"On the iPhone, once you’re in an app, everything happens on-screen, with touch. Everything. You go outside the screen to the home button to leave the app or the sleep button to turn off the device. On Android, many things happens on screen with touch, but many other things don’t, and you’re often leaving the screen for the hardware Back, Menu, and Home buttons, and text selection and editing requires the use of the fiddly trackball. An Android gadget never disappears."
app.itize.us
A listing of well designed iPhone apps.
iPhone Mockup
This is very cool: mockup your iPhone application as a pencil drawing or a neat illustration.
Gordan, an open source Flash runtime written in JavaScript.
It runs on the iPhone as well.
The killer app that busted ski-resort snow jobs
“Exaggerated reports of snow on ski hills used to be routine leading up to the weekend, but not since the iPhone began to expose the truth.”
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It’s hard to describe just how great Google Voice is on Android. When I set it up, I had to confirm maybe three or four things, and I was all ready to go. In two minutes, my Google Voice number completely took over my Nexus One. This included getting not only all Google Voice incoming calls and voicemails, but doing outbound calls with my Google Voice number as well. This is absolutely the future of number portability, and that no doubt has the carriers — and likely even Apple – spooked.
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Simply put, iPhone apps, as a whole, are much, much better than Android apps. Maybe that’s because Android apps aren’t quite as mature yet. But I don’t know. The Android Market has been around for over a year now, and the fact that there still isn’t a Twitter app that’s as good as the top five iPhone Twitter apps is a bit odd to me. Seesmic for Android is the closest yet, but it still gets blown away by the polish of apps like Tweetie on the iPhone.
"So What Should Motorola Do Now?
Spoiler alert: Buy Palm.
"But progress is a tricky business, especially when you’re talking about locked phones. I would love to offer WIND phones unlocked at the time of purchase, but the only way for unlocking to work is at an industry level. If we were to be the only ones to introduce unlocked handsets, competitor’s dealers and other distributors could buy out all of our inventory (as our retail pricing is often lower than what they pay) and we’d have no inventory for our customers. This can also happen with US or foreign dealers coming to buy out stock. Hence, our phones are locked for the first 3 months, but we have no issue providing the unlock codes to a customer after that."
WIND Mobile | Changing the Game: Cool Handsets, No Contracts
DIY Touchscreen Analysis
iPhone looks to be the winner here.
Software Sea Change: 2,000,000 Strong.
“How the hell does one App get downloaded two million times in the space of one week? To do so it’d have to catch the eye of people you’ve never heard of – like your brother or your girlfriend’s best friend or the dude who made that really cute but slightly awkward heart in your latte the other day.”
Palm's Profile on GitHub
Nice. A ton of Palm’s WebOS code is up on GitHub.
