smartphones

John Gruber on the convergence of smartphones and tablets

John Gruber on the convergence of smartphones and tablets John Gruber: Better, I think, not to treat smartphones and tablets as separate categories, but merely as different sizes of the same thing. I think he is absolutely right, but even a year ago I would have argued like a lunatic against that …

Cloud startup aims to make “dumb” cell phones smart

Cloud startup aims to make “dumb” cell phones smartSean Gallagher reports at Ars Technica on biNu, a company developing an asynchronous, server-side smartphone emulator in Java. The system’s low-bandwidth, high-security nature makes it a perfect fit for countries where the next iPhone is out of …