At&t reception in SF is better, but not good enough, and no Verizon iPhone? Over the last 2 weeks I have noticed that my iphone was working slightly better in my office here SOMA in San Francisco, the home of cell phone purgatory. But not good enough. And of course, I still get dropped calls in Oakland and in Palo Alto. So now what? Well, I already decided that… Read More
Playing with the Android tablet Alpha Actually, I’m not even sure I should call it an Alpha. The folks at Adobe basically hacked together this device to run android so that they can show Air displaying a magazine. Now.. WHY would someone take a CLEARLY hacked device to a show? Perhaps because they are so pissed at Apple they were willing… Read More
Andriod market share is up, Apple is flat, the rest? #Fail So let me count how many people are surprised by this… Show of hands?? Hmmm just you in the back? Work for Microsoft? Yea, ok figured. Just a quick look around San Francisco and you can see the number of Android phones are starting to make enough of an impression that they are starting to… Read More
How to get or fix 3G on the Nexus One I still do not have the Nexus One, and still trying to get my hands on Google’s phone, although I ‘could’ just go out and buy the bloody thing, but where is the sport in that? Plus, I’m not looking for a replacement phone… yet. So again, anyone have a Nexus I can borrow or… Read More
Top 10 Android Apps Ok, you know the drill. The top ten (10) android apps. Not everyone will think these are the best or greatest Android application, but hey, have to start somewhere. If you have an issue, with my list, let me know. It normally takes a bit of time and revision before the list settles in. Starting… Read More
The Camangi Android Slate (Tablet) hits the scene This is not a full review of the Camangi since I do not have it in my hands, but this is a perfect example, of the slew of Android Slates that I expect to see coming out this year. This slate is listed at $400 bucks, and based on the specs, its basically a big… Read More
Apples iSlate and the Googles Gslate appear. #slatewar The great (slate) Tablet war moves to the next stage as expected. The first player on the scene the JooJoo, which used to be known as the CrunchPad, was the first to enter the battleground. I expect to see it again this coming week at the #CES show in Las Vegas, but already they are… Read More
First impressions of Google’s Nexus One phone. Second hand at least No, I did not get to play with the Nexus One; and if anyone can help me out with that, I would appreciate that. 🙂 But anyway, a mate of mine has mucked with it and here is what I’ve heard.. (and I will update as I learn more) {update – Rumor control Got this… Read More
Top 10 Augmented Reality apps for mobile; iphone, Android, etc.. I’ve been working on an article for iphoneLife on and off about the best Augmented Reality application for the iphone. I have also been checking out Android AR apps as well. And so far, there are very few good apps out there that do anything more then provide 3D search of sorts. But, some apps… Read More
Further thoughts on the Great Net Tablet War between Apple, Google, and MS Its kind of an misnomer to call these new devices Tablets, but too late for that. So I will refer to them as NetTablets indicating that these devices are not the Tablet PC’s we know of now, but instead very thin Network Slates that are designed to perform most of their tasks in the cloud. … Read More
Layar 3.0 is out, more Augmented for your Reality. Awhile back I wrote a piece on Augmented Reality and hypothesized on various application I could see coming the in the future. One of those application was being able to see new building design at the actual construction site. Well, Layer has released 3.0 and what do they have as the first bit of eye… Read More
Another bicycle computer / gps system comes online. SportyPal I have not tried sportyPal just yet (its not out for the iphone), but I will this week on my Android and update this post if anything surprises me. {UPDATE} The iphone version is out. Try it here. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sportypal/id319351322?mt=8 Basically, it seem to be like most of the other bicycle computers for mobile phones (devices)… Read More
Exchange contact between iPhone and Android with Bump I was not a big fan of Bump because I do not like the way I have keep track of who I contacted and the I could only connect with other iPhone users. Well that’s over. I just read this on TC,in addition to some cool new features like better Facebook integration and something called… Read More
Turn by Turn Nav on your Mobile via Google. GPS device stocks plunge Now unless you have been living under a rock, or you are a rock, in which you are fully excuse from knowing about this game changer. Google is now providing turn by turn navigation on enabled mobile devices for free. That means any smart phone that has GPS and Interwebs connection will most likely be… Read More
What is Augmented Reality on mobile devices? I wrote this as a companion piece for an article that may show up in the next issue of iphoneLife, but I thought I would include it here and now since AR is getting more relevant. Also, one of the things I said NEEDS to part of the AR toolkit for iphone (mobile) got a… Read More
Realtime collaboration on the iphone? Enter Adobe Connect mobile. This is great news, and WAY faster then I expected it. Right now, there is not a solution for real time collaboration for mobile devices, and given limitations of screen real estate , memory and CPU power, its not surprising. The great part about flash, is how easy it is to build modules and swap… Read More
Flash on the iphone! Its finally here!! Mostly Straight from the web site! I will update as I learn more. * I just tried one of the apps, and it works great. And that is not surprising because is coco, but still, anytime you go from one language to another there are risks. But so far, so good. 3 of the demo apps… Read More
iPhone vs Android web browsing. Hint, its all about the cache I have not hidden the fact I have complaints with the iphone and AT&T, but all in all, I still regard the iPhone as the best smart phone out there. Till just recently.. I have the Android HTC from the Google show, but I have only played with it off and on. Lately, AT&T service… Read More
Android comes back with another cool traffic AR app I just wrote about the first iphone AR app to show up, and now here is ANOTHER Android AR app. This gives you traffic cams for Toronto. Not sure if there is one for San Francisco, but I’ll look into it. Im not sure how useful this app is, but its clear we are about… Read More
First shot in the tablet war! Archos announces Android Tablet Check it here. Oh its on! Check this post from TC.. “The tablet will rock a 5-inch 800×480 screen that plays back 720p content natively. And lest we forget, the Archos 5 Internet Tablet (that’s what they’re calling it on the AppsLib site) will have an HDMI out and comes with natively embedded OpenGL libraries.”… Read More