Testing

There is no problem starting the day with a 50% charge.

Sometimes I get the impression the iPad’s battery lasts forever.

In other words: they expect Flash to ship with 53 pct of the predicted 300 million smartphones shipped in 2012.

300 Million smartphones, most of those in the hands of a young, tech savvy demographic with money to spend online.
Now let’s see, would I want to target 50% of them with a Flash site or 100% of them with an HTML-based site? Tough choice.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKN0918338320100610?feedType=RSS&feedName=technology-media-telco-SP

The guys at iFixyouri managed to break the screen on the new iPhone after dropping it from 3.5 feet.
Two questions arise:

• Where’d they get an iPhone to test on?
• Shouldn’t the gyro stabilize the phone in mid air?

In reaction to Matthaus Krzykowski’s article Yesterday, Google shrank the feature phone market with Android 2.2

Matthäus, you do realize that

a) 450% speed increase is in computational heavy code only? GUI calls and image compositing was native before, it won’t be accelerated
b) the only thing that is being accelerated is the Dalvik Java VM. Dalvik runs interpreted Java Code as opposed to modern Just-in-time compilers. “Modern” is relative of course JIT for Java has been around since 1997.
c) the old Dalvik VM was horribly slow. It has been measured to be as much as 100x slower than native C Code.

http://www.koushikdutta.com/2009/01/dalvik-vs-mono.html
http://occipital.com/blog/2008/11/02/android-performance-3-iphone-comparison/

Also, the lack of speed isn’t what makes a feature phone cheaper. It’s the whole package, especially the screen.

Took me a while to spot the “Redesign” button