It must be lonely for window mobile 7 Yes, things are only getting worse for window mobile 7. First they suffer from delay after delay, then win tons of friends in the dev community by saying that basically all window mobile apps will have to be rewritten for winmob7 (and lets bypass the cumbersome process to even set up to write for the… Read More
iphone 4 Antennagate. Everyone gets a free case So there you go. The easy answer which we all know at least a week after this whole thing started to blow up and been put in place. OF course, that is after a good 1/2 hour of explaining ‘its not just us! Its all phones!’ Wrong, your missing the point Steve, Its about the… Read More
Even AppleCare knows the 4.0.1 update will not fix the iphone antenna issue When Apple first announced that they have been using an incorrect algorithm for calculating radio reception (and thus displaying ‘bars’) and that it will be corrected via a software update; many of us thought, ‘how is this going to change anything?’ I wrote a few posts back guessing that perhaps they need some sort of… Read More
MicroSoft Kin is dead to no surprise, not even MS The Kin was DOA for almost everyone who reviewed it. It was basically a low feature, low capability smart phone that was not that smart, nor much of a phone, and yet still had the same cost of a phone. You HAVE to imagine that even the brain dead at MS mobile knew this was… Read More
Will the new iphone4 antenna reduce dropped calls? Not if you hold it wrong The new iphone4 not only does not seem to significantly improve reception, but hold it the wrong way and it make is it worse.… Read More
Samsung Wave given out at the Samsung dev conference Today we got the Samsung wave test unit phone using the bada OS. So far, the phone OS worked pretty well, very responsive touch screen. Now there are more things I still need to check more things out, but not bad, not bad at all. However, the GPS does not work right off. Took a… Read More
4 tips to improve your roomba’s performance I love my little Roomba, and most people you talk to love theirs too. However, as far vacuum cleaners go, they cannot really compete with a standard high power vacuum cleaner. Nor are they supposed to. However, here are 4 tips to get the most of your Roomba. 1. Maximize your battery life: Depending on… Read More
Will the iphone 4 with the new antenna layout reduce dropped calls? As all iphone users have experienced, I get my fair share of dropped calls. Actually, live in the the San Francisco / San Jose Bay area, I get more then my share. I wrote about ways to reduce dropped calls back in 2009 as a response. So when I saw the new antenna layout for… Read More
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
iPad 3G is now available Yesterday was a big day in the Great Tablet War. Both Microsoft’s Courier and HP’s Slate went down in defeat. Google, the only major player left has yet to join the battle. As such, we can call Apple’s iPad as the victor in the first major engagement. And now their forces grow with the iPad3G.… Read More
The HP Slate dies. 2 major players killed in the Tablet War in one day! Wow. Just read in Techcrunch, ( ta for the tip @thekenyeung ) that HP is killing the slate. At least in its current format. There is a possibility it can come back running WebOS. But till we know for sure, its dead. So who is left? Google. I have not heard much on the gSlate,… Read More
Whats new with the iphone 4? BIG clue from a lost phone I’m sure most of you have already heard the news of the lost next gen iphone 4.0. Well Gizmodo got their hands on it, took it apart and have posted up what goodness we can expect from the new iphone There are some things that I had thought back in March (last year) we might… Read More
Why the iPad is like a big iPhone, and why its completely different So the iPad has been out for just over a week now and after using it a few time and talking with and watching how others use it; I’ve observed that although the iPad is just a big iPod touch, its also complete different just because of the screen size. Yes, yes, the CPU is… Read More
HP Slate specs leaked. The Great Tablet War goes to round 2 A challenger appears!! The Great Tablet War continues. Apple was the first major player on the field and completely destroyed all competitors to the point that we cannot even remember their names… But that dominance will only hold for so long. On Engadget (who else) we have a leak of the new HP Slate. And… Read More
Steven Colbert got an iPad and the jokes start flying If you did not watch the Cobert Report last night you missed a pretty good segment with the iPad. Yes he got one. So I decided to grab a few jokes and post them up. However, to really appreciate this bit, you need to watch the video. Video at the bottom of the post.. The… Read More
Want 4G speed iphone or iPad? Now you can use the iphone iPad on Sprint The news has already swept across the interwebs a few days back, but I only just now started looking into it. So sprint has this device that will let you connect your iphone or iPad to the Sprint 4G network without jailbreaking your iphone. Yea, no jailbreak this time. 🙂 So how does it work?… Read More
Time to port your iPhone app to iPad. Doors open on March 27th This just came up in TechCrunch so I’m sure my email will be along soon. Apple is now opening up the door for iPad applications March 27. So.. How many apps will be NEW and and how many will be existing apps just reformatted for the iPad? Hmm… Almost all? Well, at least at first. … Read More
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
Need to replace that battery in your iPad? $100 On the surface, that’s not too bad, but there are a few issues I have with it.. First off, batteries can lose their life span pretty quickly if you are not careful or if you are unlucky and get one that dies a quick death in a few months. Heat, and rapid charging and discharging… Read More