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Samsung has announced final details and specifications of the Galaxy Tab, a tablet device running Android 2.2 “Froyo”. It has a 7-inch1024x600 multi-touch screen, 1.00 Ghz processor, GPS, wi-fi, 3G internet, 1.4 megapixel webcam, 7 hours battery life if playing a video (I imagine much longer than that in normal use) …continue reading Samsung Galaxy Tab – among the first of many iPad clones It seems to be open season for software patent litigation. Oracle is suing Google over its use of Java in Android. Paul Allen’s Interval Licensing is suing AOL, Apple, eBay, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Yahoo and others – the Wall Street Journal has an illustrated discussion of the patents involved here. Let’s not forget that …continue reading Open season for patent litigation makes case for reform Developing for iPhone is a hot topic. Many developers are not only having to learn Apple’s Objective C and the Cocoa application framework, but are also new to mobile development. It is a big shift. Josh Clark is a iPhone designer, and his book Tapworthy is about how to design apps that people will …continue reading Review: Tapworthy – designing great iPhone Apps by Josh Clark Apple’s iPhone 4 is still relatively new; and I when I pulled it out of my pocket at a social occasion last weekend someone said, “isn’t that the new iPhone?” and another, “isn’t that the one with the aerial fault?” Another person then showed his iPhone 4, with shattered screen. His had been dropped, …continue reading Lies, damn lies, and Apple’s antenna-gate HP’s Todd Bradley, Executive Vice President of Personal Systems and formerly CEO of Palm, was interviewed by Jon Fortt at CNBC. Fortt asks some great questions which mostly get woolly answers, but did get this statement from Bradley: We will not do a Linux, Android phone. We won’t do a Microsoft Phone … we’ll …continue reading HP will not do Android or Windows Phone 7 smartphones – but what chance for webOS? Today the BBC received approval from the BBC Trust to create apps for mobile devices such as Apple iPhone/iPad and Google Android. Wasting no time, the corporation published a BBC News App on the App Store today. But what is the point? Is this really better than simply going to the web …continue reading BBC News app arrives on iPhone Microsoft watchers have been scrutinising the fascinating Mini-Microsoft post on the Kin smartphone debacle and what it says about the company. If it is even slightly accurate, it is pretty bad; and it must be somewhat accurate since we know that the hopeless Kin launch happened and that the product was killed shortly afterwards. …continue reading Dysfunctional Microsoft? A big story today concerns irregular activity on Apple’s iTunes store, the one and only means of purchasing applications for iPhone and iPad and central to the company’s strategy. The reports allege that developers are hacking iTunes accounts to purchase and give favourable review to their apps – which can only be a short …continue reading iTunes hacks: whose fault are they? Apple is sufficiently bothered by criticism of the iPhone 4 antenna, an external band around the device whose reception is poor when held in the normal way, that it has posted a letter on the subject: We have discovered the cause of this dramatic drop in bars, and it is both simple and surprising. …continue reading iPhone 4 Antenna: Apple wrongly calls it a software problem – but it is easily fixed with a case Is the photo quality on Apple’s iPhone 4 good enough that I could leave my Canon IXUS 801S at home? Unfortunately I think not. At least, that was my impression after taking a few snaps today. Here’s the Canon: and the iPhone 4: With the iPhone 4 you tap …continue reading Apple iPhone 4 photo quality for a point-and-shoot snapper |
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