You don’t go to the store and buy a new computer with Windows 2000. Why do it with your smartphone? [Android fragmentation]

You don’t go to the store and buy a new computer with Windows 2000.  Why do it with your smartphone? [Android fragmentation]

I could point this post in th direction of the Twist and how it in and of itself is a lower-end cellphone, but really, it’s probably going to end up something like “Fragmentation is killing Android”. Well, the truth shall set you free they say. So here goes nothin’… The Motorola Twist (rumored designed pictured below) is the latest Android handset to be pushed out by Moto. The supposed specs on the document above show that instead of wowing...

Actual shocker: Moto DROID outsells iPhone in first 74 days on sale.

Actual shocker: Moto DROID outsells iPhone in first 74 days on sale.

Alright, why 74 days as a benchmark? It’s a bid odd for sure. The iPhone took 74 days to hit 1 million units sold, so it’s an easy benchmark to go by for other phones. In the case of the DROID, it’s met and surpassed the iPhone’s once thought unbeatable number by roughly half a million — no small feat I’d say. Margin of error is claimed to be pretty low since Flurry’s (the company doing the analytics grunt work) analytics tools...

Sony Ericsson X10 to be graced by modern version of Android at some point…

Sony Ericsson X10 to be graced by modern version of Android at some point…

For the sake of not rehashing on already beaten story topic, we’ll just simply state that no one is cool with Android 1.5/1.6 still being the feature OS on new phones. With that off our chest, we can look past our curtains of hostility and cynicism to a brighter future if one SE spokesperson is correct. In conversation with Cnet ASIA, the SE spokesperson mentioned that the often talked about (though still MIA with no date of US arrival) Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 will...

From the department of WTF: AT&T replacing Google search (and services?) with Yahoo equivalents.

From the department of WTF: AT&T replacing Google search (and services?) with Yahoo equivalents.

Now before we go any further, I’ll make known that I understand Google isn’t Android and Android isn’t Google. Google just so happens to be one of the biggest OHA members who puts the bulk of marketing dollars behind the mobile OS. With that said however, so far Google has been Android. Any Android device you pick up that’s been labeled a “Google Experience” device as been stuffed full of Gmail, Google Maps, Googlve Voice, etc. A...

About that amazing Nexus One display…

About that amazing Nexus One display…

If you still feel that your Nexus One is the king of crop as far as smartphone displays are concerned, you may not want to read this. (Spoiler alert: N1 display isn’t so hot!) Care for more info? Right, cheerio then. Looking at the picture above, one can easily see the difference between the top (iPhone 3GS) and bottom (N1) displays — the latter looks like junk. It looks like junk if you know what you’re looking for that is. That striping non-sense...

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