Remember that little lawsuit that Apple filed a while back against HTC? Well, HTC finally got around to responding to that. Here’s what they had to say:
“HTC disagrees with Apple’s actions and will fully defend itself. HTC strongly advocates intellectual property protection and will continue to respect other innovators and their technologies as we have always done, but we will continue to embrace competition through our own innovation as a healthy way for consumers to get the best mobile experience possible,” said Peter Chou, chief executive officer, HTC Corporation.
So it sounds like these two are on their way to court to fight this out. If you read the rest of the press release, Chou really sounds like he’s not going to go down without a fight. I hope this doesn’t scare away potential customers as HTC may need the cash from those customers to finance their defence.
I must admit; I was quite saddened when I first saw Android’s Market website – almost embarrassed. Coming from an N97 and the Ovi Store, I was used to being able to search and browse through thousands of applications all through my web browser. It seems however that this is not possible from the official Android Market website — until NOW!
A lovely little site called Android Tapp (it’s nothing to do with taps by the way) gives you the ability to search through the Market place and even *shock horror* browse categories too! If things get any more advanced I may just fall off my chair.
Android Tapp App Search Website
In all seriousness though, it’s a great site that opens up what seems to be a very closed Market that’s only browsable on an Android handset.
The site can be found here: http://apps.androidtapp.com
Well…. All is well here, it’s been a while since I last posted, excepting I don’t guess anyone’s been reading anyway. In my foregoing posts, I’ve been talking about my new HTC Droid Eris from Verizon, and I told that I debated purchasing a netbook from Verizon, on the other hand decided to purchase an Acer from Wal-Mart. Well, I’m indisputable glad I did. Verizon’s netbook costs ~ $100 and for this reason there’s a minimum service addition of ~ $40 per month. Well, through my new HTC Eris and my netbook, I’m clever to tether completely free! That’s right, I downloaded at rest tether lite to my Eris and to my netbook, and here I am, in the middle of nowhere, making a blog support on my netbook . I spoke with Verizon, and the Eris does not natively substantiate tethering, so they have no way of adding the service to my ground. Apparently, lots of Eris users have been able to achieve the like results! Very excited!
SAUDI ARABIAN HA’IL BAJA (Ha’il Rally 2010…The Great Nafud Challenge), February 16th-18th, 2010 – 2010 FIA International Cup for Cross-Country Bajas, round 1
HA’IL (Saudi Arabia): Nasa Smart Devices and HTC participated in Ha’il Baja. A 187.7km third selective section through the An-Nafud desert in the north-central region of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on Thursday.
This year’s Saudi Arabian Ha’il Baja ran under the patronage of HRH Prince Saud Bin Abdul Mohsen Bin Abdul Aziz, Governor of Ha’il, President of the Supreme Commission for Ha’il Development and the Head of the Supreme Commission of the Ha’il Rally.
Twenty-five of the original 27 cars entered in the international event were permitted to restart stage three on Thursday morning, with Majed Al-Ghamdi succumbing to engine problems and Safah Al-Saeedi also falling by the wayside. Emirati Abdullah Al-Herais did not take the restart. Cars that did not complete the full second stage were given a notional time penalty of 10h 15m.
Apple and Google started off as what looked like a perfect merge of two enormous power houses. But, now both are competing against one another. Apple and Google at war…two powers at war…whats new?
Three years ago, Eric E. Schmidt, the chief executive of Google shook hands with Steven P. Jobs, Apple’s co-founder, to help him promote the iPhone.
Both companies were excited to bring the new and exceptional gadget, the iPhone to never seen before standards. Apple used Google’s search engine and mapping devices to the phone. Apple used Google but feels betrayed.
The merge began with a lot of hope for a better future but now the warmth between the two has curtailed. They immersed between a gritty battle over the shape and prospects of mobile computing and cellphones. In the last six months, Jobs and Schmidt have clashed over acquisitions, patents, directors, advisers and iPhone applications.
Apple sued HTC, the Taiwanese maker of mobile phones that run Google’s Android operating system, arguing that HTC had violated iPhone patents. This marked the start of a legal assault by Apple on Google itself, as well as trying to slow Google’s plans to extend its dominance over mobile devices.
