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A collection of 10 posts

My First Android Experience: intriguing, extremely encouraging but a bit disappointing

I recently got my hands on a Nexus One, which believe it or not is my first Android-based phone. I've been trying to acquire an N1 for quite some time now, so after finally tracking an AT&T version down it quite simply couldn't

Google Android outsells Apple iPhone in Q1 of 2010

From the article: Smartphones based on Google’s Android mobile operating system have outsold Apple’s iPhone in the U.S. during the first quarter of 2010, according to a report by research firm The NPD Group. The data places Android, with 28 percent of the smartphone market, in second

Happy New Year & Browser and OS stats for 2009

First, I'd like to wish everyone a happy new year. 2009 was another great year for LQ and we have a ton in store for 2010. You may have noticed this blog has been quiescent lately. While I have been twittering regularly, the terse and off the cuff

Apple iPhone 2.0 Upgrade == FAIL

A note to Apple. I find it astonishing that you have created an upgrade procedure that can fail in a way that leaves the phone useless. You had 6+ months to prepare for this, so error messages like this are just inexcusable. Google, please hurry up with Android ;) --jeremy

Opening up Symbian - Good or Bad for Linux?

That's the question raised by this recent Nokia press release: Espoo, Finland - Nokia today announced it has launched a cash offer to acquire all of the shares of Symbian Limited that Nokia does not already own, at a price of EUR 3.647 per share. The net cash

Apple Support

Did you know that if you walk into an Apple store with a broken iPhone, in this case a roughly one inch horizontal band on the touch screen that doesn't register anything, they actually tell you to make an appointment and come back another time? I don'

Apple: "we plan to have an iPhone SDK in developers' hands in February"

Apple has finally officially announced a real SDK for the iPhone. From the Apple announcement: Third Party Applications on the iPhone Let me just say it: We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers’ hands in February. We are excited

New iPods reengineered to block synching with Linux II

A quick follow up to this post. Well, it didn't take long. I didn't expect that it would. While the instructions are still a bit convoluted, I'm sure that will change soon enough as well. I just wish companies would stop making it difficult

New iPods reengineered to block synching with Linux

While the title of this Boing Boing article is a little sensationalistic (the move was almost certainly aimed at iTunes lockin, with Linux being collateral damage) it's not too far off the mark: The latest iPods have a cryptographic "checksum" in their song databases that prevents

OpenMoko

While the iPhone has been getting all the press, something seriously interesting has been happening in the Open Source mobile space. OpenMoko devices are becoming available. From a Wired Blog: After seemingly endless delays, the OpenMoko phone is here. The first version of the NEO 1973 mobile phone, which carries