Android ICS and Galaxy Nexus revealed; Is Microsoft flailing with Windows 8?; Siri replacements for Android and older iPhone; The throwable panoramic camera ball, and more.
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IN THIS ISSUE:
* Google unveils Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and Samsung Galaxy Nexus
* Not got an iPhone 4S, but still want to use Siri?
* Windows 8: Is Microsoft flailing?
* Throwable 36-camera ball takes perfect panorama photos
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Google unveils Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and Samsung
Galaxy Nexus
In a joint event with Samsung, Google
announced the imminent release of (http://www.extremetech.com/computing/100601-android-4-0-ice-cream-sandwich-demystified)
Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich. At the same event, we
also got our first glimpse at Google's next landmark
phone, the (http://www.extremetech.com/computing/100457-samsung-galaxy-nexus-prime-revealed-slower-than-the-iphone-4s-galaxy-s-ii)
Samsung Galaxy Nexus -- but alas, it uses the (http://www.extremetech.com/computing/100553-why-the-galaxy-nexus-uses-omap-instead-of-exynos)
OMAP4660 instead of the latest Exynos SoC</a>.
http://enews.extremetech.com/u.d?0YGjgGQMh4yrT78KG3Q5=130
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Not got an iPhone 4S, but still want to use Siri?
If you're the lucky owner of a new iPhone 4S, you can
skip this section. Otherwise, if you have an Android
phone, (http://www.extremetech.com/computing/99685-5-siri-for-android-alternatives)
check out our list of Siri alternatives -- and likewise,
if you have an older iPhone, iPod, or iPad touch, (http://www.extremetech.com/computing/99899-siri-for-iphone-4-3gs-ipod-and-ipad)
we got you covered as well. This week we also looked
at (http://www.extremetech.com/computing/99977-can-google-siriously-compete-with-apple)
how powerful Siri would be if it was powered by Google's
web services, too.
http://enews.extremetech.com/u.d?l4GjgGQMh4yrT78KG3Qt=170
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Windows 8: Is Microsoft flailing?
After over a decade of trying to stretch the Windows
user interface to include mobile devices, Windows 8
promises to go the other way -- taking the Windows
Phone interface and grafting it onto Windows 7. Are
they just flailing?
http://enews.extremetech.com/u.d?5YGjgGQMh4yrT78KG3Qi=180
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Throwable 36-camera ball takes perfect panorama photos
Jonas Pfeil, a student from the Technical University of
Berlin has created a rugged, grapefruit-sized ball that
has 36 fixed-focus, 2-megapixel digital camera sensors
built in that takes perfect panoramas.
http://enews.extremetech.com/u.d?uYGjgGQMh4yrT78KG3Qn=190
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