$170 In Hardware In Palm Pre
By SRASC at 6 June, 2009, 2:21 pm
A teardown of the new Palm Pre by Rapid Repair shows $170.02 in hardware components.
Their detailed disassembly guide requires a small phillips screw driver, small flathead, pliers, solder iron, exacto razor & safe open tool.
If anyone feels like taking apart their new phone the instructions are linked here.
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Read More >>Apple iPhone and Palm Pre Side By Side
By SRASC at 17 April, 2009, 2:38 pm
Photos taken by Ludle International, a wholesaler company in China, show the iPhone and Palm Pre side by side.
The poster says the Palm Pre feels smaller than the iPhone, the Pre’s plastic screen is less scratch resistant than iPhone’s glass screen, and the back of the Pre is much more scratch resistant than the iPhone’s [...]
Mobile OS Shootout
By SRASC at 19 March, 2009, 7:28 pm
As soon as Apple rolled out its preview of iPhone OS 3.0, the comparisons to existing (and forthcoming) mobile OSs started flying. While the major update isn’t exactly a done deal, it’s pretty far along, and we’ve been able to glean quite a bit from our time with the developer beta we’ve been checking out. iPhone [...]
Read More >>Apple iPhone controls over 66% of all mobile web use
By SRASC at 2 March, 2009, 11:26 am
In its first detailed look at web market share for cellphones, a research firm has found that Apple’s iPhone represents a staggering 66.61 percent of mobile traffic while its competitors have only just gained a foothold.
Net Applications’ February results show the iPhone operating system having managed over nine times the usage of its next smartphone competitor, [...]
iPhone “miles ahead” of competing app stores | Report
By SRASC at 2 March, 2009, 11:07 am
A report on mobile applications sales ranked Apple’s iPhone App Store “miles ahead of the competition” as the leading software marketplace, based on timeliness to market, the ability to attract developers, and the “number, variety and appeal of applications available.”
Store wars
Global Intelligence Alliance Group (GIA) ranked Apple’s software sales through iTunes in comparison with Google’s existing [...]
RBC Compares iPhone’s Competitors
By SRASC at 22 February, 2009, 7:54 pm
With Apple’s influence hanging over the Mobile World Congress event this week, the Royal Bank of Canada has released a comprehensive comparison chart of eight contenders that threaten to steal some of the iPhone’s customers.
Though the firm still sees the iPhone as solidly superior to its competition, analyst Mike Abramsky told clients he’s still concerned [...]
Palm Pre To Include Adobe Flash
By SRASC at 16 February, 2009, 9:05 pm
At the GSMA Mobile World Congress, Adobe announced Palm is joining the Open Screen Project - a broad industry initiative dedicated to enabling standalone applications and full web browsing across televisions, desktops and mobile devices taking advantage of Adobe Flash Platform capabilities.
The work of the Open Screen Project will help deliver Adobe Flash Player for [...]
Apple awarded key “multi-touch” patent covering the iPhone
By SRASC at 27 January, 2009, 4:05 pm
Apple last week was awarded a monstrous 358-page patent covering the touch screen, graphical user interface, and methods that combine to define the iPhone user experience.
Dating back to September of 2007 and granted last Tuesday, U.S. Patent No. 7479949 lists many inventors; notably, Apple co-founder and chief executive Steve Jobs, iPhone software director Scott Forstall, and FingerWorks [...]
