Tag Archives: Android

Oct 05

Latest issue of ‘EW Magazine’ has a smartphone embedded in it

The October 5th edition of Entertainment Weekly displays its Twitter feed live thanks to a working 3G Android phone complete with SIM card. It even has a USB port so you can recharge it. EW is only making about 1000 … Read More

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Sep 07

Where oh where is Windows Phone 8?

Windows Phone 8 may be great, but Microsoft is totally blowing the launch. They can’t afford to. Nokia hasn’t exactly set the market on fire with its Lumia line, which actually isn’t much of an issue since WP8 won’t run … Read More

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Aug 27

On the Apple-Samsung verdict

It’s taken me some time to figure out what I wanted to say about this due to the complexity of both the case and its repercussions. I don’t think I’m ready to predict what’s going to happen in the smartphone … Read More

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Jun 29

Adobe confirms it won’t support Flash on Android 4.1

Lots of folks ridiculed Steve Jobs for his stand on Flash on mobile devices, but eventually even Adobe admitted it wasn’t good enough. Now they’ve gone a step further and announced they won’t support Flash on Android 4.1. On top … Read More

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May 24

The long slow death of BlackBerry

For years, pundits claimed that Apple should license MacOS to third parties. And, for a while at least, they did. But ultimately they realized that it only cannibalized Mac sales and halted the program. Oddly enough, RIM decided the same … Read More

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Apr 04

Papermill, Instapaper and Android

Ryan Bateman developed a very nice Instapaper client for Android, called Papermill. What he discovered was the big gap between Android users and iPhone users. I think this unhappy end-scenario – of applications that either compromise on quality or have … Read More

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