The Samsung Galaxy S3 ‘Mini’… Really?
When did a four inch screen make a smartphone mini?
Tag: android
Apple’s Spec War Leaves Hope for Windows Phone
Nokia [have] stepped aside from the ‘specification war’ that Android manufacturers and fans will constant try to engage other platforms in. A spec war that Apple has waded into.
It’s only natural that Amazon would choose Bing for the Kindle Fire
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…
The Geeks Have To Stop Forcing Android On Everyone
Most consumers who’ve been tricked into buying Android will either migrate to iPhone or perhaps move to a legitimate third alternative if one ever arises. And that means there’s no battle for the geeks left to fight… their influence on the mainstream, which had been in freefall for a decade, officially ended this week. For the first time in the history of consumer technology, consumers are now fully calling the shots going forward. Bill Palmer on the consequences of the Apple/Samsung patent case.
Steve Litchfield ventures into the world of GPRS
It was somewhat telling that both my Lumia 800 and my Galaxy Nexus, both with ‘2012’ operating systems and both with limited internal storage (16GB) were somewhat crippled in terms of how I’d normally use their interfaces and functions in the absence of even moderate speed data… But it was left to my Nokia 808, running the relatively ancient Symbian OS, with its data and battery efficiencies, with its internal 16GB mass memory, plus (in my case) 32GB microSD, to provide me with (sideloaded) movies, music, maps and more on my travels. All About Windows Phone.
An apology over the Samsung Galaxy S III
Last night, after several months of rumors and speculation, Samsung finally announced their 2012 flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S III. It’s a device that I’ve been telling everyone to wait for, telling everyone that it’s going to be the best Android handset to come out this year, telling everyone that buying any other smartphone would be a huge mistake. Now that the Galaxy S III is official, I have to admit that I was wrong, and I’m deeply sorry. Stefan Constantinescu.
