cell phones

The interface in my Optimus 7 is nice enough, and I like the browser and e-mail clients a lot better than my previous Android phone, where they frankly sucked a bit. Also, every WP7 phone comes with a huge amount of internal memory, and despite the lacking RAM and CPU, everything is a lot smoother [...]

the post-PC era will follow a distinct middle age marked by wistfulness, the uncertainty around lifelong commitments, and a tendency to pursue shiny new objects while stubbornly clinging to the ideals of yesteryear. That middle age is now. we already carry multiple devices; operating systems like iOS 5, OSX Lion, Windows 8, ChromeOS and the [...]

NEWS Android is making big strides in the business market and will be snapping at the heels of RIM’s BlackBerry in five years’ time, analysts have predicted. Google’s mobile OS will account for 26 per cent of corporate smartphone shipments in 2016, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 21 per cent. While [...]

Research In Motion

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Research In Motion, losing ground in a market that its BlackBerry smartphone helped to build, is adding developer “evangelists” in Silicon Valley to change perceptions about the company’s prospects and promote a new operating system. RIM’s developer team has been too concentrated at the company’s headquarters in Waterloo, Ontario, said Alec Saunders, RIM’s new head [...]

My fellow ZDNet blogger and friend, James Kendrick, put up a post comparing his Android and iOS 5/iPhone 4S experiences and I agree with his take on the two. since he has been a much more regular Android user while I have been focusing more time on Windows Phone 7 I thought you might enjoy [...]

What can your phone do for you? you wouldn’t buy a car without looking under the bonnet. So learn a bit about your smartphone’s operating system. Basic mobile phones do little more than make calls but high-performance smartphones put a powerful computer in your pocket. With functionality comes complexity, however, which is why today’s smartphones [...]

The recent iOS 5 announcement highlighted several interesting additions to Apple’s app-focused operating system, such as the new Siri voice command interface, which will be available only on the iPhone 4S. In contrast, Microsoft’s new Mango version of Windows Phone 7 (which is actually version 7.5) helps fulfill that platform’s promise of helping people focus [...]

I spent Day 4 of the 30 Days With Windows Phone 7 experience talking about apps and the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace. However, I saved one very important element of Windows Phone 7 apps for today because I felt that it’s worthy of its own post. so, today, I am going to take a look [...]