Mar
8
2010
It seems like Palm’s new webOS PDK (plug-in development kit) can be used to port over iPhone games in a matter of days — or even hours. Given how fast some iPhone games have turned [...]
Category: Games, iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: Development, gaming, iphone vs palm pre, iphone vs webos, News, pdk, The competition, webos
Mar
5
2010
CrackBerry.com celebrates its 3rd birthday this week… and all they get is a BlackBerry Slider?!
First, we’d like to wish our sibling site, and best frenemy forever, CrackBerry.com and their fearless leader, CrackBerry Kevin a very [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: blackberry slider, crackberry.com, iPhone, News, The competition
Feb
16
2010
While yesterday’s Mobile World Congress news was all about Windows Phone 7 Series (henceforth WinPho7s), the Android invasion has returned with news of the HTC Desire, which looks to be Nexus One-style hardware running a [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: android, htc desire, htc hero, iphone vs android, mwc10, News, senses ui, The competition
Feb
15
2010
Microsoft today announced their long anticipated — possibly long delayed or oft re-started — Windows Phone Series 7 and showed off a brand new user “experience” including deep social network integration and full on Zune [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: Editorial, iPhone, iphone vs windows phone, The competition, windows phone 7 series
Feb
15
2010
By all accounts, Microsoft is set to unveil it’s next-generation mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7 Series (say that 10 times fast!) at Mobile World Congress (MWC) Barcelona today, and WMExperts will be live-blogging the [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: mwc10, News, The competition, windows mobile 7, windows phone, wmexperts
Feb
14
2010
While TiPb was out covering Macworld 2010 (tons more video to come!), the rest of our fearless Smartphone Experts network editors, Dieter, Phil, and Kevin have jetted off to Spain to bring you complete coverage [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: mwc10, News, spe, The competition
Feb
11
2010
Former Microsoft CEO, Bill Gates, and Windows Vista honcho, Bill Allchin, had an email exchange back in 2003 when Apple launched iTunes and were rather candid about how well Steve Jobs put it together, and [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: bill gates, iTunes, jim allchin, Microsoft, News, The competition
Jan
21
2010
Dieter’s got his Palm Pre Plus on Verizon complete review, and Palm Pixi Plus on Verizon complete review up on PreCentral.net, and is here to tell us how the new button-reduced, memory doubled, gaming enabled, [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: Dieter, iphone vs webos, News, palm pixi plus, palm pre plus, The competition
Jan
19
2010
Rumors about Windows Mobile 7, or Seven as our sibling site WMExperts is calling it, are near-iTablet level over on that side of the smartphone space. If you read my Windows Phone (based on 6.5) [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: iphone vs windows phone, News, seven, The competition, windows mobile, windows mobile 7, windows phone
Jan
16
2010
I had a chance to use Dieter’s Nexus One during CES 2010, and while I’ve shared my thoughts already, Android Central’s Phil Nickinson has just put up a complete Nexus One video review of his [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: News, nexus one, nexus one vs iphone, phil nickinson, The competition
Jan
5
2010
Our sibling site, Android Central, will be doing a meta live blog of Google’s big Android/Nexus One event at 1pm ET/10am PT, and yours truly is going to be online with them to help them [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: android, android central, Announcements, nexus one, The competition
Dec
30
2009
If the internets are to be believed, Google is setting pricing on their HTC built new Nexus One Android flagship smartphone at $529.99 unlocked, or $179.99 if you take it alongside a 2-year, $80 a [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: business model, google phone, News, nexus one, The competition
Dec
29
2009
So according to sibling site, PreCentral.net, Palm is now updating all proud Pre and Pixi devices to webOS 1.3.5, but among the list of features we can’t help but notice…:
App limit fixed.
App Catalog downloads continue [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: News, palm, The competition, webos
Dec
23
2009
Gizmodo got somes hands on a Google Phone Nexus One and shared some impressions.
A tad thinner, lighter, and “silky”-er feeling in the hand compared to the iPhone, Nexus One also sports a less cheap, more [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: android, Google, google phone, hands-on, iphone vs android, News, nexus one, The competition
Dec
22
2009
So the oldest 2007 iPhone 2G can easily download and run (most of) iPhone OS 3.1 while the current 2009 crop of HTC Dream and Magic devices on Rogers will officially be stuck on Android [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: android vs iphone, Editorial, Google, htc, rogers, The competition
Dec
18
2009
Our friends over at PreCentral.net bring word that Palm has launched a beta version of their browser-based IDE (integrated development environment) for webOS called Project Ares (sounds Manga, harkens to the Hellenic god of war [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: ares, ide, News, palm, The competition, Web Apps, webos
Dec
17
2009
Paul Thurrott over at the Windows Supersite Blog posted this up in reference to Microsoft’s apparent strategy so far when it comes to Windows Mobile and Zune.
Funny.
Steve Jobs likes to quote hockey legend [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: dilbert, Humor, Microsoft, The competition, windows mobile, zune
Dec
12
2009
Google has issued a statement on the supposed “Google Phone”:
We recently came up with the concept of a mobile lab, which is a device that combines innovative hardware from a partner with software [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: google phone, htc, Rumors, The competition
Dec
8
2009
The CrunchPad has crashed and burned amid antics and accusations worthy of the silliest TV legal dramas (Denny Crane!), but from its ashes has risen might rise the JooJoo. No, really, that’s what they’re calling [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: crunchpad, itablet, joojoo, News, The competition
Dec
7
2009
Our buddy Phil Nickinson over at sibling site WMExperts finally got his HTC HD2 on this weekend and has video’d up an amazing hands-on with what he swears is a 3-foot screen! Ahem. Anyway, I [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: hd2, htc, News, The competition