Posted by Technorati Search for: iPhone 3G on August 11, 2009
Filed under: Company News , Technology , Goog In a heavily commented post on his blog, TechCrunch , uber blogger Michael Arrington updated the world on how he ditched his iPhone and ported his cell phone number to become a GoogleVoice number. His rationale? He was sick of AT&T's ( T ) bad coverage and sick of Apple's ( AAPL ) heavy-handed restrictions on iPhone apps. Earlier this weekend, Jason Calacanis, Mahalo.com founder (and also former CEO of Weblogs Inc., which AOL purchased),
Posted by Technorati Search for: iPhone 3G on July 31, 2009
My, how the tables have turned. Earlier this week, we learned that Apple had suddenly begun to pull third party iPhone applications for Google Voice, citing the unconvincing rationale that they “duplicated” some of the iPhone’s functionality. We then broke the news that Apple had also rejected Google’s own official Google Voice application submitted six weeks prior, sparking a din of complaints from developers and users alike over the arbitrary and possibly anti-competitive restrictions be
Posted by Technorati Search for: smartphone on July 9, 2009
HTC makes some nice phones, several of which I’ve owned and enjoyed using, but I’ve never understood the rationale behind its use of an odd, semi-proprietary MiniUSB connector that doubles as a USB connector and a headphone jack. The non-standard connector means that you’re stuck with HTC’s bundled headphones unless you track down, buy, and use a rather chunky adapter that lets you turn the HTC connector into the 3.5mm one used by the rest of the smartphone world. Until now, that is–MobileCrun
