November 8, 2009
I was researching some of the available and planned Android-based tablets for my start-up and a few other mobile projects and came across Motorola’s Android Media Platform initiative. In a nutshell, it appears to be a partnership between Google, Motorola and Texas Instruments to produce an Android++ platform for media tablets ranging from 3.5inches to [...]
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January 23, 2009
Google’s Android OS continues to make great strides in development and their latest development branch code-named ‘Cupcake’ is showing fantastic promise. A task manager, world time, improved animations and critically, a virtual keyboard so that the user doesn’t have to slide out the G1 everytime to type.
You can’t help but wonder if Marissa Mayer, Google’s [...]
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January 9, 2009
So, as most of the mobile-savvy world now knows, Palm introduced their submission for uber-smartphone at CES 2009 today. This is clearly a last gasp effort from a company that popularized the PDA genre, but lost the plot in the last few years. It’s always interesting how a capable company, knowing that it is on [...]
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August 29, 2008
Well after much deliberation my hand was forced after my interim motorola decided to not start anymore.
It’s never fun being gadget-less, so off I went to the at&t store and got me a 16gb black iPhone.
It’s been a very refreshing experience coming from the symbian world and so far the only annoyance has [...]
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August 21, 2008
So, about 4 weeks back I wrote a post on deciding between the Nokia E71 and the iPhone 3G.
Well, the news is that I haven’t decided yet. And it’s not by choice. Sorry to be a party pooper, but it appears that every. smartphone. of. relevance. to. me. has. a. sub-standard. 3G. Radio.
It’s incredible, I [...]
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July 25, 2008
Trying to figure out what my next mobile device needs to be. A little history I guess gives some perspective:
I have gone through phones like the Siemens SL55, a Treo 600 & more recently the Nokia E61…
So it’s been Symbian, Palm, Symbian when it comes to the OS… and I have to say that the [...]
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