Unless you are living under a rock or totally not into technology news, you’ve learned that Verizon announced they will carry the iPhone 4 on their CDMA 3G network started Feb 10th of this year, just a littler under one month from now. That’s all fine for Verizon and Apple, but what does that mean [...]
Flash and Air Mobile Apps Port to Android Quickly
When Apple officially killed the ability to build apps utilizing Adobe Flash and Air that are then compiled to run as a native iPhone App, they opened a door for Android. The Flash and Air developers who have made a number of iPhone apps have been able to quickly move their apps from iPhone to [...]
Android Really Catching On
On March 25th, AdMob released it’s report for February 2010 covering it’s mobile metrics and ads served to mobile devices. Cleary, Android was a big winner last year. “Android was the fastest growing operating system in the AdMob network year-over-year. Android’s share of smartphone requests increased from 2% in February 2009 to 24% in February [...]
Nexus One beats iPhone in Reader Vote
In a reader vote on Mashable.com, users voted in favor of the Nexus One over the iPhone by a 2-1 margin. I think this is a sign that Android is starting to grow up and if Apple hasn’t taken notice yet, they will soon. A good competition always stirs up the innovation stew and the [...]
Nexus One Performance
Ars Technica wrote a great article reviewing the Nexus One just a few days ago. There are many articles available to read, a quick search on Google will verify that, but I was particularly interested in their section on the performance of the Nexus One and it’s comparison with other smart phones.
Droid vs iPhone Comic
I saw this today on Androidguys and found it just hilarious and wanted to pass it along. Not much explanation needed, it’s from a great gadget/tech/engineering comic website xkcd.
iPhone Facebook App Developer Out
Bad news for iPhone or good news for Android? Joe Hewitt is the man behind the very popular and, in my opinion, very well done iPhone Facebook application. Joe recently tweeted to his followers: “Time for me to try something new. I’ve handed the Facebook iPhone app off to another engineer, and I’m onto a [...]
Android Oct 2009
Where is Android? It was born just over a year ago. In the tech world, that’s decades ago. It was just a newborn at 1.0 and a toddler at 1.5, maybe losing training wheels at 1.6. So at 2.0, where is Android? We’ve seen some great improvements, and reports are 2.0 is a huge leap [...]
