Life With Android, 1 Year Later
A little over a year ago I turned off my iPhone 3 and fired up a new HTC Evo Android handset, the initial experience I wrote about here. I recently upgraded my handset from the Evo to the just released Samsung Epic Touch and wanted to share some thoughts about Android after having lived with it [...]
The Real Problem With Mobile WiFi: Terrible UX
Stacey Higginbotham with GigaOm wonders why WiFi doesn’t relieve some of the congestion on the mobile networks. Apparently an AT&T executive says it’s like this: The executive noted that AT&T didn’t see Wi-Fi helping the nation’s No. 2 carrier offset congestion because in most cases people don’t use Wi-Fi unless they are sitting still in [...]
Pocket Data Connections
Mobile wireless devices are increasingly moving from simply consuming bandwidth to providing it. How does the future of wireless look when we all have the ability to carry a mobile network connection point in our pocket.
HP’s Pad UI Printer: We Need More Thinking Like This!
What a fabulous idea: spend $399 for a pad and get a free printer! That’s the idea behind HP’s Photosmart eStation printer, and I love it. In fact, we need more thinking like this. Why continue to offer difficult hardware pushbutton UI on so many devices when a pad interface lets you offer a much richer [...]
iPad to Get Camera?
Wow. An iPad with a camera would make a sweet augmented reality device. Hold that bad boy up and pan it around so you can really see the AR display on a big screen. Apparently Jobs slipped today and may have inadvertently preannounced this feature. Lately, I’ve been looking at various jobs and asking myself, [...]
NTP is the New SCO
NTP, the shell company whose only business is to extract ransom from real businesses does not sit on the $600 they extorted from RIM. They are now suing just about all the smartphone industry: Apple, Google, HTC, Microsoft, LG and Motorola. Is NTP the new SCO? Related posts: NTP Sues Apple, Google, Microsoft And Others [...]
The Chaos of BYOW (Bring Your Own Wi-Fi)
It all started as an innocent joke: Robert Scoble was sitting in the front row @ Apple’s WWDC conference while I was following the tweetstream from home. Little did we know out joke would soon turn serious, as Steve Job’s keynote demo crashed…
Dude – Where’s My Customer? On Telcos, Utilities and Smart Grids. Towards a “SIM Card” for Smart Grids
We had a really solid briefing with Convergys today. The firm sells software and services to telcos and utilities for customer care and billing – it has 80k employees worldwide, 550+ clients, and $3bn in revenue. According to Greenmonk research most utilities are failing to understand the the need to put the customer right at the [...]
Traffic or Device Sales, What Matters Most?
James wrote something yesterday that included this graphic: What caught my attention, as was the intention of the graphic, was the Android traffic number climbing from effectively zero to more than 40% in just a year and a couple of months. Obviously this was the intention of the graphic (note the green color of the [...]
Time for Device Independent Data Plans
The Apple iPad event is still on, and the Internet is crumbling… Twitter barely crawls, CoveritLive isn’t exactly live, the major sites providing blog coverage are barely accessible… this is iKill – the day Apple Killed The Net. But I want to talk about something more imortant: It’s a screenshot from Engadget’s coverage. Yes, reasonable [...]
