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3rd
MAR
Nexus One Touch Screen Glitch [Droid Does]
Posted by Mavrik | Filed under Tech
The Droid is on point and the Nexus One has a pretty significant axis-flipping problem. What gives? While you might THINK this could be a problem solved with an OTA update it isn’t looking like a likely outcome based on a Google Employee response by Diane Hackborn:
“Sorry I meant exactly what I said: this is how the touch screen hardware on the Nexus One works (which is essentially the same screen as on the G1 and myTouch). The Droid has a sensor from a different manufacturer, with different behavior. Other phones will likewise have different sensors.”
9th
FEB
Top 10 Best Selling Phones of Q4 2009
Posted by Mavrik | Filed under Tech
RIM has a pretty strong showing:
- RIM – BlackBerry Curve
- Apple – iPhone 3G S
- Motorola – DROID
- Apple – iPhone 3G
- RIM – BlackBerry Pearl
- RIM – BlackBerry Bold
- RIM – BlackBerry Storm
- Palm – Pre
- RIM – BlackBerry Tour
- T-Mobile – myTouch 3G
Tags: Android, Apple, Droid, Mobile, Motorola, Palm, Pre, RIM
3rd
FEB
The Power is in the Software
Posted by Mavrik | Filed under Tech
This quote is actually more true today than it was in 1994 when Steve Jobs was interviewed by Rolling Stone:
“The problem is, in hardware you can’t build a computer that’s twice as good as anyone else’s anymore. Too many people know how to do it. You’re lucky if you can do one that’s one and a third times better or one and a half times better. And then it’s only six months before everybody else catches up. But you can do it in software.”
Read the link below for more of the interview. I think this is especially true today with the comparison between the iPhone and latest Android phones. The iPhone runs much smoother on “inferior” hardware due to great software development (and this is coming from an Android fanboy).
A Must-Read Classic Steve Jobs Interview: Hardware vs. Software [Gizmodo]
Tags: Android, Apple, Rolling Stone, Steve Jobs
28th
JAN
iPad Hands-On [Engadget]
Posted by Mavrik | Filed under Tech
Engadget did a great little walk through of how the new iPad works. Video is below:
27th
JAN
Comparing the Big 4: Google vs. Microsoft vs. Apple vs. Yahoo!
Posted by Mavrik | Filed under Tech
It’s no secret that Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Yahoo are always expanding their reaches, slowly but surely adding new products and services into their line-ups. The New York Times’s Nick Bilton took a step back and surveyed their empires.
It doesn’t come as much of a surprise to see how much these four behemoths overlap, and I doubt anyone will be surprised when these companies continue to fill in this grid in 2010.
Looking at the empty spaces reveals where we might look for these companies to grow. There have been grumblings of a Google music store for a while, and it seems entirely possible that Apple’s Tablet will at least in part emphasize its capabilities as a gaming device.
As the companies stretch and grow, some of their endeavors will prove more successful than others, but until then this chart is an interesting reminder of how vast their reaches already are.
Tags: Apple, Google, Hardware, Internet, Microsoft, Search, Software, Technology, Yahoo!