In obvious news, people want iPads and not iPad clones
Tablet computers aren’t selling as many units as every company who isn’t Apple hoped for. There’s a surprise.
Category: Apple
Where will we have seen the iPhone charger before?
Apple has a brand new way of charging the iPhone that has not yet been announced? Okay, place your bets if this will upset the Palm fans (touchstone wireless charging), the Seiko kinetic watch, the PowerMat charging pad, or those people who make bottle dynamos for your bike?
To play again, please pay a quarter to your smartphone
More games are downloaded to smartphones than applications (and IOS owners spend more time playing games than using other applications. This is news? Come on, everyone of my generation got a ZX Spectrum because of the educational stuff, but ended up perfecting their performance of a Quirkafleeg.
Smartphone karma app as Orange lets you “Do Some Good”
An interesting one here from Orange, which asks “if you have five minutes to spare, could you do some good?” Their latest application, “Do Some Good” does the asking and lets you fill in surveys, helping out charities in your local area, sharing ideas and generally being a jolly good person and helping out others in the world. Available for Android, iOS and Symbian via Orange’s dedicated site.
Is it right to big up the iPad competition?
Just because there are lots of alternatives to the iPad at the point of sale, that doesn’t mean they are effective competition, it just means that box manufacturers have new boxes to sell. The question is whether the pubic will buy these new shiny toys instead of an iPad.
Another app that lets you digg apps
Trying to work out what application will amuse your ADHD for the next fifteen minutes on your smartphone? Have a look at Ribblet, from Australian Mark Biegel. It takes the app catalogue of Android and iOS and adds a Digg style mechanic of thumbs up and down ratings on top of the list, along with following other users that match your style. It seems to be a common problem that people want to address, how to find a good app, and lots of apps out there are hoping to be the nexus, creating both a focal point in the ecosystem,
