Joshua Topolsky Reports on What Went Wrong With the Kin
Joshua Topolsky, reporting on information from “a reliable source”:
It seems that after doing some initial work on these phones based
around Danger’s proprietary Sidekick OS, Andy Lees — the SVP of
Microsoft’s mobile division — instructed everyone to go back to
the drawing board and rebuild the OS based on Windows CE. [...]
Fancypants iOS 4 Folder Names
Clever tip from Jeff Richardson: use Neven Mrgan’s Glyphboard to make fancy iOS folder names.
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David Pogue Reviews the Motorola Droid X
Worth it just for his coinage of “app phones” as a name for the iPhone and Android class of devices. Update: Ends up Pogue has been using “app phones” since his review of the original Droid back in November.
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Amazon Buys Woot
Woot CEO Matt Rutledge:
Other than that, we plan to continue to run Woot the way we have
always run Woot — with a wall of ideas and a dartboard.
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Mobile Browser Cache Limits for Android, iOS, and WebOS
Interesting research from Ryan Grove at Yahoo. I was not aware that MobileSafari didn’t support Last-Modified and ETag headers until iOS 4.
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Microsoft Kills Kin
Serious question: Everyone knew these Kin phones were turds from the moment they leaked. They were unappealing on their own and were a distraction from Windows Phone 7, Microsoft’s “real” effort to get back in the game. Microsoft is full of smart people; I’ll bet most people at Microsoft knew these things were doomed, too. [...]
Regarding the Verizon/iPhone Hardware Issue
John Biggs:
Tell me “I told you so” in six months, but Bloomberg’s
exciting news that two dudes said something about the iPhone
coming to Verizon is false until we see hardware and there has
been no hardware. Apple picked GSM because it is an international
standard. CDMA, the system used by [...]
Microscopic Photos of the iPhone 4’s Gyroscope
I love these iFixit guys.
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The Results of Technologizer’s iPad Owner Survey
They like it. (One tidbit that jumped out to me: the built-in Notes app garnered unusually low scores.)
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Vuvuzelas for BP
Count me in.
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