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Monthly Archives: December 2010
PalmPad details leaked
Fox News, of all places, has nabbed an exclusive on the upcoming PalmPad. It isn’t confirmed yet, but it does look feasible- it will run on Sprint’s 4G network, has a mini HDMI port and front and rear cameras (1.3 and 3 Megapixels) with LED flashes each.
The PalmPad is slightly thinner than the iPad with rounded edges closer to the Amazon Kindle. At 1.25 lbs, the PalmPad also sports a USB 3.0 port and a “multi-switch” just like the one on the Palm Pre.
The university version sports an 8.9-inch screen and will have access to a university’s internal educational software; it’ll also sport any other specs specifically requested by the institution. Students will start using these in the Fall 2011 semester, HP hopes.
The three versions being shown off at CES haven’t been finalized yet, but will probably have a larger screen than the university version, one nearly identical to the 9.7-inch LCD on the iPad.
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Galaxy S outsells iPhone in Korea, 10 million worldwide by end of year
The Samsung Galaxy S has now sold 2 million units in Koreo in 6 months which compares favourably with the 1.8 million iPhones sold in one year. Samsung expects the Galaxy S to reach the magic 10 million mark by the end of the year as well which also compares quite well to the 14 million global sales the iPhone achieved by October. This isn’t of course a battle of who wins, but when the press continually compare iPhone to ‘Android’, it is still good to see one phone battling it on its own. More at The Chosunilbo.
Microsoft ‘sort of’ sales 1.5 million Windows Phones
Microsoft has finally announced some Windows Phone sales figures, but not the ones that really count. It has sold 1.5 million units to network providers and resellers, but there is still no word on how many of those ended up in the hands of real people. The figures are promising either way, but far from the whole story.
Sales are ramping well as our reputation is growing for offering users a unique experience and are in line with our expectations – especially when compared to other new platform introductions. With a new platform you have to look at a couple of things, first of all customer satisfaction. As I mentioned before, we’ve seen great response on the complete mobile phone experience.
Another is phone manufacturer sales – phones being bought and stocked by mobile operators and retailers on their way to customers. We are pleased that phone manufacturers sold over 1.5 million phones in the first six weeks, which helps build customer momentum and retail presence.
We know we have tough competition, and this is a completely new product. We’re in the race – it’s not a sprint but we are certainly gaining momentum and we’re in it for the long run.
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News of the World more expensive on iPad than on paper
The News of the World is now available to download to your iPad for only £0.19 ‘more’ than it is to buy the paper edition. The paper edition is also not clunky and slow like the iPad version, but does still contain the same awful journalism.
Enjoy a lazy Sunday morning reading the paper without ever having to leave the house!
You can download the full newspaper and Fabulous magazine to read offline whenever and wherever you like.
Packed with agenda-setting news, video and photos, the News of the World is famous for breaking world exclusives, such as the Fergie £500k cash-for-access scandal, cricket match-fixing revelations and Wayne Rooney’s affair with a vice girl.
Plus there’s unrivalled sports coverage, including our brilliant Score pullout which is packed with all the latest football action.
Columnists include Gary Lineker, Carole Malone, Martin Lewis, Andy Dunn and Fraser Nelson. Plus, don’t miss our great showbiz section, XS with Dan Wootton.
SPB UI Engine: coming to a phone near you?
SPB has shown off its new UI Engine which could potentially find its way to a myriad of different smartphones, although some will not benefit from it of course. Check out the video below-
Solutions powered by SPB UI Engine, can run almost on any open or proprietary OS. Out of the box, the SPB UI Engine currently supports Android, Windows CE, Symbian, MeeGo and desktop Windows.
Written once for any one of the platform, the solution will, by design, work on other platforms. Hence, developers and designers can use the PC as a target device to shorten their device development cycle.
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Microsoft releases new Android and iOS games, not Windows Phone
Microsoft has released three new mobile apps; Snowboard Hero and Powerboat Challenge are for iOS and Holidays 100 is for Android. The responses from Windows Phone users say it all really- they are not happy. A curious move…
Over the past year, we’ve been working with a number of companies to sponsor mobile apps. As we continue to roll out advancements to Bing for mobile , we’re pleased to bring you 3 new apps available today, for free.
QOTD: More connected or loosely connected?
A deeper question than normal from Richard today. Are you more truly connected to other people through technology or just loosely-connected to more people?
The Nokia E71: better hardware than any of today’s phones?
I have spent the past week reliving old memories with a Nokia E71 and it has been a mixed experience to say the least. It was originally released in July 2008 and that would be considered quite recent in most industries, but in the smartphone world that is an eternity ago. I had one when it was released and loved it at the time for it’s unbelievable battery life, faultless reliability and generally superb build quality. I still love it for those reasons and everything positive experience remains today. In the past two years the smartphone industry has moved on immensely, but the Nokia E71 hardware is arguably ahead of almost every smartphone I have reviewed in the past few months.
The battery has been going non-stop for five days now and is still showing over 30% remaining. It has survived two heavy drops with no damage and the keyboard quickly came back to me as I now manage to bash out texts and emails much quicker than I can on my iPhone. The E71 was an anomaly for Nokia in that it was almost perfect on the hardware side, but of course the Symbian software was, and still is, a pain to use at the best of times. When I look at Symbian on the E71 and consider how the simplest of tasks morph into complicated procedures I realise that Android and iOS have advanced the usability side of smartphones hugely in a very short space of time.
