So, the first week of August has gone. In his week, some big news were out on mobile phones and other devices. Here there are.
Android Sales Overtake iPhone in the U.S. — Sales of Google Android phones in the U.S. are rising so quickly, the devices have outsold Apple handsets for the first time on record. New smartphone subscribers choosing Google phones accounted for 27 percent of U.S. smartphone sales …
Ya, Android is inevitably going to be popular. While Android phones is selling well, we should also mention iPhone.
Official: iPhone 4 jailbreak hits from iPhone Dev Team (updated with video) — The Library of Congress made it legal, MuscleNerd showed us it was a go, and now Comex and company have delivered the long-awaited jailbreak to the fourth rendition of iPhone. According to their new page JailbreakMe …
Jailbreak Only: FaceTime Goes 3G — Well that was quick! Less than 24 hours after the public release of the iPhone 4 jailbreak, FaceTime has already been tricked into working over 3G connections. It's made possible thanks to My3G, a jailbreak app that tricks your iPhone into thinking it's on Wi-Fi instead of 3G.
Jailbreak has its huge market!
Executive Leaves After iPhone Antenna Troubles — Mark Papermaster, the Apple executive in charge of hardware for the company's flagship iPhone, has left the company in the wake of widely reported problems with the antenna of the recently introduced iPhone 4.
So it seems that iPhone was not doing good in these few weeks.But it is keeping developing new stuff.
New Images of 4th Generation iPod Touch LCD with FaceTime Camera — An iPhone parts supplier sent us these photos of what are claimed to be the front LCD and bezel of the upcoming 4th generation iPod Touch. The new part clearly shows a front-sided hole that would leave room for a front-facing FaceTime camera.
Leaked Details On 2010-2011 iPods, iPhone 5, Bumper 2 + iPad mini — Take this report with the requisite grains of salt, but here's what we've heard about the upcoming late 2010/early 2011 iPod, iPhone, and iPad lineups from a highly reliable source. If you remember our exclusive first details …
And another competitor RIM was releasing new products!
BlackBerry Torch for AT&T: available August 12 for $199.99 … It may have been outed early a couple of times this morning, but now the BlackBerry Torch 9800 is officially official, complete with pricing and availability. The Torch will be available on AT&T beginning August 12th for $199.99 with a two-year contract.
But RIM had its problems:
Two Gulf states to ban some Blackberry functions — Two Gulf states have announced bans on some functions of the Blackberry mobile phone, claiming security concerns. — The United Arab Emirates is to block sending emails, accessing the internet, and delivering instant messages to other Blackberry handsets.
BlackBerry Chief Fires Back — Research In Motion Ltd. co-CEO Michael Lazaridis lashed out at governments seeking to ban his company's BlackBerry phones, saying they risk undermining the growth of electronic commerce by demanding access to secure communications and transactions.
So it is enough for a week on mobile phones. And let's review the e-book reader news, mainly about Kindle.
Amazon: We have 70-80 percent of e-book market — Recently, I sat down with Ian Freed, Amazon's vice president of digital, to get a sneak peek at the new Kindles and discuss e-books and the Kindle business in general. Naturally, a good portion of the conversation centered on the design …
Scholars Build Blog-to-eBook Tool in One Week — Twelve digital humanities scholars walk into a barn-raising... It's not the opening line of a witty joke you try to deliver at your next tenure-track job interview. — This past week, a dozen scholars participated in the One Week One Tool workshop …
Kindle Development Kit finally births two games: Shuffled Row and Every Word — We've covered the Kindle Development Kit (KDK) in the past, and each time we cover it, we mention how no titles have actually been shipped using it. Well, today that all changes.
So at the end, we review some news about tablet. And tablet market is becoming hotter and hotter.
Ballmer (and Microsoft) still doesn't get the iPad — “The operating system is called Windows,” claimed Steve Ballmer when asked about Microsoft's plans for the tablet/slate/pad form factor at the company's annual Financial Analyst Meeting on Thursday. He expressed dismay …
Motorola and Verizon team up for TV tablet — Motorola is developing a digital tablet device that will allow users to watch television on it, as the US mobile phone group attempts to chip away at a market established by Apple's popular iPad. — The device, which will have a 10-inch screen …
Dish to stream live TV on iPad, other devices — PHILADELPHIA — Dish subscribers will soon be able to watch live satellite TV on their mobile devices at no extra cost. — Dish Network Corp. is planning to offer the feature on the iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch and BlackBerry devices in September …
Best Buy's CTO Tweets Out Pics Of A Rocketfish Tablet. Seriously, A Best Buy Tablet. — Well, look at that. A Rocketfish tablet. Can't say we saw this coming, but Best Buy's CTO and Geek Squad founder, Robert Stephens, just tweeted two pics of the surprisingly polished-looking tablet.