★ Teardrop Skepticism
Preface: I don’t know what the new iPhone looks like. I don’t even know whether there’s only one new iPhone. The only thing I know is that there existed, months ago, “N94” prototype iPhones that looked like the iPhone 4, but which contained the ipad 2’s next-gen A5 CPU. That proves nothing, however, as I [...]
The Talk Show, Episode 61
Topics on the show: this week’s new Kindles, next week’s new iPhone(s?), and the last James Bond film, Quantum of Solace. Brought to you by the fine folks at Sifter and Sourcebits.
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Amazon and Apple vs. Everyone Else
Michael Mace:
Google’s reaction to Kindle Fire speaks volumes about its goals
for Android. Kindle Fire is based on Android, and will run
Android applications. Android has been struggling in the tablet
space, so you’d expect that Google would be delighted to have
Amazon on the Android bandwagon. But you’d be wrong. Let’s
look at the press release Google issued today [...]
Google Chrome Zone: First Google shop opens in London
Following Apple into retail
Google has opened its first retail store within a store on London’s gadget street; Tottenham Court Road.
The new store within a store, first pioneered by Apple before it started opening shops of its own has opened in the PC World / Currys superstore with the aim of informing customers what’s what about [...]
The decline and fall of Kodak
Shares plunge
Kodak, founded in 1896, is on Friday finding itself on the edge of bankruptcy after a stock plummeted to its lowest levels since 1935.
The latest stock price, which closed at 78 cents only to rise to $1.02 in after hour trading, values the company at just over $200 million, a far cry from the [...]
Vodafone Data Test Drive lets new customers push data to the limit
Go on, experiment
Vodafone has come up with a new scheme called Data Test Drive, which will allow all new and upgrading customers to use as much data as they like, on whatever they like, for three months to test the network to the limits before confirming the data plan they want to stick on [...]
★ Not So Fast on That ‘Samsung Official’
I was on the cusp of linking to this report on the Samsung-Microsoft Android licensing deal, reported by Kim Yoo-chul for The Korea Times, in order to quote the following:
“If Samsung truly believed that Google’s takeover of Motorola
Mobility was going to be helpful to the entire Android eco-system
at large, it would have waited until that [...]
APP OF THE DAY: Aurasma Lite review – (Spurs fans download now)
Virtual reality mobile browser
If you’re reading this before 4:45pm GMT on Sunday 2 October 2011, you’re a Spurs fan and you happen to own either an Android or Apple smartphone, then you’re in luck. Pocket-lint’s App of the Day today is not something exclusive to you, but you’re going to get some very nice half [...]
Nokia Windows Phone 7 handset turns on 3D voice navigation
Possible mapping for new device
As Nokia prepares to unleash its first iteration of Windows Phone 7 handsets upon the world, reports have come in that the Finnish phone giant is preparing its own voice navigation and 3D maps software for the Mango OS.
The reports that come in from WinRumors, say that an anonymous tipster sent [...]
Forget iPhone 5, eBay expects huge increase in iPhone 4 sales
Bargain hunters
Gearing up to buy an iPhone 4 when the iPhone 5 is released in the UK? Then you aren’t alone according to eBay, who is expecting a 70 per cent increase in sales of the iPhone 4 in the coming weeks following the launch of the iPhone 5 from Apple.
“With the imminent release of [...]
