My old friend Frank McPherson and I pre-ordered the T-Mobile G1 within hours of each other last fall. However, Frank carried on as a dedicated G1 (Android) user while I returned mine during the grace period. So, I've been living vicariously through Frank's Android experiences since last October. Here's a recent question and observation from Frank that caught my interest...
Software Releases Tied To Cupcake?
Frank notes that the new USA Today and NBA Game Time (Eastern Conference only) were released around the Cupcake (Android 1.5) release. He also notes that the recent Google search location option and Google Product search barcode scanning also recently appeared. Full story...
As a long time Windows Mobile user, it is good to see that some major players have not abandoned the platform.
If Twitter doesn't give you quite enough expressive room and WordPress is too complicated to manage, you might want to take a look at Tumblr's tumblog concept that lets you easily communicate with text, photos, audio, and video with a minimum of hassle.
We are 16 days away from iPads magically appearing (but who's counting?) and bits and pieces of Apple's mobile game plan are being revealed while we wait:
Apple iWork.
How-To-Geek provides an easy-to-read how-to article to let you:
Try out Windows Phone 7 on your PC today
I downloaded and installed the Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP on a netbook running Windows 7 Ultimate Edition yesterday.
If you, like me, own a Motorola Droid, one of the next couple of days may be a special one for you:
Android Central: Verizon posts Android 2.
We've seen a lot of puzzling decisions from Apple over the years. But, this item reported by iLouge has to be one of the most unusual I've read in a while:
Apple bans protective screen film from Apple Store
That's right, those tiny thin and usually mostly clear pieces of plastic that causes your palms to sweat and beads of perspiration on your forehead as you carefully try to apply one to an iPhone screen without creating an air bubble or orienting it crooked is no longer welcome in Apple stores.
It seems as though it is the week for Google Nexus One news. Yesterday Google began selling versions of the Nexus One that works on the AT&T and Rogers 3G data networks, increasing the number of carriers that the phone works with to three.
One of the debates about the soon to ship Apple iPad is how it will be used differently from the iPhone.
At the beginning of March Google released an application called Google Gesture Search that does a search using letters that you write on the screen.