Dan Frommer on “Why Does the Next Xbox Need Discs At All?”
I would add a fourth option, “backwards compatibility”. People won’t have to add another device in their living room, where most of the Xbox console are I believe.
(Source: readwriteweb.com)
Could Instagram Come To Windows Phone Before Android?
This sounds really interesting.
Twitterrific inspired Alfred Themes
Looking fantastic. Available in dark & light.
Speaking of services, four cool ones
All possible with services in Mac OS X.
One of Mac OS X most underused features: Services
Use them and you’ll love it! I’m not sure, but most OS X users still don’t know about that powerful feature, first available in Leopard.
Compare different phone sizes in your browser
Nice overview of the different display and device sizes available in the market.
No more easy Windows Phone updates
From the official Windows Phone blog:
As we continue our growth, we won’t be individually detailing country, model, and carrier details on the Where’s My Phone Update? site any longer. And instead of my weekly blog posts, the official Windows Phone website will be the primary place for news and information about our updates, just as Microsoft Answers is there for your support questions.
“Where’s my Phone update?” was a site to easily check for the correct and current Windows Phone Version available for your model in your country. It showed the update state by Model, country, carrier? Not bad for Microsoft and a way in the right direction to light up the dark.
Microsoft’s strategy with the different releases, by letting the different carriers in each country approve the new version before released to the customer will now be a bit darker, no more lights up.
This week we started to make a new Windows Phone update —8107—available to many Windows Phone customers. The update, available to all carriers that request it, is part of our ongoing maintenance of Windows Phone.
And exactly this openness for having a overview which country and which carrier delivers the next version will now be difficult to track.
Wrong direction…
(Source: windowsteamblog.com)
AcerCloud: No comment. OK, comment - it looks like an AirPort logo upside down. This is going to be a busy week, isn’t it.
(image from Engadget)
TouchWiz: On the left, a Samsung phone, of some sort, running something; in the middle, an iPhone 3G/3GS running iPhone OS (as it would have been); on the right, a Samsung phone of some sort, running some sort of iPhone OS copy. No, you’re right, of COURSE it is different. Just look at how different it is! Look! Are you still looking?
(via The Verge, who seem to be a good source for this sort of thing. Other techblogs are available, you know.)
Seems like Samsung found its next copy object. And yes, the picture manipulated as far as I know, but compare the sizes by yourself: Samsung Galaxy Ace: 4.52 x 2.46 x 0.44 iPhone 3GS: 4.5 x 2.4 x 0.48
So, manipulation to fit the size is simply impossible…
It feels like trust
Randy Murray writes about his shopping experience in a busy Apple Store.
I pulled out my iPhone and downloaded the app right there on the spot, using the Apple Store’s wifi. I opened the app and it recognized that I was in an Apple Store. It let me scan the barcode on the product, confirm the purchase using my iTunes account, and showed me the receipt.
Read this again, unbelievable. It seems like this company trusts its customers.
Welcome to the future.
(Source: whowritesforyou.com)
60 seconds of smartphone usage
Amount of data created in 60 seconds from smartphones in the U.S.
In that minute, 4,111 ads were clicked in Mobclix’s network. That translates to 400,710 ad requests. The click-through rate of mobile ads does not appear to be very healthy. Those clicks amount to $2,340 dollars spent by advertisers in the U.S. per minute.
Have a look at the pretty cool graphic too.
(Source: readwriteweb.com)
Samsung has just distributed the worst news of this Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade cycle: the popular Galaxy S smartphone that sold 10 million units last year and the 7-inch Galaxy Tab tablet won’t be upgraded to Android 4.0. The company’s argument is that they lack sufficient RAM and ROM to run the new OS alongside TouchWiz and other “experience-enhancing” software.
(Source: theverge.com)
ICS Paper Cuts
An extensive collection of UI inconsistencies and irritations in Android 4.0
