MobileTopSoft news and reviews tagged with Smartphone

The Nokia Lumia 710 which was announced last month, December 2011, and went on sale in January 2012 for $50 with a two year contract on T-Mobile USA, is now being offered for free on contract via WalMart.

(more…)

Tethering is one of the features every tech-head wants to do with their smartphone, unfortunately, many carriers are against, or requires you to pay a hefty monthly bill, which leads to users rooting their phones or looking to special applications to get the job done. To make things easier, there’s a new application called ClockworkMod Tether, and it promises to do what you want without the need to root your smartphone.

(more…)

A complete redesign of the iPhone is well overdue, so if what BGR is saying is true then I might look to the iPhone 5 as my first ever device running Apple’s much talked about software.

(more…)

There’s anew game for Windows Phone called Kingdom, it is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG)  that we hope is actually fun to play. We can’t say we’ve had any good experiences with MMO’s for mobile devices over the past couple years, so we are not holding our breath until Kingdom is under our thumbs.

(more…)

Microsoft is a happy pumpkin since Windows Phone won the best smartphone OS at the Know Your Mobile 2011 Awards. But something else is happening that is just as awesome; Steven Elop, CEO of Nokia, also won an award, however, many do not believe it is deserving.

(more…)

If you are a huge fan of the Asus Transformer Prime Android tablet, then you would be happy to know that the device is a now a member of the XDA Developers forum with its own space. For those who are lost to everything, the Transformer Prime is the first Android tablet with NVIDIA Tegra 3 Quad Core processor sitting inside, nothing else compares.

(more…)

Returning from the grave is the LG Prada, the line of phones that were once thought to be dead, never to return due to the all mighty iPhone. Well, fret not, for LG and Prada has officially renewed their partnership to manufacture more Prada phones. Sadly enough, we have no idea when we might see the first handset in 2012 or which OS would be the first choice.

(more…)

Ice Cream Sandwich is turning out to be the best version of Android yet, and we are highly excited to get our hands on this bad boy for a test run. There’s another video demo of ICS on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, this time it shows off the face unlock capabilities of the OS; it’s cool, but nothing that would be worth using after the hype has waded.

(more…)

Surprise, surprise, the rumor mill is hot and bothered today with chit chatter about Amazon entering the smartphone field with a Windows Phone device; say what now? This piece of info is difficult to believe, I mean, from what we have seen from Amazon with its upcoming tablet, the company seems to prefer customizing the hell out of an OS instead of releasing something with all the default features.

(more…)

BlackBerry fans, it seems your presious little platform is on the verge of making a comeback that could cause problems for other competing platforms. Leaked today, is the BlackBerry London smartphone; this bad boy is powered by BBX, the same OS that powers RIM’s first tablet that went on to flop. From the looks of the phone, it appears RIM is going for a full on 4.3 inch touch screen, however, we could be wrong about the size.

(more…)