This week RIM have been promoting their BlackBerry Runtime for Android Apps which allows developers to make a few tweaks, repackage their Android apps online then upload them to BlackBerry App World. This should make porting between Android and BlackBerry simple and removes some of the challenges of porting between operating systems to ensure that [...]
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Take Note: One Million Samsung Super-Sized Smartphones Worldwide
by Daniel Ashdown on January 4th, 2012
A few months ago I blogged on a new smartphone (or whatever the journalist of your choice called it) from Samsung: the Galaxy Note. While the press continue to wrangle with a form-factor definition (“phablet” is my current personal favourite), Samsung has announced the device has sold one million units worldwide. The company has taken [...]
Tablet Market Primed for Quad-Core: Latest ASUS device announced with NVIDIA Tegra 3
by Daniel Ashdown on November 30th, 2011
Not resting on its laurels after winning Stuff magazine’s gadget of the year, ahead of Apple’s iPad 2, ASUS has announced an enhanced version of its tablet/notebook hybrid, the Transformer. The Transformer Prime (a name which may sound more like an action figure than a personal computer) is the first device to carry NVIDIA’s Tegra [...]
Adobe announced this week that it would no longer be developing a Flash plugin for mobile browsers, prompting comments that Steve Jobs has had the last laugh. After all, the iPhone does not support Adobe Flash and Jobs was highly critical of its reliability, security and performance. Jobs’ essay, ‘Thoughts on Flash’ is well worth [...]
A ‘Key’ Announcement from RIM: Five New Devices, All Touchscreen
by Daniel Ashdown on August 10th, 2011
Last week RIM announced 5 new Blackberry models in what amounted to a continuing shift towards touchscreen-centric interfaces. In Juniper Research’s recent report on the Smartphone market we looked in great detail at the trends in interface technology, amongst other things, and RIM’s move fits with what we are seeing. While there are compelling reasons [...]
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