With less than a day to wait for the new Xbox One, Microsoft has announced that its new console will have an official YouTube app, after all. What’s more, you’ll be able to send videos to it from your Android and iOS devices.
Toshiba has this week unveiled its new Excite 7 tablet, which delivers a quad-core processor and a 7-inch display for a very affordable $170. It’s Toshiba’s smallest tablet to date, and its specifications make it an entry-level offering worth looking at this Christmas.
Amazon is so confident that you’ll love its new Kindle Fire HDX tablet as soon as you start using it that it’s giving “VIP customers” 30 days to try the device before they have to hand over any cash. If those customers then decide they don’t want the device, they can simply hand it back.
Last week, T-Mobile U.S. started accepting pre-orders for Google’s latest flagship smartphone, the Nexus 5, on its official website. And now, as expected, the handset is available to purchase from any of the carriers nationwide retail stores. However, the operator failed to mention that the new Nexus 7 would also be obtainable from any of its bricks-and-mortar stores, too.
If there are two main areas where Microsoft massively lags behind both Android and Apple it is market share and app availability.
Well, Microsoft has copped to its role as a “distant third” in the former capacity (Windows Phones represent less than a 5 percent share of the overall market), but is the latter something more immediately addressable?
Yes, according to a tweet posted by Windows Phone VP Joe Belfiore — the man responsible for the design and software product definition of Microsoft’s smartphones — who enthusiastically claims that the end of 2014 is going to mark the end of the “app-gap” between Windows Phones, and those available for Android and iOS platforms.
