Android and the “F-word”

This has been a debate ever since last fall, when Android 1.6 (codenamed "Donut") started hitting devices like the G1/Dream and the MyTouch 3G/Magic while other devices like the Hero or Moment were left behind with Android 1.5. Since then, this situation has been commonly described as "Android fragmentation". Now, we don't know who used this word for the first time, but we do know who's trying to use it for the last time: Google. It all began at last month's Google I/O, when Google gave their view (for the first time) on this matter, and now, it's time for some reflection.

 

Motorola Droid X officially teased; the war on smartphone screens has begun

This week has been really incredible. You see, we don't like to post about rumors, even though we actually stay tuned to them, listen to them, and pray for some of them to become true. We've been weeks, if not months, being teased with pictures of a brand new Motorola device. At first, it was believed to be only one, and a successor to the Droid launched last November, but as more and more material got leaked throughout the web, the rumor spun off in two distinct devices. Well this week, after being rumors, at least one of them has become more than real. Find out what's going on after the break.

Android, our home away from Home

It's been quite a few posts since the last time we looked at our favorite Operating System, and how it's been trying to change the way we live with our smartphones. Before we start though, I'll have to agree that many concepts we Android users live today, are similar to those lived already by BlackBerry, Symbian and Windows Mobile users. However, a couple of key differences make Android (and possibly webOS) different from them. Not only is Android built as a next-gen mobile platform, it's also proving to be a lot more mainstream than anyone would've predicted a year ago.

On icons and the iPhone's consumer awareness (Part Two)

Here we ago again. The Apple iPhone, unveiled on January 9th, 2007, represents Apple's present. Since 2001, Apple changed completely and took the world with it to introduce a new culture, Apple's culture; and all of this, began thanks to the iPod. From 2001 to 2006, Apple sold over 70 million iPods, and was ready to show the world it's new invention... the iPhone.

On icons and Apple's consumer awareness (Part One)

Apple? Yes, Apple, that big corporation which is today known to everyone, has played possibly the most important role inside the tech industry over the past decade, putting everything we love & need in our pocket.

Let's think about it. Before Apple's iPod, we wouldn't dare to think about the number of songs we could take with us, we had to pick a single cd to put in our music player, and that was it. And then, we got the iPhone, which revolutioned and changed the smartphone market forever, and brought us the standard by which most smartphones  live and attempt to improve. But Apple wasn't always Apple, so please join us after the break as we try to understand the iPod and its impact in Apple's history from our perspective.