We are sure this piece of info we stumbled upon would make you go Wow!  The Vibrant successor from the Samsung stables has given us a sneak peek, yet again. From the pictures we are exposed to at the moment, we feel the new Samsung Vibrant 4G looks an amazing piece of a handset. For the purists, the new device could seem to be just a spruced up version of the original Vibrant. However, we are looking forward to a new experience, something much better that the original. The leaked pictures show the Vibrant 4G as a device with a new shade of silver coating in the rear landscape.

Science Fiction fans may have already seen the new Google Doodle that celebrates Jules Verne’s 183rd birthday with a “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea” interactive art work. The new Google logo features portholes of the Nautilus and comes with a joystick that allows you to control what you see. Go up and you’ll see the surface, or drag the stick down, left or right, and you’ll see t he beauty of sea life. Jules Verne was a a French author from Brittany who pioneered the science-fiction genre.  The “Father of Science Fiction” as he’s known, has died in 1905

So, the next version of Android for mobile phones is named “Gingerbread” and numbered 2.3 – but will it be short-lived? The latest rumours on the increasingly sweet-toothed Android mobile operating system is that a 2.4 revision of Gingerbread is expected, retaining the same name as its predecessor but featuring some cross-over from the tablet-only release, Honeycomb. We know this thanks to Viewsonic, the US mobile phone manufacturer who are very happy to announce that they will be the first to feature Android 2.4 on their ViewPad 4 device in April. While previous Android

10 Billion downloads is a lot no matter which ever way you wish to look at it. Even the most cynical Apple observer must look at this stat and agree that for the present moment at least, there is little competition to the Apple App Store from the other mobile platforms. That said, maybe by 2015 Android App Store might be a more serious threat to the monopoly. But for now the success of the iPad and the Verizon iPhone have given Apple a new lease of life. Apple reached the 10 billion downloads mark this Saturday night (22nd January) and of all the millions of apps available it

Despite a recent lull following the initially successful launch of Bing, the search engine wars entered a new chapter today when it emerged that Google had ensnared Microsoft’s Bing team in an elaborate sting operation. While you could barely create a movie about it, the idea is simple. Google added a nonsensical search term to its index and associated it with a particular, randomly chosen website, only to find out that the same search result ended up on Bing a few days later. So – did Bing copy from Google? Has Bing been spidering Google rather than forums, Twitter and

Following our initial look at Google Chrome you should already have had a play around with the browser and found a few useful tools hidden away in the single settings menu – however this is more than likely only the tip of the iceberg. We continue our introduction to Google Chrome with a look at managing the list of Most visited websites found in a new tab, before investigating how the browser provides options for managing and protecting your privacy. Managing Most Visited On a new tab in Google Chrome the websites that you have visited most often will be displayed. Various

Sick of iTunes failing to update your iDevice properly? Unimpressed with the Zune Pass and what it offers? Wishing there was a native, Google-built music sync service that turns your Android into a fully-fledged media player with all of the functionality of an iPhone or Windows Phone 7 device? Touted several months ago, Google Music is being rumoured for a launch shortly, with an official announcement coming as soon as this week at the impending launch of the Android 3.0 Honeycomb mobile/tablet/toaster operating system. At present we’re restricted to rumour, but the there are

If you’re not already using Google Chrome, it can only be because you haven’t heard of it or seen it in action. The new browser from Google is a breath of fresh air in a world of Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, offering a clean-cut, page-first-addins-later approach to web browsing on Windows. More than anything, Google Chrome is reminiscent of Safari, offering little in the way of buttons and lots in the way of page content. Getting anyone to switch browsers is a tricky job, but where Google Chrome succeeds is that it offers the same as Mozilla Firefox did a few

So much has been written about the Motorola Xoom tablet and the latest buzz talks of an imminent release date. If the rumors turn real, the Android 3.0 Honeycomb powered tablet will land on our palms this month itself.  Now that indeed is good news, but then we wish Motorola told us an exact date. Speculations however have started flowing in, with one of them even putting the date at February 17. The 10.1-inch Xoom is ready for roll out, as you all know. The February launch schedule thus makes us feel that Motorola is looking at beating rivals, who have been readying their

The Android platform is probably the most flexible and versatile mobile operating system around, offering an immense selection of apps and games that are largely provided by single developers (or small teams) access to which largely depends on the quality of the app in question. Taking full advantage of peer review, the Android Market can be a tough place for some first-time developers, where some scathing judgments about poor compatibility with an Android 1.5 handset can see the app rated down, never to be seen again. Thanks to this peer review system, the Market is also