If you’re in the market for a tablet computer but the iPad just doesn’t do it for you, then just wait for the Fall. A number of Android alternatives are ready to hit the market over the next several months and there’s something for everyone. A collaborative Google spreadsheet has been making the rounds on Reddit this morning and offers a list of nearly 20 Android tablets ranging from cheap to expensive, locked-down to hackable, and all gathered together for comparison.
Posts Tagged ‘mobile’
Here They Come: The Android Tablet Invasion
Posted: 6th September 2010 by Connor Smith in UncategorizedTags: apple, collaborative, date-on-android, from-as-little, Ipad, market, mobile, morning, spotlight, spreadsheet, tablets-ranging
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Weekly Wrap-up: New CEO For Digg, Sue Me Paul Allen, Apple’s Fall Event, And More…
Posted: 4th September 2010 by Jane Davies in UncategorizedTags: amazon, enterprise, intel, mobile, outlook, paris, php, teenagers
For the second week in a row, Digg topped our most-read-stories list. Also this week we launched a brand new channel – ReadWriteHack – and continued our exploration of the significant Internet trends of 2010: We learned how to use the Internet of Things to hack Nike+ to do automatic Foursquare check-ins; augmented reality helped tennis fans “see through walls”; and Google Docs got real-time collaborative highlighting
China’s Baidu Refocuses on Mobile and Apps
Posted: 4th September 2010 by Arlen Vernimo in UncategorizedTags: baidu, china, chinese, computing-open, development, friends, including-games, mobile
Baidu is the most-visited website in China and has captured 70% of search revenue in that country.
Shazam for iPhone Now Makes Identifying Music Even Easier
Posted: 3rd September 2010 by Sunny Emmerwitz in UncategorizedTags: biggest-success, charts, focus-on-music, mobile, music, music-discovery, must-have-apps, opening-the-app, phone-today, red, shazam, shazam-charts, shazam-encore
The music identification app Shazam was one of the first must-have apps for the iPhone. Today, the company released one of the biggest updates in the app’s history.
Can Smartphones Replace Credit Cards?
Posted: 3rd September 2010 by JD Toms in UncategorizedTags: credit-card, credit-or-debit, media, mobile, mobile-payments, possibility, south-africa, transaction, user
While the Bank of America has partnered up with Visa to begin testing out mobile payments later this month, analyst firm Forrester says one big question remains – are consumers ready to ditch their plastic? According to Forrester analyst Emmet Higdon, the test is less one of the technology involved, but the user interface and whether or not “consumers’ current love affair with smartphones is enough to change card payment behaviors that date back more than 50 years.” Sponsor The mobile-payments trial run involves equipping a group of users’ phones with near field communications (NFC) technology, which currently does not come installed, but we expect to see as a pre-installed feature in the near future. NFC makes To make any headway, writes Higdon, “banks need to convince customers that using a mobile wallet can be as simple and convenient as swiping a plastic card”
Top 10 Twitter Apps: Why Mobile Use Is Rocketing on Twitter
Posted: 3rd September 2010 by Natasha Bane in UncategorizedTags: before-the-name, black, google-friend, mobile, number, photo, sms, the-third-party, twitter
As far as Web services go, Twitter is pretty easy to use. Fill out a brief profile, follow some people and go, right?
Phases of App Maturity: Roadmapping Your Startup’s Mobile Strategy
Posted: 2nd September 2010 by Ceri Jones in UncategorizedTags: business, curve, form, making-the-move, mobile, platform, schwarzhoff, tips
Back in August, after the release of the company’s Android app , I spoke with GetGlue CEO Alex Iskold about how his startup prepared itself for making the move to mobile . The app first launched on the Web, and thus the company’s developers were most familiar with languages native to the Web. In order to transition to mobile, Iskold and GetGlue employed the services of Appcelerator’s Titanium – a tool that simplifies native mobile app development for developers.
Windows Phone 7 Ships; Phones Coming Before the Holidays
Posted: 2nd September 2010 by Kimberly Scott in UncategorizedTags: holiday, iphone, mobile, rock-the-mobile, windows, windows-mobile, windows-phone
Microsoft’s new mobile OS has shipped to handset makers and will be appearing on phones in time for the holiday season, the company announced today. The stage is set for Microsoft to either rock the mobile world with a mainstream alternative to the iPhone and Android platforms, rebounding after a string of failures a la Bing, or flop in its attempt to catch up after ” missing a cycle .” Sponsor The long-awaited update to Windows Mobile is expected to show up on devices from Dell, HTC, Samsung and LG, so there is the possibility that an exciting handset like the Dell Lightning could rekindle interest in Microsoft’s mobile offerings.
Billboard Magazine, Est. 1894, Tries to Boost Its Digital Cred
Posted: 2nd September 2010 by Jimmy Benjamin in UncategorizedTags: billboard, billboard-com, internet, itunes, lists, media, mobile, music, over-the-years, pitchfork-media, trends, ultimate-chart
Billboard is best known for charts that rank the most popular music and musicians, which the weekly industry magazine started publishing in 1913 as a list of the most popular sheet music. Since then, topping the Billboard Hot 100 has become a coveted milestone for musicians, but the Billboard brand has lost some of its critical cache in recent decades, just as record companies saw their influence decline with the rise of the Internet
Justin.tv Launches Mobile Broadcasting App, Competes on Video Quality
Posted: 1st September 2010 by Arny Baker in UncategorizedTags: comparison, facebook, features, michael-seibel, mobile, network, phone, quality, quality-mobile, social, social-networking, the-app
Justin.tv is finally breaking into the mobile broadcasting business with today’s release of its first Android application and with an iPhone version soon to follow.