Editor’s note: I meant to blog about this today, but looks like my colleagues over at VoX have beat me to it. So, rather than try to do a better job, read do any work at all, I’ll just repost it. Free content w00t! Although I no longer carry an iOS device, I’ve seen Voice… Read More

Apple announced a lot today as WWDC began. Chief among the announcements is a long-overdue redesign for iOS, which looks essentially the same in iOS 6 as it did in iPhone OS 1, or whatever they versioned it back in 2007. The redesign is very slick, and as expected by many, focuses on reducing design… Read More

Apple’s earnings noted a halo effect, a.k.a. as the iPhone as a gateway drug. Enterprise iPhone 4S activations spike, highlight Apple’s halo effect | ZDNet Since its release in 2007, the iPhone has served as the perfect gateway drug to other Apple products in the home. Apple is now seeing this among enterprise buyers too.… Read More

I’m finally upgraded my wife’s original iPhone last week. Despite her protestations that the old one was just fine, she’s in love with the new one, a 4 not 4S. The reason I got an iPhone 4 is, well, they’re easy to find, and I wanted this to be a surprise with instant gratification. The… Read More

This will sound a bit get-off-my-lawn, but smartphones are too much alike nowadays. Recently, I saw several smartphones laid out at my gym, and I was struck at how much alike they looked, despite being produced by different manufacturers and rocking different carriers and OSes. It’s all black bricks with big screens anymore. I’ve followed… Read More

My move from the HTC EVO 4G that has served me well since Google IO 2010 to a brand new Nexus S 4G is nearly complete. Frankly, the biggest issue so far has been dealing with the carrier, i.e. Sprint. I’ve spent more than three hours on the phone with Sprint and in Best Buy stores trying… Read More

This post on TechCrunch caught my attention initially because of the obvious factor. Big Surprise! The iPad Trumps Android Tablets At The Office Further down, there’s an interesting passage: At the same time, my gut tells me this iPad craze has a lot to do with status. Back before the iPhone, business men carried around… Read More

After more than a year away, I may have to go back to iOS. After upgrading my EVO to Cyanogenmod 7 (@cyanogen), the Gingerbread release, I’ve been having numerous issues, the biggest of which is that I’m not receiving all my calls, which kinda defeats the phone’s purpose. I know, shades of AT&T iPhone complaints.… Read More

Today, Robert Scoble (@scobleizer), one of the big proponents for apps mattering, responded to DHH’s (@DHH) assertion that core experience, not ancillary apps, matters most. Scoble’s main point is that people don’t want to look stupid so they buy the phone with the most “app potential” even if they don’t use these apps themselves. This… Read More

Jason Grigsby (@grigs) put this seed in my head a couple weeks ago, and this post by DHH (@DHH) sums up the same essential point quite nicely, i.e. apps don’t matter. Ten apps is all I need – (37signals) Many pundits and bloggers like to point to apps as the main difference between iOS and… Read More

This is worth a read if you’re interested in the recent, rapid innovation in credit card purchasing. @chexton » Blog Archive » Why Square could be one of the greatest Trojan Horses in recent tech history My short-sighted question about the seemingly competing innovations of Square and NFC are succinctly addressed thusly: Firstly, although Square currently relies on… Read More

Two major developments, not surprises mind you, this week pertaining to credit card payments. First, Square announced Square Register, the next step in their quest to free merchants from expensive POS terminals. Square’s Disruptive New iPad Payments Service Will Replace Cash Registers I’m a big fan of Square and its conveniently tiny little doohickey, essentially a… Read More

Hot on the heels of the Imaginary Phone comes this gesture-controlled music player/workout tracker. Adrien Guenette Might Be Onto Something With His Gesture-Controlled Music Player Interesting. Gestures seem to be all the rage among smart designers, but will they catch mainstream attention? Probably not until Apple builds them into the next generation of iPhones, he… Read More

Thought this was a funny observation about the equally frustrating but different aspects of owning Android phones and iPhones. Via Geekosystem h/t fnordramen Coincidentally, I spent about half a day last week upgrading to CyanogenMod (@cyanogen), which is still the closest thing to running vanilla Android if you’re not rocking a Nexus One or Nexus S. The latest version,… Read More

Nielsen released some mobile statistics, which set off the usual ink-spill, and yes, I know I’m also guilty. As noted previously by Jason Grigsby (@grigs), not all analysis is created equal. Anyway, among other things is this observation: Trends Show Android Gaining Among The Young And Vivacious I had the misfortune of eavesdropping on a… Read More

The most interesting nugget I’ve seen from today’s iPad 2 announcement was about iTunes, specifically that iTunes contains 200 million accounts. Apple Now Has 200 Million iTunes Accounts, Biggest Credit Card Hub On Web You can create an Apple ID without attaching a credit card, and I think you can use iTunes with that same… Read More

Very interesting post, especially as the Motorola Xoom finishes its first week of sales. Why operators will find it hard to sell tablets | asymco When the iPad was announced and ultimately released, a very common phrase thrown about was that it’s “a large iPhone.” More accurately, the iPhone is “a small iPad.” Even though… Read More

In case you haven’t noticed, the smartphone has begun trickling down and replacing, for lack of a better word, dumb phones. Case in point, the Huawei Ascend, which runs Android 2.1 and can be bought without a contract, i.e. unsubsidized, from Cricket for $150. The service costs $55 a month, including, well everything. Not too… Read More

Rich (@rmanalan) has been bragging about CyanogenMod (@cyanogen) for nearly a month because it provides the closest experience to a vanilla Android install, if you don’t have a Nexus One. For the unfamiliar, the basic Android distro is modified by hardware manufacturers (e.g. HTC, Motorola, Samsung) and carriers (e.g. Sprint, Verizon, AT&T) and installed on… Read More