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If not for Siri would we care about the iPhone 4S?
One of the distinguishing features of the new iPhone 4S is the support for Siri's voice activated personal assistant. If this was not a part of the device, would anyone care about the iPhone 4S?
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Matthew Miller
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Matthew Miller
Matthew Miller is an avid mobile device enthusiast who works during the day as a professional naval architect in Seattle. He is one of three hosts on the MobileTechRoundup podcast and runs the Nokia Experts website. Matthew started using mobile devices in 1997 with a US Robotics Pilot 1000 and has owned over 90 different devices running Palm, Linux, Symbian, Newton, BlackBerry, Mac OS X (iPhone), Google Android, and Windows Mobile operating systems. His current collection includes a Nokia N85, Nokia E71, Nokia 5800, Nokia N810, Apple iPhone, HTC Advantage, T-Mobile G1, Palm Treo Pro, HTC Fuze, MSI Wind, MacBook Pro, and many more, along with tons of accessories and classic devices like the Apple Newton MessagePad 2100 and Sony CLIE UX50. Matthew co-authored Master Visually Windows Mobile 2003, was a member of the Nokia Nseries Blogger relations program, and is a member of the invite-only Microsoft Mobius mobile device evangelist group. He can be found on various discussion forums under the user name of "palmsolo".
Joel Evans
Biography
Joel Evans
With more than a decade of mobile, Internet and wireless experience, Joel specializes in taking existing brands, technologies and services into the mobile and wireless space. Joel is currently serving as the Managing Director of Cronk Software, Inc., a company he founded to offer full-service, end-to-end mobile strategy, design and development services.
Joel is the former founder and "Chief Geek" of Geek.com, a website praised by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and others as one of world's best sources of information for technology professionals and enthusiasts.
Joel also serves as a technology expert for a number of well-known publications and regularly advises corporations, analysts, journalists and bloggers on what the future of technology will bring. He brings decades of relationships with leading game publishers, online communities and publishers, along with both hardware and software product management and delivery expertise. Joel can be found online as "JoelGeek" and you can follow him on Twitter @JoelGeek.
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RIM delays BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 update until Feb 2012
RIM needs good news to keep people excited about the PlayBook tablet and delaying the OS 2.0 update until at least February 2012 is not going to help.
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Sprint is ending unlimited 4G on broadband plans, will cuts continue?
Carriers are cutting back on the unlimited data allowances and they are becoming a rarity in the mobile space. Sprint still offers unlimited smartphone data, but with 4G cutbacks how much longer...
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5 reasons Siri frustrates me
I love Siri, but it’s going to be a long time before I completely surrender to it
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Kobo challenges Amazon Kindle Fire with Vox eReader
There are three main competitors in the dedicated ebook space and it looks like Kobo is going to challenge Amazon in the 7 inch tablet/ereader space too with the Vox eReader.
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If not for Siri, would we care about the iPhone 4S?
The iPhone 4S is selling like crazy, but its hardware enhancements alone are not worth the upgrade
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Turn the top of your laptop into a whiteboard with DrawTop
For $10 you can turn your laptop’s unused space into a portable whiteboard
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TimeCommand iOS dock enhances your bedside experience (review)
If you want to improve your alarm clock experience and have your iOS device with you in bed all the time anyway then you may want to check out the TimeCommand audio alarm clock.
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iPad 2 going outside? Check out the rugged case showdown
People are using the Apple iPad 2 outside in the environment for a number of reasons and there are rugged cases to protect your valuable investment. Which did I find to be the best choice?
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T-Mobile announces 7 inch SpringBoard and Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1
T-Mobile USA announced two new Android Honeycomb tablets with the SpringBoard and Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. I think they will continue to fill a niche market, unless the SpringBoard is priced to sell.
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Best Buy slashing HTC Flyer permanently to $299 on 1 October
If you are looking for an excellent Android tablet in a 7 inch form factor then I recommend you head over to Best Buy this weekend for the HTC Flyer.
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