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These days, you can hardly get a device like the Droid 4 anymore, with a slide-out keyboard. But some people still like them a lot, which is why Motorola keeps making them, especially since they’ve been pretty successful with this Droid slide-out range. You won’t see some of the best specs in the market in [...]
Well this is a shocker. According to research done by Crittercism, applications on iOS crash significantly more than on Android. This just proves how much perception matters, and Google isn’t helping itself here. Many people right now believe that it’s actually Android that crashes more often. One reason is because Android actually shows you when [...]
It looks like the wheel does turn around. Apple may keep getting small wins against Samsung, especially in Germany, where they seem to be very strict about patents, but the same happened to them this time around thanks to Motorola and their 3G patents. Motorola managed to put a permanent injunction on all Apple’s iOS [...]
It looks like Samsung is very close to updating the Galaxy S 2 to Android 4.0, because these leaked official ROM’s are working better and better. Just like we originally assumed, even the Galaxy S 2 will not have either stock ICS or a Touchwiz that looks a lot more like the stock version. Instead [...]
RIM’s strategy is a dead-end going forward at worst, and confusing at best. They don’t want to use Android, and want to use yet another proprietary OS used by just one company (themselves), but in the same time they think a few Android apps will help their OS grow in popularity. The reason I saw [...]
This is probably the first time in history, certainly the first time for Google, when they’ve been charged with offering products for free, and this is some kind of abuse. French authorities seems a little too protectionist with their local businesses, and it’s not the first time they make ridiculous laws or decisions in order [...]
The Droid marked the point in time when Android really started to take off, first in US and then worldwide. With an aggressive tech oriented marketing, Verizon and Motorola wanted to attack the iPhone straight at its heart. The “iDon’t” ads really resonated with a lot of people, especially those who would’ve been early adopters [...]
Well this should put an end to Galaxy S 3 announcement rumors for now, because Samsung themselves have just said the Galaxy S 3 will not be revealed at MWC: “Samsung is looking forward to introducing and demonstrating exciting new mobile products at Mobile World Congress 2012. The successor to the Galaxy S2 smartphone will [...]
Some guys on the Internet decided to poke a little fun at Blackberry’s new marketing strategy of using superheroes to promote their phones. The new RIM CEO thinks that all that their products need is better marketing, as if the products themselves being uncompetitive with what’s out there in the market, has nothing to do [...]
The latest rumor says the Samsung Galaxy S 3 might arrive as early as March 13, at least in Turkey, according to this rumor. Could this be happening so soon? And should Samsung release it this year? I do believe it’s possible the Galay S 3 could land in the market as early as March [...]
Motorola is inching closer to complete their merger with Google, but in the same time EU is trying to put some breaks on the deal, fearing that Google has become too powerful, and a $12.5 acquisition would make it even more powerful. Truth be told, I don’t think Google buying Motorola would create anything negative [...]
The long-awaited Galaxy Note will finally be available in Canada at the 3 major networks, Bell, Rogers and Telus, on February 41th. People who want to absolutely maximize the size of their phone’s screen, while still being able to put it in a pocket, will soon get their wish with this 5.3″ size phone, or [...]
B&N is increasingly facing more competition from Amazon, especially after the launch of the Kindle Fire, which all but overshadowed the launch of their new Nook Color device. Personally, I think the new Nook Color is an even better option for those of you who want to root the device and install something like CyanogenMod [...]
The Galaxy Tab reached a reasonable level of success last year, with pretty much everyone else besides Asus with their Transformer, falling by the wayside. But Amazon’s Kindle Fire reached the same level of success in just a few months, and it keeps going. Of course, the Galaxy Tab is like twice the price of [...]
It looks like Motorola is about to release their update for the RAZR in a few weeks, because the ICS ROM for the RAZR has already been leaked. From the looks of it, just like we thought, there haven’t been too many deep modifications of Android 4.0, although some of them are plain ridiculous and [...]
It looks like 2011 wasn’t a very good year for Motorola in the tablet market. But is anyone really surprised about this? After all, Motorola is the reason why the Android tablet market started growing so slowly in 2011. They tarnished the Android tablets’ name with a tablet that started at $800, more than 50% [...]
People have been saying this for more than a year, just around the time when HTC started to release phone after phone, that this strategy is not going to work for long, and not only will it make their own customers angry because they feel they get ripped off when a slightly better version of [...]
HTC is going strong into the new year after a disappointing quarter last year. They plan to cut back on the devices the put out, they want to use other chips besides Qualcomm ones, and they’re going to double down on making Sense 4.0 great again on top of Android 4.0. I’ve long been a [...]
