RIM has been #1 in total smartphone subscribers for a long time in USA. Android has grown from a few percentage points to 31% in a little over a year, even surpassing RIM, which dropped about 5% from a year ago, while Apple remained stable at close to 25%. So what does Android taking leadership mean for RIM and Apple? Read More »
Asus made their first Android netbook a couple of years ago, but unfortunately for them, it wasn’t such a big success. By then people expected netbooks to be mini-laptops, which means they wanted nothing else but Windows on them. Plus, back then, Android didn’t even look that good on smartphones, let alone on a laptop. So why is Asus having ... Read More »
Samsung CEO has just admitted that the upcoming Galaxy Tab 10.1 is inadequate compared to iPad 2, and that they will have to adjust the price downwards since they were planning on making the tablet more expensive even than the first Galaxy Tab, which started at $600. Is Samsung starting to get it? Read More »
Many people who follow the tech industry closely know that although still doing very well financially and growingly rapidly (mostly in developing countries), their phones are pretty outdated compared to Android phones and iPhones. Even so, BBM is probably the single most important reason why Blackberries are still being used by many young people. But now, rumors say that BBM ... Read More »
Since iOS was the main mobile platform from the beginning, it still has a lot more games than Android,and part of the reason was that it wasn’t so easy to port iOS games to Android, either because developers would have to convert to Java code, or because the Native Development Kit wasn’t mature enough. Read More »
Since Apple is updating their phones up till 2 generations behind (2 years), this has created high expectations from most smartphone buyers regarding their Android phones. Right now, most manufacturers won’t even give you one level upgrade unless it’s their most popular phone. Read More »
Angry Birds is quickly becoming an iconic game in the mobile world. Rovio has had a smashing success on their hands with Angry Birds and they won’t stop any time soon. But how likable and useful are the actual birds in the game? There are 5 types of birds, but not all of them are as useful or pleasant to ... Read More »
Google has started promoting Google Books on the web version of the Android Market, and it seems like a brilliant move considering that up until now Google Books didn’t look like it’s going to get too much market share for books when their reader (at least on phones) looks like a Kindle clone without too many features or anything to ... Read More »
We’ve talked about before how locking the bootloader is a bad strategy for Motorola because it makes the early adopters and influencers look elsewhere for more open products that they can root and install custom ROM’s on. So now they’ve heard a change of heart, and they’ve decided to offer a way for developer to unlock and lock the bootloader ... Read More »
Flash has been one of the main selling points for Android tablets, including Motorola Xoom, which has this ad promoting browsing Flash based sites, but it looks like Xoom won’t have this functionality at launch. Who’s fault is it? Read More »