I look at the Nokia E71 and see a phone that is close to perfect in its hardware execution, close to perfect in its reliability and close to a nightmare in usability. This is a phone I used perfectly happily for 6 months a couple of years ago. How our minds adapt to something better so quickly still surprises me, but one thing remains and that is the hardware, which is arguably better than almost any other phone available today.
That’s as good an argument for Nokia using Android as I can think of.
COTD: Arm’s length
Here’s Bob again- “If you consider a novel to be immersive if there are no interruptions, then you’d have to turn off the phone, lock out the partner and kids, and be in a soundproof room to keep the city noise out.
All e-reading does is bring some of those interruptions to the device at hand rather than an arm’s length away.”
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iPhone OS dominates European mobile ad market with 31.9% share
A new report from InMobi has detailed the European mobile ad market in great detail and shown that iOS has a clear lead at the moment. Nokia is declining on 19.7%, but Android is gaining quickly at 12.9%. I guess the movement for all three is exactly what we would expect.
Research from mobile ad network providerInMobi has found that iPhone OS currently dominates the European mobile ad market with a 31.9% share, while Nokia’s share has slide to 19.7%, putting it in second place.
Android OS, meanwhile, is making its way after a slow start in these parts: the platform has gained +9.5 share points between July 2010 and October 2010, growing to a 12.9% share.
The rapid decline of Nokia (-6.0 share points in the past 90 days alone) is a major inflection point for the European mobile advertising community, remarks James Lamberti, VP of Global Research & Marketing at InMobi.
iPhone and Android devices trigger major increases in mobile Internet consumption and drive rapid share gains against Nokia well beyond what shipments data would suggest.
As a whole, the European mobile ad market grew by 88% in merely 90 days, driven by phenomenal increases in Android OS monthly ad impressions (+256 million) and iPhone OS impressions (+260 million) across the continent.
Map Share added to TomTom iPhone App
TomTom has added Map Share to its iPhone app which lets you change maps instantly while you are driving and to then share these changes with others. I can think of a few routes I use where this will be handy.
London, 20 December, 2010 - TomTom, the world’s leading provider of location and navigation solutions, announces that its newest update to the TomTom App for iPhone, version 1.6, includes Map Share. With this addition, TomTom continues to deliver the most up-to-date and accurate maps. The latest version of the TomTom App for iPhone can be purchased on the App Store starting today.
TomTom Map Share enables iPhone users to make changes instantly to their own maps and to benefit from free map updates made by the TomTom community and verified by TomTom. App users will be able to edit street names, set driving directions and block and unblock streets directly on their maps and share their changes with the TomTom community. The TomTom App checks for verified map updates including turn restrictions, speed limit changes and crossing changes automatically every week or on-demand as often as the users choose. With Map Share, App users always have the most up-to-date map in between new map releases.
“We are pleased to bring our exclusive Map Share technology already enjoyed by millions of TomTom users everyday to our iPhone App,” said Tom Murray, senior vice president of market development for TomTom Inc. “With the addition of Map Share, TomTom App users will get free, verified updates via Map Share anytime on top of the most accurate map available on-board.”
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Mobile Package Tracker for BlackBerry
Mobile Package Tracker for BlackBerry could be a very handy app to have hanging around if you send and receive lots of parcels-
The app can help end users to track packages from over 18 shipping carriers. It provides following features:
1. Track FedEx Basic, FedEx SmartPost, USPS, UPS, UPS Mail Innovations, DHL USA, DHL GlobalMail, DHL UK Domestic, City Link, OnTrac, Purolator, Estafeta, Swiss Post, Aramex, Norway Post, LaserShip, Brazilian Post, Spanish Post packages via tracking number
2. Personalize shipping carrier list
3. Add/Delete tracking number
4. Label package
5. Email tracking information
6. Easy use layout
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Doodle Jump comes to BlackBerry
Doodle jump is now available for almost every BlackBerry smartphone. If you are a BlackBerry user and don’t normally bother looking for games, you want this one!
Jump, jump, jump to the top, top, top with Doodle Jump, the runaway hit now available for your mobile phone! Guide the Doodler on a springy journey up the never-ending sheet of graph paper to see how far you can climb. Leap from platform to platform, finding your way higher and higher using brilliant contraptions like springs, propeller hats and jet packs. Avoid broken platforms, menacing black holes, UFO s and baddies. Blast them with your nose balls! Doodle Jump is one of the simplest and most addictive games that you will ever play. But don?t just take our word for it, ask any of the hundreds of thousands of fans that have already been hooked by the four-legged critter. Download Doodle Jump and start climbing the platforms, as well as the Leaderboards today!
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eBooks and interruptions: not really reading
This made me chuckle over the weekend. John Naughton from the Observer wrote an article called Publishers take note: the iPad is altering the very concept of a ‘book’ in which he offered the argument for iPad-type devices changing the entire book industry. The very first comment from a read was “Oh, bullshit, the sodding iPad has done nothing of the sort. If any one device has, it’s the Kindle.”
I do agree with the reader’s comment and in particular with this one from another reader- “A novel is an immersive experience; the last thing the reader wants is to be interrupted.” That is a point I had not thought of before. Of course you can turn on Airplane Mode, but then you have to consider calendar alarms etc. and all of a sudden it doesn’t feel so much like a reading experience.
QOTD: One development?
Richard brings us today’s question. Which one development in mobile computing has made the most difference to your life?
I would still go for GPS.