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Archive for August, 2009

Sony’s New Kindle Challenger

Despite being in the e-book reader market for years, Sony is nowhere nearly as successful as Amazon with its Kindle. Sony’s e-book readers, despite having a better industrial design and more attractive look-and-feel, lags behind the Kindle with its lack of always on connectivity and content. Looks like that might be about to change as [...]

Nokia Joins Netbook Crowd

Update (9/2/2009): Nokia has since announced pricing for Booklet 3G. It will be available for 575 euros, or about $817 USD. Nokia announced its virgin entry into an already very crowded Netbook market this morning. The netbook is dubbed Nokia Booklet 3G. The mini laptop does have some differentiating features compared to other Netbooks that [...]

What does the Microsoft-Nokia Deal Mean?

Last week, Microsoft and Nokia jointly announced that it will make Microsoft’s Office mobile suite of software to work on Nokia phones. The agreement includes: Mobile versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote. Mobile version of Office Communicator Mobile access to intranet and extranet built with SharePoint Enterprise device management with Microsoft System Center. So what [...]

Samsung Cameras Bring Innovation: Front-Facing LCD

For all you vain people out there, Samsung has just introduced 2 cameras that will surely land on your Christmas wish list this year: TL200 and TL225. Both of these compact point-and-shoot digital cameras have a front-facing LCD so you can see what you are shooting at when you are taking self-portraits. Both cameras have [...]

How Would You Change iPhone 3GS?

While surveying a number of online resources to gauge the relative satisfaction of iPhone 3GS users, we found that users are calling it the “Perfect” phone. TestFreaks gave it a score of 10 out of 10 – iPhone is the only phone who has a perfect score. Do you agree with this? Leave a comment [...]

Skratch List 1.4 is compatible with OS 3.0

Good news, Skratch List users! We have completed updating Skratch List to work with iPhone OS 3.0. As we said in a previous post, we want to apologize that Skratch List didn’t work after firmware 3.0 upgrade. Apple really screwed us on this one, as they completely changed many APIs. As a result, it led [...]

Zune HD Yields Tears of Joy – Will it matter?

CNET Published a highly positive review of the upcoming Zune HD device from Microsoft yesterday. We, at SkratchBoard.com, has also had a couple of minutes of hands-on with the device, and we came away heartbroken. Why?

Skratch List – not yet iPhone OS 3.0 Ready

We want to apologize to those of you who have purchased Skratch List and have already updated to iPhone OS 3.0. We were naive to assume that Apple would keep a good level of compatibility between 3.0 and the previous OS versions. Boy, are we wrong. In the past week, reports of mysterious crashes and [...]

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