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Mar 8 2010

iPhone Games Can be Ported to Palm webOS PDK in “Days”? — The Competition

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 [...]


Mar 5 2010

All CrackBerry.com Gets For it’s 3rd Birthday is… a BlackBerry Slider?! — The Competition

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 [...]


Feb 16 2010

HTC Desire = Nexus One + Sense UI — The Competition

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 [...]


Feb 15 2010

Windows Phone Series 7 — Is it Competition for the iPhone?

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 [...]


Feb 15 2010

Microsoft to Unveil Windows Phone 7 Series at MWC Today — The Competition

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 [...]


Feb 14 2010

SPE at Mobile World Congress 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 [...]


Feb 11 2010

Gates/Allchin Email: iTunes “Smoked” Microsoft, Caught them “Flat Footed”

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 [...]


Jan 21 2010

Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus for Verizon, PreCentral.net Reviews — the Competition

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, [...]


Jan 19 2010

Windows Mobile 7, Microsoft’s Attempt to Leapfrog iPhone 4 — The Competition

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) [...]


Jan 16 2010

Nexus One Video Review — The Competition

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 [...]


Jan 5 2010

The Competition: Android Central Nexus One Meta Live Blog: 1pm ET/10am PT

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 [...]


Dec 30 2009

Google Nexus One Phone Priced at $530 Unlocked, $180 on 2-year T-Mobile Contract?

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 [...]


Dec 29 2009

The Competition: Palm webOS 1.3.5 Brings Speed, not iTunes Hackery

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 [...]


Dec 23 2009

UPDATED: The Competition: Google Nexus One Phone Gets Hands-on, UI Walkthrough

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 [...]


Dec 22 2009

2007 iPhone 2G is on iPhone 3.1, 2009 Android Dream/Magic Stuck on 1.5

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 [...]


Dec 18 2009

The Competition: Palm Launches Ares Beta, Browser-based webOS Development Environment

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 [...]


Dec 17 2009

Dilbert Pokes Fun At the (Windows Mobile, Zune) Competition

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 [...]


Dec 12 2009

UPDATED: The Competition: Google Phone Commeth? (Not Really)

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 [...]


Dec 8 2009

Mythical iTablet Competitor CrunchPad Undead — JooJoo Coming for $500

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 [...]


Dec 7 2009

The Competition: HTC HD2 Hands-on

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 [...]