Augmented Reality – or overlaying digital information/things on top of reality is an area poised for growth. There are many potentially useful scenarios: pointing at a person can retrieve their profile on Facebook; pointing at a movie theater lets you buy tickets for the latest flick; pointing at a patient’s room in a hospital lets [...]
You know, Google wasn’t kidding when they said there would be 18 to 20 new Android phones coming this year. In addition to our list of upcoming phones here and here, below is a list of a few that were recently rumored or announced. 1. HTC Hero. This device got all the hoopla when it [...]
Google’s Developer conference has wrapped up yesterday. We have been busy attending the sessions, chatting with people and playing with our new phone. Here are the conference highlights: 4000+ attendees attended the event at Moscone Center in San Francisco. Google’s big message at the conference is that web is the new platform (we have heard [...]
Google’s developer-focused event, Google I/O starts tomorrow. SkratchBoard.com is here to learn more about Android development. Since Cupcake released, we haven’t had a lot of time to play with it. That will all change this week – stay tuned.
Motorola, Samsung and Acer have all promised to release Android phones in 2009. But up until now, there hasn’t been any more information than those vague promises. What’s better than getting some lovely pictures of future phones? Earlier this week, Samsung announced that its first Android-based phone, i7500, will be released in Europe starting in [...]
Recently, the G1 has quietly surpassed its 1 million mark. Although we are expecting many Android phones to be released later this year, the T-Mobile G1 is still the only Android phone on the market so far. The G1 has only been on the market for 6 months. This is an important milestone for both [...]
In console gaming, there was a rule of thumb that says whichever gaming console sells over the 10 million units mark first, that gaming console will eventually win out. In the smartphone market, we think whoever can get car manufacturers to integrate custom accessories to work with their smartphones will win the war. Car manufacturers [...]
We like cupcakes much like your average 3 year old like them, but when Google made it official that Android 1.5 will contain all the stuff in the Cupcake branch, we were drooling. The final release of Android is not yet available, but Google has made an early preview of the 1.5 SDK available for [...]
Today, Google announced that they have released a new version of Mobile GMail for iPhone and Android. SkratchBoard tested it on the iPhone. Read on to see the scoop.
We are a bit shocked that there is no lawsuit here yet, but why is a respectable computer maker like Lenovo succumbing to the Chinese rip-off syndrome? We have been seeing a steady stream of Lenovo’s upcoming Android handset called OPhone, slated to be released in China. Screenshots show resemblance with Vista desktop and [...]