It seems that a lot of Chinese manufacturers will be able to make great tablets on the cheap thanks to the release of the open source Android 4.0. Now everyone will be able to get Android 4.0 tablets even at a price point of around $100, and you might have a lower quality display, and [...]
The original Motorola Droid came with stock Android and was a huge success. Then Motorola decided to become a little too confident and try to mess with how Android looks. It didn’t turn out very well for them because their skin was probably the most hated Android skin from a manufacturer out there. Its name [...]
Ever since Larry Page because CEO, Google has been on a quest to really focus. This means killing some of their hobby products and projects, but it also means strengthening some of their other products, and giving them a similar and unifying them. This is why most of Google’s core products have been beautified over the [...]
The Galaxy S was a major success for Samsung, being the best phone of 2010, and then once again in 2011 Samsung launched its successor the Galaxy S 2, which was even more successful, and once again was the phone to beat in 2011. Samsung seems to have this habit of launching their flagship smartphone, that [...]
Remember when Apple got a German Court to put an injunction on the Galaxy Tab 10.1? But then they tried to do the same in Netherlands, and they failed? Apple appealed that case, and it looks like once again Apple’s case was struck down by the higher Dutch Court. This Court took into account 2 [...]
RIM has announced that they will be replacing their 2 co-CEO’s with a new one, which actually is only their COO. Heins, the new CEO, also doesn’t think RIM needs a major shift in strategy, and that RIM only needs better scaling and marketing. In other words, RIM is still clueless about what has caused [...]
Remember the Optimus 2X? It was the first phone in the world to come up with a dual core chip, the Tegra 2. It brought LG some big praises for that alone, but unfortunately late we found out LG cut some corners in software development and bug testing to release it to the public. Now, LG [...]
Sometimes I think Apple lawyers really need to justify their job at Apple. Apple probably has so many lawyers by now because of some previous cases, and now all these lawyers must find “something to do” to keep their highly paid jobs at Apple. This might explain why Apple is now suing Samsung in Germany [...]
One of my biggest complains about HTC over the past year or so has been that HTC releases too many phone models in the market, for anyone to treat any single model seriously anymore. One of their upcoming phones, which was supposed to be a quad core Tegra 3 phone, was first named Edge, then [...]
“When you can’t innovate, litigate” has become a popular meme, but also a popular internal mantra for companies who are in trouble when they remain behind technologically. The farther behind they are, the more they think that they need to find a way to sue the newcomers and those doing well with the new technologies, [...]
There have been some rumors online that Samsung, or perhaps even HTC, are considering buying RIM. Samsung has already said these rumors are false and they are not trying to buy RIM: ”We haven’t considered acquiring the firm and are not interested in (buying RIM).”, said Samsung spokesman James Chun. Whether you actually believe Samsung or not, [...]
Microsoft has been pretty shameless and unapologetic about licensing patents to Android manufacturers, for an OS they didn’t make or own. Of course, they would have you believe like they did have an impact on making Android, but who actually believes that? Does anyone actually think Google tried to somehow reverse engineer and copy Microsoft’s [...]
Microsoft is walking down a very dangerous path with Windows 8, dangerous for the user. They are trying to put restrictions on the x86 version with the UEFI, but fortunately, the online backlash managed to convince them to get manufacturers to offer a physical switch, so you can still install Linux or any other OS [...]
Over the past year or so, manufacturers have gone crazy with the new models, trying to one-up each other with a phone that came a week later and was 5% better. This was and still is very short-sighted of them, and it has only led to faster commoditization of their products and dilution of their [...]
While CES may not have been terribly impressive in regards to showing new Android devices, I did notice that a lot of less recognized companies started to double down on Android, and show multiple models. Viewsonic came out with new Android smartphones, 7″ tablets, and 10.1″ tablets as well. The ViewPad 10pi is a dual-boot [...]
Today, at CES, Intel announced a multi-year partnership with Motorola, a new phone from them featuring Intel Atom in 2nd half of 2012, and also a Lenovo phone with Atom that is coming out in Q2 this year. The Atom processor is pretty much the same old Atom processor we’ve gotten used to regarding performance, [...]
When rumors about the first Honeycomb tablet, the Motorola Xoom, started hinting at a $800 price, which would’ve been like 60% more expensive than an iPad, I thought that was a huge mistake that Motorola and also Google were doing. I didn’t care how much it cost them to make it or what other features [...]
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