There’s been yet another “leak” of a possible prototype of the 4th-gen Apple iPhone. A photo (above) shows both a black and a white phone with larger screens. Given all the rumors and SDK evidence, it seems obvious that the OS 4 iPhone will have video calling and the larger screen resolution necessary to pull [...]
Archive for May, 2010
Mobomo Mobisphere Roundup — May 21, 2010
This is a stream-of-consciousness roundup of news in the mobile platform space from the past week. It covers Apple, Palm, Android and the mobile platform in general. iPad sales in 2010 in the U.S. might hit 8M units, up from a previous estimate of 5M units [MacRumors]. Obviously, the international release is going to play [...]
Google's Sergey Brin: Web and Native Mobile Apps Will Converge
Google is one of those few companies who can play the field when it comes to positioning themselves with apps for both Web and mobile platforms, but still believes that the two will converge and that essentially the Web will win. Hence, the company is putting efforts into not only their Android Marketplace but their [...]
Mobomo Mobisphere Roundup — May 17, 2010
According to an ABI Research report, one billion people will have 4G cellular coverage by 2012. That’s compared to the just under 500M people who had coverage by year end 2009. [Via Softpedia] It’s happened: According to the New York Times, cellphones are now used more for their data connection than for phone calls. Now [...]
iPhone as Car Remote
The Nissan Leaf is an electric car that’ll be getting an iPhone app with two initial features: letting you know when it’s all charged up, and allowing you to control the in-car climate. It’ll be interesting to see what comes next for the app, but there are a whole host of possibilities, including using paying [...]
Hybrid Smartphones: Android on iPhone Devices?
Sounds crazy, but a couple of mobile developers have managed to successful port the Google Android mobile OS to iPhone devices. One of them even has a dual-booting system, and should be releasing a version for iPod Touch. The only drawback is that you’d have to do something to your mobile device that Apple says [...]
Send in the (Apple iPad) Clones
Even if you have no interest in Apple’s new iPad tablet computer, you probably can’t get away from news about it, so you probably already know that it’s pretty hard to get your hands on one, even in the United States. International availability will be done in phases, and it seems the date keeps getting [...]
Get Ready for a Mobile App Usage Explosion
The NCHS (National Center for Health Statistics), a CDC sub agency that uses telephone surveys for data gathering, has determined that nearly 25% of American homes have no landline, only wireless phones. As well, 15% of American homes have landline phones but don’t usually use them. These and other related mobile statistics are available in [...]
Does an Apple iPad Replace a Laptop or Netbook?
For the sake of usability testing alone, I’ve spent a considerable amount of time with my iPad, taking it with me whenever I leave the house. Since it’s a WiFi-only model, I also take my Palm Pre Plus phone for it’s Mobile Hotspot tethering feature, in case there’s no WiFi wherever I’m going to be. [...]
More iPad-Enabled Video Coming
In Apple’s latest “What is iPad?” commercial, there’s a claim of “all the world’s Web sites in your hands.” Of course, that’s hardly true, despite the big push by some video content providers to switch from Adobe Flash — which Apple refuses to support on iPhones and iPads, and possibly soon on Macs — to [...]