Posts Tagged ‘iPad’
BYOD
I’ve spent a good part of the last year working on mobile strategy, so I get asked a lot about Bring Your Own Device (BYOD[1]). This is going to be one of those roll up posts, so that I can stop repeating myself (so much). It’s not about cost (of the device) A friend last […]
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Tags: android, architecture, BYO, BYOC, BYOD, iOS, iPad, iphone, mobile, smartphone, strategy, tablet
Tablets for Christmas
I remember a Christmas in the late 90s where it seemed like everybody got a mobile phone. This year it’s looking like we’re going to see the tablet equivalent, so I thought I’d do a quick round up of what I’m expecting to see. The home front If I include my in-laws then there will […]
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Tags: amazon, android, Christmas, convertible, Fire, google, HD, iPad, kindle, Microsoft, Nexus 7, Surface, tablet, ultrabook
Raspberry Pi on iPad
My second Raspberry Pi came at the end of last week[1], so now I have one to tinker with in addition to the first that I’m using as a media player. It turns out that it’s not just SD cards that the raspi is fussy about, I had a real struggle getting either of my […]
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Tags: howto, iPad, iSSH, Putty, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, RPi, SSH, vnd
Three screens
I’ve had a run of bad luck with screens recently.. Laptop The first casualty was my son’s X121e. He brought it home from school one evening saying ‘the screen on my laptop is broken … I didn’t drop it’. My response was of course ‘why are you telling me you didn’t drop it’, and ‘what […]
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Tags: Blade, fixing, iPad, IPad 2, laptop, LCD, lenovo, Orange San Francisco, phone, repair, screen, smartphone, Touch, X121, x121e, ZTE
One weekend, four upgrades
I found myself upgrading a bunch of stuff over the last weekend, which gave me cause to reflect on what was good, and what was not so good. Android First up was my ZTE Blade, which I’ve had running Cyanogen Mod. I wasn’t super impressed with version 7.0. There were few things that it did […]
Filed under: could_do_better, did_do_better, grumble, technology | 1 Comment
Tags: 11.10, android, cyanogen, Cyanogen Mod, distribution, iOS, iOS5, iPad, iphone, kindle, Linux, upgrade, ZTE Blade
No laptop, will travel
I’ve just returned from my third trip without a laptop – the longest so far, with a whole week in the US. Mostly this has worked out very well. Power to weight ratio Just like with fast cars/bikes, this is the key to success. I’m finding that the iPad 2 can make it through a […]
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Tags: bluetooth, Galaxy Tab, iPad, keyboard, laptop, tablet, travel
iPad 2 versus Samsung Galaxy Tab
I ordered an iPad 2 on the day that they were made available in the US (and had it shipped to a friend I was visiting a few weeks later). A few days later I got a note from one of the R&D guys at work saying that a Galaxy Tab was on its way […]
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Tags: apple, Galaxy Tab, iPad, IPad 2, review, Samsung, Swype
Playing DivX and Xvid on iPad
One of the great frustrations for me with my iOS devices (and PSPs before them) has been the need for transcoding of video files before watching. This was always a time (and CPU) consuming and fiddly process, and for some insane reason the files often ended up being larger than the original. When I got […]
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Tags: avi, AVPlayerHD, divx, iPad, mkv, Xvid
Eyeballs not devices
Too many devices I seem to accumulated a proliferation of devices recently that want to have SIM cards in them for mobile data: Personal laptop (well actually a tablet, but not in the way that people use that label these days) Work laptop iPhone (not just data) Android phone (could be not just data, but […]
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Tags: 3, android, app, apps, Audible, contract, data, Galaxy Tab, iPad, mifi, mobile, payg, tariff, telco, Three, vodafone
More Android
This post will likely be trollbait for that special flavour of Apple fanbois and their anti equivalent… Weekend away I spent a most enjoyable weekend away at Maker Faire in Newcastle, and I took my iPhone 4 and the San Francisco (ZTE Blade) with me (along with my old Lenovo s10e netbook). The Blade made […]
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Tags: android, apple, firmware, Galaxy Tab, google, HSDPA, iPad, iphone, multiuser, root, tablet, Three, unlock, vodafone, ZTE Blade
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