Apple believes devices like smart phones and tablets should be tightly controlled and all the apps should only be bought from the Apple store. But, Google shares a different outlook on smart phones and wants users to freely roam the web for apps that work on many devices.
Mr. Jobs believes that Google has crossed lines of friendship and violated the alliance between the companies by producing cellphones that physically, technologically resemble the iPhone, like the G1.
Google is infused with competition and their promotion of the Android is for the sole purpose to keep its hold in the mobile world. And Google doesn’t stop short there because this year they will be developing an operating system for computers, which we all know is Apple’s main business.
Eventually, Google plans to offer Chrome OS for laptop and desktop computers, which will inevitably put the companies in a deepened battle.
Neither company is each other biggest rival because both are looking to destroy Microsoft. But, being in power means destroying the main shark and also the fishes that have possibility to take over.
Sophistication comes at its best when we think of HTC Tattoo Blue. The colour and dimensions of the handset are such that one can’t resist the temptation it creates. The HTC Tattoo Blue handset is almost a dream come true for most of the users because such latest technologies have never before clubbed with sophisticated design in any handset.
Here are the important features of the phone:
HTC Tattoo Blue
This HTC Tattoo handset has a unique and attractive blue colour which adds on to the beauty of its 10.6cm by 5.52cm by 1.4 cm casing.
The phone is quite sleek and even light weight. Along with the batteries, the total weight of the casing is only 117grams.
The phone has a Qualcomm processor which means that the hardware of the phone is the best possible. Even the batteries of the phone when completely charged are able to provide a talk time of six and a half hours to the user and on standby mode, it offers five hundred and twenty hours time.
Even memory of the phone is apt. the RAM constitutes 256MB space and ROM 512 MB respectively. Other than these two, one can have external storage space through the memory card slot.
The phone has quad band network coverage of GSM network so that a complete network is enjoyed by the user wherever he goes. This is true all over the world which has been made possible now with the 3G HSDPA technology.
Similarly, worldwide directions are marked to the user through the A GPS navigation feature of the phone. Thus, whether you are home or abroad there is no way you can lose your way.
The entertainment features on the phone are equally good. There is a 3.2 megapixel camera that clicks some of the most amazing pictures and videos. Then there is a video player to view these video footages.
You can download videos from internet also and store them in MPEG4, H264, H263 and Window Media Player formats. Additionally one can enjoy music on the music player of HTC Tatoo Blue and even FM radio supported by RDS on the phone which offers amazing clarity of sound.
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Well I’ve moved. I am now dwelling just north of Detroit, in between Harper Woods and East Pointe. Im excited about the relocate as it puts me within arms reach of a myriad options. It took me a few days to get internet at the house. I attempted to do some blogging at the local Tim Hortons but it was too distracting. LOL.
So I’m all settled in, time to get back to normal and get back on track with the blog. Did you miss me?
I havent done all that much with my Hero over the past week or so due to the move. I did end up giving Dolphin another try. I totally uninstalled it, and then installed the new version. Which in retrospect is probably what I should have done anyway. The previous version actually said to follow those steps, but this time I didnt see that instruction so I just d/l and installed it. Live and learn right?
I have also been playing with FourSquare. For those that dont know, its a pretty interesting little app that lets you “check in” at different locations and broadcast that info to your friends via Twitter and other methods. It’s kind of fun as you accumulate points for checking in, for hitting multiple spots in one outing, for hitting spots multiple times etc. If you have a bunch of social friends that all use FourSquare, I could see this being a lot more appealing. Right now for me its just yet another social app that I have to update. I’ll keep my eyes on this app and see how it evolves.
So Apple is suing HTC. You know I’ve been an Apple fan since almost day one. Long before the iPhone. I love Macs. So when I heard this I was disappointed. Not surprised, but disappointed. This almost seems like a panic move. Which dosent make sense. Apple has the market share. It will be awhile before that changes. Plus they need to realize that people who buy the iPhone are not necessarily the same people who like Android. There are still enough differences between the phones to be 2 different (almost) demographics. Apple needs to just continue doing what it does best. Innovate and produce top level product. Don’t play the bully Apple. It dosent become you.
