A homescreen comparison between Android, iPhone, Windows Mobile and webOS. The phones compared in the video are iPhone 3GS, Google Nexus One, HTC HD2 and Palm Pre.
Video after the break.
Google today introduced a new version of its web based Google Voice for iPhone, rendering a native app useless. The race has gone on since July, when Apple rejected Google’s own Google Voice application from the App Store.
The new version is for iPhone OS 3.0 and above, and Palm’s webOS smartphones.
The update will go online later today, so direct your web browser to http://voice.google.com and let the refreshing begin.
A pretty basic browser speed test between the Motorola Droid, iPhone 3GS, Nokia N900, HTC HD2, Nokia N97 mini, Palm Pre and BlackBerry Storm. The iPhone 3GS is still the fastest, while the HTC HD2 comes in at second place. The only one I’m missing from the test is Google’s Nexus One.
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The minor increase of only a .1 means that this is only a bug fix release. Palm has managed to iron out the critical “delete all appointments” bug, when syncing with Exchange.
This release fixes an issue in which the Calendar app displayed no events for any account after a user synchronized Calendar with an Exchange account. With this update, Calendar events now appear correctly after an Exchange sync.
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Not sure if this one is true, but seems like Palm has changed the way their Pre can handle recourses, since it would be nearly impossible to achieve this with the normal SDK. Check out the video and judge for yourself :)
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Sprint is pushing webOS version 1.3.5 to their users with a Palm Pre. The update is a 13MB download. Full changelog after the break.
AdMob released their smartphone ad request report of October 2009. Worldwide, the iPhone OS accounted for 50% of ad requests! Symbian came in second with a share of 25%, and Android came in third with 11% share.
In the United States the stats are little bit different. The iPhone OS accounted for 55% of all smartphone ad requests, Android came in second with a share of 20%. So the iPhone and Android accounts for 75% of the market, while all the others share 25% of the market. This is mainly because of the lack of Nokia smartphones on the US market.
Read the full report here.
Google today announced and released their mobile-formatted Google News. It is accessible via http://news.google.com. It supports Apple’s iPhone, the whole Android platform, and Palm’s Pre. In the future we should also see a Windows Mobile, Symbian S60 and Blackberry version.
Palm’s webOS just got it’s very own Facebook app. This one doesn’t work that well, but it sure is better than nothing. It will not even filter your news-feed, it will display everything that is on it. For instance, if you have disabled bejeweled updates from your feed on the “normal” facebook, this little app will make sure you wont miss them :)
WebOS 1.3.1 is required for the Facebook application to work.
In a survey conducted by JD Power, Apple has scored highest in smartphone satisfaction rates. It got the highest score in all categories, except battery function.
- Apple ranks highest among manufacturers of smartphones used primarily for personal reasons, with a score of 811, and performs particularly well in ease of operation, operating system, features and physical design. LG (776) and RIM BlackBerry (759) follow Apple in the rankings.
- Among customers who use their smartphones primarily for business purposes, Apple ranks highest with a score of 803, followed by RIM BlackBerry (724).
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