The Android world was abuzz yesterday with a tutorial to have Google Voice know which phones to ring depending on location. The tutorial had a great premise but was flawed by its set-up and dependence on Locale. Though I’ve loved Locale since its inception and considered it to be a top Android app, it now [...]

There are many of us simple humans who “just don’t get” the Motorola Backflip. Their poor minds can’t fathom this oddest of twists on the QWERTY flip, and now here comes the “MOTOROIA” ME600 from Shenzhen to wrap their brain into ever more elaborate pretzel knots. The phone is a pretty faithful reproduction, but it’s [...]

The January 2010 Admob metrics report is out, and it highlights what I already talked about weeks ago, Android skews male. Other interesting tidbits: 54% are under the age of 35; 8% are 55 and over 84% would recommend to a friend; 5% would not The Motorola Droid has twice as many ad requests as the Dream/G1, [...]

Today, Sprint announced that the next generation 4G network (WiMax) will be available in new 8 cities. At the moment, the WiMax service by Sprint is currently available in Atlanta, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Ft. Worth, Honolulu, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, Portland and Seattle along with many Texas and North Carolina cities. Sprint said last year that [...]

It appears that there has been some confusion from the community at large surrounding battery performance. This was caused by my colleague Michael Chaize publishing an amazing video of Flash Player 10.1 demos on Vimeo. Bloggers from Daring Fireball and Macgasm have spent a little more time than expected studying the battery indicators, as opposed [...]

A new version  of OpenEclair has been release for public consumption.  I don’t have any real details about the contents of the new release.  I’m guessing it was a late night release and no one has updated the forum thread yet. It includes all the standard features from the previous releases and more: Features: – [...]

Tech research firm Gartner this week released a report which said that Google’s Android OS went from a 0.5 percentmarket share in 2008 up to 3.9 percent by the end of 2009, and that the rival iPhone more than doubled the size of its user base as well. In January, Apple said it had sold [...]