HTC finally rolled out the latest Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean release to the HTC One over the weekend, but it appears the Taiwanese company has also been hard at work on Android 4.3. An HTC One Google Edition with Android 4.3 installed has just passed by the Bluetooth SIG.
A beautiful Note III concept.
According to a South Korean report, industry officials have revealed that the Galaxy Note III will be unveiled at IFA 2013 in Germany and will feature a 5.7-inch display.
The Motorola DROID MAXX made its debut appearance in a leaked press render this weekend. We do not know an awful lot about this device, but we do know that it will be coming to Verizon later this year — presumably in the fall.
Douglas Engelbart died this week. But his most iconic idea lives on.
The venerable computer mouse, originally prototyped as a pine box with three buttons and metal wheels, was dreamed up by Englebart fifty years ago.
The mouse has been upgraded and re-envisioned — for example, they don’t use wheels or even trackballs anymore. Some have scroll wheels on top, or side buttons.
But the basic idea of moving a thing over here (to control a mouse pointer over there) lives on. Entire generations have grown up using this funky contraption.
We now suddenly find ourselves in a world of superior alternatives — multi-touch user interfaces (of which Android is the leading brand), voice control and dictation and others.
Yet habit and inertia keep us using Englebart’s brilliant but now-obsolete invention.
It’s time to bury the mouse.
The slate has never been the best Android tablet in its price range, but now that HP have shaved $30 off the original $170 price tag it may seem somewhat more appealing to customers than before.
