Items tagged with: windows-phone

  

Poll: HP's done with smartphones, so where do you go from here?

Yesterday was a day of bombshells. HP announced that they were going to open source all of webOS, presumably to the tune of not making hardware themselves. And then HP CEO Meg Whitman came out and said

News - Derek Kessler - Sat, 10 Dec 2011 04:26:00 EST -
  

Carrier IQ on webOS? Nothing to see here...

So you may have heard about this brouhaha going on over at our sister sites CrackBerry, Android Central, and TiPb. They call it “Carrier IQ”, which in essence is a data collection system that monitors

News - Derek Kessler - Thu, 01 Dec 2011 04:59:00 EST -
  

Richard Kerris' "outside opportunity" is the same job, but at Nokia

Hate to throw water on the speculation that Richard Kerris’ abrupt departure from HP was so he could work on getting things set up at the new potential home for webOS, but here comes the bucket. Kerris

News - Derek Kessler - Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:39:00 EDT -
  

The Competition: Windows Phone 7.5 Mango

If you hadn't realized it yet, another big competitor in the smartphone market has made some pretty massive steps this past week to take ground from current behemoths Apple and Google. Microsoft made Windows

Editorials, News - Tim Stiffler-Dean - Thu, 29 Sep 2011 06:18:00 EDT -
  

Switching away from webOS? SPE has you covered

If you’ve had enough of the drama surrounding webOS, we can’t really say we blame you. It’s enough to drive even the most grounded smartphone user over the edge. Thankfully, if you’re leaving webOS, our

How To - Derek Kessler - Mon, 22 Aug 2011 02:55:00 EDT -
  

Poll: Are you planning to switch away from webOS?

With HP’s move to dump webOS hardware and the future of the platform up in the air, there’s a question we have to ask: who is going to stay, and who is going to go? There are plenty of competent competing

News - Derek Kessler - Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:10:00 EDT -
  

Could there be a suitor for webOS?

We’ve been looking for a silver lining in today’s HP squall line. HP’s done making webOS devices, and they might continue working on webOS while exploring their options with what to do with the software

Editorials - Derek Kessler - Thu, 18 Aug 2011 08:41:00 EDT -
  

Google buying Motorola for $12.5 billion, proving vertical integration is the way to go

Google this morning announced that they are purchasing Motorola Mobility (the recently-spun-off cellular arm of Motorola) to the tune of $12.5 billion. The purchase, expected to close around the end of

Editorials, News - Derek Kessler - Mon, 15 Aug 2011 10:09:00 EDT -
  

So, what about the Pre3? Yeah, we hear you: Sprint.

Two weeks ago my colleague Tim Stiffler-Dean wrote up an excellent editorial on the HP Pre3 and how we need to have patience. After all, relationships between carriers and manufacturers take time, as does

Editorials - Derek Kessler - Wed, 29 Jun 2011 08:00:00 EDT -
  

iOS 5: Great artists steal [the competition]

So Steve Jobs and Apple today previewed iOS 5 at WWDC in San Francisco. As with all iOS releases, it’s an impressive one, but we can’t help but look at a lot of what they added to the OS as being copied

News - Derek Kessler - Mon, 06 Jun 2011 04:14:00 EDT -