How Android took over the UK smart phone marketIn just 18 months, Google’s Android has managed to nab around half of the smart phone market in the UK. That could raise to 70% in just one or two years.
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Why I dumped my smart phone
Early adopter Sam Graham-Felsen was an iPhone addict from the minute it came out, until realising it had taken over his life. He explains why he quit back in 2009 for a plain old Nokia and won’t be trading it in for the latest model.
Why I’m ditching my iPhone for Android
Tech journo Daniel Lyons is breaking up with his iPhone. Google’s new Android OS, Froyo, blows Apple out of the water.
Nexus One got nixed: the death of the Google phone
Remember how the mythical GooglePhone was going to overtake the iPhone? Despite the hype, Nexus One sunk like a stone. Dan Nosowitz explains what went wrong.
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Apple’s secret iPhone Developer Agreement
The previously secret agreement all Apple app developers are required to sign has been made public through a very clever legal loophole (the NASA app meant it was FOI-able). Read it in all its super-strict glory.
Why Telstra castrated a great phone
Telstra’s kneecapping of HTC’s handsome new HD2 reveals a company more interested in controlling you than competing for your business, writes John Addis
Jesus phone 2.0? Google launches their smart phone
After much speculation and anticipation, Google has finally released Nexus One, its own smart phone which runs on the Android operating system. Can the Nexus One beat the iPhone in the superphone wars?
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What’s in the Google phone?
Hackers have infiltrated Google’s uber-hyped new phone, Nexus One, to find out exactly what the gadget will have to offer. So far, they’ve turned up a light sensor, an accelerometer, a WiFi/Bluetooth/FM radio, a magnetic compass and a 5MP camera with autofocus and flash.
The real reason Google is going mobile
By launching its own mobile phone, and selling direct to consumers, Google is trying to turn the entire mobile market on its head. It’s a potential win for consumers, but the telecommunications industry won’t take it lying down.
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The Google phone
It’s official: Google is making its own smart phone. It’s called “Nexus One”. It will be out in January. It looks like this. It’s pretty awesome.
Telstra’s iPhone stuff-up: network is no (3) gee whiz
In a bid to curb an exodus of customers to Optus and Vodafone, Telstra last week announced that it would be reducing the cost of iPhone handsets by $100 until Christmas.
Swyping: the new typing
Swyping — a new technology for typing on a touch-screen phone, where the user swipes their finger from one letter to the next — is set to launch next year, and could blow the old method of clumsily poking the screen with your finger out of the water.
The 20 best gadgets of the decade
iPods, flash drives, smart phones and eReaders: the noughties was truly the decade gadgetry came into its own. Paste looks at the 20 most innovative and important gadgets of 2000-2009.
Move over, Apple: get ready for the Google Phone
It’s only been a rumour until now, but TechCrunch says it can now confirm: Google is making its own mobile phone, and it should be out early next year. Time for Steve Jobs to start sweating?
Why China hates the iPhone
The rest of the world may be experiencing iPhone fever, but public reaction to the phone’s release in China has been decidedly tepid. And it’s not just the high price that is turning consumers off — it’s the government’s continued stranglehold on the Net.
Running a country? There’s an app for that!
The Obama administration has created its own “app store” for government employees, to make sure all public servants are up with the latest high-tech tools for running the country.
Do gadgets make us lonely?
Is our high-tech world really ruining communication and driving us further into isolation? Not at all, says DVICE: smart phones, portable games, digital cameras and other gadgets just give us new ways to share and play.
