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Motorola Droid lacks multitouch – Is Google afraid of a lawsuit from Apple?
The upcoming Motorola Droid is the latest darling of the tech blogosphere, and there’s no denying that its specs, and in particular its gorgeous 3.7-inch screen, are objectively impressive. But lost in the mix of all Droid discussions is the fact that the Droid isn’t multi-touch enabled and doesn’t offer users the ability to pinch […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs return to Apple, and how Apple can survive against a swarm of Android devices
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
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Jean-Louis Gassee has an interesting piece up analyzing the current battle for smartphone supremacy. Gassee, in case you’re unfamiliar, Gasse was a former Apple executive who occupied a number of high profile positions within the company during the 80’s. Before he was ousted by the Apple board in 1990, he was in charge of Apple’s […]
Continue reading...TechCrunch pits the iPhone vs. the Motorola Droid
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Check out Greg Kumparak’s full review over here. If you’re pressed for time and need to get your trick-or-treat on, here are his final thoughts. What do I think of the Droid? It is incredible. It is, hands down, the nicest Android handset on the market. A very significant chunk of this is not so […]
Continue reading...Google announces free turn-by-turn app for Android, will the iPhone be next?
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
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Google announced today that it plans to bring turn by turn directions via Google Maps to devices running Android 2.0, and it will include features such as voice recognition, live traffic data, satellite view, and search capabilities via names of business and landmarks, address’s be damned. You can check out a video preview of the […]
Continue reading...Apple fanboy spoofs Verizon’s anti-iPhone commercial [Video]
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Round 1: About a week ago, Verizon launched a commercial pointing out all the features that the iPhone doesn’t have but that the upcoming Motorola Droid will have, such as a 5 megapixel camera and “widgets”, whatever that means. And adding insult to injury, if you want to call it that, Verizon laced their commercial […]
Continue reading...Symbian executive disses Android, implies that Google is evil [Video]
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
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Symbian executive Lee Williams recently gave a candid interview where he tears Android and Google to shreds. Take a look below. Regardless of whether or not you agree with him, it’s nice to see someone shoot from the hip and not worry about being politically correct. Basically, Williams has a problem with Google touting the […]
Continue reading...Windows Mobile on the decline as top cellphone makers shift to Android
Monday, October 26, 2009
Android didn’t really come out of nowhere, but with all the recent buzz and press releases that seem to center on Google’s mobile OS it sure feels like it. And one company that is certainly feeling the heat is Microsoft, whose Windows Mobile platform continues to decline in the face of mounting competition from the […]
Continue reading...Rumor: Google to release self-branded smartphone
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
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Scott Moritz of The Street isn’t generally the most trustworthy source on the web, but in the interest of discussion and rumor mongering, we’ll pass along some info Moritz relayed about a supposed upcoming Google branded phone. In what is likely to be seen as disruptive to the wireless status quo, Google is working with […]
Continue reading...Early Motorola Droid hands-on impresses
Monday, October 19, 2009
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The ninja like folks over at the Boy Genius Report have gotten their hands on the Motorola Droid – you know, the phone that does what the iPhone iDoesn’t – and their initial impressions are overwhelmingly positive. The screen is reportedly huge and awesome, and more importantly, the device is a screamer, sporting a TI […]
Continue reading...Verizon takes on the iPhone in new commercial, and fails
Monday, October 19, 2009
About two weeks ago, Verizon launched a commercial which took a not so subtle jab at AT&T by misappropriating Apple’s famous iPhone tagline, “There’s an app for that”, and replacing it with “There’s a map for that”. Now, Verizon is back for more and this time it has the upcoming, and Android powered, Motorola Droid […]
Continue reading...iPhone market share continues to accelerate at an impressive rate in the US and worldwide
Monday, October 12, 2009
A recent report from Canalys indicates that iPhone marketshare in both in the US and abroad continues to accelerate at an impressive rate. Canalys’ data found that Apple’s share of the US smartphone market in Q2 2009 came in at 23%, up from 7% during the same period a year-ago and representing an astounding 365% increase year […]
Continue reading...Report: BlackBerry’s App World is the most expensive app store
Monday, October 12, 2009
In a recent report encapsulating data from September, app store analytics company Distimo found that BlackBerry’s App World holds the distinction of being the most expensive mobile app store. The report found that the average price for an app on BlackBerry’s App World is more than three times higher than apps found on Apple’s iTunes […]
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Tuesday, November 3, 2009
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