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Android beats iPhone in Facebook users

Android beats iPhone in Facebook users

19 December 2011 by Discuss (2)

Earlier this month Facebook for Android was updated with a new look and apparently the update has worked out well. TechCrunch reports that Facebook on Android has more active users than Facebook on the iPhone daily. This is the first time the number of daily users on Android has been higher than the number of …

T-Mobile pits the Amaze 4G against the iPhone 4S, Street Fighter style

T-Mobile pits the Amaze 4G against the iPhone 4S, Street Fighter style

15 December 2011 by Discuss (1)

It’s a common enough argument: my phone is better than your phone. If you’ve got any friends who are particularly attached to their iPhones, you might hear it a lot. T-Mobile’s out to end the debate, and they’re not above using Scott Pilgrim-grade nostalgia to do it. Their latest anti-iPhone commercial pits their current flagship …

Quid pro quo: Motorola granted injunction against Apple in Germany

Quid pro quo: Motorola granted injunction against Apple in Germany

09 December 2011 by Discuss (1)

There are all sorts of appropriately snarky comments one could place here. But we’ll stick to the facts, ma’am, just the facts: FOSS Patents reports that Motorola Mobility has been granted a preliminary sales injunction against Apple in Germany, based on one of its wireless communications patents. Unless Apple can get the ruling overturned or …

Consumer Reports: iPhone 4S is OK, but can’t beat Android

Consumer Reports: iPhone 4S is OK, but can’t beat Android

09 November 2011 by Discuss (2)

Apple earned itself a black eye during the antenna debacle after the iPhone 4′s launch, leading the highly respected Consumer Reports to recommend against purchasing the ubiquitous smartphone. (They didn’t think they were holding it wrong.) Apple’s solved its reception issues for the most part, and Consumer Reports has responded in kind, recommending the iPhone …

iPhones dominate AT&T Q3 sales, but Android is catching up

iPhones dominate AT&T Q3 sales, but Android is catching up

20 October 2011 by Discuss (1)

For a long time, there was no real challenger to the iPhone’s smartphone dominance. That all changed after Android started getting traction and the devices running the OS started to sell in droves. AT&T was the first of the iPhone carriers in the US and the iPhone still continues to be the most common smartphone …

Ballmer says you need to be a computer scientist to use Android

Ballmer says you need to be a computer scientist to use Android

19 October 2011 by Discuss (22)

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is at it again with wild comments about the competitors of Windows Phone reports Telegraph.co.uk. Ballmer was blasting Android at the Web 2.0 summit in San Francisco recently claiming that the OS was difficult to use. Ballmer went so far as to say that you needed to be a computer scientist …

Espier Launcher temporarily cures iPhone envy

Espier Launcher temporarily cures iPhone envy

17 October 2011 by Discuss (10)

We give Apple a lot of grief here for outdated software, lackluster hardware, litigating for a monopoly, designing form over function, needlessly restricting their App Store, engineered obsolescence, hyperbolic marketing and… where was I? Oh yes, despite all that, Apple makes a fine-looking phone operating system. Many have tried and mostly failed to emulate the …

Survey: most Android owners aren’t interested in the iPhone 4S

Survey: most Android owners aren’t interested in the iPhone 4S

14 October 2011 by Discuss (7)

Apple’s iPhone 5 iPhone 4S releases today, and as usual it’s gobbled up its fair share of the tech buzz ever since its announcement. But according to a recent survey by Retrevo, most of the consumer interest is coming from existing iPhone users, not the ever-expanding Android userbase. According to the 1,300 responders, just 12% …

Siri alternatives for Android users

Siri alternatives for Android users

13 October 2011 by Discuss (9)

The only thing that was major about the unveiling of the iPhone 4S was the new Siri voice assistant service. All the other stuff about the iPhone 4S was just not that interesting. If you are on an Android phone and like the idea of Siri, several apps out there will give you similar features …

Samsung steals some iPhone 4S thunder down under

Samsung steals some iPhone 4S thunder down under

12 October 2011 by Discuss (1)

Samsung figured it would take the chance to do a little scrapping out behind the gym with Apple with the iPhone 4S set to launch in Australia this week. Samsung set up a little pop up store right next door to the big Apple Store in Sydney and then offered the very nice Samsung Galaxy …

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