Category: Android

Of course Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore is using an Android smartphone

Posted on February 9, 2013 by Ewan Spence

So Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore tweeted with an Android device, to talk about a Windows Phone? Good. Yes there’s an argument that any public facing executive needs to be 100% on message, but I think it’s far more important that the top-level execs who are imparting the vision and direction on their platform have real world experience of the competing platforms. I would hope that Belfiore is a ‘power’ user on Android, iOS, and BlackBerry 10 (when it arrives) as well as Windows Phone.

The Facebook Smartphone is already in your pocket

Posted on January 19, 2013January 20, 2013 by Ewan Spence

Facebook does not need to design, manufacture, and sell their own smartphone… they already have iOS, Android, and Windows Phone doing everything they need. And now, the same again, but in 1000 words over on Forbes.

Some apps and games for your smartphone

Posted on December 26, 2012 by Ewan Spence

I’ve posted up a number of ‘Best of’ lists of apps and games for smartphones around the holidays. All About Windows Phone has five ‘not the A-list‘ games to download (all are free downloads), while Forbes has five recommendations those new to iOS, Android, and Windows Phone.

Now Phil has left Nokia, what’s it really like to use an Android smartphone?

Posted on November 7, 2012 by Ewan Spence

Phil Schwarzmann: I purchased a Google Nexus so I can switch to Straight Talk and give my posterior a break from AT&T’s onslaught. Is this what the general public want in a phone??? I could Hulk Hogan the cheap plastic in half with my bare hands. I’ve had easier time putting on condoms than inserting the Nexus’ flimsy back cover… And now for the software – Did Google outsource the design of each individual Android screen to a Korean child animator working in silos? There’s zero consistency in the UI. It’s full of buried menus and Windows 95-style icons. The

Of course Google’s Nexus 7 special offer is trending on Google Plus

Posted on September 18, 2012September 18, 2012 by Ewan Spence

I genuinely believe it. I mean, everyone is talking about it. It’s all over Facebook, and Twitter, and Techmeme. I 100% trust Google’s algorithm when it tells me that the $25 Google Play credit bundled with Nexus 7 is the one thing everyone is posting about online. Even those people outside the US who are inelgible for the $25 credit are so excited about this that they have to be talking about it.

It’s only natural that Amazon would choose Bing for the Kindle Fire

Posted on September 8, 2012 by Ewan Spence

Bing, not Google, to be the search engine for the Kindle Fire tablets. Given Amazon is giving Google an end run on everything (ad revenue, primary sign-in on device, OS branding, app store, etc) it’s only natural they’d turn to another search engine. Still, nice bit of negotiation all round. Give it six months, and that will probably make Bing the #1 search engine on Android tablets. I’ll be watching Tim Cook very carefully on Wednesday to see which search engine any new iPads will be using…