This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: E3, The Death Of Symbian, And WWDC

gadgets0614It was a big week in gadgets, and thus, a big TC Gadgets podcast it shall be. This week, we discuss developments at E3, including Xbox One and PS4 pricing, the death of Nokia’s Symbian OS, and of course, WWDC.

Will you buy a PS4 or an Xbox One? Does despair fill you from nose to navel when you remember the good old days of Symbian? Is the new iOS 7 design repelling, attractive, or some bizarre combination of the two? John Biggs, Matt Burns, Jordan Crook, Darrell Etherington, and Natasha Lomas touch on all of this and more.


Samsung Flaunts Its Smartphone Lead By Opening An R&D Center On Nokia’s Doorstep

Image (1) samsung_logo_crown-300x268.jpg for post 47500Not content with following Nokia’s past playbook, by saturating the mobile market with countless iterations of its smartphone hardware, pushing a whole Galaxy of gizmos at every price point and form-factor fancy you can think of, Samsung has gone one further. It’s opened an R&D centre in Espoo, Finland, right on Nokia’s doorstep. Literally on Nokia’s doorstep.


Mobile Miscellany: week of June 3rd, 2013

If you didn’t get enough mobile news during the week, not to worry, because we’ve opened the firehose for the truly hardcore. This week brought additional peeks at the purported Nokia EOS cameraphone, leaked screenshots of the BlackBerry OS 10.2 u…


Windows Phone 8 Reportedly Gained A Notification Center Before Losing It Again

wp8-notifications04When I buy gadgets off of eBay, I’m lucky if half of them haven’t previously been gnawef on by dogs. Meanwhile, this redditor who picked up a second-hand Nokia Lumia 920 from the auction sit seems to have gotten much more than he bargained for — he’s been posting screenshots from the device for the better part of a day, and the thing appears to run a previously unreleased build of Windows Phone 8.

The big tip off? Well, there’s a handful of UI changes (including the ability to kill apps from the multitasking screen), to say nothing of a slew of curious pre-installed test apps that seem tailor-made for internal development use. Really though, the most notable addition to the device is a notification center, one of the features that’s missing from current versions of Windows Phone.