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DevJuice: iOS/Android PortKit translates visual metaphors

by Erica Sadun (Jun 18th, 2013)

The clever folk over at Kintek have posted a handy system-to-system guide for anyone working in the mobile development space. This metaphor overview quickly references how items like buttons, switches, one-of-n selection and other common interface items are expressed by default in the target ...

Gauging the scale of the post-PC opportunity: "Mobile Is Eating The World"

by Richard Gaywood (Jun 17th, 2013)

Speaking at All Things D in 2010, Steve Jobs famously predicted that "PCs are going to be like trucks": specialised devices that only appeal to people with particular demands of their computing experience while ordinary people would come to prefer smartphones and tablets for all their computing ...

FreedomPop expands service to include free voice -- but not for iOS yet

by Steven Sande (Jun 5th, 2013)

Bargain hunters in the iOS world probably already know about FreedomPop. It's the company that provides 500 MB of free data every month to customers using mobile hotspots, USB dongles or a sleeve that fits the iPod touch. Now the company is going a bit further by adding 200 free voice minutes and ...

Internet Trends report highlights iPad's incredible success, room for smartphone growth and more

by Yoni Heisler (May 31st, 2013)

Earlier this week, Mary Meeker unveiled her Internet Trends report and, per usual, there's a lot of interesting information to digest. The deck is 117 slides deep, but the following slides in particular are worth highlighting. For as much as people like to talk about the iPhone having reached a ...

iPhone owners spend 55% more time on their device than Android users

by Michael Grothaus (May 29th, 2013)

If you're an iPhone owner, chances are you spend 55 percent more time on it than your Android-owning friends spend on their devices. That's according to a report from Experian. While the average Android user spends 49 minutes on their phone each day, the average iPhone user spends a whopping 1 ...

Unity makes mobile tools free for small devs

by Mike Schramm (May 21st, 2013)

Unity has announced that it's making its mobile game development tools free to use for most independent and small studios. Unity has always been a popular engine both for mobile game development and for cross-platform game creation, but up until now, you had to pay about $800 to actually publish ...

iOS and Android comprised 92.3% of Q1 2013 smartphone shipments

by Yoni Heisler (May 16th, 2013)

According to a new report from IDC, the smartphone market continues to be dominated by Android and Apple's iOS. Together, the two mobile operating systems accounted for a whopping 92.3 percent of all smartphone shipments during the first quarter of 2013. Impressively, Apple, during the quarter ...

Study: iPhone retains value better than top Galaxy models

by Steven Sande (May 15th, 2013)

The next time your Samsung Galaxy-toting friends try to annoy you, here's a piece of information you can throw back at them. According to a study published yesterday by investment bank Piper Jaffray, iPhones depreciate at less than half the rate of similar Android devices from Samsung. Analyst ...

BlackBerry bringing BBM to iOS and Android this summer

by Steven Sande (May 14th, 2013)

Miracles do happen. BlackBerry today announced that BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) will be available on iOS and Android this summer as a free download. On the BlackBerry blog, BlackBerry employee Donny Halliwell stated that availability is dependent on approval by the Apple App Store and Google Play. ...

Zact rolls out no-contract data plans on Sprint for certain Android phones

by John-Michael Bond (May 13th, 2013)

One of the most common frustrations among mobile phone owners is the feeling that you're paying way too much for services you're not using. Being locked in a contract that doesn't fit your needs just because it's all that offered is the pits. Zact, a new service from the Verizon-backed software ...

Court rules Google must disclose search terms to Apple

by Yoni Heisler (May 10th, 2013)

A few weeks ago, Apple filed a motion alleging that Google's efforts to respond to Apple's discovery requests -- with respect to its ongoing suit against Samsung -- were lacking. Specifically, Apple claimed that the search terms Google employed in response to Apple's document production requests ...

Apple requests Android source code in Samsung lawsuit

by Mel Martin (May 8th, 2013)

That's the word from Bloomberg News today. Apple has asked a US magistrate judge to force Google to turn over the Android source code. It's part of Apple's case against Samsung, and Apple continues to believe its intellectual property has been stolen. Not surprisingly, Google, who owns the ...

Apple's share of the U.S. smartphone market now close to 40%

by Yoni Heisler (May 4th, 2013)

The latest data from comScore indicates the iPhone's share of the U.S. smartphone is growing and is now inching ever so close to 40%. For the period covering the first three months of 2013, comScore's data shows that the iPhone's share of the U.S. smartphone market checked in at 39%, representing ...

Samsung: Apple-requested injunction would 'confuse and intimidate' customers

by John-Michael Bond (May 3rd, 2013)

Samsung has a new legal argument in its ongoing litigation with Apple over the sale of certain Android-based smartphones in the US. While the basis of Apple's case is patent infringement claims, Samsung is now arguing that allowing Apple a permanent injunction would "intimidate and confuse" ...

Google Glass may gain iOS direction, text message support soon

by Steven Sande (May 3rd, 2013)

Like it or hate it, Google Glass has recently been discussed on a lot of tech blogs. Tim Stevens at our sister site Engadget has been trying out his Glass around the house and on hot motorcycles, and a lot of other tech bloggers shelled out $1,500 to get the developer version of the device. One ...