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The Motorola Xoom is an US$800 10-inch television. That’s how Peter Greenspun described the android tablet. Other negative impressions of the device: the Xoom required people to carry a custom charger.
The Xoom weighs 730 g (1.6 pounds). Standard features of the Xoom include WiFi capability, and Bluetooth. There is CDMA EVDO [...]
John Gruber over at Daring Fireball talked about, Magic. The context of which was a rebuttal to Dave Wiskus’ reaction to Tweetbot, particularly how the UI feels. Gruber’s thoughts could be distilled in a tweet,
“The difference between iOS and Android, design-wise, can be summed in a [...]
Motorola’s Xoom commercial is an obvious jibe at Apple who in 1984, launched an ad campaign on SuperBowl throwing the hammer at IBM. In that year, Apple launched the very first Mac.
This commercial was very Apple-like in its execution.
AllThingsD wrote:
No wonder sales of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab to date have been, in the words of one company exec, “quite small.” Not only are consumers buying fewer of them than previously thought, they’re returning them more frequently.
Wow. Looks like we may not be bowing down to our Android [...]
Sony announced in Tokyo, a cross-platform framework called, Playstation Suite. It is a Playstation game store for Android tablets and mobile phones.
Engadget says that:
The company’s calling PlayStation Suite a “hardware-neutral” development framework to make games portable for all sorts of handhelds, and says that “new and exciting content” [...]
Appleinsider on Google’s plans to fix android app sales:
The Plan to fix Android app sales
Chiang said Chu outlined a roadmap for Android in 2011 that the company hopes will help it drive new app sales more comparable to the outstanding results of Apple’s blockbuster iOS App Store, but noted [...]
This has been a significant few weeks for Millennial Media. The ad network just closed a $27.5 million investment round, announced that the company had tripled its revenue in 2010, and today, is releasing one of its more noteworthy monthly reports. Millennial, whose ads reach 63 million of [...]
All Things D wrote:
Here’s another loser in the Verizon-iPhone deal as well: Google. Verizon is an Android stronghold. And one of the main reasons for that has been the absence of the iPhone on the carrier’s network. That’s going to change on February 10. And when it does, expect to see [...]
Everyone needs Ice Cream during a warm summer’s day. Mashable reported that the next version of Android, codename, “Ice Cream,” is coming Summer 2011.
The Android rumor mills never do stop churning. Mere moments after the confirmation of Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) and the showcasing of Android 3.0 (Honeycomb, a new fork [...]
Here’s a sneak peak of Google’s Android 3.0, codename, Honeycomb:
On their blog, Google wrote:
Honeycomb is the next version of the Android platform, designed from the ground up for devices with larger screen sizes, particularly tablets. We’ve spent a lot of time refining the user experience in Honeycomb, and we’ve developed [...]
