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Jul 27 2010

iPhone 4 vs Android Captivate

An iPhone 4 user’s experience with the Android 2.1 powered Samsung Captivate on AT&T

I’ll preface this by saying before this review, I’ve hardly laid hands on an Android device, let alone considered throwing my iPhone [...]


Jul 23 2010

iPhone, Android, and why smartphone openness is a lie

I’ve written several times that the “openness” argument made against Apple’s iPhone in general, and by Google against Apple in particular is overblown and often disingenuous. Sure, other smartphones might theoretically be more open at [...]


Jul 19 2010

HTC responds to Apple over antennagate

HTC’s Eric Lin has responded in statistical fashion to Apple’s iPhone 4 press conference where Steve Jobs showed off a Droid Eris losing singnal when death-gripped:

“Approximately .016% of customers [have complained]. We have [...]


Jul 16 2010

Steve Jobs: BlackBerry, Android, Windows Mobile have antenna problem too

As part of Apple’s iPhone 4 press conference today, CEO Steve Jobs took the opportunity to bring out a BlackBerry Bold 9700, HTC Droid Eric, and Samsung Omnia 2 and highlight each of those devices [...]


Jul 14 2010

Android-based iPad knock-off gets hands-on

Phil from Android Central — whom I adore down to his robotic little socks — just loves to torture me by sending over links to stuff like Android-based iPad knock-offs that get a hands-on courtesy [...]


Jul 9 2010

iPhone vs Android: Cooper, Woz, and Page edition

A bit of a roundup this afternoon as the cell phone inventor Martin Cooper, personal computer inventor Steve Wozniak, and advertising revolutionary Larry Page all give their opinions on iPhone vs. Android.

Martin Cooper went on [...]


Jul 5 2010

iPhone 4 vs Evo 4G – Monday fun videos (NSFW-L)

Apple iPhone 4 vs Android Evo 4G as expressed by potty-mouthed, poorly animated, digitally voiced, anthropomorphic stuffed animals? Ohecksyeah.

If you’re enjoying the 4th of July holiday in the US, or have a way to keep [...]


Jul 2 2010

Google CEO: We don’t have a plan to beat Apple

Google CEO Eric Schmidt said in a recent interview that they’re not in competition with Apple, even while taking a little shot at the company on whose board of directors he sat during the iPhone’s [...]


Jun 29 2010

Google serves up better Google Docs support for iPhone and iPad

It seems Google has slipped in some improvement for Google Docs document viewing via iPhone and iPad (and Android). For quite a while, the only documents that really played nice (at least for me), [...]


Jun 23 2010

iPhone 4 vs Droid X – tech specs

How does Apple’s iPhone 4 compare to Motorola’s Droid X and HTC’s Droid Incredible, Evo 4G, and Nexus One?

Even as iPhone 4 goes out for delivery, and reservists start lining up at Apple Stores, Motorola, [...]


Jun 21 2010

Switching from Android to iPhone 4? Here’s what you need to know

How to make the switch from Android to iPhone 4

iPhone 4 with its 960×640 retina display, easy-peasy FaceTime video calling, high quality 5 megapixel, back-illuminated camera that shoots 720p 30fps video, and the silky smoothness [...]


Jun 17 2010

Updated: NOPE! Verizon Droid X NOT getting 720p to battle iPhone 4 Retina Display?

Verizon has a teaser up for their new, big DROID X which is claiming a 4.3″, 720p display (which is usually 1280×720) — a significant challenge to the iPhone 4’s 3.5″ 960×640, LED IPS Retina [...]


Jun 7 2010

iPhone 4 vs Droid Incredible vs Android Evo 4G vs Nexus One tech specs

We’ve once again taken our good buddy Phil Nickinson’s Android Central tech spec sheet featuring the Droid Incredible, Evo 4G, and Nexus One, and added in Apple’s just-announced iPhone 4 and we gotta tell ya [...]


Jun 3 2010

Sprint HTC Evo 4G — here comes the iPhone HD/iPhone 4G competition

Phil Nickinson over at Android Central has just posted a full review of the Sprint HTC Evo 4G, which he’s billing as the baddest Android on the planet. Big screen, front facing video call camera, [...]


May 23 2010

So with Froyo, Android Nexus One can tether on AT&T and iPhone still can’t?

Android 2.2 Froyo updates started going live yesterday for the unsubsidized, unlocked, once-upon-a-time sold directly by Google Nexus One, and it seems to include not only tethering but mobile hotspot (think MiFi, or mobile Wi-Fi [...]


May 21 2010

Bump shares contacts between iPhone, Android

Longtime iPhone app Bump will now not only let you knock contacts between iPhones, but share with Android friends as well.

Our good buddy Phil Nickinson, General Grievous of the Android Central army, got some video [...]


May 6 2010

Android tablet shown off running (and crashing) Flash

An Android-based tablet was captured on video running Flash — or should we say trying to run Flash — before it crashes:

“Here’s a quick and dirty hands-on video review of the Android [...]


Apr 28 2010

Microsoft says Android violates its patents as well, HTC pays up

Apple has sued HTC for patent infringement with Android almost certainly being the target, now it turns out Microsoft believes Android also infringes on their patents and HTC has just paid up.

That means the free-as-in-Google [...]


Apr 22 2010

Android running on iPhone – Yeahbuwhat?!

Android running on iPhone — is there anything the elite iPhone jailbreak hackers can’t do? Still slow to (dual-)boot and awkward given the iPhone’s lack of physical buttons, but it’s there in all it’s gory [...]


Apr 21 2010

iPhone HD (iPhone 4G) vs Droid Incredible vs EVO 4G vs Nexus One spec showdown!

Yes, it’s completely useless and quasi pornographic to compare prototype and rumored specs for unannounced, unfinished devices like the iPhone HD (iPhone 4G) with specs from real, announced, and shipping or shipped devices like the [...]