By @edent · ios iphone mobile phone · 4 comments · 1,300 words · read ~288 times.
While farting around online, I stumbled across this 2008 Time Capsule from Stephen Fry. In it, he discusses the state of mobile phones - diving into the problems with BlackBerry's and Apple's latest offerings. BlackBerry had released the Storm1 and Apple's 2nd iPhone was now 3G capable. It's quite the glimpse into what we thought […]
Continue reading →By @edent · emoji ios power unicode · 1 comment · 200 words · read ~273 times.
It has been four years since Unicode officially accepted our Power Symbols proposal into the standard. Now I’m delighted to announce that users on iOS 14 are finally able to use the full set of Power Symbols. ⏻ ⏼ ⭘ ⏽ ⏾ They’re available to use in the browser, in emails, and messages. Here’s how […]
Continue reading →By @edent · android blackberry ios iphone nokia Windows Phone 7 wp7 · 11 comments · 400 words · read ~341 times.
A decade ago, I was invited to the UK launch of Windows Phone 7. It was Microsoft's attempt to compete with Apple's iPhone and Google's Android. Sure, Microsoft could make a brilliant OS and had excellent hardware partners - but could they convince developers to use yet another system? At the time, I wrote: The […]
Continue reading →By @edent · android ios mobile nokia symbian · 8 comments · 350 words · read ~40,306 times.
I was working in the mobile phone industry just as smartphones were taking off. I saw the Palm Pilot rise and fall. I witnessed NEC and Sagem and a host of companies launch smartphones and then disappear. But the greatest tragedy of them all was Nokia and their Symbian Operating System. (Actually, Symbian's ownership and […]
Continue reading →By @edent · android games ios mobile reviews · 300 words · read ~136 times.
I don't often play games - and I rarely pay for Android apps. Blackbar got me to spring a couple of quid based on a single screenshot. That's it. Read a letter, type in which words have been redacted. If you get it right, you're rewarded with the next letter. I can't understand why this […]
Continue reading →By @edent · android Apple doom mongering ios iphone NaBloPoMo · 2 comments · 550 words · read ~140 times.
I like predicting the death of the iPhone. I've been doing it since the device was first released - and I'm sure, one day, my doom-mongering will be proved correct! Apple is at an interesting nexus with its iPhone. It's hugely popular, vastly profitable, beloved by millions, and plagiarised by its competitors. The only fly […]
Continue reading →By @edent · android icons ics ios ui usability · 3 comments · 500 words · read ~342 times.
I love Android, I really do. I'm chuffed to bits with the Galaxy Nexus I won recently. I've had a dozen Android phones before that - stretching all the way back to the HTC Magic. But it's getting obvious that Android has a serious design problem - even with the gorgeous new "Holo" theme for […]
Continue reading →By @edent · ios iphone samsung Windows Phone 7 wp7 · 200 words · read ~400 times.
Last week, I posted this tongue-in-cheek suggestion. Prediction*: iPhone5 & Samsung Galaxy S 3 to have IDENTICAL hardware. Battle of the OS / ecosystems! *Well, wishful thinking! — Terence Eden is on Mastodon (@edent) April 26, 2012 Wouldn't it be great if there was a proper show-down between the two major players? You could really […]
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