GeeksPhone reveals Firefox OS phones for developers | Mobile. A small Spanish startup called GeeksPhone has started selling phones that let developers get a taste of Mozilla's new Firefox OS. GeeksPhone announced two 3G phones for the browser-based operating system, the lower-end Keon and higher-end Peak. The phones, while geared for programmers rather than mainstream customers, make Mozilla's open-source mobile OS a lot more real, since programmers will be able to develop apps as well as to debug and advance the underlying operating system.
Firefox OS is Mozilla's ambitious attempt to build an operating system that brings more openness to the walled gardens of Apple's iOS and Google's Android. Although the latter is an open-source project, it's run in secrecy by Google and its corporate allies and is closely linked to Google's ecosystem of app distribution and online services. Apple's iOS is even more closely locked down, with proprietary source code and only Apple-approved apps on the app store. Keep the Web open. Motorola Unveils. Victory :D android better than iOS. Journey Digital Media - Absolutely Amazing New Phone: Flip Phones are Back!
Holykaw.alltop. We recently told you about a paper-thin electronic film that could stream-line your smartphone into something as thin and flexible as an index card, but some German researchers are now working on a system to complete the ultimate vanishing act. Patrick Baudisch, professor of computer science at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany, and his team of students are developing a device that turns the palm of your hand into an interface capable of performing the same actions as your smart phone.
Instead of swiping and tapping your finger across your phone, you simply do so across your palm. Full story at Discovery News. More news from Discovery Communications. Photo credit: Fotolia. Awesome Android concept phone with three displays [video] | larsa | Androinica. There are many interesting concept phones and other devices that never see the light of day, because of lack of funding, or because the design was ahead of current technology, and so forth. But we must dare to dream, right? A designer named Kristian Ulrich Larsen has created an intriguing concept he calls the . It’s an idea for a handset powered by vanilla Android that features three flexible displays, which can be adjusted any way you like depending on what you want to do.
If you feel like reading e-books, for example, the device can fold out like an actual book. Each of the three screens in the concept is said to feature Super AMOLED technology behind resistant Gorilla Glass. The video demonstrating the Flip Phone concept is well made, interesting, and even poetic at times.
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Paul Reviews... the Orange San Francisco - Android @ MoDaCo. Introduction When it comes to Android devices, there are some beautiful handsets at the top of end of the market. The Desire, Desire HD, Desire Z, Galaxy S and Streak to name but a few, all pack specifications to lust over but sadly more often than not a price to match. Android isn't just winning people's hearts and minds in the realms of power devices however, also taking place is a subtle yet concerted attack at the lower end of the market, with devices such as the Pulse, Pulse Mini and ZTE Racer from Chinese manufacturers Huawei and ZTE instrumental in the battle.
Manufacturers of the aforementioned power devices are also targeting the entry level - HTC with their 'Mini Desire' the Wildfire, Samsung with the Galaxy Portal / Spica and a host of similar devices at knock down prices not to mention Sony Ericsson with their cute and strangely appealing X10 Mini and X10 Mini Pro. So what constitutes an entry level / low end / budget device? Read on to find out! In the box Hardware - overview.