Techno rants

Getting out if the clasps of apple, i have moved to google's android platform in particular the motorola DROID RAZR. Hardware wise the phone is great, it has awesome battery life, great screen quality, its light but feels sturdy and with its kevlar, steel and gorilla glass build it is definitely a premium device. So whats wrong, well its android itself. Though i absolutely hate apples business practices, such you can't offer anything cheaper at another outlet if your in apple's development ecosystem. Which frankly i think is anti-competitive, due to the giant market share apple possesses, it pretty much shift market prices towards apples favor. The best example of this is the ebook market. Prior to ibooks l, ebooks were at low prices such as $3-5, ibooks launched, apple and publishers wanted higher prices and due to these broad market altering agreements prices of ebooks are now at $12. Getting back on track, i want apple to have an ecosystem competitor, so they c...

There is no longer any point to stop the inevitable, tablets/slates are the future, Netbooks you have been dumped. At the consumer electronic show you could be forgiven to think that the this year its just a tablet show. Every major manufacturer and some minor ones all have declared tablets and slates, all different sizes with or without keyboards and as usual most of them are running the android os while other are running windows 7. Now if your wondering "android on a tablet, that doesn't sound so good" or " hey isn't that OS mad e for smart phones, on a larger screen it'll look terrible and feel clunky " well Google has announced Android 3.0 honeycomb (got to the Android names) a version of the OS optimised for tablets and most if not all the Android tablets are running a dual core processor. well lets get stated the tablets announced and some of their specifications are listed below: Motorola Xoom The xoom the most coolest device to roll up this y...

At CES 2011 we are seeing that the ipad has left a mark on manufacturers, toshiba, samsung, motorola, & vizio are all now trying to get a slice of the evil cake. Motorola has announced there "xoom" tablet and no its not a typo it is actually spelled with a "x". Even with the dyslexic spelling on paper the "xoom" looks like a solid ipad competitor with dual core processing, 1GB RAM, HD display, HDMI out, 4G compatibility with a software update and Google Android 3.0 honeycomb optimused for tablets this looks like an interesting product. Interestingly Vizo maker of TV's and other things have made a similar tablet, though it has a they have placed a their custom UI and the demo version is like the playbook (just a screen running video's) we can expect that 2011 will be the year of the tablet halle lujah! On the other hand we have seen the announcement of the Samsung sliding PC 7. This is essentially a tablet which slides to expose a keyboard then...