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A 7in tablet is not just a smaller 10.1in tablet

December 26, 2011

I’ve recently been using a Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9, one of the newest generation of Android tablets running Honeycomb (an Ice Cream Sandwich update is in the pipeline. Even though it’s not significantly cheaper than the 10.1in Tab, I got it because of the different form factor: it’s significantly lighter and easier to carry around [...]

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Roboto and the open source red herring

October 20, 2011

I largely agree with John Gruber and many others than Roboto is a bit of an ungainly beast of a font, although it’s much better than the hideous thing it replaces. But I think that John is missing the mark in this statement: This idea that designers who favor iOS criticize Android for being poorly [...]

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Come on Lenovo, you can do better than this

August 22, 2011

It’s not even out yet, and already the Lenovo IdeaPad — the Chinese manufacturer’s attempt to crack the tablet market — is getting something of a savaging: The IdeaPad K1 has been in development in one form or another for a year and a half, yet it still isn’t ready. And even if it had [...]

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Just how good a defence are those Motorola patents, again?

August 22, 2011

Susan Decker for Bloomberg: Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), the world’s largest software maker, began arguing its U.S. trade case that Android- based smartphones made by Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. use technology derived from Microsoft inventions. In a trial that began today before the International Trade Commission in Washington, Microsoft accused Motorola Mobility of infringing seven of [...]

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Windows 8, iOS and that weird post by Aaron Holsgrove

June 14, 2011

Other people have picked apart Aaron Holsgrove’s post on “Why Windows 8 is not fundamentally flawed as a response to the iPad“, but I think it’s worth going over more. It’s a catalogue of mistakes, which would keep the average commentator going for days. Take this, for example: If Apple never released the iPhone, we’d [...]

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Dell’s latest laptop borrows from Apple designs

May 24, 2011

Engadget reviews the Dell XPS 15z, which is supposedly a competitor for the MacBook Pro series. The short version: it’s cheaper, not as powerful, but does at least look a bit better than the old chunky XPS series. When Dell tells you that the XPS 15z has no compromises, that’s not quite the case — [...]

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Why Microsoft bought Skype

May 16, 2011

Cringely thinks it’s simply to stop Google getting it: “Were Google to buy Skype they’d convert those 663 million Skype subscriptions to Google Voice and Gmail and in a swoop make parts of Yahoo and MSN irrelevant. They’d build a brilliant Skype client right into the DNA of Android, draining telco revenue and maybe killing [...]

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Google Music: Not that great

May 11, 2011

Venturebeat gives Google’s music beta a first look: “Music Beta in its current form is far from what we’d expect from a Google product— it’s a web of confusing programs without a lot of instruction as to how to actually get to the music you want to hear.” Actually, that’s exactly what I’d expect from a [...]

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The final proof that Symbian is dead, dead, dead

April 27, 2011

The Inquirer: “FINNISH PHONE MAKER Nokia has announced plans to outsource Symbian development and support to the IT management consulting firm Accenture.” Accenture: Where old software goes to die.

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Apple is dead in the water, redux

April 26, 2011

Charles Arthur, reporting for The Guardian on an IDC/Appcelerator survey of developers: “App developer interest is shifting back toward Apple as fragmentation and “tepid” interest in current Android tablets chips away at Google’s recent gains in momentum, according to a new survey of more than 2,700 developers around the world. In the survey, 91% of developers said [...]

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