More Smartphones Opinion

  • 02 May 2011

  • Opinion: RIM Unveils Video Chat App for PlayBook

    The BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, launched last month by RIM has been relatively successful thus far despite being almost universally slammed as being an incomplete work in progress in initial reviews. Well, one of the missing features will soon be added when the Video Chat app becomes available.

  • 01 May 2011

  • Opinion: Location Tracking: Looking Past the Hype

    I sat down at my computer, prepared to sync my iPhone 4 with iTunes. But I looked at the simple white cord I use to connect the phone, and it suddenly seemed more ominous -- like it was some sort of spy transmitter, sending the private details of my life directly to Apple.

  • Opinion: Jobs Escapes Carbonite iPhone Case

    Ever wondered what Steve Jobs would look like encased in carbonite? Stop wondering.

  • 22 April 2011

  • Opinion: Don't panic over iPhone iOS location logging

    The news that the iPhone is logging users’ locations has spread faster than a YouTube video of a cat playing the trombone.

  • Opinion: Apple vs Google: and you win

    The competition's hotting up in the race to dominate mobile. BlackBerry has the numbers, Apple the caché, and Microsoft has Windows - with all the familiarity that entails.

  • 19 April 2011

  • Opinion: Upgrade to Windows 8 and say goodbye to the internet

    The internet has been constantly evolving since the day it was born, but the next-generation web will be the least democratic ever. Why? Money, of course.

  • 21 March 2011

  • Opinion: Will 2011 be the year of the iPad 2?

    At the beginning of March Apple announced its second tablet. What caught many people off guard was that the iPad 2 was not ‘coming in three months’ or ‘coming this summer’, but coming ready or not – almost immediately, in fact.

  • 16 March 2011

  • Opinion: The 'post-PC world'. More PCs please

    At the iPad 2 launch (you may have noticed it), Steve Jobs used the phrase “post-PC world”, suggesting that Apple’s second-generation Tablet means the PC is no longer central to our lives.

  • 23 February 2011

  • Opinion: There's something in the air

    This year’s Mobile World Congress show in February was noticeable for being about the clamour to become the ‘other’ triumphant tablet alongside the Apple iPad. It was also the first tradeshow at which smartphones officially reigned supreme.

  • 11 November 2010

  • Opinion: Getting over gadget guilt

    A gadget used to be a mere plaything; a toy. Diverting for a while, if unlikely to take over your life in the way that iPhones and BlackBerries command their owners’ attention. But the gadget’s role has changed.

  • 02 November 2010

  • Opinion: The three screens

    Last year Microsoft was trumpeting the concept of ‘three screens and a cloud’ to inspire its customers to look for money-making opportunities beyond desktop PC culture. (Remember, Microsoft’s main customers are not really consumers, but the PC hardware manufacturing companies that it persuades to preinstall its Windows software.)

  • 14 October 2010

  • Opinion: PCs with the personal touch

    There’s something very satisfying about the creative process. No matter that the finished object isn’t as polished or slick as a similar one you could buy from a shop; the act of creation and lavishing attention on assembly is rewarding in itself.

  • 07 September 2010

  • Opinion: Geeks bearing gifts

    If the first PC battle became entrenched into a divide between two proprietary desktop systems, the next will be in mobile computing.

  • 12 August 2010

  • Opinion: Evolutionary times

    Not every invention can be an iPhone. Even Apple’s follow-up smartphones have struggled to match the impact of the original model; this summer the company has received negative feedback about the reception and 3G connectivity of its much anticipated iPhone 4.

  • 05 August 2010

  • Opinion: Inside Apple's new Covent Garden shop

    This Saturday, Apple will open its latest retail shop - this one in London's bustling Covent Garden. Unlike the opening of, say, a boring BlackBerry shop, this event stirs the interest of media and public alike.

  • 23 July 2010

  • Opinion: Opinion: why Windows Phone 7 has to succeed

    If Windows Phone 7 isn't a game-changing success, Microsoft can wave goodbye as Apple and Google disappear over the horizon.

  • 17 June 2010

  • Opinion: O2's iPhone 4 price chart wrongness

    O2, Apple’s original exclusive iPhone carrier, has announced its UK pricing for the hotly anticipated iPhone 4. It doesn’t take too much looking at O2’s tariff/price list to bring on as much confusion as an iPhone confronted by a Flash site.

  • 19 May 2010

  • Opinion: Will Kindle Android App Hurt Kindle Sales?

    Friends, readers, Kindlemen: allow me to pose a question. If you could get digital books on the smartphone you already carry, would you still buy a dedicated e-reader?

  • 12 May 2010

  • Opinion: Has Apple lost another iPhone 4G prototype?

    Pictures of what is alleged to be another prototype of the next-generation iPhone has surfaced, this time at a Vietnamese forum. The photos reveal a device similar to the one seen in the Gizmodo-Apple saga, and also show a breakdown of the prototype.

  • 04 May 2010

  • Opinion: 3G vs Wi-Fi: Which iPad is right for you?

    The Apple iPad has been available for a month now in the US, but the 3G-capable version of Apple's tablet device has just launched. Here are some things to consider when choosing between the Wi-Fi only or 3G-capable models.

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