40% of blackberry users would switch to a smartphone Last week I talked about how near 30% of current ebook owners would have bought the iPad if it had been available. Well, another study from arstechnica states that %4o of blackberry users will go to a smart phone when their contract is up.. Many of them going to the iphone. Its pretty clear that… 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
Dont like that AR app on your iphone? Then make your own! Augmented reality apps on mobile has been news off and on over the last few months. There are have been a series of cool apps, and I even posted part of an article I write for iphoneLife here. But even with the parade of cool new apps, we have only just touched on the possibilites. … Read More
£25 iPhone? Nope, a SciPhone rebranded, but still… What if you were in a bar, and someone showed you an iPhone and said it was only 25 pounds? AND then the things actually worked?? As well as common IPhone apps? Well, clearly its a rip off copy, but still.. the things was working!! And running Java on top of that? Well according to… Read More
Augmented Reality on your arm! That’s right, carry that 3D animated character around with you! Course, this is not a real tattoo, but instead just good pen work, but really, you do not need much graphic skilz. Although viewing AR through graphic code recognition is still in its infancy, its coming into play fast, and with the new crop of… Read More
Window Mobile 7 will not have Flash.. yet At least, this is coming from the rumor mills. I point to Gizmodo for my source.. But it makes sense to me. Getting flash to work well on your OS is not all that easy, and given how far behind window mobile keeps slipping, I would bet they dropped it (and a few other things)… 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
A new a intuitive Interface from Emblaze. Very Interesting I like this. As soon as I saw the first frame on the video on the new “Else Intuition” interface I understood what this new concept was about and how much sense it makes. If you are using your device with one hand, which happens A LOT, it only makes sense to use the general… 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
Record Video on the Palm Pre! +1 to the hackers It always seem to be the way with smart phones isnt it? Just read in Gizmodo of a hack that will give you 320×480 resolution video at 30fps. Sweeet. And have a look at the video below. Nice. So what does this mean? Well, depending on the GPS abilities of the Pre we could (perhaps)… 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
Palm Pre’s keyboard is too small, now its down to G1 or iPhone(S) I waited till after the weekend to check out the Palm Pre. I was not happy when I saw the first iamges and they had a portrait keyboard instead of a landscape like the G1. Well, I still held out hope. … Hopes were dashed. First the plus sides. The device feels good in my… Read More
Update on Flash coming to the iPhone. Nope, still nothing soon.. But the Pre and Android? Later this year So, we get a story in the Wall Street Journal talking about Flash on mobile devices. Adobe says access to mobile is key! So what is new? Nothing!! Apple and RIM still ‘Do not want!’ and Android, Palm and Nokia ‘Do want!’. I have my HTC from googleIO with Android 1.5. Looking forward to experimenting… Read More
Unboxing the free Andriod Phone at GoogleIO – with images! First off, Ta to Google for the HTC (not G-1) phone and the 30 day phone chip. The chip is 30 days from when you turn it on, so I will stick with the wifi for awhile. I do need to lookup how long this chip is good for. I turned on the phone and… Read More
Strike 1 on the Palm – Community FAIL I cannot believe, given how far we have come in social media and community involvement that Palm fails to recognize the value of a strong ‘PRO PALM’ community. From Scott via slashdot “… The preDevCamp started as a community-driven effort designed to mirror the iPhoneDevCamp based on the new “Pre” product announced by Palm. Unfortunately,… Read More