Sprint Wireless Launches HTC EVO Superphone – With Utter Web Failure
The HTC EVO Android phone is the ultimate weapon that’ supposed to turn Sprint’s weak business around. Yes, the phone is really incredible (not Incredible, that’s another model), but that does not change the fact that Spring is welcoming it with utter failure. Customers attempting to buy it get to stare at this message forever: [...]
Will the Dell Streak Flop? In Search of the Sweet Spot.
In a few days you can plunk down $500 to buy this beauty directly from Dell. Or you can spend the same amount and get the Real Thing – the iPad. Or you can buy the HTC EVO. And that’s the problem with the Streak. It’s neither a tablet, nor a phone. Of course not [...]
Fixing the Battery Problem your Android Smartphone Seems to Have
Image via Wikipedia I shared some of my recent Android experience here, with the two leading phones, Verizon’s HTC Incredible and Sprint’s EVO now it’s time to share a trick (actually two) that makes or breaks your experience with these two mobile powerhouses. Matt Burns @ MobileCrunch loves the EVO but considers the battery a [...]
Best Buy Smarter than the Apple Store
“There is an App for that” – is the mantra nowadays, and I really hoped for one, to solve the major task of telling me where I can buy an iPad. Anywhere, in any physical store along my long drive from San Francisco to Pleasanton. In the real-time, always-on age it should not be a [...]
Does Sprint Limit Using Google Voice?
(See update @ the bottom)Well, this did not take long. I’ve just speculated that Google & Sprint wanted testers before the commercial rollout of the Android-driven HTC EVO on June 4th – a few hours later I see that theory proven. I ran into trouble setting up Google Voice, and called the special number given [...]
Fake Steve Jobs’s Split Personality
It’s tough to be Fake Steve Jobs nowadays. Continuing in his role as FSJ, he has to defend all-things-Apple, especially from ruthless attackers like Google. (As a sidenote, did Vic Gundotra just have a Steve Jobs moment yesterday?) On the other hand Fake Steve is also the Real Daniel Lyons. One who actually uses smartphones, [...]
On Those Android Superphones Again
Wow, for not being a gadget-blog, we’re spending quite a bit of attention on Smartphones. Are we turning into gadget-freaks? Like Ben, I’ve also received an Android-powered Sprint HTC EVO at the Google I/O Conference, and unlike him, I will be able to use it on Sprint, if I so chose. As a New [...]
Facebook Big Mac Attack – Not For Me, Thanks. Top 10 Reasons to …
Oh, just what the Doctor has ordered: more junk food coming your way, left and right, from the social network that’s taking over the Internet: Facebook. McDonald’s will be the first advertiser taking advantage of Facebook’s soon-t0-be-releasing location feature. The first reaction from most is this will kill leading location-based services: Hey Foursquare, Time To [...]
So You Bought a JooJoo – How Will it be Serviced?
I know, it’s crazy to talk about the JooJoo (formerly known as CrunchPad) a day before the iPad is released. But the major gadget blogs do, having received a test unit – and that in itself is a bit of a PR coup for JooJoo. They should enjoy it while it last. Too bad it [...]
RIPing The Traditional Web: Not So Fast
Recently, Rob Mills wrote a post on Think Vitamin proclaiming death to traditional web. He was pointing out the widespread use of mobile devices and the next wave of iPad like devices and argued that this will make traditional web secondary to mobile sites and apps. The web is dead. OK, it isn’t but it [...]
App is Crap (why Apple is bad for your health)
Absolute Power Corrupts, Absolutely I was living in Europe in 2000 when the first WAP phones (Wireless Access Protocol) were introduced. These phones were so over hyped. They were going to bring the Internet to your mobile phones ushering in the era of “m-commerce.” Gag. I had just returned from living in Japan where I witnessed [...]
Do we need openness for our toaster?
There has been some interesting discussion about Apple and iPad being closed. In many cases for Apple, I’d buy this argument, but regarding iPad being closed, I have to disagree. As I talked earlier, iPad is a gadget for non-techies. People who have been scared about the complexity of computers will be able to use [...]
Siri brings their Virtual Personal Assistant’s smarts to the iPhone
Siri provoked a flurry of interest last summer, and presumably not just because CTO Tom Gruber took part in one of my podcasts. With their genesis inside a big DARPA-funded Artificial Intelligence project, their talk of emergent Virtual Personal Assistants and their slick iPhone-powered demonstrations, the company ticked more than enough of the right boxes [...]
The most important app on your phone
The last couple of days have seen a flurry of activity in mobile. Apple announced its response to Google’s acquisition of AdMob by acquiring mobile ad network, Quattro. Google announced the much awaited Google phone, the Nexus One. The bulk of the discussion has been around the mobile application battle between Apple and Google. Henry Blodgett thinks [...]
Will Free Decimate Freemium/Paid Mobile Apps?
ABI Research, a market intelligence company specializing in global connectivity and emerging technology, has released a new report on the mobile market that proclaims the death of paid mobile apps and freemium apps. Some of the predictions from the report include Mobile application downloads to reach five billion by 2014 from 2.3 billion in 2009 [...]
