Article: Fragmentation on Mobile Devices

Apple has been keeping fragmentation away from the iOS platform all these years, by catering to GSM carriers and hardware device that had a fixed form factor, hardware specification. This may be in for a small change now

Gadget: iPhone does 3D, kind of

3D has been the buzzword related to any new technology these days. From TV to Phone everything claims to have some kind of 3D association to attract customers. This clever and practical application of Optics brings 3D to your current generation iPhone.

News: HP announces TouchPad, releasing this Summer

In one of the most anticipated announcement in recent times, HP has announced the TouchPad - webOS table that is scheduled to be launched this summer. This is the first major announcement from HP, since acquiring Palm. webOS 3.0 is the next major evolution of the platform introduced by Palm and is pushed heavily on all the devices announced by HP today.

News: ATT rolling out unlimited mobile-mobile calls

ATT has been enjoying the iPhone exclusivity all this time and finally will share the iPhone consumer base with Verizon starting tomorrow. The Verizon iPhone will be hitting retail stores tomorrow and is likely to lure some customers from ATT to Verizon. In a move to battle this likely move by consumers, ATT has been trying to attract consumers with network, phone and incentives.

News: Verizon to get VoLTE this summer

The battle of CDMA and GSM technologies for mobile has been there for a while and one of the major differences in their approach was highlighted recently when Verizon released iPhone in its network. The initial commercials on iPhone (for AT&T)  highlighted the capability of the phone able to do voice call and then browse at the same time to get some information. This simultaneous activity is not technically feasible in traditional CDMA networks that are available today and that is going to change this summer.

News: Catholic Church approves Confession app

Smartphones have made many activities simpler and have paved the way to get and share information very easily. In an interesting move, the Catholic Church in the United States has approved an iPhone app called "Confession" that is aimed at helping Catholics through confession and encouraging lapsed followers back to the faith.

News: LG takes the patent fight to Sony, tries to block PS3 sales in US

In the past few months, we have seen number of patent related issues between manufacturers and platform providers of different Smartphones. Looks like the high tech manufacturers feel left behind are getting into the mix now. LG is fighting Sony for some patent infringements on its devices

News: Google Translate comes to iPhone / iPod Touch

Google Translate has been available for mobile platform from the web interface, but Android had the benefit of an exclusive Google Translate app for a while now. The version of translate available in Android and its ability to do conversation mode has been really impressive. Looks like part of this is coming to iOS starting today and the initial impression of the app is definitely impressive.

News: Sprint announces Kyocera Echo, Dual Touchscreen Device

Sprint had planned to make an industry first announcement today and it did with the announcement of Kyocera Echo Android phone. It had roped it David Blaine for a special act and then followed that with the announcement of the first dual touch screen Android phone, with optimized user experience

News: New Android Market ignoring Custom ROMS?

Google announced the Android Market during its Honeycomb launch last week. Android Market is a streamlined interface to browse, search and download applications to Android devices.

News: Google Chrome 9 moves from Beta to Stable version

Google has multiple ways for getting the latest updates that it constantly makes for its Chrome browser. The Stable version of the browser has been updated to Version 9, with significant updates.

News: Kindle gets free Firmware Update

It has been sometime since we heard anything from the Kindle camp. Barnes and Noble had made frequent announcements with Nook, Nook Color and Apps and finally Kindle seems to be showing some action on its side. The owners of Kindle and Kindle 3G can get an early preview of the new features in the next software update or just feel happy about it by reading it here.

News: Mobile GMail gets Priority Inbox partially

Google introduced Priority Inbox feature for its GMail service few months back. It is a system in which GMail automatically prioritizes the mail that comes to your Inbox based on the sender, frequency of communication, replies and many other parameters. It categorizes the mail as Important, Starred and Everything else. 

News: Lab-on-a-chip may make BAN possible soon

People who have Diabetes and need to monitor it on a constant basis go through the "finger prick" on a regular basis. It is the process in which a small sample of blood is obtained by pricking the fingers and tested on a device for the data. The new study from Univerysity of Calgary may ease that process and more importantly improve on the technology to get more valuable data from the blood sample that is taken out.

Gadget: NoteSlate: A device that I am looking forward to

The electronic medium has definitely been making lot of progress recently and it feels like we are witnessing a lot of innovative ideas and more importantly practical implementation of these ideas. The concept and proposal from NoteSlate definitely looks innovative and takes the next logical step of evolution in digital media.