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A small step for Android, a big step for developers

I was happy to hear that Android 1.6 supports the changing of resolution on the fly using code, as now that Android is coming out on so many handsets and all of them have their own screen sizes. This will … Continue reading

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Battle of the App Stores

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plus ça change, plus c’est pareil

Years ago, I was doing mobile game development for a client who intended to submit it to Vodafone(Which had about 150 million subscribers) to put it on Vodafone’s carrier deck. Vodafone then operated on a close walled garden concept and … Continue reading

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China Mobile’s robot

Picture taken from http://images.intomobile.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/lenovo-ophone-china-mobile.png According to this report, China is expected to launch it’s own app store named Mobile-Market (which operates very similar to Apple’s App Store), through China Mobile. But since Lenovo is rumored to launch it’s Android oPhone … Continue reading

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Motorola’s robot

Motorola just announced an upcoming Motorola Phone titled “Ironman” (cue the superhero joke) and from the picture in the link, it looks just like a Blackberry. Maybe Motorola is banking that consumers will pick this up by mistaking it for … Continue reading

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Baby Shaker slipup

In case you haven’t heard. Just recently, there was an app on the Apple App Store where there is an image of a baby crying and the aim of the app is to shake the device when the baby starts … Continue reading

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My meter for mobile development bliss

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The robot vs the fruit, who shall reign?

You guessed it, the robot refers to Android and the fruit refers to Apple. Apple’s App Store has proved to be very disruptive to all the incumbents in the mobile industry and is now leaving them, such as Nokia’s Ovi … Continue reading

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Battle of the app stores

With the release of my latest iPhone game and reading this article about iPhone app developers being blind to alternatives. I feel that the issue is not so much about the developers being blind, but rather, the issue is more … Continue reading

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