There is no doubt that the tablet PC (or simply tablet) has become a runaway success. People are buying tablets in droves. A number of people have wondered exactly if there is a place for the tablet. Yes; there is, but it isn’t what some people probably think it is. The Desktop/Laptop/Netbook Replacement Simply put, [...]
I know that it is more in vogue to carry around a Samsung Galaxy S III or Note II, HTC One X or X+, Apple iPhone 5, Lumia 920, and the like these days. I remember tweeting about doing something on the Nokia 808 PureView about a week or two ago, and someone responding, “How [...]
2013 is going to be an interesting year in mobile. While mobile platforms like Android and iOS have their feet planted firmly, the rest of the competition will have to slug it out for some serious stake in the market. By “the rest of the competition”, I mean the following platforms: BlackBerry 10, Windows Phone, [...]
Ubuntu is a popular free and open source Debian Linux distro for desktop computing. Well, that was until now. Ubuntu is now also available as an operating system for smartphones. And it isn’t just another smartphone OS. It is the first full PC-compatible smartphone OS. In other words, if you dock a phone running Ubuntu [...]
You have probably already heard the news of Dell exiting the smartphone business. What is interesting to me is a particular statement credited to Jeff Clarke, Dell’s head of consumer business. Here it is: It’s a content play with Android. Amazon is selling books and Google is making it up with search. So far we [...]
This evening, I received news of an upcoming low-end Windows Phone smartphone from Nokia, the Lumia 505. Technically, this naming convention suggests that it is currently the lowest ranking Lumia. The first bit of information that was pushed to me was that the 505 will pack an 8 megapixel camera. That is amazing. A low-end [...]
Yes; the smartphone world is so boring right now. This statement may come as a shock to those of you who belong to the iOS-Android generation, and this is all that you have seen. But once upon a time, there was a smartphone world with lots of excitement. We had Symbian UIQ, Symbian S60, Symbian [...]
Every time I switch to a new Android smartphone, there are certain apps that I find myself using on the device. They are essential to my needs. While once in a while, I may experiment with other apps, I have traced my usage history and have compiled a clear personal A-list. Here is the list [...]
So you finally decide to get a smartphone to enhance your productivity via apps and provide entertainment for you on the go but you do not have enough cash for the fancy Galaxy phones or Apple’s iPhone. You decide to go for a mid-range to lower-end smartphone model which is friendly on your pocket and [...]
Mobile devices have come to stay and will most definitely outlive many other technologies. Mobile devices make our lives easier. They are packed full of a wide variety of functions: calls, text messaging, photography, short notes, tasks, reminders, alarms, reading networking, etc. Over a million devices get activated every day. Here I am daring to [...]