According to recent reports on their company website, Apple is looking to hire experts in the telephony department. Rumour has it that Cupertino wants to expand into telephony services. However, it looks unlikely that Apple will enter the carrier industry. So why would Apple start hiring these experts? Analysts speculate the move is to improve collaboration with the major mobile service carriers in the United States.
Each carrier has to sign an expensive contract with Apple in order to be eligible to sell the iPhone. By hiring telephony experts, the Cupertino based company possibly hopes form collaborations more easily with these carriers. Also, Apple could be trying to improve its FaceTime services. There’s a chance that Apple wants FaceTime to rival Skype. Hiring telephony experts will help in this regard, industry insiders say.
In other news, it isn’t enough that rumours keep floating around that the next iPhone or Samsung Galaxy phone will be absolutely brilliant. Now Nokia has joined the fray. According to some engineers from Nokia, the next Nokia Windows 8 phone is going to be “unbelievable”. In an unconfirmed rumour, engineers have said that the first Nokia Apollo device, fancily called the Nokia Prodigy, will be incredible and will overshadow the current Nokia Lumia range. That being said, we’ve heard similar things from CEO Stephen Elop and Niklas Savander. Nokia has apparently been given carte blanche from Microsoft to design the module interfaces for the primary cameras on Windows Phone devices. Nokia is apparently also in charge of the antenna and battery design.
On the other hand, Windows Phone devices do have certain glitches- Gmail doesn’t sync well enough, some of the certificates do not get approved instantly and the bugs in the location tracking systems have not been fixed. The Windows Phone 8107 update sought to rectify these errors. It also fixed the keyboard disappearing glitch. Sadly for AT&T subscribers, the company has just informed Windows Phone users that they will not be pushing the 8107 at all. This has left thousands of dissatisfied users up in arms, especially since most other unlocked devices received the update long ago. It is speculated that AT&T will now instead push the Tango update when it becomes available in a month or so. Until then however, users must remain content with smartphones that do not run up to date software and make typing a pain.
