5.3″ And it has a stylus. I’ve been in disdain over the increasing screen size of Android phones over the past year as each OEM tries to one-up the other by releasing yet another model that is a bit larger than the last. But this takes the cake. I mean – seriously? Five point three inches. And people made fun of the iPad coming out for being a big iPhone. How many of those same hypocrites will now stand up and defend this handset?
From the Vimeo page of this video:
This whole project has been an amazing experience. The two of us became friends through Vimeo and explored a shared interest in timelapsing Yosemite National Park over an extended period of time. We’d like to expand this idea to other locations and would appreciate any suggestions for a future project.
Google got caught with its hand in the cookie jar. Stefan Magdalinski, writing for Mocality: Since October, Google’s GKBO appears to have been systematically accessing Mocality’s database and attempting to sell their competing product to our business owners. They have been telling untruths about their relationship with us, and about our business practices, in order to do so. As of January 11th, nearly 30% of our database has apparently been contacted. … I did not expect to find a human-powered, systematic, months-long, fraudulent (falsely claiming to be collaborating with us, and worse) attempt to undermine our business, being perpetrated from call centres on 2 continents. The news coming out these days about Google is all sunshine and peaches, huh? Make sure you read Stefan’s…
Fotoshop is a new beauty product from Adobé (say aah-DOE-bay) that slims, gets rid of wrinkles, and can even lighten your skin color.
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MG Siegler, writing on ParisLemon.com: Apple, for all the shit they get for being “closed” and “evil”, has actually done far more to wrestle control back from the carriers and put it into the hands of consumers. Google set off to help in this goal, then stabbed us all in the back and went the complete other way, to the side of the carriers. And because they smiled the entire time they were doing it and fed us this “open” bullshit, we thanked them for it. As Marco Arment put it: Remember when Google argued for net neutrality? They’ve been pretty quiet about it recently. If you read anything on the web this month, for me, please read MG’s post. I agree with him…
Speaking of Best Buy’s horrible retail shopping experience, this is what it’s like to try to purchase an iPhone 4S there: The iPhone 4S on sale at Best Buy. Magical. twitter.com/gregmaletic/st…— Greg Maletic (@gregmaletic) January 7, 2012
Tyson is so great.
Co-host of the TWiT network’s This Week in Google podcast and highly regarded Android proponent, Gina Tapani, has ported her Todo.txt Android app to iOS: I announced the app went on sale yesterday morning on Twitter, Facebook, and Google+, then Lifehacker ran a post on it. It got no other press coverage. I announced the Android app release in exactly the same way on January 24th of last year (minus Google+, which didn’t exist then). If my Googling skills serve me right, Lifehacker did not run a post the day the Android app went on sale, though they did the week before when I was beta-testing it. The first day of iOS app sales was solid: just around 365 apps sold, compared to the…
Boy, was this awkward…