Gadgets

Firefox OS Developer Phones Sold Out

Date: April 24, 2013
Author: rparente
Categories: Gadgets, Smartphones
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Firefox PhonesGeeksphone, the smartphone OEM startup based out of Madrid, put the first Firefox OS developer phones on sale early this morning, offering the Keon for $119 and the more powerful Peak for $194. Both devices are the first hardware to be offered with Firefox OS on board, and both devices are now listed as “Out of stock,” just a few hours after first going on sale.

The Keon and Peak devices are essentially preview devices, designed to give developers the opportunity to test out what they can do with the new Linux-based open-source mobile operating system before it sees its general public launch this June in five initial countries, including Spain, Brazil, Portugal and Venezuela. The Geeksphone devices are modest in terms of their hardware specifications, but Firefox OS will likely be positioned as more of a mid-market play.

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HTC One Smartphone

Date: April 19, 2013
Author: rparente
Categories: Gadgets, Smartphones
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HTC One

Reshape your smartphone experience with a home screen that streams your favorite content, a photo gallery that comes to life, dual frontal stereo speakers that offer sharper, richer sound, and more—all in a rugged yet sleek full metal body.

 

Get higher quality pictures with an all-new HTC UltraPixel Camera that captures 300% more light. Your life never stands still, now your photos won’t either. With HTC Zoe™ your gallery is brought to life. With one press of the shutter button, HTC Zoe can capture up to 20 photos and a 3-second video.

 

Introducing HTC BoomSound™, an innovation that delivers dual frontal stereo speakers powered by built-in amplifiers for sharper, richer sound. Calls are clearer. Music sounds like music. And movies draw you into the drama.

Check it out here.

Raspberry PI at Campus Party in São Paulo, Brazil

Date: February 12, 2013
Author: rparente
Categories: Conferences, Gadgets, Technology
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Pete Lomas, the Raspberry Pi’s hardware designer and all-round good egg, has just been in São Paulo, Brazil, speaking at Campus Party. He sent me this report with a stern warning to edit it thoroughly. Thanks so much Pete – sounds like you had quite the trip!

A spot of housekeeping: I’m travelling all day Monday and some of Tuesday (a byzantine bit of ticket-price optimisation and the fitting in of meetings means that Eben and I have to take three planes and drive about 150 miles to get from California to Cambridge). I’ll be posting here on Tuesday only if I feel awake enough to make sense…

Mission-ControlTent-Village

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RIP Adobe Flash on Android

Date: August 15, 2012
Author: rparente
Categories: Android, Flash, Mobile OS, Smartphones, Tablets
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On August 15, Adobe will no longer offer Flash for Android through the Google Play store. Any Android device that does not already have Flash will be unable to download it any longer. It is the end of a very long, difficult road for Adobe as it cedes video on mobile browsers to HTML5.

Come tomorrow, if you do not already have Flash on your Android smartphone, you will not be able to get it. Adobe has planned to put Flash for Android to rest since fall 2011. The company announced on June 28th that it would un-publish Flash from Google Play on August 15.

Tomorrow will not bring the complete end of Flash support on Android devices. Existing Flash for Android users will continue to receive security updates, but that is the extent to which Adobe will continue to support the plug-in.

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