By Robert Thompson — With approximately 500 million smart phones, 60 million tablets and 25 million eReaders shipping in 2011, the mobile revolution swept into full force. So what’s next? Well, there’s still a long way to go, as Eric Schmidt suggested in his keynote at Mobile World Congress, only one billion of the world’s [...]
Posted in Freescale, Smart Mobile Devices, The Embedded Beat
|
Tagged 4G, Android OS, ARM, Chrome, Facebook, Google Play, HTML5, LTE, quadcore, smartphone, tablet
|
October 26, 2011 – 8:06 am
By Robert Thompson — Last week, Google announced the launch and availability of Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich. The first product that will use the new operating system will be the Galaxy Nexus from Samsung, which was created in direct collaboration with Google to enable an optimized hardware and software experience. Both smartphones and tablets [...]
October 17, 2011 – 8:10 am
By Robert Thompson — It’s been a controversial year for tablets, first set to dominate all consumer electronics, but more recently many have questioned any company’s ability to compete with the iPad. In this video, produced in collaboration with the Savannah College of Art & Design, we explore what a tablet might think of it [...]
September 30, 2011 – 12:37 pm
By Robert Thompson – Honeycomb (H) Android 3.x is a unique version of Android for a couple of reasons. First, it was closed source. Second, it was the first version of Android designed specifically for tablets. Despite a number of new tablet-centric features, as well as the fact that Honeycomb drove the majority of non-iPad [...]
September 22, 2011 – 8:33 am
By Robert Thompson — “Critical mass” is a well worn technology term that is already being applied to the mobile OS market. Smart phone and tablet shipments are outpacing all other smart mobile device categories. Their operating systems are no longer tightly coupled to the underlying hardware, which leaves plenty of room for multiple OSes [...]
September 15, 2011 – 4:50 pm
By Robert Thompson – Android based tablet manufacturers face many challenges as they attempt to compete against the Apple iPad and its mature iOS and iTunes ecosystem. The main challenge may appear to be simply selling in any meaningful quantity after lackluster sales reports on the Motorola Xoom, HP TouchPad and RIM Playbook, respectively. However, one [...]
September 8, 2011 – 6:01 pm
By Robert Thompson – Transitions are rarely smooth. Some lose patience and exit, others look to grab more through acquisitions, and some old leaders use cash (cows) to prove that they’re still in the game. Most articles on the new mobility era, quite rightly, talk about what’s different. Competing architectures verses the x86 duopoly. Pervasive [...]
Via RSS
