TweetDeck CEO continues backlash against Jobs
Steve Jobs' amateur sleuthing last night brought up that gorgeous TweetDeck chart showing the vast variety of Android handsets out there, which the Apple CEO used to illustrate the "daunting challenge" he perceives developers have to face when creating apps that work across all devices and OS builds for the platform. Only problem with his assertion (aside from Steve calling the company TwitterDeck)?
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: apple, ceo, developers, fragmentation, iain dodsworth, jobs, opposite-number, platform
Android 2.x now on 70 percent of all active Android phones
Time to get down and boogie if you think the Android fragmentation issue is overblown .
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: boogie, closing-the-gap, data, fragmentation, froyo, handsets, jobs, statistics, sun
Microsoft job posting hints at another Zune, or perhaps an internally-developed phone
We'd heard rumors that a new Zune was on the way, but here's a spot of evidence that something's actually up: Microsoft's adding a senior mechanical engineer to help build "the next generation of portable entertainment and communication devices." While the job listing in question is technically for Microsoft's Mobile Communications Business, which oversees Windows Phone, it's clear that some things have changed since the Entertainment & Devices shakeup : "We are the team that shipped the Zune HD," the post reads. It appears that there's a new group within Microsoft called the Portable Entertainment Group which isn't afraid to design its own hardware and includes the Zune team, though whether that hardware be Zune, phone or something more obscure still remains to be seen. Microsoft job posting hints at another Zune, or perhaps an internally-developed phone originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 11 Sep 2010 18:11:00 EST
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: business, communications, engineer, entertainment, Generation, job posting, jobs, phone, portable, windows, zune, zunehd
Keepin’ it real fake: EVO 4G Shanzai edition
Shameless isn't even the word for it. While some companies try to get away with calling themselves Nokla or BlockBerry , these Chinese KIRFers have no qualms about copying HTC's EVO 4G in its entirety (externally, anyhow). Yes, that includes the Sprint insignia and the promise of 4G, both of which are, of course, amusingly untrue.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: camera, chinese, gravy, htc, imitator, insignia, jobs, kirf, Paste, result, rides-the-winmo, shanzai, sprint, windowsmobile6.5
Apple delays white iPhone a second time, won’t ship until ‘later this year’
Man, there's about a zero percent chance that Steve Jobs and company are happy about this. Just days after shocking the market with higher-than-expected profits and revenues , Apple is having to grit its teeth once more with yet another iPhone 4 problem.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: being-delayed, delay, elusive-white, entry, fri, iphone, jobs, models, whiteiphone4
Inside Apple’s ‘black lab’ wireless testing facilities
It's not surprising that after Apple finished explaining the iPhone 4 antenna issues to the press today, the company wanted to go one step further and say "yes, actually, we do test the hell out of these phones before we release them to the public." Though Steve Jobs went over the lengthy and intensive kinds of radio evaluation that goes on at Apple's headquarters, it didn't seem to be enough for the folks in Cupertino. And that, we suspect, is why we were invited (along with a small group of other journalists) to take a brief tour of Apple's Infinite Loop labs.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: antenna, antenna-issues, black labs, doors, jobs, labs, reception, today
iPhone 4 sales: 3 million and counting, 1.7 percent returned
In today's iPhone 4 press conference out in Cupertino, Apple has revealed that they've pushed 3 million phones so far since launch a little under a month ago. For the record, that's about twice the number Apple sold in the first weekend -- 1.7 million -- so the pace has clearly slowed down a bit, though that would appear to be due almost exclusively to supply constraints.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: 3gs, apple, been-better, iphone, iphone 4, iphone4, jobs, million-phones, number, record, result
Google’s Larry Page: Steve Jobs is ‘rewriting history’ by saying Android came after the iPhone
Steve Jobs might have thought he was lightly playing down reports that the Apple / Google rivalry had dramatically changed when he said " they decided to compete with us -- we didn't go into the search business" at D8 , but it appears that his phrasing didn't sit so well with Larry Page, who told Reuters yesterday that Jobs was doing a "little bit of rewriting history," and that the "characterization of us entering [the phone market] after is not really reasonable." Page, who was being interviewed alongside Eric Schmidt, also said that Google had been working on Android for "a very long time" and that the goal was always to develop phones with solid browsers to fill a market void.
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: apple, black, business, campaign, iphone, jobs, larry-page, palm, reuters
Skype eager to work with Apple FaceTime, pretty much anyone else
We're still playing the wait-and-see game when it comes to Skype on webOS and Windows Phone 7 , but it looks as if to-be iPhone 4 owners won't have to wait long before Skype-based video chatting becomes a reality... if Skype has its way, that is.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: Capabilities, communication, facetime, game, iphone, iphone 4, iphone4, jobs, Lint, Lot, made-the-iphone, result, the-opportunity, video chat
Apple iPad and Samsung Wave share a brain
At his keynote yesterday , Steve Jobs very proudly touted the "wonderful" A4 processor , saying it was "designed by our own team" and, additionally, "is so good." That chip is the muscle inside the iPad and the new iPhone 4 , but now we're finding that others are using it too... a little more quietly
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: brain, intrinsity, ipad, iphone, iphone 4g, jobs, result, samsung wave, samsung8500, ubmtechinsights, wave 8500