The Travesty That Is The HTC Sense Lock Screen
I can’t believe Apple is suing them for this. It’s really not worth it. The item in question here is HTCs Sense-branded lock screen for their Android devices such as HTC Desire and HTC Legend: The lock-screen is activated every time you put the device to sleep by clicking the power button. The next time [...]
Quick Thoughts On Android 2.1 For Motorola Milestone
Yesterday, I managed to manually update my phone to Motorolas Android 2.1 version. Here are some notes on the end result: The Live Wallpapers are useless (and, by the way, doesn’t include the pyramid-like Nexus One wallpaper) There are 5 homescreens by default, but is configurable up to 9 The 3D app launcher see on [...]
Microsoft Kin
“Kin” is the name of Microsofts new phone. It comes in two flavours, both with slide-out QWERTY keyboards, one small and squarely super-elliptic. Oddly, neither runs Windows Phone 7; they run the Zune OS (though the Zune OS did lay down the framework for WP7). I’d be surprised if this thing gets a significant slice [...]
Games On The iPad: Here's A Thought
Yesterday, Apple revealed a much hyped tablet PC, which apparently runs all current iPhone apps right out of the box. With a pixel doubler, if you want it, even. Unimpressive as that may sound, this holds the potential to alleviate pixel shaders to great effect. Think 3D iPad games which run in hi-res, full detail [...]
Android: On Context Buttons
David Barnard complains about the capacitative buttons below the Nexus One screen. As I have done in my Motorola Milestone review. But it gets both more interesting and, unfortunately, worse, in the story of these buttons. There are four buttons1: Back Context menu Home Search While programmable, the back button mostly works as you’d expect. [...]