by raghu on March 20, 2013 ·
Philip Elmer-DeWitt of CNN Money made a note of an interesting piece of information, Samsung seems to be going all out at marketing whereas Apple seems to be going a bit calm and simple with its marketing lately. Apple is famous for hyping its products before the launch and build up huge anticipation, voluntary or not but Apple has a cult following since many years that build up the anticipation. Samsung seems to have been trying to replace Apple with their grand style marketing and the recent launch of their new flagship device, Samsung Galaxy S4, speaks more than required about it. Samsung went for broadway style theatrical launch for their Galaxy S4 which has been considered to be a pain by most tech blogs!
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by raghu on March 8, 2013 ·
With increasing number of devices comes increasing amount of fragmentation; different devices, different processors, different speeds, different GPUs, different screen size and what not! If the hardware trouble isn’t enough, developers have further trouble with different versions of OS on the devices. Flurry release a recent report which says that there are approximately 2130 mobile devices that use an app in the month of January alone! Imagine the plight of developers to make an app compatible with well, say at least most of the devices if not for all. Read on to know more about the scary truth behind app development for developers.
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by raghu on March 8, 2013 ·
It is rumoured that CEOs of Apple and Intel met to discuss over a partnership for Intel to produce Apple’ A series chips used in its mobile devices. A rumour that keep surfacing every year that it is a logical move for Apple to go ahead with Intel to manufacture its mobile processors as Intel has already been supplying processors for Apple’s computers since 2005. Intel has been struggling to keep up pace with the Mobile industry since its inception with new age mobile processors. It has been trying to push its processors into mobile devices but sadly none of them took off yet. Its much hyped Xolo series of phones are still waiting to make an impact, the Motorola Razr I looked promising but it did not manage to sell quite well either.
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by raghu on March 5, 2013 ·
Smartphones, led by Apple’s iOS devices and Google’s Android are predicted to outsell feature phones worldwide in the year 2013 says IDC in a new report. There will be a total of 918.6 million smartphones predicted to be sold in 2013 that will comprise 50.1 of the total number of phones sold in 2013. Almost a third of these phones will be sold only in China, the worlds largest smartphone consumer already that beats the US by a huge factor mainly because of lot larger population. India, though being the second largest country by population still lags behind at 6th position because of much lesser smartphone adaption in the country but IDC predicts that India will take third spot by 2017 with an year over year growth of roughly 200% in India!
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by raghu on March 5, 2013 ·
A new rumour from iMore points out to Apple sticking to its yearly iPad launch cycle of March/April, contradicting earlier rumours of Apple pushing iPad launch dates to October. After releasing iPad 3 with retina display last year it was a shocker when iPad 4 was announced merely 7 months after iPad 3 was launched. Soon rumours started to circulate around that Apple will be pushing its yearly launch dates of iPad and iPad mini to October rather than march.
If recent leaks of iPad 5 cases reveal iPad mini like design making it thinner and possible lighter as well. Apple might very well use edge to edge displays with thinner bezel thus reducing the overall size of iPad 5 by still retaining the screen size.
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by raghu on March 4, 2013 ·
Halfbrick studio, the brainchild behind amazing iOS game titles like The Age of Zombies, Fruit Nina, Jetpack Joyride and many others took an opportunity to discuss with Techcrunch their brilliant game development process. This article is definitely exciting and proves a high level insight into what goes into developing successful game titles with a vision to expand.
Their simple yet very innovative initiative, Halfbrick Fridays, helps churn out talent from all their employees with by giving them all a platform to showcase their talent. Read on to learn more about Halfbrick Fridays
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by raghu on March 4, 2013 ·
Back in 2007 when iOS was launched it sent the tech industry to go bonkers! It wasn’t because iOS was a perfect OS but it is because of the huge usable shift from the conventional smartphone OSes. An year later Google made its entry into the smartphone ecosystem with its Android OS, just like iOS even Android was half baked initially but it turned on the heat and proved to be a worthy competitor. Over the years Android evolved to an extent that it beat out iOS by volumes and created its own cult of followers. Accepted, iOS nor Android neither of them are perfect even now. Each one of the OSes can learn a lot from one another, in this post we sum up few features that iOS could borrow from Android and yet could retain the fluidity of iOS and yet add lot more functionality to its users.
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by raghu on March 4, 2013 ·
Recent uproar over Panic Software’s discovery of ARM processor and 256MB of RAM in Apple’s Digital AV adapter provoked rumours that Apple might be using its AirPlay technology to stream the content over the cable to large displays but things have been described in a more clear way by an anonymous Apple employee of Slashdot Forum about why a simple cable uses such complicated hardware and confirmed through his detailed explanation about the working. Read on for more details
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by raghu on March 3, 2013 ·
In December 2012, IDC released a report of smartphone sales figures in China and even after extraordinary craze over iPad in China the best Apple could manage is to be 6th position over number of devices sold in China. Does this mean things look bleak in the journey forward for Apple? Or is it a case of adaption problems for Apple? Well, the scenario seems to be the same for all tech giants including Google and Amazon. Welcome to the land that hates being locked down!
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by monis on February 26, 2013 ·
Before i tell you why i like to install minimal number of tweaks on my JailBroken iPhone, let me tell you that i love to JailBreak my iPhone or iPad. I have been JailBreaking my iDevices since the first ever iPhone came into existence or when Apple released their first generation tablet. At that time, we couldn’t even record videos or forward SMS from my iPhone. And hence, i tend to use BiteSMS primarily to forward incoming messages and Cycorder to record video on almost a creepy fps rate compared to what we see now.
I have altered the look of my iPhone several times in those days and installed numerous tweaks to keep my iDevice distinct from other iPhones or when i’m bored of the usual look of iOS. But in the due course of time, i have faced numerous issues as well which i think is a penalty that everyone pays when you do too much modifications on your iPhone. Undoubtedly, all of these over the top additions messup with iPhone’s system files and makes it feel sluggish and ugly most of the times. [click to continue…]
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