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The anticipation had been building for years and the hype reached an all-time high when it became official, but did the Verizon iPhone 4 fail to meet sales expectations? We knew that pre-order sales were impressive and that Verizon set a new first-day sales record. Figures from the pre-orders are rumored to be just over…
Please allow me to indulge my photography obsession once again by sharing with you Camera+ and the process the developers take to create effects. If you’re familiar with iPhone photo apps like Instagram, Hipstamatic, Camerabag and Camera+, you’ll notice that film-style photos – especially ones that look like they’ve aged or have been taken by…
Although Android is everywhere these days, iOS brings in more dough in terms of ad revenue for free apps. It’s tough to say how long this trend will last given Android’s tremendous presence – it’s on hundreds of smartphones and tablets combined – but right now iOS has a pretty solid lead when it comes…
The iPhone 3GS is an aging beast, but still a very capable handset nonetheless. AT&T and Apple are both selling the device for $49 with a new contract, and have been for some time now, but it doesn’t seem like folks are aware or perhaps they’re just bombarded with iPhone 4 news and ads. AT&T…
The holidays were good to Apple as it saw a huge surge in iPad shipments worldwide. Combined with notebooks, Apple shipped 10.2 million mobile PCs helping it speed right past HP, who shipped 9.3 million units worldwide in the mobile PC space. This puts Apple and HP at 17.2% and 15.6% of the worldwide marketshare…
Anyone who reads my posts here with any regularity knows I love photography, and the iPhone has been such an excellent camera because I always have it with me. Over the years, the quality of the iPhone’s camera has improved, and so have the apps that support it. Camera+ is definitely one of my favorite…
It’s not entirely surprising to learn that Android has taken off in a big way, but Eric Schmidt threw down some numbers at Mobile World Congress during a keynote today that is surprising nonetheless. Given the number of smartphones and tablets that support the Google operating system, it’s no surprise that it is quickly becoming…
The Apple iPad has gotten plenty of love in terms of books and periodical publications, and it seemed like Android was still a long way before it would get any serious apps from the big publishers. However, Conde Nast is reportedly preparing its publications for Android now that version 3.0, or Honeycomb, is going to…
The iPhone has always taken some pretty amazing photos, but only recently – with iOS 4 – did it allow digital zoom. Even then, using digital zoom can produce some pretty awful results: images tend to get pretty noisy or blurry, especially if you’re not holding your phone perfectly still. With a crazy telephoto zoom…
Twitter addicts who happen to use Windows Phone 7 devices now have something to look forward to: the Microsoft mobile platform will be getting a native Twitter client some time in the second half of this year. Yes, it’s a while from now, but better late than never. And with all that time to get…