Archive for the ‘Smart Phones’ Category
Are Google Apps On iOS A Trojan Horse Or A Concession to Apple’s Dominance?
Grin And Bear It
Aside from Google Maps and Google Now, many users would sooner tap on Gmail, Google Chrome, and Google Drive than the apps Apple would much rather you use, and the result is completely antithetical to Apple’s insistence …
iPhone 5 Versus Galaxy S4 A War Of Less Versus More
Last week, within the span of 24 hours, the two dominant players in the global smartphone wars released…not new smartphones, but new commercials. Both were very well done. They are also very different. Both ads reveal the core differences between …
Android’s Leaky Bucket
John Paczkowski over at AllThingsD covered a report written by Carl Howe, VP of the Yankee Group. Carl makes a bold statement, indicating iPhone ownership in the US will exceed Android US ownership by 2015.
Carl has developed an analogy …
Apple In Perspective
Apple has been taking a real beating on Wall Street and in the press lately. But are we losing our long-term perspective by focusing so intently on quarterly results?
Stock Market
The Stock Market is a predictor of future growth, but it …
Can Carriers Handle a Low-End iPhone?
There is a good discussion happening online at the comment that I want to comment on. Horace Dediu has written several good pieces on the job the iPhone is hired to do. In his latest installment he looks at the …
The Next Evolution In User Interfaces
With the introduction of the iPhone, Apple introduced the touch UI and literally changed the way people interact with their smartphones. When they extended the touch UI to the iPad, it set in motion an industry stampede to create PCs, …
Facebook Home’s Uniquely Flawed Experience Examined
Facebook announced last week their new experience for Android smartphones, called Facebook Home. This is Facebook’s first major attempt to control more of the phone’s experience without actually selling a phone. Facebook Home is pre-installed on the …
Why Google Shouldn’t Be Concerned About Facebook Home
Yesterday, Facebook announced “Home”, a skin that runs on top of Android, pulling consumer’s Facebook experience up to literally the lock–screen of the phone. The demos were fast, fluid, and very different than anything Android has to …
Facebook Home: The Death of Android
As a core operating system, Android is thriving. As a brand–and a user experience–it is dead. Facebook just killed it.
Android’s brand demise has been coming for a long time. Phone makers have been taking advantage of Android’s open architecture to …
Holding Apple to a Higher Standard – Solving Texting While Driving
I love my iPhone. I use it all the time. I take it with me everywhere. Yes, everywhere. I have tried and tested numerous smartphones over the years. I can confidently state that you can do no better than the …
Lytro-Type Cameras for Smartphones Coming Soon?
Lytro fascinated many with the first mass marketed camera that enabled the user to alter the focal point dynamically after the picture was taken. The camera won a lot of awards but also came with some …
Asus FonePad Phone Functionality not as Odd as it Seems
After having spent a few days in Barcelona at this year’s Mobile World Congress, I have had the chance to play around with a few mobile “toys”. A few of these devices caught my eye and the Asus FonePad …
The Nvidia Tegra 4i: A Step Forward in Smartphones
Nvidia today announced the Tegra 4i, a smartpone chip with an integrated LTE modem on the same physical die. This is a follow-on to the Tegra 4 that was announced at this year’s CES 2013. Nvidia is making some very …
BlackBerry Delivers a Product: Now It Has To Sell It
Gartner analyst Michael Gartenberg nicely summed up the first day of the rest of BlackBerry’s life: “Good launch,” he tweeted. “Now it’s all execution.”
After what seemed like an interminable pregnancy, BlackBerry (the new corporate name; Research In Motion …
Leaving the iPhone- How Windows Phone 8 Stacks Up
Approximately six weeks ago, I made the decision to stop using my iPhone 4s and immerse myself in Android, which I did for about a month. I wrote about that here. After Android, I wanted to try out Windows Phone 8 …
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