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
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
The coming tablet war: Apple vs. Android; the first skirmish The war has not started yet, but the armies are gathering their forces. Apple is building a tablet based off the iphone OS and the rest of the world will be using Android. So how what will the first skirmish look like? Based on the last known rumors, we have a coming Apple tablet that… Read More
iPhone dropped calls and poor reception did not improve with 3.0.1 As I reported a few months back, I noticed an uptick on dropped calls and overall poorer performance when I upgraded from 2.x to 3.0. Basically it felt like the phone reverted to the same performance levels before the 2.1 upgrade. So I hoped it was a simple visioning error and the 3.0.1 would take… Read More
Rumor: there will NOT be an 8G iphone 3gs anytime soon. Sigh.. I made up my mind that I would get the new iphone 3gs despite the REALLY bad service I’m currently getting from AT&T. How I made my decision will be another post, but I’m going to take a leap of faith that if AT&T can fix the poor cell service issue once, they can do… Read More
Apples New $600 Tablet is more iPhone then netbook; that is why it will fail I have been a tablet (convertible) user for a long time. Recently; I bought an older TC1100 with a SSD instead of a hard drive and installed Windows 7 on it. Amazing! But that is for another post. I originally wanted an Apple tablet… but that’s not going to happen, and here is why. The… Read More
Soft Porn is ok with the Apple store as long as its not from the interwebs “..Wobble iBoobs is not rated, and the classic first person shooter, Doom, is rated 12+. However, e-book reader Eucalyptus is rated 17+ because you can search the Internet and access the Kama Sutra.” Really? And now an app called ‘Cannabis’ (which helps you find legal pot stores) gets through. Now I’m fine with this app,… Read More
I want an iphone keyboard! N97 reviews are depressing Warning, this is more of a rant then anything.. I want a bloody keyboard for my smart phone. There are many thing about the iphone that really pisses me off, but so far, only android comes close to the experience. I was excited about the palm pre till I tried the keyboard.. too small. The… Read More
Iphone increased dropped calls after 3.0 upgrade I really do not understand this. But for some reason, I’ve been dropping more calls, and the quality of my calls seems to have degraded. I when I first upgraded, I tried to make a call and it sounded noisy like I had an analog connection. At first I thought perhaps since the baseband was… Read More
Zannel creates a #iranelection channel Today Zannel released a modification to its service to follow hashtags from twitter to support people posting media regarding the #iranElection hashtag. This would have been really useful 24 hours ago, but still, a great potential resource. Since this was just live today, there has not been a lot of action on the site, but… 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
Notes from WWDC2009.. HTML5 and Video I’m not going to go over everything, you can find that anywhere.. I’m instead going to look at a few things that I think are really interesting… HTML5 support! Why is this so important? HTML5 is like having flash lite without the plug-in! (I still wish I had flash though). But take a look at… 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
The Palm Pre pricing is out. A bit cheaper then the iphone.. Cheap enough? Maybe. Its $199 if you take on a 2 year plan and send in a $100 rebate. I HATE rebates. Enough that it could turn me off from thinking about the Palm Pre, but we’ll see what the user experience is like for sending them in and getting the money back. Its like giving Palm… Read More
Great use of multiple frames in NYTimes by Apple I’m not an Apple fanboy as anyone who has read this blog long enough will know. However, I have also admitted that when it comes to adverts, Apple is the best. Well, they did it again. Look at this.. In this advert, you can see the 3 people talking with each other, two guys on… Read More
control a model helcopter with an iphone? Hecka yea! What more can I say?? This is uber-geek cool. Just watch the video. Course, nothing was said as to how many choppers were hurt in the creation of this film. 🙂 here is the link.. http://aleptu.com/controlling-a-radio-control-helicopter-with-an-iphone-0419920.html… Read More
Control your presentations from the new apple earphones? Well, according to macosxhints. They have not tried it, nor have I, but it seems like it could work. Since the new MacBooks now receive input from the iPhone’s headphones, you can use those headphones as a remote for running a presentation in Keynote ’09: One click starts the presentation. Two clicks moves to the… Read More
iphone 3.0 to give us remote controllers? Yea.. or at least, it better At GDC yesterday, I walked past a display showing the ‘Zeemote’. They had it working with a verity of phones (from the site: major manufacturers like Nokia, Sony Ericsson, LG, Motorola, and, Samsung). Missing of course? The iPhone! Why? Because it uses Bluetooth which the iPhone VERY poorly supports. However, times.. they are a chang’in..… Read More
Friendfilter: replace your twitter email with a scored new follower email Friendfilter, a service of Twittfilter.com has gone Beta! Currently, when you get a new follower, twitter sends you a generic email saying.. you got a new follower.. Well, great, but that does not tell me anything. Friendfilter is a service that will check for new followers and score them relative to you. A scorecard is… Read More
iphone 4G, Really? We are still in rumor control.. but… {update} Well, seems like we WILL get a flash! Wow. 🙂 Updated post on the iPhone4 here… Lots of chat about the 4G, each place I’ve checked out for info seems to read like rumor. Lots of images out there too. Here is one that was emailed to me.. Its pretty certain Verizon will be… Read More