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Low-cost Android phones: Feature phones an endangered species?

There is no doubt that there will always be a set of consumers that only want their mobile phone to be, well, a phone. Voice calling is likely to remain the ‘killer app’ for the...

13 years 11 months ago

Service-enabled gateways – The heart of the connected home

As we ring in the new year, 120,000+ people will descend on Las Vegas for the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show. The drumbeat to promote the next hot mobile or consumer...

13 years 11 months ago

Android Froyo – Making it the Best It Can Be

By many measurements, Android’s Froyo is an impressive release of a very impressive mobile operating system. Android is the poster child example for combining stability...

14 years 1 month ago

The Myth of the Killer Mobile Reference UX

The "killer" preloaded mobile UX…is the concept on life support? I just came back from IDF, and while the event was strong on mobile market assertions but somewhat lightweight on...

14 years 2 months ago

“Good” Android

Following a recent trip to China, I acquired an Android tablet running Release 1.6 (Donut). Total retail price: $90. Unlike an iPad, it is both 'Designed and Made in China.'...

14 years 2 months ago

Creating Success For Your Android Device (a.k.a lessons learned from the iPhone 4)

The avalanche of customer issues following the launch of Apple’s latest iPhone device illustrates a lesson that is not only eternally true for any consumer electronics device, but...

14 years 4 months ago

The ‘Big Reveal’ Release Approach in Mobile Linux – How Android and MeeGo Differ

A couple of weeks ago, I read through a somewhat heated email thread about the ‘Big Reveal’ mentality that Intel and Nokia were claimed to apply to the pending MeeGo 1.0 release...

14 years 5 months ago

Android Market Integration - Do You Still Care?

In the mobile phone world, content management systems to allow users to download a variety of monetizable content and (largely J2ME based) applications have been around for more...

14 years 6 months ago

How Industry Software Expertise is Helping to Solve the Android Fragmentation Dilemma

It is no secret: While Google continues to push for wide adoption of smartphones driven by its open source Android platform, most industry pundits know that manufacturers typically...

14 years 11 months ago