July 2010
6 posts
Meet the aPad. →
Android 1.5-powered tablet. 7 inches. Has a camera. Roughly $200. Seems good for people who enjoy stretched out Android apps on a 7-inch display.
The same guys are working on an Android 2.1 tablet that seems to be a lot more usable and seems to have better specs. Bump the specs up a bit, throw Froyo on it, and it’d probably be a fairly decent tablet hardware-wise.
Then the only issue is...
Free idea. Get on it.
I’ve wanted to write a social network curator for a while now, but I haven’t had the time and don’t envision having it anytime soon.
Each one of your “friends” gets a point value. The people you care most about get a higher value, the people you care less about get a lower value. Each time they share something, that post gains whatever amount of points your friend...
State of the Iconoclasm (iOS4 Edition)
There are lots of questions on why it’s taking so long for Iconoclasm to be updated for iOS 4; I’m going to lay out what’s going on, what’s going to happen, and why it’s going to happen this way.
1. 3.1.x support is going away.
I want to devote my energy into making Iconoclasm better for users of the most current versions of the operating system. 3.1.x differs...
What Apple's Friday Press Conference Should Have...
All phones have weak spots.
The iPhone’s weak spot, due to the external antenna design, takes a ~24dB hit instead of around ~14dB like other phones.
In low coverage areas [which there are a lot of because our partner, AT&T, is incompetent], the extra ~10dB lost may cause you to drop calls.
The issue goes away by: holding the phone differently, using a case, or not using AT&T.
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Marco.org: Great since day one →
What keeps nearly every Android device and OS release from being truly great are deep-rooted issues that have no apparent solution for the foreseeable future. The device manufacturers aren’t very good at software, yet they keep writing their own. The OS has no consistent hardware platform to target. The manufacturers produce devices with inconsistent build quality (the Droid’s battery door, the...
