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Win a Tablet of your choice from TouchType!

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153 days
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To celebrate one million downloads of their??SwiftKey keyboard app, TouchType is giving away a tablet each to THREE lucky winners! Which tablets? Whichever the winner chooses so long as they’re available for purchase for up to $800 where he or she lives. iPad 2, PlayBook, Xoom, Galaxy Tab are all on the table.How do you enter? TouchType has put together a small survey which shouldn’t take more than five or ten minutes to complete. That’s it – well, that and a quick perusal of the official entry rules just to make sure you’re eligible (sorry ···

Gmail for iOS vs. Gmail for Android

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164 days
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Phil from Android Central put the brand new (and currently pulled for bug fixes) Gmail for iPhone and iPad app on an iPhone 4 and iPad 2 running iOS 5 against the Gmail app on a Samsung Nexus S running Gingerbread and a Galaxy Tab 10.1 running Honeycomb.It’s easy to see Google took the easy way out with Gmail for iOS, going for a tragically thin native wrapper around the similar-old web content. Maybe they’re still limited by the iOS SDK, maybe they want to keep Android as the premiere Gmail experience (and who could blame them?), maybe it’s···

iPhone 4 vs. Samsung Galaxy S II: Which should you get?

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165 days
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Another week, another baddest ass Android phone on the market, and right now that’s the Samsung Galaxy S II — and Android Central has their full Sprint Galaxy II Epic 4G Touch review up for your reading pleasure. Now Sprint doesn’t have an iPhone (yet?) so if you’re on Medium Yellow and you need a phone this week then the Galaxy S II is hard to beat. If you’re on AT&T, however, you have a tougher decision to make — namely iPhone 4 today, or perhaps iPhone 5 next month vs. the AT&T Galaxy S II.Since we don’t live in the future, howe···

Openy

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169 days
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Google won’t be releasing the source code for Android 3.0 Honeycomb any time soon. (For an excellent overview of why that is and what it means, see Jerry Hildenbrand’s article over at our sibling site, Android Central.) What makes this interesting for TiPb is that, for a while now, Google has used the term “open” as a hammer to differentiate themselves from Apple, iOS, and the iPhone. From Eric Schmidt’s “completely open” quips to Vic Gundotra I/O smack-talk to Andy Rubin’s now-ironic tweet, it’s been clear from the start that “open” wasn’t ···

App World to distribute Android apps for BlackBerry PlayBook

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175 days
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App World to distribute Android apps for BlackBerry PlayBook
BlackBerry maker RIM has just announced that they’ll be providing a way for developers to package, sign, and distribute Android apps for the upcoming BlackBerry PlayBook. (They’ll also be able to develop BlackBerry Java and, soon, C/C++ apps). iPad has a huge head start, but this could prove an interesting way to mitigate that lead:“The BlackBerry PlayBook is an amazing tablet. The power that we have embedded creates one of the most compelling app experiences available in a mobile computing device today,” said Mike Lazaridis, President and C···

iPad 2 vs. Xoom vs. Optimus Pad vs. Galaxy Tab 10 vs TouchPad vs BlackBerry Playbook — Spec wars!

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176 days
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iPad 2 vs. Xoom vs. Optimus Pad vs. Galaxy Tab 10 vs TouchPad vs BlackBerry Playbook — Spec wars!
Comments Apple announced the iPad 2 today so — of course — the first thing we did was drag in our friends from PreCentral.net, Android Central, and CrackBerry.com and get them to spec up with the Android 3.0 Honeycomb-running Motorola Xoom, LG Optimus Pad, Samsung Galaxy Tab 10, and the HP TouchPad and BlackBerry Playbook.The results are above, and all we can say is — what a great time to be a consumer! Also, given the hardware being thrown around Apple’s going to have to work hard on their integrated software model — that means iOS 5 — to k···

How Apple’s Steve Jobs out-Sony’d Sony

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179 days
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How Apple’s Steve Jobs out-Sony’d Sony
Comments Interesting article over at SFGate detailing how Steve Jobs studies early Sony product development culture and Zen-like approach to design:“It was very nearly fetishistic, in fact — he even had a collection of Sony letterhead and marketing materials,” laughs Deutschman. “Sony was a company that Jobs instinctively admired and saw as model from the very beginning. So it’s been an interesting transformation over time, to see Apple supplant Sony as the center of the consumer technology universe.”Early Sony would wait, miss first-mover a···
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