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
Whats new in iPhone 4.0 OS update and whats not There have been plenty of rumors about the iPhone 4.0 release (and hardware not withstanding) I would say it was about 50/50 on accuracy. Course the big question, how long till jailbreak?? 🙂 Too soon people, too soon. Multi-tasking: The one thing everyone was expecting … and we got, (kinda). Of everything announce for iPhone… 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
iPhone as an OS? Maybe, but not widely There is no question that the iPhone has been an amazing success and only its At&T appendage has slowed it down from even further adoption. As great as the hardware is, just as much if not more of the credit has to go to the OS. Even after 2 years the iPhone OS is still… 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
Will Apple drop the price on the IPAD? And by how much? To no big surprise, the IPAD does not seem to be catching fire as apple had hoped and as such, price drop is already being thrown around. One mostly hears dropping the price by $50 to $75. I’m not sure that is going to be enough. In a past post, I said that perhaps $300… Read More
Googles new Tablet is the first counterstrike to Apples opening shot We pick up in the war after the CrunchPad came and went, various ‘tablets’ from other manufactures have taken up position on the field. Apples iPad is the first heavy into battle, and with great surprise, not to much effect. The general reception to the iPad has been even at best. Now comes Googles tablet,… Read More
Whatever the apple tablet iPad or iSlate will be called, iTablet may already be taken I have not had much time for writing and this will be a really quick post, but I fell pretty sure that whatever the Apple slate or iPad will be called, it will not be the iTablet because there is already one. At CES I saw an iTablet (and I will post the images up… Read More
Google Maps Hacked by China? I think its already over for Google.cn Earlier today, I was using Google maps to find a repair shop in Patterson. As I typed in the address, I got this.. What the heck? It looks like my search was intercepted and redirected to some Chinese map. I searched again and got no response for about a min. After that minute, Google Maps… Read More
iSlate vs GTablet vs Curiour vs iTablets. Calm before the CES storm The storm clouds over CES in Las Vegas have been gathering as the Apple, Google, Microsoft and the loosely unified free states prepare for war. Even though we know Apple will not make their announcement till Jan 26, they will leaks bits and bobs to counter the other slate warriors from having the field TOO… 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
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
The CrunchPad tablet is dead. Mark victom 1 in the great tablet war. When I called the beginning of the tablet war in Aug, (tablet war postings) I fully expected that we would see 2 early players out the gate, TechCrunches ‘Crunch Pad’ and some sort of Android tablet, to be followed by Apple then MicroSoft. In face, I expected that Arrington would be sitting back with a… Read More
A firefox browser in iphone? Perhaps not, but what if… Om Malik from GigaOm started a rumor (and I only say rumor to be safe) that Mozilla is planning something for the iphone. Now the first thought is; “Hey! Firefox on the iphone! ” Yeah. As sweet as that would be, and you bet it would be sweet because the browsing experience on the iphone… Read More
New iPhones have current jailbreak exploit blocked So what does that mean? Well in short, the exploit that has been used in the rain series is now closed. Basically the new crop of iphones you get off the shelf cannot be jailbroken. This includes BlackRa1n if I understand the TechCrunch article correctly. (I still need to research this a bit more). If… Read More
Vonage gets VoiP love, Google gets rejection. Picking winners and losers are we? It seemed pretty clear that Apple was not going to allow any real players in VioP/phone management area into the iPhone. Ok, we have all heard the story.. if you have not, look here.. But have a look at this press release.. HOLMDEL, N.J., Sept. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Vonage (NYSE: VG – News) has announced… Read More
No more AT&T only for the iphone? Rumor control I’ve heard this rumor a few times before, but given the recent uptick in AT&T complaints, and a seemingly upper growth cap on iphones, I can see it. And I really hope so. I have already complained many times about the poor service in SOMA in the SF area. Here is the part of Piper… 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
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