Samsung to open source Bada next year. Will they use Meego to do it?
According to Wall Street Journal, Samsung is planning to open source their Bada smartphone platform next year. Companies that do have their own successful proprietary platforms are no it usually too eager to start giving them away in hopes that outside developers will make it better in exchange. Companies who’s platforms do fail to take [...]
Android 4 Ice Cream Sandwich launch musings. Samsung Verizon Droid Prime, Google Nexus, tablets and timing
It happens every year, like a clockwork. By the end of summer/early fall, rumors about the new version of Android become so widespread, that there is no doubt in anyone’s mind the next Google mobile OS release is coming very soon. The only difference this year – is that we are talking about only one [...]
Kindle Tablet is great news for Amazon. But Android now is truly forked
Finally we got a real confirmation that Amazon tablet is coming soon. And it brings to the market the first mainstream Android fork. Some people are disappointed that Amazon tablet is just a souped-up Kindle, instead of some sort of iPad killer. But that’s Ok. A souped-up, smarter Kindle is exactly what Amazon wants and [...]
Samsung Galaxy S II now official in US, heading to AT&T(Galaxy S II), T-Mobile, and Sprint(Epic 4G Touch)
The wait in the USA is finally over for the highly anticipated Samsung Galaxy S II. The device that is considered by many as the iPhone 5′s main competition will be heading to three out of the four major US carriers: AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint. According to rumors, Verizon opted out on the Galaxy S [...]
Why Apple doesn’t need a new cheaper iPhone Nano alongside iPhone 5
In about a month from now, Apple should officially announce a new (and probably not that revolutionary) iOS smartphone, possibly called iPhone 5. But will it be just one new iPhone? Rumors about a smaller and cheaper iPhone (iPhone Nano or whatever) have been around ever since the Cupertino company introduced its first smartphone back [...]
Google buys Motorola to get some patents. Samsung, HTC, LG and other Android OEMs rejoice
Wow! That was quick. I told you a couple of weeks ago about the best and easiest solution for all Android patent problems. Google should just buy Motorola. Today Google went and did just that. They bought Motorola Mobility for $12.5B in cash. So now that the deal is done, what does it mean to [...]
Quick and easy fix for all Android patent problems. Google should buy Motorola
You may not know it from the meteorically rising device sales, but right now Google’s Android is in deep trouble. It is being besieged by various patent holders, demanding licensing fees or an outright stop of Android device sales. Furthermore, those suing Google right now are no ordinary patent trolls. The biggest challenges come from [...]
The Future is Now! Facial Detection in iOS5 and its Potential for New Apps
Looks like the tech press has turned into a group of detectives in the past couple of weeks. There was the famous hidden iPad Facebook app that MG Siegler of TechCrunch discovered, and now 9to5mac has found some hidden code in iOS5. This code seems to imply that Apple will be integrating some facial detection [...]
Nobody cares about Honeycomb tablets, not even Google. It’s all about Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich
It’s been what, almost 6 months since Motorola Xoom – the first Android Honeycomb tablet- shipped? We now have Honeycomb tablets from Acer, Asus, LG and Samsung. None of them could make even a dent in iPad’s dominance. And Honeycomb tablets won’t make a dent. Ever. Because Google itself does not really care about whether [...]
Windows Phone and the Necessary Steps to Success
You know what one of the problems is with the tech press? Everything is black and white. In fact, this characteristic is not exclusive to tech publications; it is pretty much true for the Web as a whole. Generally speaking, a product is either great or terrible. A perfect example is the mobile industry. Every [...]
Why did Nokia Symbian smartphone sales crash this year? Infographic
Nokia reported results for the second quarter of 2011, and they are terrible. As expected. Did you expect anything better? You shouldn’t. It is perfectly clear now that Nokia has been disrupted by Android and iPhone, and there’s not much they can do this year to make things any better. Competition knows about weakness in [...]
Why Millions of People are Hating the Google+ iPhone App Right Now
It has been over three weeks since Google launched their first ever successful social network. How do I know it is a success? Because for starters, everyone is raving about it. Sure, there are some kinks that need working out such as random people showing up in my stream despite the fact that they are [...]
How Social Media is Evolving Before our Eyes Thanks to Mobile Technology
If there is one phrase that is ridiculously overused on the Web, it is the term “Social media”. If you sit down and think about it for a second, “Social Media” is the same as “Web 2.0”, “New Media”, and a whole list of other catch phrases people throw around on the interwebs. Putting aside [...]
The real cost of Android? Potentially $60+ per device in patent fees
For more then a year now, the growth of Google’s Android mobile OS seems unstoppable. It went from from 60K daily activations in February 2010 to 300K in December and 500K now. And it does not show any signs of slowing down. According to Andy Rubin, even from this huge 500K a day base, Android [...]
iPhone 5: What I Want and What I’ll Probably Get
It is that time of year again, the time that Apple rumors are heating up and the latest rumors imply that we will be seeing an iPhone 5 released sometime in the coming months, probably September. Of course with iOS 5 out there for developers, we already know that some of the major software features [...]
6 iOS Twitter Apps That Truly Stand out from the Crowd
If there is one category that is oversaturated in the App Store, it is Twitter apps. There are hundreds of apps out there that allow you to send tweets of 140 characters, reply to your followers, search keywords in real time, and share media with your Twitter network. Of course, the most popular iOS Twitter [...]
8 iPhone Apps You’ve Never Heard of and Are Sure to Enhance your Day to Day Life
As we already discussed, there is an entire industry dedicated to helping you and me discover new and exciting apps. Having said that, nothing replaces old-fashioned word of mouth. Meeting a friend who recommends you download an app will always be more effective than seeing that app recommended by another app or a service. The [...]
The Best Tools to Help you Discover New Mobile Apps
The app landscape is getting out of control. 500,000 approved iOS apps, 250,000 Android apps, then add BlackBerry, Nokia, Windows Phone 7, WebOS, and other platforms to the mix, and what you have is a full fledged flood of mobile applications. Of course, this is great news for consumers who have a tremendous variety of [...]
Google activates 500,000 Androids per day now, on the way to 200+ million this year
Andy Rubin is Google’s ‘chief Android guy’. He has a Twitter account which he seems to only use from time to time to let people know of some major new milestone regarding Android sales. Bragging, basically. That’s just fine with us, and today he’s done it again. Google may have activated 100 million Android-powered devices [...]
Apple ditches Samsung, moves A6 processor production to TSMC for iOS 6 devices?
Here’s another iPhone-related rumor for you, just in case you haven’t had enough speculation and fabrication over the past few weeks. Then again, this is how it always is when we’re approaching the announcement of a new iPhone. And since we’re apparently one or two months away from the new iPhone (or iPhones?), here we [...]