after the jump to see it in action.



The SkyLight concept adapter has been created by Andy Miller an engineer and designer from Oakland. Miller explains:

“The SkyLight is the first of its kind, as there is no other available device that attaches any smartphone to any microscope. The SkyLight’s universal compatibility allows previously owned technology (microscopes) to be upgraded to the digital age with the use of a widely available technology (smartphones) – good for global health, science classes, and anyone else!”

If you think you could benefit from using a SkyLight device jump over to the Kickstarter website to make your pledge and help the SkyLight become a reality.

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Samsung WiFi Series 5 Chromebook Announced

Samsung has launched a new version of their Series 5 Chromebook, and this version will be WiFi only, will come in black and will retail for $349 and will feature the latest version of Google’s Chrome OS, which had a recent minor update.

The Samsung Series 5 WiFi Chromebook features a 12.1 inch LCD display with a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels, there is also a dual core Intel Atom processor, a couple of USB ports and an SD card reader.



The Samsung WiFi Series 5 Chomebook is available now in the US for $349, more details can be found here.

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Samsung Illusion Hits Verizon Wireless November 23rd

The Samsung Illusion was recently announced, and now it would appear that the device will be available from Verizon wireless from tomorrow, the 23rd of November at Verizon online, but it looks like it won’t actually launch in Verizon stores until the 12th of January.

As a reminder, the Samsung Illusion comes with Android 2.3 Gingerbread and features a 3.5 inch touchscreen display with a 320 x 480 pixel resolution, plus 512MB of RAM and a single core 1GHz processor.



There Illusion also features a 3 megapixel camera, plus 2GB of built in storage and a microSD card slot with a 2GB card pre-installed, and whilst no pricing has been announced it is expected to retail for about $100.

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Windows 8 Setup Will Be Easier And Tailored For Online Delivery, Says Microsoft

In the past installing versions of Microsoft Windows on to a computer system has never been an enjoyable experience. Now in Windows 8, Microsoft is hoping to improve the setup process to provide a much more streamlined experience, tailored for online delivery and only requiring around eleven clicks to complete.

Microsoft is hoping to provide a much faster installation process with their new Windows 8 operating system. Which will be easy enough for even the less tech savvy users to be able to install it from either a disk, USB key or even via the web.



Christa St. Pierre from Microsoft’s Setup and Deployment team explains:

“Customers who choose to install Windows from an online source will have a greatly improved experience over what we’ve delivered in the past, with smaller and faster downloads, as well as increased resiliency and control.”

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CyanogenMod 9 Ice Cream Sandwich Headed To Galaxy Tab 10.1

The CyanogenMod team recently confirmed they are working on CyanongenMod 9, which is based on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, and is expected to launch some time around January of next year.

CyanogenMod 9 will support a wide range of smartphones, and now it would appear that CyanogenMod 9 is also headed to tablet devices, as Steve Kondik has confirmed that they are working on a version for the Galaxy Tab 10.1



ICS on the Galaxy Tab 10.1 is pretty great. Coming soon to a CM mirror near you

There are no details on when it will be released, as soon as we get some more information we will let you guys know.

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HTC HD2 Gets Android 4.0 ICS Port (Video)

We have already seen Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich running on a couple of different devices, which include the Asus Transformer, and the latest device to get a port of ICS is a smartphone, the HTC HD2, which is probably the first non Android device to get an Android 4.0 port.

The video below shows Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich in action on the HTC HD2, and the ROM was created using the ASOP Ice Cream Sandwich code that was released by Google.






You can find out more details about Ice Cream Sandwich for the HTC HD2 over at the XDA Developers.

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YouTube HTML5 Player Almost Ready To Replace Flash Equivalent

Google’s new HTML5 YouTube player has received a number of major updates recently to improve its features and performance, and is now coming on par with YouTube’s Flash based player .

Recent updates to YouTube’s HTML 5 player have added support for closed captioning and annotations, together with native fullscreen support for Firefox users, amongst others.



YouTube has been offering YouTube users the option to use the new HTML5 player for over a year, and allows you to opt for the HTML 5 YouTube player over the older Flash based one.

You can signup to the ongoing trial to use the new HTML5 YouTube player here, if you would prefer. Unfortunately, though when ever any YouTube movie has an advertisement in it YouTUbe will still force you to use its Flash based player for the time being, even if you are a member of the HTML5 trial.

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Galaxy Nexus Owners Reporting Volume Bug (Video)

The Samsung Galaxy Nexus launched here in the UK last week, and a number of owners of the first Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich device are reporting problems with the handset.

The video below shows the reported volume bug in action, and it is reported to happen when the device is connected to a 2G network, and users are also reporting being unable to control the volume using the side buttons.

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