Facebook Phone’s UberFeed to pull info/feeds from everywhere. Enhanced caller ID, privacy mode in the works too
So, the Facebook Phone we told you about few weeks ago, is finally coming on Thursday. One of the key features for this handset will be an active Home/Lock screen that will display Facebook feed. There’s a talk about dedicated camera app to replace default Android one, and improved FB messenger. But getting a news [...]
With Google Glass Sergey Brin Betrays Us All
A buff Sergey Brin strode onto the TED stage. He branded smartphones “emasculating.” “Is this the future of connection, just people walking around hunched up, looking down, rubbing a featureless piece of glass?” “Is this the way you’re meant to interact with other people? It’s kind of emasculating. Is this what you’re meant to do [...]
HTC Should Abandon Android And Embrace Firefox OS
Once mighty, the smartphone wars have badly weakened HTC, which continues to stumble, delaying product launches and issuing profit warnings. I do not expect the HTC One to mark any appreciable change in HTC’s fortunes. I propose a radical solution: embrace Firefox OS. As we have documented since last year, Samsung so utterly dominates Android [...]
Samsung is working on its own iWatch. Here are some smart watch designs they explored over the last decade
Well, it didn’t take long. Only 5 weeks since the first rumors about Apple’s smart wearable iWatch device appeared, we now learn that Samsung is busy developing its own smart watch, too. As Samsung Mobile’s executive vice president told Bloomberg: “We’ve been preparing the watch product for so long. We are working very hard to [...]
The One Thing iOS Got Right, Android Does Decently, and BlackBerry 10 Got VERY Wrong!
Before I even begin, I will just say that in case you didn’t know, this is an opinion piece, my opinion. The topic of this post is up for debate and I am going to be explaining my take, but it is by no means written in stone. A smartphone is a super personal device [...]
As Galaxy S4 launch approaches, has Samsung surpassed Apple where it matters most — Marketing Hype?
The real smartphone wars are nothing more than a battle between Samsung and Apple. No one else is even close. Blackberry and Windows Phone barely rise to the level of also-ran. Operating systems such as Tizen, Jolla, Aliyun, Firefox Mobile et al appear to be nothing more than tools for hobbyists. Across nearly every single [...]
iPads are not computers, Google does not do hardware, Facebook Phone and other predictions
EXCLUSIVE! Called it! First! We analysts love to point out what we got right. Rarely do we admit when we are wrong. If you look back over the past eighteen months, however, you will note that those of us who engage in mobile industry speculation are wrong nearly as often as we are right. Consider [...]
First Impression of the BlackBerry Z10 from an iPhone 5 User and Note 2 Lover
Ok, that title was a bit awkward but just to clarify, I use the iPhone 5 as my daily smartphone but only out of lack of a better option. The Note 2 was that better option but unfortunately, as I’ve mentioned, it was stolen. So I am still on the lookout for a phone I [...]
My son switched from iPhone to Android HTC One X. What do I do now?
This is war! Despite everything I taught him, my fifteen-year-old son chose an Android device – the HTC One X – over the iPhone. Despite the fact that I told him the iPhone is the best. No, despite the fact that iPhone is the best. Why would he do that? Teenage rebellion? The other kids [...]
Relax everyone. Samsung is not taking over Android. In fact, its influence is in decline for 9 months now
So, the industry is waking up to Android’s little problem called Samsung. You know, the one we have been talking about here, for months. That with its Android sales growing rapidly each month, Sammy is becoming too powerful in Android ecosystem. Except that its not (becoming too powerful), anymore. In fact, Samsung’s Android market share [...]
Fighting cheap Androids. Seppo Aaltonen, Nokia phone Strategy Lead: ~9 million apps downloaded to S40 each day #MWC13
Nokia mobile phone division was the only part of Nokia that managed to stay more or less sustainably profitable through most of 2011-2012 transition. But without its own set of challenges. For the last 2 years Q1 was particularly difficult quarter for Nokia’s low end handset division. In 2011 Nokia was late to react to [...]
Lumia 520 and 720 gives new (old) confidence to Nokia. Getting their groove back edition #MWC13
In one way, Nokia’s Mobile World Congress announcements were a disappointment. Especially for us, gadget junkies. Where the heck was that 41 megapixel true Pureview Lumia Windows phone – Nokia EOS? Who caries about those low to mid end smartphones, we need something big! On the other hand, looking from the company strategy and execution [...]
5 Features Samsung Has to Introduce in the Galaxy S IV to Wake up the Mobile World
A little background. I like to get to the office in the morning and knock out a blog post as early as possible. Except lately, this has been a lot more difficult than it has been for the past few years. Why? Because from where I am sitting, the tech world in general, and the [...]
The Smartphone Wars on Television. The best smartphone commercials.
Apple sold an astounding 47 million iPhones in Q4 2012. This was only good enough for second place in the “smartphone wars”. Samsung, the clear leader, sold nearly 65 million smartphones. The success of Samsung, which is dominating the Android market, is no doubt partly due to their constant, aggressive marketing. Expect more of this [...]
Enough with the App Obsession. Here are the Only 10 Apps You Need on iOS, Android, Windows Phone, and BlackBerry 10!
Am I really the only one that finds it completely ridiculous when people don’t buy a phone because it only has 70,000 or 150,000 apps? I can’t possibly be. If I hear one more person say that Windows Phone has no apps or BlackBerry 10 can’t succeed because it is “missing” 700,000 apps that iOS [...]
Top 10 things I hate about iPhone
Confession: I do not hate iPhone. I may love it, in fact. iPhone is my primary personal computing and communications device. I use it everywhere, all the time, and for an increasing – seemingly limitless – number of functions, tasks, activities, chores and stolen moments of leisure. But, I made a promise. In the interest [...]
A thousand HTC engineers write an angry letter to Peter Chou. 60% R&D slash secret is out, staff gets restless
About a year ago, just as HTC troubles were getting into a full swing, I noticed a very strange blip in one of their quarterly reports. Somehow, between Q3 and Q4 2011, HTC managed to slash their R&D costs by 60% (?!). Without announcing the massive layoffs. Given that most of the expenses in R&D [...]
Five of the best Twitter Apps for Android
Remember the days when there was no decent Twitter app for Android users? Remember how Tweetbot on iOS was leaps and bounds above any app available on Google Play? Well, I would not go as far as to say that there is any Android app that is quite as awesome as Tweetbot on iOS, but [...]
Top 10 things I hate about Android
I admire Apple, and love their story. They are a wildly successful, highly innovative company, founded by one of America’s great visionaries, Steve Jobs. Apple’s story encompasses birth to boom to near-death to re-birth to conquering the world. Yet their best days lie ahead. I believe that mobile computing is the central computing paradigm for [...]
Forget Everything you Know about RIM, BlackBerry 10 will be Different. Here’s Why!
I know, I know, I said that about Windows Phone too and Microsoft has yet to prove itself as far as the market is concerned. True, but at the risk of portraying myself as the guy who always roots for the underdog, I still believe both Windows Phone 8 and BlackBerry 10 have a good [...]
