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iPad Killer – Dell Streak?

Richard Askew — Wed, 26 May 2010 14:54:26 +0000

The iPad was released with much fanfare earlier this year but was met with lukewarm reception by the public and the industry in general. Criticism over its size, Apple’s insistence in not supporting Adobe Flash and the lack of integrated camera were all high on the list of people’s annoyances with the Apple iPad.

It is of interest that Dell is now entering the market with a 5″ device that sits somewhere between a smart phone and a tablet. The Dell Streak, or Dell Mini as it will be called in the UK, boasts support for Adobe Flash and includes two cameras. On top of this the Streak will also include a MicroSD slot which means the device is expandable up to 32GB – something which both the iPad and iPhone don’t offer.

This Android based device will arrive in the UK next month so watch this space.

iPhone hacked to run Android

Steve — Sat, 01 May 2010 07:27:13 +0000

David Wang, the ‘planetbeing’ member of the group called the iPhone Dev Team (devoted to hacking iPhones) posted a video demonstrating Google’s Android operating system on an Apple iPhone.

Their demo shows the boot process — complete with the Tux Linux mascot. Wang used Android for browsing, receiving a text message, answering a phone call and playing music. The phone is set up with a dual-boot configuration and the video begins with the device running iPhone OS.

iPhone Dev Team – wikee.iphwn.org

Watch the YouTube video…

App-arently big business

Richard Askew — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:41:39 +0000

Hidden away in the latest issue of .net magazine is a little piece of information about predicted revenue generated from mobile apps.

It is predicted that by 2013 the annual revenues from services ‘upsold’ via mobile apps will total $14 billion. For those of you who actually download apps you are probably sitting there thinking “Well I am unable to choose what to eat, how to pay and how to ring my grandma, there might be something in this malarky”. But for those that aren’t the power of Apps are summarised by thousands of people on various sites, I will give you a few that are interesting but entirly subjective – the good, the bad and the ugly.

So how can an App benefit you or your business. All Apps aren’t a gimmick and some do have genuine uses. For example mobile apps can be downloaded that calculate profit margins, read PDFs and create spreadsheets. The list is endless and apps can be totally unique to your business because Apps can be built to work with your data.

Going beyond that they can actually make you money. You can sell the Apps but it is common practice to make Apps available for free and then make extended features available at a cost.

Apps have a variety of uses, our current favourite is ‘Tea Round’ , and below are a few links that may get you started:

800 million iPhone downloads

Save9 — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:40:25 +0000

Apple has sold more than 17m iPhones since the mobile device first went on sale in June 2007, the company has revealed.

At least 13.7m of that total were sold during 2008 alone – according to Apple’s head of iPhone and iPod development, Greg Joswiak.

Joswiak said the total number of devices running the system software is now more than 30m, if you include the iPod Touch, which also uses the iPhone OS.

Joswiak went on to say that so far, some 800 million applications have been downloaded for the iPhone OS platform, which works out, at more than 26 per device. It shows just how rapidly the platform has taken off, and you can see why Apple’s handset rivals are all keen to start doing providing application shops themselves.

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