Tag: android

Drivers, hardware, and broken platforms

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James Kendrick takes a look back at the historical bane of computing (keeping your hardware drivers current on your Windows based desktop), and draws contrasts both to Microsoft’s Windows 8.1, but also issues in the Android ecosystem. The mobile space today, with the majority of customers who are not tech-savvy, calls for a change to the ecosystem. Continuing the way it is currently, both in the Windows and Android ecosystem, is a recipe for disaster. The time to change is now, no matter how it upsets hardware partners. Once customers are lost due to the way things are, they will

Sony announce a mobile phone for your mobile phone

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Not sure if it’s cutting edge comedy or actual coverage of Sony’s new 6.4 inch HD screened Xperia Z Ultra on BBC News: Those concerned about using such a big device for quick tasks are also offered an optional bluetooth add-on which can be paired to the handset using NFC (near field communication) to make calls, view text messages or stream music. Sounds like Sony have (re)invented the mobile part of a mobile phone.

The camera is next as I continue my review of the Samsung Galaxy S4

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Over on Forbes… To recap, I’m taking a narrative approach to reviewing the Samsung Galaxy S4. By using the device in day to day life, rather than a forensic examination of every single feature, I’m hoping to get a better feel of the device as a tool to be used every day by ‘normals’, rather than racing to meet a deadline and working down a bullet point list of new features… This week, after some surprisingly nice weather in Scotland, I’ve been out and about with the S4 and seeing how the camera performed.

Why were there more Vine shares than Instagram shares on Twitter last week?

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Marketing Land: On Friday there were more Vines shared on Twitter than Instagram photos. According to Topsy Analytics… there were about 2.37 million links to vine.co shared on Twitter over a 24-hour period as of about 11:30 pm PT Friday night. That’s well ahead of the 2.14 million links to instagram.com that Topsy counted in the same 24 hours. What changed? I suspect the increased user base through the release of Vine on Android on the Monday before these numbers has a lot to do with it. Let’s see how many of those new users are retained in the next few

BBC Trust decide BBC’s mobile iPlayer was not biased because it focused on iOS

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The internal inquiry say everything okay, and blames it all on Android fragmentation. While the BBC must do all that is reasonably practicable to ensure that viewers can access its on-demand content in a range of convenient and cost-effective ways, this did not necessarily mean that it would always be expected to launch new features on different platforms simultaneously. Nothing to see here, carry on, please stop pestering our mobile developers who can’t handle the multiple variants issue. At least the BBC Trust promise to watch the mobile app during 2013… Which is nice of them.

I’m keeping an eye on the Android powered Fairphone

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It’s a €350 Android phone, with a 4.3 inch screen a dual-core 1.2 GHz processor, 16MB of on-board storage, and 1 MB of Ram. pretty middle of the road specs for an Android 4.2 device. But it’s a ‘fair’ phone… The first-ever Fairphone combines social values with smart, radically open design that considers the full lifecycle of the product. Worker welfare initiatives and conflict-free minerals put people first every step of the way. Transparency is paramount, from materials and production to pricing. One to keep an eye on, not for pricing and tech, but to see if people will go