Better start stacking sandbags RIM. Better yet, start praying, because sandbags are generally ineffective and after the flood subsides you can’t recycle the bags because of poopy-matter they absorb. That’s actually true. The WSJ felt it wasn’t too soon to run this: What did one BlackBerry say to the other? Nothing. Nice that you’re honoring [...]

As David K just scooped, Microsoft locked in the Skype deal but baby I’ve got questions. Since the buyout announcement it’s struck many of you as obvious that Microsoft would race to bundle Skype with Windows Phone as soon as they could code a Metro patina onto it which shouldn’t be too hard, right? You [...]

Strolled through XDA just now, found a few gems worth sharing not because I think a ton of you will use them but to characterize the nerd factor Android offers. What, you’re not a nerd? Then what the hell are you doing reading a nerd blog? In addition to many Samba clients, something that lets [...]

Google’s chairman Dr. Schmidt is keynoting something. I haven’t listened to the full thing yet (it may be live) nor do I know what this conference is but so far he’s been talking about Steve Jobs, eloquently, whom he identified as his friend, and segues into applying what Jobs’s professional MO epitomized, things we should learn [...]

That disappointing announcement of a new iPhone that didn’t have the number 5 on it left many of us winded and wondering what they were thinking. Once Wall Street heard that news it triggered a small selloff. Some of you declared your intention either to go Android or wait it out for the iPhone 5, [...]

On 10/7/2011 10:34 AM, The Fight wrote: A backlit f2.2, 8 MP sensor? (link) And here I was going nuts after seeing the 4S with a damn f2.4.  So many questions:  – What the hell is Nokia going to come out with?  – Is anyone going to beat that Panasonic Lumix phone 101P? There’s picture [...]

AT&T’s iPhone 4S has an HSPA+ radio in it and AT&T’s worked hard to get consumers to accept HSPA+ as 4G versus HSPA without the + which we all call 3G. HSPA has a top theoretical downlink of 14Mbps. AT&T’s version of the iPhone 4S supports the HSPA+ standard, which is pretty fast, but that [...]

Sprint just announced that they’re done selling new WiMAX devices this year in favor of going full throttle on LTE. Bad news for Clearwire as Sprint, their biggest investor and customer, resells their WiMAX service in seventy markets. As a result, Clearwire took a 30% dive and falling, closing in on penny stock territory as [...]

From time to time, or in China’s case all the time, governments ask the media to keep something quiet and that’s called a media blackout. Sometimes its practice is arguably good. For example, back in 2005 when all the transit workers went on strike in New York, both the labor union leadership and the city [...]

Appears I’m about to owe my man D-Money and Murani seventy bucks, having bet them in May that it would take many months for Mango to appear on 2/3rds of active WPs. Now using MD’s traffic as the indicator puts me at a disadvantage given that you people are more likely to upgrade faster than [...]