By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
In two years, Android will possibly have a 19.4 percent market share worldwide among smartphone operating systems, up from 2.7 percent in 2009. That’s tremendous growth in a highly profitable yet competitive market.
Text and photos by Ted Kritsonis
Microsoft faces a real uphill battle in trying to compete with entrenched mobile powerhouses like Apple, Google and RIM, and Windows Phone 7 is likely the last chance for Redmond to have any hope of staying relevant in the smartphone wars. At a gaming event in Toronto yesterday, I got a firsthand demo of the new operating system, and here’s a little of what you can expect.
By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
The Sharp Quattron LE810 LED is a premium and high-quality HDTV set that speaks the language of colour so eloquently. The addition of yellow to the RGB we’re so used to does add a lot of depth, vibrance and realism depending on the scene.
By Lee Rickwood
Research In Motion, the Canadian developer of the BlackBerry smartphone, is admittedly taking “a giant leap” – but with the company now entering the hard-pressed TV and movie-making business, is that leap going off a cliff?
Featuring Ted Kritsonis
Adobe Photoshop CS5 offers a bunch of new features, but the two we focus on here — Content Aware Fill and Puppet Warp — are both incredible in their scope, and very easy to use, even for Photoshop users that aren’t overly savvy. In this video, we demonstrate how they both work, and what kind of results you can expect.
By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
RIM’s own failed attempts to compete with the iPhone, the now discontinued BlackBerry Storm and BlackBerry Storm II reflect products that looked good on paper, managed to generate a lot of interest and hype but which were hindered by poor multi-touch implementation and kludgy hardware.
Text and photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
We’re happy to report that so far, we’ve not seen the iPhone 4 signal bars go down during normal use. We did squeeze the bejesus out of it just to see if we could replicate the attenuation and we did manage to bring down two bars, but we were squeezing it with unnatural force.
By Tim Teatro
Identica simply has more features than Twitter and a public stream. With Twitter, if you have no followers, no one can hear you scream. With Identica, there are thousands of people watching the public stream, so if you say enough interesting things, someone will start following you.