A story came out last week during the Where 2.0 conference hosted by O’Reilly that, unbeknownst to most iPhone owners, that iOS tracks your location and keeps this valuable information in a file. The unencrypted file is then housed on the computer in which you back your phone up to and can be utilized to…
Sonos announced their intent to build a controller application for Android months ago. This welcome news comes to Android users who want to utilize their phone to control music throughout their house, much like iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch users can do now. The Android app has been released and is not available in the Android Market. To…
OtterBox, based in Fort Collins, Colorado, makes sharp looking cases that provide rugged protection for a wide array of devices including iPhones (all models), Android devices, eBooks and tablets. When I recently bought a T-Mobile G2 device (also called the Desire Z outside of the United States), I wanted to protect the device and after…
Big news out of Waterloo, Ontario this week. At the annual CTIA conference in Orlando, Florida, BlackBerry finally announced the pricing and release date of the PlayBook. The much anticipated tablet will be released on April 19 and will be priced at $499, $599 and $699 for the 16GB, 32GB and 64GB models, respectively. The…
I love the Apple ads titled “If you don’t have an iPhone” which show that basically the iPhone is the only smartphone worth it’s lick. An Android fan, presumably in the UK, has countered with an excellent video showing the usefulness and extent of the Android platform. I try not to get sucked into fanboy…
A few weeks ago, some numbers came out from Canalys saying that Android was now the number one market share for smartphones in the United States. I didn’t buy into it as I find that firms numbers to be suspect all around. However, comScore has released its figures recently and affirmed the results. In the…
If you are a smartphone user, you are likely utilizing your mobile phone in many different aspects of your life. From checking Facebook while you’re on the bus or waiting in a line to snapping photos of your friends and family; smartphones are immensely useful in a many different contexts. There is one arena where…
If you have a smartphone, what activity do you conduct most often on your favorite little handheld device? If you’re like most Brits, the functions you use your phone for are likely social networking. In fact, Facebook is garnering a truly incredible amount of time that folks in the UK spend on their mobile phones….
One of the great things about Android is the open source community that releases really interesting custom versions of the Android OS. Because Android is fully open source, groups can create custom versions of the OS for different Android phones. CyanogenMod is one of those groups. The organization has released a release candidate of Version…
Great news for Sonos lovers (like me!) who also happen to be Android device users. Everyone’s favorite Interenet connected sound system will soon have an Android app to control their music all throughout the house – or wherever you have a Sonos system set up. For those unfamiliar, Sonos makes an amazing Internet-connected speaker called…