Back in November, Verizon spent a truckload of money on marketing their new hot baby, the Motorola DROID. Several months later, we can see that the marketing paid off relatively well with Motorola enjoying some of the best income they’ve seen since the RAZR days with Verizon seeing an equally nice share of added income. Around that same time, a somewhat humorous though useless app called “DROID does” was submitted to Apple for sale in the App Store. The...
Being on the mobile web just a few short years ago meant navigating extremely rudimentary WAP web pages and dealing with painfully slow load times. That is if you could even get a site to properly/completely load on your device. Thankfully technology doesn’t sit still and in fact runs a breakneck speed. In today’s world, we have browsers such as Mobile Safari, Mobile Chrome, SkyFire, and Opera mini to name a few. While all of the mobile browsers listed (and...
When consumers have to take fair use matters into their own hands, things can often get complicated and messy. Much hoop jumping and settings changes are often required leaving the goal being sought one for only the more tech literate. In regards to tethering iPhone OS 3.0, especially in places where there isn’t any support at all, let alone a paid solution, users now have a quick and free option. Instead of the older methods that have beena round for awhile...
Now before you sell your background capable smartphone, put on a cape, and try to jump off the roof, you may want to first know that it isn’t true background processing still. It isn’t like you can open an app such as Pandora, get the digital bits flowing and then back out of it expecting to still hear your streaming audio goodness in the background. That still won’t fly. However, thanks to mobile Safari’s latest updates and support for HTTP...
While the iPhone’s Mobile Safari web browser and Opera mobile have been jockeying the numero uno position since ’09 started, the latest results are in showing that Opera has once again surpassed the iPhone in mobile web browsing market share. The reason? Who knows the real reason, other than Opera saw a sharp increase in web usage, accounting for a 24.6% share of the mobile web market. The iPhone on the other hand fell to 17.9%. Such statistics may be...
