Sep

2010

Mobile devices run Flash faster and more efficiently than HTML5

by Dustin Karnes
tagged Android, apple, flash, Google, html, html5, iOS, iphone

In a recent study done by web developer Chris Black, results came forward that showed Flash being faster and running more efficiently on tested hardware than HTML5. In the benchmarks, he pitted an HTML5 animation that utilizes the canvas tag against the exact same animation in flash. The results: HTML5 Canvas on iPhone 4: 22fps [...]

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Sep

2010

Fring announces dirt-cheap VoIP calls, takes on Skype

by Dustin Karnes
tagged Android, apple, calls, cheap, Fring, Google, iOS, iphone, Nokia, s60, Skype, VOIP

It has been a little while since we heard on the whole “Skype doesn’t work on Fring” debacle, wherein there was some bad blood between the two VoIP providers. There was a public back and forth with a lot of finger pointing and name calling, but it looks like Fring has taken the next step [...]

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Sep

2010

Android users more likely to click app ads, according to Nielsen

by Tyler Cunningham
tagged Android, blackberry, iOS, nielsen, palm, windows mobile

According to a new report by Nielsen, Android users are the most likely to click on in-app ads. Android comes in around 33%, with 29% for Windows Mobile, 26% for iOS, 22%, for Palm, 15% for Blackberry, and 24% for all others combined. Nielsen suggests that the higher click-through rate may be a direct result [...]

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Sep

2010

Adobe demonstrates the power of Adobe Air

by Tyler Cunningham
tagged Adobe Air, Android, cross platform, iOS, linux, windows

While not falling entirely under the Android news category, it can definitely be filed under the awesome category. To show off the power and flexibility of Air, Adobe has demonstrated the same application, powered by the exact same code, running on five different platforms. The example used is a Reversi game, and is shown running on an [...]

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Sep

2010

Gartner expects Android to become no. 2 worldwide mobile OS in 2010

by Tyler Cunningham
tagged Android, apple, Gartner, iOS, mobile OS, rim, symbian

Last month, we reported that Android had moved past Apple to become the no. 3 mobile OS in the world, behind RIM and Symbian. Well, a new report by the same company, Gartner, has revealed that Android is slated to dethrone RIM from their no. 2 spot by the end of this year, and is [...]

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Sep

2010

Specs: Folio 100 vs Galaxy Tab vs iPad

by Tyler Cunningham
tagged android 2.2, Android tablet, iOS, ipod, samsung galaxy tab, Toshiba Folio 100

Tablets are slated to be a hot ticket item this holiday season, with Apple’s iPad and the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Tab set to be the heavyweights for iOS and Android, respectively. There are a seemingly infinite number of Android tablets hitting the market in late 2010/ early 2011, including the recently announced Toshiba Folio 100. [...]

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Aug

2010

OpenFeint for Android coming in September?

by Chris Moor
tagged achievements, Android, feint, gaming, iOS, iphone, open, OpenFeint

What’s that? You haven’t heard of OpenFeint? Well you’ll be hearing a lot more about them soon enough. OpenFeint currently has about 35 million iDevice users and it’s been known for a while that they’re going to expand into the Android market “this summer.” Well we’ve just received a tip from someone close to the [...]

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Jul

2010

Library of Congress finds no issues with rooting, jailbreaking

by Dustin Karnes
tagged Android, apple, Google, iOS, iphone, jailbreak, legal, palm, Root, webos

The Library of Congress has officially made special exemptions for the act of rooting (Android, WebOS) and jailbreaking (iOS), and rules that would keep you from doing so from the DMCA will not apply. In other words, grab you SDK’s and USB cables, because it’s time to rejoice. According to the announcement: Computer programs that [...]

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