Posts Tagged ‘android

26Feb

R.I.P. Palm

Posted by Frank Koehntopp as Blogging

Welcome back!
Come on, admit it: we all knew the Pre would not save Palm, didn’t we?
I mean, I must have bought/used Palm’s complete product line back in the 90s, but they really lost me with the Treo. They dropped the ball a few years ago when the competition started to do ‘proper’ USB, synced to [...]

04Nov

Mobile OS winners: iPhone, Palm WebOS, Android

Posted by Frank Koehntopp as Blogging

At least that’s what Aral Balkan thinks, and I’m tempted to agree.

“WTF?” I hear you say – what about all those years of Symbian and Windows Mobile dominating the market?
Well, these are great operating systems, and they deserve a lot of credit. But from *today’s* perspective, they bet on the wrong horse.
What makes the iPhone, [...]

29Sep

HTC Dream – Unsyncable?

Posted by Frank Koehntopp as Blogging

So the HTC Dream, Google’s Android phone, does not sync to any desktop app?
Why isn’t there the same outrage as over the iPhone’s iTunes link, and all the other perceived lock-in?
Give me a break.

24Sep

iPhone vs. Symbian vs. Android

Posted by Frank Koehntopp as Blogging

Tarek has written a well detailed post on why he prefers a Symbian S60 phone over the iPhone. Mainly he mentions technical reasons, such as lack of multitasking or the iPhone’s mediocre video and bluetooth features.
Google’s new Android phone, the G1, has gotten most of this weeks media attention. The funny thing is, it seems [...]


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