Join our iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and Apple TV community today! Register Here | Login
Rene Ritchie is TiPb’s editor-in-chief, responsible for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch content and communities. He's also executive producer for the Mobile Nations broadcasting network, and host of podcasts including iPhone Live, iPad Live, Mobile Nations, Iterate, ZENandTECH, Superfunctional, and several others. Based in Montreal, Canada, Rene has also authored and co-authored of several books, the latest of which is iPhone 4S Made Easy.
Google has just released the too-long-in-coming Chrome for Android browser, and Phil from Android Central immediately loaded it up on his Galaxy Nexus, sought out an iPhone 4S running Safari, and put them head-to-head, rendering-time-to-rendering-time, in a classic Mobile Nations browser show down.
The quest to get thinner, stronger, faster, and healthier with iMore and Mobile Nations continues!
We’ve survived the first week. We’ve set our goals and whether we achieved them (yay!)
Attention iMore Nation! Now that it looks like Apple is getting close to announcing the iPad 3, it’s time to get serious about what we’re expecting from it. Let’s start with hardware.
Marc, Seth, and Rene iterate about high-concept eBooks and page-curl API, Bjango’s Skala Preview, RealMac’s Clear, ScoreKeeper XL, and the Metro-fication of iOS apps, and interrogate Dave Wiskus of Black Pixel about design… and what’s wrong with PhotoShop
The darling of hardcore iPhone twitter users comes to the iPad, but how does Tweetbot measure up on the big screen compared to Twitterrific and Twitter’s own app?
Twitter may
“Tweetbot has made the leap from iPhone to iPad and brought with it’s excellent user-interface, best-in-class notifications, and powerful yet accessible feature set.”
Twitter is the social network antithesis of
Georgia, Seth, and Rene talk about copy-cat apps, iMovie vs. Avid, Launch Center, Jailbreak apps for iOS 5, as well as cases with stands, iPhone guns, and glowing Apple logo
Apple is increasingly playing defense against lawsuits from Samsung and Motorola that seek to take iPhones and iPads off the shelves and out of stores. Apple is trying to do the same to their competitors, of course, but there’s a subtle difference — Samsung and Motorola are suing Apple over FRAND (Fair, Reasonable, And Non-Discriminatory) patents and are apparently seeking licensing that’s anything but fair and reasonable, and may in fact be discriminatory.
Samsung has aired another of their good-natured iPhone attack ads, which should be an occasion for merriment and ego-prickly good fun. But once again the commercial feels like it missed it’s mark. Or rather, the whole series of commercials still seem awkwardly in search of a mark. This one stars the latest in Samsung’s broad-range of devices, each separate by a different Galaxy monicker and roughly 0.25-inches of screen size, the Galaxy Note. It’s something that can’t quite make up it’s mind between being a phone and a tablet — I’m not going to call it a phablet — and that’s either the best of both worlds… or the worst. The jury is still out. How big is it? 5.3-inches of HD Super AMOLED big, baby. (Yes, that’s exactly inverse the iPhone’s traditional 3.5-inches.)
It’s also got a stylus.
Sounds like Google has hired away Simon Prakash, formerly Apple’s senior director of product integrity, to work on a “secret project” deep in the heart of the Googleplex. Reports VentureBeat
