Rumor on Windows 8 to be Supported With Windows 8 Store
Rumor had emerged that Windows 8 will be launched at 2012, with the beta version in early 2011. As written on softpedia last week, the successor of Windows 7 indeed had been arranged to appear within three years after. Microsoft stated that they will not repeat the long lag between Windows XP to Windows Vista.
Previously Mary-Jo Foley from Zdnet announced that microsoft has finished designing Milestone 1, a pioneer project to Windows 8. Unfortunately Microsoft it selft has not made any official statement.
FYI, a document on Windows 8 was leaked to public. In one of the document, releaved that Windows 8 will be focused on three kinds of gadgets : laptop, PC ‘all in one’, and slate/tablet. A Windows Store will also be built. This is going to be like Apple’s app store, or Google’s Android Market.
Charm, Android phone in BlackBerry Style
Motorola Android phone is back. This time, the mobile vendor headquartered in Illinois, United States (U.S.)-introduce mobile phones Google Android operating system with a BlackBerry-like form, namely Motorola Charm. For those who saw it in a glance, it might be deceived by appearances. Because this phone design is made similar to the BlackBerry. But after closer inspection, then seen the things that sets it apart from the Research In Motion’s smartphone. One striking difference lies in the hardware design owned Charm.
Quoted from TG Daily, Monday (06/28/2010), Charm is designed in stylish candy-bar with the presence of Qwerty keyboard on the bottom of the screen. This view reminds us of the most popular BlackBerry models. Other Charm excess ie, have the latest version Motoblur. To note, Motoblur is Motorola’s Android special display creations that will change the ‘ordinary’ interface become easier to access social networking and personal communication.
With the latest Motoblur, users can change the size of the home screen widgets. The functionality of Facebook and Twitter widget will be updated, and there will be seven home screen replaceable. Unfortunately, Motorola has not yet announced when the phones that support full Android 1.2 is circulating in the market. Also there’s still NO price tag of Motorola’s upcoming Android phone for this.
Motorola is now has become one mobile phone vendor which strongly supports the presence of Android. It is shown from several series of Android phones. Last week Motorola was launching a new Motorola Android phone, Droid X.
Facebook and Google Maps Two Most Downloaded Apps Over Smartphones
Speaking about smartphone(s), it always reminds us of the apps that support them. As quoted from detikinet last friday, Nielsen announced that started from iPhone to Androids, there are two kinds apps that dominate the smartphones platform. The two apps are Facebook and Google Maps.
The survey - which is named ‘App Playbook’ - was taken from 4.200 American already downloaded the apps for the last 30 (thirty) days. The survey noted that 21% mobiles users in USA use smartphones in the last quarter of 2009, the number is increasing 14% compared to the same period in 2008
Here is the list of Nielsen’s survey result along the non-game apps downloaded the most :
- iPhone : Facebook (58%), iTunes (48%), Google Maps (47%)
- Android : Google Maps (67%), Facebook (50%), Weather Channel (38%)
- Blackberry : Facebook (51%), Google Maps(34%), Weather Channel (28%)
