This weekend I got a tip that my local Best Buy was selling the new Nexus 7s early, so I jumped in my car and bought one of the 16GB ones. Strangely, they didn’t have a display out or even a sign for the tablet but after speaking to a salesman, he told me that he...
HTC One Review
I recently acquired HTC newest Android device the HTC One. I can say with confidence that the One is the best Android phone I’ve seen. In fact, it is really the only one worth buying. In the One HTC has learned what every other Android device manufacture still fails...
Play Means War
Google IO fever is in full swing and, though there are a lot of interesting things coming out of this year’s IO, but there is only one real threat to Apple’s leading position in mobile Monetization. This is Play Games. Play Games functions a lot like Game Center with...
Whose Android is it Anyway?
Android is now the majority smartphone OS in terms of market share and a significant portion of that Android market is owned by Samsung. What’s interesting is that Samsung is not just shipping Google’s Stock Android but rather is skinning it with its own custom UI. I...
Chrome > Android
Andy Rubin is no longer working on the Android project at Google but, at least for now, is still part of the organization -- see his parting email here courtesy of the Wall Street Journal. The good news is that Sundar Pichai is going to be in charge of Android, but...
Ubuntu Phone OS: Initial Thoughts
Looks like Canonical is serious about making 2013 a big year for the Ubuntu project. As I am sure you are aware, Canonical revealed the Ubuntu Phone OS earlier this week. Unfortunately, like most Linux enthusiast, I have not been able get my dirty little mitts on a...
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