Tag Archives: Android

Torn between two ecosystems

Posted on May 24, 2010 by Jeff

Google impressed at last week’s I/​O con­fer­ence. They demoed Android 2.2, “Froyo”, which is already avail­able for Google’s own Nexus One phone. (It’s com­ing “soon” for carrier-​branded hand­sets like Verizon’s Droid Incred­i­ble and Sprint’s EVO.) They showed mSpot, a new ser­vice … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Microsoft out in the cold again

Posted on May 22, 2010 by Jeff

John Gru­ber has some inter­est­ing thoughts about the odd-​man-​out at Google’s I/​O con­fer­ence this week: The big loser this week, though, was Microsoft. They’re sim­ply not even part of the game. RIM looms large, as Black­Ber­rys con­tinue to reign as the … Con­tinue read­ing →

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One carrier to rule them all?

Posted on May 28, 2009 by Jeff

From engad­get: Think you’ll have to wait until June 6th for all the Pre sur­prises to emerge? Think again. A break­ing Reuters report has just dropped one of the biggest cel­lu­lar bomb­shells of the year: Ver­i­zon Wire­less, America’s largest mobile oper­a­tor, … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Palm Pre is close, but no cigar

Posted on January 8, 2009 by Jeff

Don’t get me wrong. Palm’s keynote at CES was impres­sive (I wasn’t there, but thanks to live­blog­ging from gdgt, Tre­o­Cen­tral and cnet, I feel like I was). Palm’s webOS plat­form and Pre smart­phone take the best of the iPhone and Google Android, … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Google Android kill switch no big deal?

Posted on October 18, 2008 by Jeff

As you may have heard, Google has a “kill switch” fea­ture in Android that allows them to remotely remove soft­ware they deem mali­cious from Android-​based cell phones. While some poten­tial end users are up in arms about this fea­ture, the … Con­tinue read­ing →

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