I’ve always said that unbranded is always better than branded, when talking about phones, and I stand by that. However, there’s also something to be said for phone manufacturers getting carriers to pick up and subsidize their phones – and usually, unfortunately, that means the phone will be branded to the carrier. European carriers, with [...]
Yesterday I shared with you 10 things that I’ve found Android does much better than Symbian. However, there’s more to the story, so today I have a list of 10 things that my Symbian-powered touchscreen phones do much better than my Android-powered HTC Eris, which is currently running Android 1.5. Obviously this isn’t a complete [...]
I’ve been using an Android-powered HTC Eris from Verizon for over a month now, and it’s been quite an interesting experience. I’ve wanted to check out an Android-powered smartphone for a while now, and honestly, I was dead convinced that after using one, I would hate Symbian forever. While that’s obviously not true, I have [...]
During the 2010 Mobile World Congress, a company called Distimo gave a presentation, showing off their findings when comparing the top 6 mobile app stores. These include the Apple App Store, BlackBerry App World, Google Android Market, Nokia Ovi Store, Palm App Catalog, and Windows Marketplace for Mobile. Distimo compared numerous aspects, including number of [...]
In what probably was the most exciting Press Release email I’ve received in the past few months, SPB Software, the makers of some of our favorite applications and games like SPB Wallet, SPB Weather, SPB Puzzle and SPB Brain Evolution have notified us yesterday that they announced their signature SPB Mobile Shell 5.0 yesterday during [...]
What baffles me the most when I read mobile opinions from North American and European journalists is how clueless they are regarding the situation in the rest of the world, and how can they deem a product a success or a failure while limiting themselves to their region and without considering its impact on the [...]
While doing my research for my Context Awareness on Symbian article yesterday, I stumbled upon two interesting facts. The first one is that context-aware applications are now available on a lot of platforms, like Locale on Android which happens to offer a very similar experience to Best Profiles (with a few bonuses and minus the [...]
I woke up this morning to an avalanche of people telling me about an article published in the Guardian stating that Nokia is about to release an Android-powered device in September during Nokia World. For the better part of these few hours of a Monday morning, the news has been all over my Twitter timeline [...]
The T-Mobile MyTouch is T-Mobile’s second Android-powered smartphone, manufactured by Windows Mobile veterans HTC. The phone runs Google’s Android operating system, and has moderately standard hardware. You can read more about it here. However, Om Malik from GigaOm has been using one for a few weeks, and posted somewhat of a review. While you likely [...]
