Jan 08
As the Consumer Electronic Show rings in the new year, Nvidia is up first to announce new products. Yesterday they announced their fourth-generation Tegra mobile SoC. Previous generation versions of Nvidia’s smart phone/tablet product were known for their aggressive performance out of the gate, but have usually been overshadowed by later chips from TI, Qualcomm …
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Jul 03
Yes, this post is late. Jelly Bean is old news. But as I said, my schedule is limited. It seems like only yesterday that Google was showing off Android 4.0 — Ice Cream Sandwich — to a demanding world. After years of Google’s flagship mobile OS being a drift with carrier and OEM skins, it …
Permanent link to this article: http://digit.algravitas.com/2012/07/google-io-2012-jelly-bean/
Feb 28
Looks like the rumors were true. Apple will be hosting an iPad event March 7 in San Francisco, as the company tends to do. Demand for a new iPad is at a fever pitch, but so is the competition from other tablet manufacturers. Apple is going to need a major upgrade to maintain their lead. …
Permanent link to this article: http://digit.algravitas.com/2012/02/ipad-3-event-is-on-for-march-7th/
Aug 20
I can’t say that this should come as a surprise. I saw the writing on the wall months ago, but now my fears have been confirmed: HP is killing off its webOS development and products. The company that we all thought could save Palm’s last golden egg instead publicly crucified the platform, never giving it …
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Jun 21
Late last year Nokia was in trouble. Once the world’s most popular mobile phone maker and a leader in the smartphone market, the Finnish company had fallen on hard times. Stagnation was the prognosis. Nokia’s once powerful Symbian operating system had become antiquated, its hardware representative of old-world thinking. Nokia’s platform was “burning”. In a …
Permanent link to this article: http://digit.algravitas.com/2011/06/meegos-last-chance-the-n9/
Feb 24
Last year, in a vain attempt to create some sort of quarterly feature, I published the “State of the Telecoms” accessing each of the four major carriers and their pros and cons. I think it was a pretty dry post. So instead, I’ve decided this year to focus in on what you guys really want. …
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Feb 14
The mobile scene has been on fire in the past week or so, and all of this has culminated at the Mobile World Congress going on now in Barcelona. Today, Microsoft head Steve Ballmer presented the latest updates to the Windows Phone 7 operating system, coming in March. Much like Apple finally implemented, WP7 now …
Permanent link to this article: http://digit.algravitas.com/2011/02/briefly-windows-phone-7-improvements/
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