The popular third-party Twitter client, Carbon, has received a pretty hefty update bringing with it a ton of new features and bug fixes. Included in this upgrade is the ability to adjust notification frequency options ranging from 5 to 120 minutes, a snappy in-app browser, a redesigned image viewer screen, and lots more.
Dear Handset Maker:
Your company and hundreds of others are engaged in an epic battle for the smartphone handset market, which within a year or two will exceed a billion customers and $150 billion a year in revenue.
Don’t you want a big piece of that? Because if you do, you’re not acting like it.
Samsung gets most of the market share and some of the profits. Apple gets most of the profits and some of the market share. But Samsung fears with justification that its lead is slipping away to lower-cost and more aggressive vendors. Apple’s momentum has slowed horribly with the onslaught of Android phones.
The rest of you handset makers — let’s face it — are scrambling for crumbs on the floor.
Instead of taking one of the known-bad losing strategies, why don’t you try the obvious winning strategy?
I’m going to describe the losing strategies, then spell out the winning one.
Chrome for Android has received a pretty solid update, bringing you the ability to now view webpages in fullscreen mode on your tablets as well as your smartphones, built-in translation for websites in different languages and a new and improved interface for right-to-left languages.
AT&T has announced that it has entered into an agreement to purchase the U.S. regional carrier, Leap Wireless, for $15 per share; acquiring all of the carrier’s assets, shareholders and customers. Leap operates as a consumer-orientated carrier which goes by the name of Cricket Wireless, it has both a CDMA and LTE network with coverage in 35 states along with 5-million subscribers, so it is the perfect expansion platform for AT&T’s “nationwide takeover.”
Rovio, the developers of the hit games series Angry Birds, have published a blog post teasing an upcoming announcement due on Monday, July 15.
