What’s the point of promoting that you’re using a “more open OS” if you’re going to use that same openess to lock it down further? Unlike HTC or Samsung who don’t take extra measures to lock you to their ROM, Motorola is continuing to push their locked bootloader to their new phones, and I believe this will bring serious damge ... Read More »
The print media is slowly dying and their only hope is to move to the digital world, while still maintaining their revenues. To achieve this, they’ve been hoping creating a digital version of their newspapers for tablets will be what will save them. Read More »
Augmented reality hasn’t hit the mainstream yet, and in fact, it has mostly failed to be used much so far, but Route 66 and TomTom may be on to something here with their Route 66 Maps+Navigation app for Android. Read More »
Nvidia promised us the first dual core Tegra 2 last year at CES, and they kept their promise, shipping for the first time in September in a Toshiba smartbook, and later in some noname tablets. Because of this, it mostly went unnoticed, and only now that some big companies like Motorola, Samsung and LG are launching tablets and smartphones with ... Read More »
This year’s MWC shows that HTC is not the innovative company it was last year. From their desire churn out devices faster and to keep them “customized” with their own skin, HTC is not only coming up with designs that look almost identical, but they also come up with tablets that don’t have Honeycomb, and not even a dual-core chip, ... Read More »
Xperia Play will be the first Android phone to have a gamepad underneath, so you can play games the way they are meant to be played. Touchscreen buttons, while acceptable, especially on some types of games, are not exactly ideal when it comes to real gaming. This is why Sony Ericsson is going to offer potential customers what they think ... Read More »
Tomorrow will be a big day – it’s the Mobile World Congress, where many new phones and cool mobile technologies will be announced and demo-ed So, naturally, ahead of MWC we get a leaked photo of the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S2, and also some of the rumored specs for it. Read More »
The CEO of Nokia, as well as other people who are glad that Nokia finally chose to go with a competitive OS and leave Symbian behind, think that WP7 was Nokia’s best choice for survival and growth. I beg to differ. Read More »
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 »
Myriad is an important partner in the Open Handset Alliance, which Google formed to help develop and support the Android platform, and they’ve released a press release today that says they modified the Dalvik virtual machine inside Android, to work on most other mobile operating systems, and they’ve specifically demo’ed it on Meego on an N900 handset. So what does ... Read More »