Apple has unveiled its new
iPhone 4 after a couple wild, unprecedented months of leaks. Sure, it looks
exactly like we expected it to (Steve compares it to an old Leica
camera), with a glass front and back, but it's what's on the inside that
counts, kids. The stainless steel band that goes around the phone is an
antenna system, while also providing the main structure of the ...
According to AdMob, the iPhone operating system makes up 50% of the worldwide smartphone market, with the next-highest OS being Android at 24%. Sales projections for the Apple iPad run anywhere from one to four million units in the first year. Like it or not, the iPhone OS, and Safari in particular, have become a force to be reckoned with for Web developers. If you haven?t already, it?s time to dive in and familiarize yourself with the tools required to optimize websites and Web applications for this OS.
Thankfully, Safari on iPhone OS is a really great browser. Just like Safari 4 for the desktop, it has great CSS3 and HTML5 support. It also has some slick in...
The first
serious challenge to the Apple iPad is coming from the most obvious
of teams: According to Verizon Chief Exec Lowell McAdam, the carrier is
working
with Google on "a tablet computer." This should be fun.
The WSJ report is about as sparse as possible, mentioning nothing beyond the fact that Verizon wants a tablet, and are now working with Google. Says McAdam:
We're looking at all the things Google has in its archives that we could put on a tablet to make it a great experience.
I'm guessing that didn't come out quite right, but I'll hazard a guess that this means the the partnership is brand new, and that neither company k...
Apple's spokespeople have made a rare comment regarding the
smartphone survey which
placed Android's sales at 28 per cent for the first quarter in the
US—7 per cent more than iPhone sales.
The NPD Group's smartphone survey was based on over 150,000 completed surveys undertaken online each month in the US, of the first quarter of 2010. It put BlackBerry's sales at 36 per cent, Android at 28 per cent, and iPhone sales at 21 per cent. Despite the iPhone 4 expected to launch this June, giving enough reason for consumers to hold off buying a new one until then, Apple's spokesperson Natalie Harrison brushed off the figures:
"This is a very limited report on 150,000 U.S. consumers responding to an online survey and does not account for the more than 85 million iPhone and iPod t...
Apple and AT&T, you are doing it wrong. That $30 iPad data plan is kind of OK.
However, if you've a smartphone in Spain, you get a microSIM
duplicate to share your existing internet data plan. All for free.
If I'm paying a 3G data plan for my smartphone, is there any reason why I have to pay for another data plan for my iPad? Shouldn't this whole 3G data connection thing work like your home DSL or cable line? There is no limit in the number of devices connected to my home Wi-Fi. I can connect as many devices as I want, and I only pay one internet connection. If my wife's notebook is downloading a movie, making my network access slower, that's my problem. It's a pretty simple concept.
One that ...
We've been rumoring a WiMAX "HTC Supersonic"
for a while now, and Sprint just dropped the hard news: the phone will
be dubbed the HTC EVO 4G, will be released this Summer and it's easily
the best specced phone we've ever witnessed. The hardware is of quite
obvious HD2 descent, but
with Android onboard and some nice aesthetic tweaks, the EVO 4G takes on
a life of i...
With tools like Appcelerator?s Titanium and some JavaScript programming skill, creating native iPhone and iPad apps is simple. The danger is in not being always on the look-out for the kind of design pitfalls that plague many products in the App Store. In this post, we?ll consider some design tips that will get you on the road to iPad success.
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Apps will define the iPad, it?s true. But in d...
I just euthanised Sam Fisher.
It was the right thing to do. I couldn’t let him go on like that, constantly trailing off mid sentence, sometimes for minutes at a time, before carrying on exactly where he left off. Or he’d pull himself into safety behind a piece of cover, only to get seemingly distracted, vacant stares as all around him was chaos. When he finally returned to reality, he would just as likely be somewhere entirely different to when he started.
I don’t blame him though. It’s not his fault he’s like this. It’s Ubisoft, with all their talk of good intentions and protecting their creative license, that have really killed him, not me. It wasn’t me who decided that it was time to fight the pirates at all costs, even if it meant that the only true victim would be the paying customer. It wasn’t me who waged this war over copyright infringement....
