The keyboard was designed with the width of hands in mind and the QWERTY keymap with typewriter hammer jam preventions in mind. But when you’re dealing with phone screen that affords a fifth of the space laterally for input, perhaps stuffing in a QWERTY layout for the sake of familiarity is something we may be … Read more
That’s not 100% but the rate at which that figure has climbed is nothing to sneeze at. Not the perfect comparison, but IE6, one of the most hated things on the Internet, something that’s caused fragmentation you really feel especially if you’re a designer or work someplace that uses some old system which requires IE6, … Read more
Yes, I’m back (Did you miss me that much?)! But just briefly. The one knock on Android 2.1 was that it didn’t offer voice dialing with bluetooth headsets (how is that possible!). So, as I noted in my previous post, I was excited to learn that Android 2.2 (Froyo) would have it. But was I … Read more
If you like the iPhone then you will like the new Krusell TOP 10 selling phones for October 2010 list that they publish monthly. The new iPhone 4 tops the list for the first time is not likely going to get dislodged anytime soon. It will be interesting to see the impact of the European … Read more
Google made a controversial decision to ban Secret SMS Replicator, an Android app that automatically forwards text messages to another phone, from the market. They weighed two evils to see which was lighter than the other, facilitating spying versus being in the spirit of openness in terms of not censoring such things, and their scale … Read more
Okay guys. I’m going to warn you up front. This is going to be a little out there. Let’s start slow with a little quote from a Simmons comment on Ramon’s article. “What I still don’t get is how there used to be outrage here that Microsoft was selling out and ditching everything the XDA … Read more
I hope I have this article wrong because it’s not going to help my Android proselytism here: Since February administrators of Google Apps Premier and the Education Edition have been able to remotely manage Blackberries, iPhones, Nokias and WinMo devices to do things along the lines of the following: Remotely wipe all data from lost … Read more
I must be missing something here because I recall the thing that made e-readers so ideal for reading was e-ink. It’s not just that, they’re super sharp and look like real paper and are easy on the eye, while be glare free and super easy on the battery. Then comes the Nook Color and at $250 … Read more
I just got an email from my buddy at Wirefly.com saying that he just got done reviewing the T-Mobile myTouch 4G and that I needed to check it out. Unfortunately, business meetings all day kept me tied up so I am just now getting to Jeff’s videos and I got to say that this device … Read more
Hey! Hit the market and grab the update, good down to 1.6, of Google Maps while it’s hot. According to the Google Mobile Blog, it’s got improved Places features including a reviews from around the web and reviews from Google users look that matches what you’d get on a computer. You can narrow down search … Read more
According to Android and Me‘s sources which include "multiple, trusted sources familiar with the project who have shared the same story with me [and] wish to remain anonymous," in an already-announced New York City press conference scheduled for November 8th (sound familiar?) Samsung will unveil, among other things, the successor to the Nexus One, possibly … Read more
ZDnet is showing off new snippets from Oracle’s complaint that Google violated their Java code (which is the basis for Android). It’s one thing to hear it, but they’ve shown the original code and Google’s code side by side. Now I’m no expert (hell it all means nothing to me) but I can see that … Read more