There are a lot of people who have varying opinions about what screen size is best on their smartphones. This is absolutely understandable since there should not be a “one size fits all” mentality toward phones or anything for that matter, but what are some of the advantages and disadvantages that come with larger or smaller screen sizes? Back in 2003, the early days of the smartphone, we had some very big devices with large …
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Could The Smartphone Market Be More Like Game Consoles?
Most people are thinking that the smartphone market is going to end up just like PCs. Microsoft won that war with 90% of the market, and Apple’s Mac hangs on with 5-10% depending on who you ask. This time back in 2007 Apple did kind of the same thing and released the first iPhone which was heavily marketed and finally brought smartphones to the mainstream public. Microsoft was already in the smartphone market at the …
Continue readingEditorial: Sales Predictions and Mishandling Windows Phone 7
There have been a few predictions going on by both IDC and Gartner that Windows Phone will reach 2nd place in smartphone market share by 2015, just behind Android, but above iPhone and anything else that’s still around by then. You’ll see what IDC predicts here and Gartner’s predictions here. A lot of people laughed at this prediction since Windows Phone 7 is such a new platform that lacks some of the features smartphone users …
Continue readingWhat if HTC Released a Triple-Boot Phone?
What if HTC released a triple-boot Windows Phone 7, Windows Mobile 6.5, and Android all-in-one phone? We already know that the HTC HD2 is one of the hacker dream phones. It can run pretty much any build of Android, Windows Mobile 6.x, and now even Windows Phone 7. Of course, officially it was only ever released running Windows Mobile and running Windows Phone 7 on it can be very limiting since you can’t legally get …
Continue readingWill NFC Make Electronic Pickpocketing Even Easier?
I recently saw a news broadcast video from Channel 3 in Memphis Tennessee demonstrating how easy it is for a hacker to simply walk around a crowded area and pick up credit card numbers or passport information from random people who happen to have credit cards with RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) chips in them. Apparently, with a $100 credit card reader and a $200 netbook PC, an RFID can be hacked just by getting close …
Continue readingShould I Automatically Be a Windows Phone 7 Fan?
As many of you know, I’ve been using Windows Mobile based phones since the smartphone was invented. They’ve always been the most powerful and capable devices. However, when we started hearing about Windows Phone 7 earlier this year, it became clear that the classic Windows Mobile (that could run on all sorts of hardware and do all sorts of things) was about to be replaced by a completely new “Version 1.0” product. Even though it …
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