It’s the gift-giving season and it’s likely some of you are thinking of giving someone or even yourself a mobile media tablet such as Apple’s iPad, Samsung’s Galaxy Tab or Barnes & Noble’s NookColor. You may or may not be inspired by the fact that a growing number of bankers, executives, doctors and other professionals [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Android’
The Apple/ Google Android Mobile Horse Race
Recent reports about Apple and Google mobile market shares might seem a bit contradictory, but the gist of them is fairly simple: both companies are winning in the mobile space. According to a recent report from Canalys, Apple has taken the U.S. smartphone share lead for Q3 2010 with just over 26% marketshare — edging [...]
Mobomo's RaceMate iPhone App for the 35th Annual Marine Corps Marathon
For those of you who enjoy marathon races, the Marine Corps Marathon (MCM) is one of the largest in the world. It is the eighth-largest in the world, fourth-largest in the U.S., and the largest such race with no prize money — hence it’s nickname, The People’s Marathon. Past races have had participants from as [...]
Reviewing Apple's Increased Mobile Device Market Share
Since the launch of both the WiFi-only and 3G models of the iPad, Apple has sold about 2M units in less than 2 months, and they’re sold out at many of their Apple retail stores – proving that there is a market for tablet devices and thus a need for more apps. But will these [...]
Is Mobile Computing Getting Too Fragmented Device-Wise?
If the increasing number of tablet computer options hasn’t caught your interest, maybe the one HTC is planning will. If you’re a woman. The idea is that women do a great deal of social networking, such as on Facebook, and HTC thinks this is something they might like to do while watching TV. They’re considering [...]
Next OLPC Not a Laptop, Not a Netbook
Remember the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) campaign aimed at providing children in developing nations with affordable computing devices? It ended up costing way too much, but there’s a new, relatively inexpensive option. The next version of the campaign’s device won’t even be a laptop, it’ll be a tablet computer. According to specs in Fortune, [...]
Mobomo Mobisphere Roundup — May 26, 2010
AT&T customers in New York City will be able to access free WiFi in and around Times Square. This is the company’s temporarily solution to data congestion. This will of course be great for New Yorkers with iPad WiFi-only models. Just don’t go near Yankee Stadium, as iPads are banned there since they’re being classified [...]
Mobomo Mobisphere Roundup — May 24, 2010
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]