Whilst other countries have adopted the new Blackberry 10 with open arms, the US is not showing the same love. Maybe its due to the lack of heavy marketing or simply now the HTC One is available and soon the S4, people just won’t buy it.
Lets hope sales do pick up but so far the feedback is rather grim.
Tim Waterstones is looking to launch a subscription style service to books.
The project, Read Petite, will specialise in short stories and serialisations, following in the tradition of 19th Century novelists like Dickens, creator of Oliver Twist, and Anthony Trollope, who used to publish their novels chapter by chapter in newspapers and magazines.
Short stories have traditionally been very difficult to sell in paper form, but Mr Waterstone said they would be suited to commuters and other time-pressed bibliophiles.
Read Petite will launch towards the end of the year, and is likely to charge between £5 and £12 a month.
I’m not so sure this will work. But let’s see. What’s your views on this?
The Samsung Galaxy S4 is soon to be released in the UK and globally.
I am hoping to have an S4 around the release day, and so will be posting my initial first impressions on the latest super phone from Samsung.
Yahoo! Mail is now tightly integrated with Dropbox, allowing you to share files straight from your folders online or save attachments to them. The tie-in comes courtesy of Dropbox Chooser, which also means an end to size limits for email attachments. Anything over 25MB is shared through a Dropbox link, rather than directly attached to your message. If you’re a Yahoo! user you should see the new options in your inbox today.
Google is facing enforcement action, possibly fines in six European Union member states after it failed to make changes to its privacy policy following requests by European data protection regulators. The six countries that have today launched data protection investigations into Google’s unified privacy policy are France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and the U.K.
The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office confirmed it has launched an investigation into whether the policy infringes national law:
The ICO has launched an investigation into whether Google’s revised March 2012 privacy policy is compliant with the Data Protection Act. The action follows an initial investigation by the French data protection authority CNIL, on behalf of the Article 29 group of which the ICO is a member. Several data protection authorities across Europe are now considering whether the policy is compliant with their own national legislation. As this is an ongoing investigation it would not be appropriate to comment further.
Tumblr has released its own app update that offers a fancy new user interface. As you can see below, that includes some Path-esque expandable controls for creating various types of posts, as well as new post animations and a general appearance that’s more consistent with Android’s “Holo” theme.
Today I have been streaming a movie to the HTC Media Hub. I was then able to carry on and use the HTC One as normal but in landscape mode.
In fact as I am typing this I have my TV screen displaying the post as well.
I got a clear silicone Belkin case today. It’s ok but doesn’t set my world alight. The One just looks so damn good naked.
I tried connecting a wifi wireless mouse via a USB otg cable but it doesn’t work. Shame.
After many days using the phone I wish it had a quick profile change in the power button and an automated do not disturb option.
Photo of Belkin case below. My main gripe is that it’s not contoured around the phone properly. So I’ve been looking at other options and have a short list of 31 cases.
Yesterday I was lucky enough to win a free film code of HTC on twitter, so I’ve got a film downloaded for today. Actually, I decided to try another 2. I am going to see if it works with the HTC Media Hub as well and let me stream the film on my TV. I believe it should.
The HTC Watch app is a fairly reasonable way to get movies instead of Google Play and if it let you play the movies on a TV screen via the media hub then that is better than Google Play tat doesn’t allow this.
I’ve really settled in to the swing of things with the HTC , just wish a few of my apps got updated for the HTC screen resolution. These are Zite, Nationwide and Need for Speed Most Wanted.
Also of a surprise is the fact that I have over a 100 apps installed, tons of photos, several personal video clips and 3 feature films. And I still have over 13gb free.
Anyway, not much today as I am watching the F1 qualifying on my HTC One via the BBC iPlayer app. It’s so loud with the HTC One speakers. A dream to listen and hear!
The URL is live for twitter’s music service but its celebrity invite only at the moment.
Twitter is only making the app accessible to select “influencers” such as Ryan Seacrest before making it available to the non-famous portion of the public. The music app apparently “suggests artists and tracks to users based on a number of personalized signals, including the Twitter accounts a user follows on the microblogging service” and will let users “listen to clips of music from inside the app, using third-party services like iTunes and SoundCloud.” Less important people will have access to the music app some time next week.
From time to time, app stores get revamped to make them either more user friendly or look more appealing. Sometimes, the refreshes don’t work.
However, judging by the possible redesign of the Google Play store shown below, this light look seems ok. Hopefully you will receive this over the next few weeks.
What your view, or would you prefer it to stay the same ?
