According to Sina.com. Nokia confirmed that the 808 PureView released last year would be the last phone equipped with Symbian OS in its Q4 financial report. This means that Symbian has been officially declared dead.Nokia said in the report: "In 2012, during the process of transition to Windows Phone, we continue to sell Symbian devices. The Nokia 808 PureView launched in the middle of last year is the last Symbian device."In Q4 2012, sales of Symbian phones were 2.2 million which was equivalent to half of the Lumia Windows Phone handsets. Before the advent of the Apple iPhone and Android, Symb...

It's now very common that you may not get Internet connection in first few days when you move to a new place. And you may have some important things to handle or you may just want to connect to Internet and share with others your new place. If you have a smartphone which has enough mobile data package, then you are on the way to enjoy Internet. Today we will introduce how to create a wireless hotspot on your smartphone with Samsung Galaxy S3 i9300.Step 1Go to Settings -> More Settings -> Tethering and portable hotspot .Here you have three choicesPortable Wi-Fi hotspot : It will create a ...

Apple announces that since it was available in China from last Friday, iPhone 5 has been sold over 2 million units in 3 days.iPhone 5 was available for sale in China starting from 14th Dec, the price is 5288RMB and up, there are two cooperated vendors in China : China Telecom and China Unicom. They start sell iPhone 5 on their own sales channels, moreover Apple starts selling iPhone in their own Apple Store and official website.According to Tim Cook, because of the high demand of Apple products in China, this sale record created a new sales record in Chinese market. And the Chinese market is v...

In Android, we may sometimes need to add ContextMenu to a View, it's not so easy to add ContextMenu to a customized View. Here we explain how to add ContextMenu to a customized View.First, we may need to create View.OnCreateContextMenuListener so that the customized view can register for it.Here is the class definition:public class GraphView extends View {    private View.OnCreateContextMenuListener vC = new View.OnCreateContextMenuListener() {        @Override        public void onCreateContextMenu(ContextMenu menu, Vi...

Last week, Microsoft unveiled Windows Phone 8, in addition to some new features, the biggest difference between WP8 and iOS, Android is that it has a start screen consisting of abundant live tiles. Senior product manager of Microsoft Josh Phillips published an article on Microsoft official blog. He talks about the story behind start screen of Windows Phone 8."How can we make Start even more personal" is the question Phillips and his team is always thinking about. Windows Phone makes the static and useless icons on iOS and Android become live tiles, each tiles connects to some contacts, apps, w...

In Android, we can have drawings on a button, also we can put animated drawings on a button as well. Today we will show how to create an animated refresh button with an animated spinner on it.We need to create an animated drawing first. Here we name it as progress.xml and put it in the res/drawable folder:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><animation-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"    android:id="@+id/spin_refresh" android:oneshot="false">    <item android:drawable="@drawable/ic_action_refresh1" android:duration="4...

Apple unveiled iPad family's new product -- iPad Mini, it means that Apple gets into 7 inch tablet PC market now formally.iPad mini, has a 1024*768 resolution 7.9-inch screen, It has the same resolution as iPad 2. As a low-end product of iPad family, iPad mini still retains the front and rear camera, a dual-core A5 processor, battery life time is 10 hours. Apple said that the iPad mini battery is the thinnest and biggest in iPad family. Previously the media said the smallest storage space of iPad mini will be 8G, but in fact iPad mini has a smallest storage space of 16G and the 16G WiFi versio...

In today's Apple conference, Tim Cook revealed a number Apple achieved two weeks ago, Apple iPad is sold 100 million units in past 2.5 years. Moreover, the iPad brings network traffic of 91% among all network traffic in tablet PC market.In 2.5 years, Apple's iPad series have 3 members: the iPad, iPad 2 and the New iPad. Cook said the iPad's mission is to make things originally complex and confusing simpler so that even the the general children or the elderly can complete. Indeed, the iPad is appearing more and more frequently in study, life and work. According to Cook, iPad has a significant i...