Heather Armstrong is a professional blogger who puts virtual pen to paper over at the immensely popular website Dooce. With over 1 million Twitter followers, 100,000 unique visitors to her website on a daily basis and estimated ad revenue of approximately $40,000/month, Armstrong has made a strong career out of candidly writing about cleaning diapers, [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, December 11, 2010
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A Texas man named Aron Embry was reportedly using a brand new Motorola Droid 2 when the device spontaneously exploded, causing his ears to bleed. Not surprisingly, Embry is now looking for an attorney and might decide to sue. Check out the news clip below. Did anyone else notice that this dude sounds exactly like [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 23, 2010
Apple’s unwillingness to support Flash on the iPhone was cemented this past April when Steve Jobs penned a letter outlining all the reasons why Apple is not too keen on the technology. At the same time, critics like to point to no Flash support as a key downside to iPhone ownership. All the while, the [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 23, 2010
Apple today added the Droid X as the latest entry on its list of smartphones which display signal attenuation.
Continue reading...Thursday, July 8, 2010
With Apple still attempting to recover from the public relations fiasco resulting from antenna issues on the new iPhone 4, Verizon decided to have a little bit of fun at Apple’s expense in the form of a new full page ad for the upcoming Droid X which first appeared in the New York Times. One [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 17, 2010
MacRumors points us to a new teaser ad for the upcoming Motorola Droid X. As you can tell, Motorola is touting a 720p screen, suggesting that the device might carry a resolution of 1280×720. One of the key selling points of the upcoming iPhone 4 has been the device’s high res and 326 pixel-per-inch Retina [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 24, 2010
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Back in January, the Moto Development Group tested the efficiency and accuracy of capacitive touchscreens across a number of devices. When the dust settled, the iPhone’s touchscreen reigned supreme. But not everyone was convinced that the testing was all that telling, particularly because it was done with a human finger, making the test prone to [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 24, 2010
After posting disappointing earnings last week, shares of Palm plummeted nearly 20% down to $4.59 a share, marking a new 52 week low for the beleaguered stock. And unfortunately for Palm, it doesn’t seem like there’s much of an upside with a few analysts lowering their price target for Palm all the way down to [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 11, 2010
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Spearheaded by the iPhone, capacitive touchscreens are fast becoming the de-facto standard for smartphones, but the implementation of capacitive technology doesn’t always yield a consistent user experience across varying smartphone models. It takes finesse to create a touchscreen system that’s pleasant to use, because touchscreens require seamless integration between hardware components, software algorithms, and user-interface [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, December 5, 2009
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It sure must be nice to be an ad-exec. While the days of chugging Scotch during lunch a’la Mad Men may be a thing of the past, creating non-sensical and tangential commercials will never go out of style. Case in point, the most recent commercial for the Motorola Droid which tries to stick it to [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 30, 2009
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Not everyone is a fan of the Motorola Droid. Stewart Alsop, for one, goes off on what he describes as a shoddy mobile OS coupled with moderately good hardware. Alsop’s issues with Android’s responsiveness for example, or lack thereof, aren’t new, and while manufacturers continue to flock to Android, the software itself seems like it [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 16, 2009
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Gigaom reports: We have been following the Droid pretty closely, and once we learned that the device had a solid (if not blockbuster) weekend, we decided to get a better grasp of the Droid-fever that seems to be spreading across the nation. Flurry, which tracks the usage of mobile applications across various platforms, ran a [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 9, 2009
According to Androidandme, the highly praised Motorola Droid ships with a 512 MB ROM, which means that the Droid only has 256 MB of storage available for apps. That’s pretty pathetic for a phone being positioned as a true iPhone replacement. As we’ve argued before, the differences in hardware amongst competing smartphones will eventually begin to converge, [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 5, 2009
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Now this sure is an interesting rumor. The Boy Genius Report, citing 2 separate sources, reports that AT&T is soon planning to sell an 8GB model of its latest and greatest iPhone, the 3GS, for only $99. Currently, consumers can purchase an old 8GB iPhone 3G for $99, but if they want the faster and [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 4, 2009
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With the Droid launch just days away, the hype surrounding the latest device from Motorola has taken on iPhone like proportions. And to Motorola’s credit, it seems that every Droid review we’ve come across has been overwhelmingly positive, and also to Motorola’s credit, the spec sheet on the Droid is undeniably impressive. But just as [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 3, 2009
We can’t lie, this commercial for the upcoming Motorola Droid is cool as hell. It’ll take more than a commercial, though, to convince us that it’s a better device than the iPhone.
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