Since the begining of the Ipod Era we have seen hundreds of ripoffs trying to lure customers from Apple, some of them with good design in hardware and software and others are just wasting time and money trying to derail the ipod train.

Now we are even seeing more and more companies working togethers to create the same iphone experience, we have even seen some prototypes from Nokia, Samsung, HTC, Meizu, the recently announced LG’s Voyager, Sun with Java …

For better or worse the iphone and ipod Touch hacks are here to stay and they are evolutionating faster than we thought, the unbrick hack is almost here and is guaranteed that the “you did then I undone” between Apple and hackers will last longer.

Apple better starts helping those hackers to create better applications for the platform, brings a more robust SDK and programming material that aliviate the hackers work. And thanks God that those hacks are aimed at making …

Have you noticed that some famous High Fashion Designers are giving their names to be placed in mobile devices and laptops? If not, let me explain:

For years the PC industry has been out of style, manufacturing beige boxes that don’t have any appeal or any design at all, there weren’t any differentiator (except from Sillicon Graphics, but their computers weren’t for everybody), if you take the logo from X company and place it in the computer of the Y company …

Since Apple gained popularity in the past there was a natural fight between Windows and Mac users and now Linux users about how closed is Apple compared to Windows and Linux development, there is a price paid for being this closed and what other platform users don’t know is the peace of mind we get when enter the Apple closed System, I have never ever suffer any driver related problem, the last time I saw a virus was in Mac …

Imagine that you have a shiny new iphone with all of its beauties and well placed features, but with:

Multiplayer Games:
The iphone has everything needed to becames a dedicated gaming portable machine, so why not start with a multiplayer version of Tetris over wifi, imagine traveling to Europe while playing with your friends some Mind or Puzzle Games. Games will put iphone in the hand of millions children and young adults.

With its powerfull processor the iphone can compete with others players, …

Yesterday news about Adobe earning brought us a little tips from the head, Adobe is seeing a strong demand for flash from mobile phones manufacturers that want to differentiate their products bringing what the iphone is missing: Flash. Could be that Adobe is telling Apple: you know what, the rest of the industry will be running flash, why not the iphone?

It is unclear the reason for the missing in action of flash, maybe Apple doesn’t want to depends on …

But there are two questions for the possible launch of the iphone in Europe tomorrow…

1) Because in Europe phones can’t be tied to ONE Mobile Provider all the phones should be unlocked by default, will the unlocking of the iphone forces Apple to do so in USA faster? Could be that Apple isn’t taking into considerations the hacks applied to the iphone because of that.

2) Will those Europe iphones run on a faster 3G network in Europe or maybe there …

If you want to stay in the top of the top of any business you must innovate, innovation force you to do smart but faster moves, sometimes those moves keep out out of sync because if your competitors get to know your next move you are fried. This is what is happening to Apple in a small level, they are moving so fast in order to bring innovation to the market that in the process their applications and a small …

Based on the huge success that Apple is having nowadays the most natural question would be: Is it time for Apple to fight Microsoft face to face?, it will be a good fight, but let divide the areas where Apple can have a nice round and those where Microsoft will demolishes it (Apple).

1) Business
Apple has decided to go for the personal experience, the computer’s user, letting in a retard place its business stratety while providing decent tools, but not enough …

We have spotted the unlocked Iphone everywhere, now everybody is buying an iphone just to use it with their mobile suppliers, is it time for Apple to suit the hackers? No way, Apple is in the business of selling Iphone and those hackers are just easing the adoption, so as Apple wants to reach even a broader audience it is not paying any attention to the development of this unlocking utility.

Is it an Apple problem? No, the only one losing …

Bringings features to Itunes that add more value to the experience, but when these features works only for the songs bought from the Store it is the kind of tying that make people mad.

Here the Ringtones, easy to make, nice looking feature, but is not operative to those peopla that have a ton of CDs ripped in Itunes, those people do not qualify for this new added value of the most use music jukebox, itunes. …

Seeing Tablets everywhere, portables with detachable screen I remember the Apple Duo, this little machine travels with you and when in home it turns into a desktop computer placed in its dock. I really enjoyed it. But there is nothing this portable or transforming in the Apple Laptop lineup and an Apple Tablet fits well in the Design industry.

Imagine this: An Apple Imac that transforms into a Tablet, so you just take away the LCD and have …

With the recently price drop of the iphone Apple dealed with to situation: bother its new clients, those who jumped from mobile operators to have the iphone or satisfy an angry costumer base ready to fight feeling betrayed…

Steve used his cards majestically giving every iphone owner an US$100 credit to spend it in the apple store. This was the easier way to solve 2 problem and keep the users happier….

The who is who in mobile design business Sony Ericsson fights the Apple power, you decide.

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Sony Ericsson s500i

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Storage
12 MB memory
Memory Stick Micro™ (M2™) support
Actual free memory may vary due to phone pre-configuration

Capacity (songs)
Depends on memory size (info no …

The price reduction of the iphone took us by sorprise, Apple has never made a slash this big (US$200) even when replacing models due to an update. This reduction could be a response to 2 differents situation: 1) the 4GB was not doing good enough to keep it in the line up; 2) Maybe Apple wants to accelerate the adoption and achieve at the same time the 5 million units proyected 10 millions for this 2008, this is a win-win …