About a year ago, Skype made an incredibly ridiculous deal with Verizon, which meant they had to provide their Android app only to Verizon’s Android phones and to no one else. So Skype accepted that in the middle of VOIP applications and videochat explosion, to limit itself to only one carrier. What’s worse is that Skype is a global company, and ... Read More »
The rumored Google Music cloud service and the promised web based Android Market will be announced tomorrow at the Honeycomb event, according to yet another rumor. It’s been almost a year since the web based Market was promised at Google I/O last year, but at least it’s finally coming, and from what I’ve heard about the Google Music service, it ... Read More »
Rovio, the company behind Angry Birds has said that it plans to turn Angry Birds into a whole franchise, one as big as Super Mario. They have over 75 million downloads of Angry Birds to date, and they’ve already expanded in the physical world with toys and such. Their next big move is a to launch a movie, and this ... Read More »
With this latest move, Sony seems to be back in the game. They’re going to launch the Playstation Suite store by the end of the year, which will work on all Android 2.3+ phones and also on their upcoming PSP2 phone. This looks like a great move for Sony, but it also gives Android a huge advantage over the other ... Read More »
Quadrant has been the most popular benchmark tool for quite a while now, even though it’s been obvious for a while that it’s a flawed benchmark tool that tended to give higher score to Snapdragon chips, and lower to others. I think this has been very detrimental to many people who believed, for example, that the Adreno 205 GPU in ... Read More »