What is wrong with these companies? First the Samsung Galaxy Tab is $600 & now the HP Slate is $800. The prices are heading in the wrong direction! Apple was first to market with a sweet tablet, and now everyone who is trying to get on the bandwagon is jumping on at a higher price point. What is wrong with that picture? Apple’s iPad will continue to dominate the tablet world, unless someone comes in with an equal (both from a user experience standpoint and hardware quality) and a more affordable price point.
TweetDeck is now available for Android! Sweeeeeeeeeeeeet! You can GET IT HERE or use the QR code:
Synapse Phones is now taking pre-orders for completely customizable hardware for your next Android OS phone (Synapse One)!
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Android 2.2
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Processor:
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1Ghz
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Display:
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10.16cm, 4,0-inch SuperAMOLED multitouch-sensitive screen with 480×800 WVGA resolution
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Speakerphone:
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Two built-in microphones (Telephone and noise-reduction)
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Proximity sensor
Ambient light sensor
Accelerometer sensor Compass |
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GPS:
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AGPS
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Four capacity buttons or four physical buttons under the screen
Power button Two volume buttons on the left side Camera button on the right side |
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Expansion Slot:
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microSD memory card
Up to 32GB card support. |
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Body material:
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Aluminium with ambientlight
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For the list of customizable options CLICK HERE! You can also stay up-to-date via their Posterous Blog!
Well it appears Steve Jobs’ comments about Android during Apple’s 3rd quarter earnings calls were a bit off base…
Here is Iain Dodsworth’s responses (CEO of TweetDeck):
RESPONSE 1 – Did we at any point say it was a nightmare developing on Android? Errr nope, no we didn’t. It wasn’t.
RESPONSE 2 – We only have 2 guys developing on Android TweetDeck so that shows how small an issue fragmentation is.
I personally like Andy Rubin’s comment:
the definition of open: “mkdir android ; cd android ; repo init -u git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/manifest.git ; repo sync ; make”
The Fred Wilson makes a post in regards showing he thinks Android is becoming a good option, then it seems that a bunch of Apple fanboy haters didn’t really share his sediments about the Android OS.
So what gives? Why all of the drama?
Imaging building an application that runs on any computer, the iPhone, iPad, Android mobiles and tablets, AND on the TV!
Well Adobe is doing that! Using their AIR framework, a developer can write an app that runs on one platform, and then be able to repurpose most of that code, so it can run on all of the other platforms.
Click here to view the sneak peak at AIR for TV!
Notion Ink is having a logo contest where the winner gets $1000 cash & the very first Notion Ink ADAM Android tablet. Here are my submissions…
I’ve been a part of the Adobe AIR for Android pre-release program for a few months now. For those aren’t familiar with it, it allows Flashdevelopers to build native Android apps using ActionScript 3.0. From experience, it is really ease to re-purpose your desktop AIR applications into mobile Android apps!
Check out these great resources to get started:
- Getting started with Adobe AIR for Android (Adobe.com)
- AIR for Android FAQs (Adobe.com)
- AIR for Android – Part 1 (Video Tutorial by Lee Brimelow – gotoAndLearn.com)
- AIR for Android – Part 2 (Video Tutorial by Lee Brimelow – gotoAndLearn.com)
- AIR On Android Overview (Inside RIA)
- Getting Started to develop Android apps with Adobe AIR (FFDMAG)
Get the most recent edition of Flash & Flex Developer Magazine HERE!
A Look Inside…
As Adobe developers we may not like Steve Jobs but we should respect him. Seeing the turnaround of Apple Computer upon his return and the stellar growth of companies such as Pixar Animation Studios should lead any of us to deduce he is a man with a plan. Just a few short years ago we had never heard of i-devices and now none of us can sit and enjoy our latte without seeing at least one.
s Apple Getting The Big Picture?
Sothink SWF Decompiler An all-in-one Magical Flash Utility
Suppose you watched a video presentation online and want to save it on your system to enjoy it later offline. Maybe you are thrilled with a cartoon animation and you want to create a wallpaper out of it using few assets from the movie. Or you could be a student with a curious mind who wants to learn the ‘behind the scene’ stuff.
Visualizing your Data with BIRT and Flash
Understanding how Actuate is using data driven BIRT reporting in combination with Flash presentations to create highly interactive business applications.
Monetizing Your Web Game part 3
Currently there are many choices when it comes to monetizing a web game. It can be daunting to decide which model is best for a developer. On top of this, there are conflicting reports as to which ones are truly lucrative.
Objects and Associative Arrays Why an ActionScript Object is Like a Dictionary
There is more to the ActionScript Object class than meets the eye. In the first of a new series, Huw Collingbourne looks at associative arrays
Loading External Assets Using the open-source BulkLoader Class
Flash offers great built-in solutions for loading several types of external content into SWF applications. However, that doesn’t help you much when it comes to loading numerous units of different kind of data at the same time. Thankfully, there are some third-party utilities that can take care of the job. In this article you will see how to make use of the open-source BulkLoader class.
Adobe Alchemy a Comparative Example
Adobe Alchemy is an Adobe project that allows users to compile C and C++ code to be run on the Actionscript Virtual Machine (AVM2). With this possibility developers can take advantages of hundreds of powerful C and C++ libraries on the Flash Platform. These libraries will be compiled as a SWFor SWC files that run on Adobe Flash Player 10 (as well as Adobe AIR 1.5).
How to Test Upload Bandwidth to a FMS
Flash Media Server is able to detect the client connection speed and serve up video at the appropriate bitrate. It allows your application to avoid the annoying „Choose the size of video” message and let the FMS do it for you. In this article you’ll learn how to do that.
Flash GAMM!
A story of enthusiasm and love to Flash-platform which turned a small meeting into one of the brightest events in flash-industry.
Interview with Sean Carey
Sean Carey President of HD Interactive, a premium provider of branded games, rich internet applications, social media & memorable online experiences.
Book review: Flex 4 In Action
Image courtesy for Braden3 for all of the UNC Haters out there…
Well, now that things are calming down a bit and I have a little free time on my hands, I’ve decided it is time to get back into the gym. I want to lose a few pounds and get back into shape before the corporate basketball league starts. So today is Day #1. Hitting the gym first thing after work…
This is the second post I’ve guest authors for Mindflash. You can view the first post here… 37signals’ Idealogy Meets Online Training (Part 1): Meetings are Toxic
Excerpt from this most recent post:
“Instead of trying to outspend, outsell, or outsponsor competitors, try to out-teach them.”
Think about it this way: There will always be a competitor with more money for advertising, marketing, and expensive client dinners. But if your competitor is in that mindset, what are the chances they are thinking about building their clients by educating them on how to do their jobs better, how to be more organized, or how to save $100 per month by using this special type of light bulb over that one?
In the book Rework, the gents from 37signals give the example of Gary Vaynerchuk. Gary took his small, family-run wine business online and made it a huge success by educating people via Wine Library TV. It was a simple idea: teaching people why this wine goes well with that dish or how this wine is different because the grapes are from Italy. I’m sure Gary never thought that this approach could be so beneficial, but he took his mom-and-pop wine shop from a decent business to a multi-million dollar operation by “out-teaching his competition”. (Check out a few of these videos of Gary!)
You can read the rest of the post here…
