Windows 10 on the Xiaomi Mi 4 is all about freedom of choice

We are approaching a new turning point in the smartphone market: you’ll buy a smartphone and will be offered the chance to install not different Android ROMs, but different operating systems on it. That’s what Xiaomi will offer next December 3rd when it makes available Windows 10 to their Mi 4 customers in China. This

Continue Reading

YouTube Music: try to compete with that, Spotify

The audio streaming services should be pretty worried about the launch of YouTube Music, a streaming service that goes beyond what Google Play Music offers, but also what Spotify, Rdio, Pandora, or Apple Music -to name a few- offer right now. And that’s because for a similar price you are not getting just the audio,

Continue Reading

Google as a hardware company

Walt Mossberg has published a column in The Verge in which there’s a little mistake just in the headline. When he says ‘It’s time for Google to make its own hardware‘ he forgets Google is already a hardware maker. It has shown that for example with its Chromecast devices, but above all with the two

Continue Reading

Chrome OS won’t phase out, but Android merger seems inevitable

Four days. Google’s answer to WSJ report comes a little late. As if the people at Google themselves needed to meet and focus on the official statement. Strangely enough that statement doesn’t deny what the Journal discovered, and they confirm that they have “been working on ways to bring together the best of both operating systems“.

Continue Reading

Google merging Chrome OS and Android: Apple is next

The Post-PC is more of a PC-Reborn era.  And it is so because the PC isn’t that big box under the table anymore. Or even that laptop, Ultrabook or convertible you’ve spent some money on lately. No. Your PC is your smartphone. And if it’s not yet, it will be that soon enough. The dream

Continue Reading

The useless Nexus

I wasn’t impressed by last year Nexus 6, and I’m not impressed by this year’s Nexus 5X and 6P either. The first one was an expensive super-phone (in every sense), and the new phones are not cheap either (at least not outside the US) and they aren’t specially different from the proposals from the traditional

Continue Reading

Google’s Pixel C has a smart aspect ratio, but what about the stylus?

The aspect ratio on Google’s new tablet is the square root of two. Why? Brian Barrett gives us an explanation of the weird aspect ratio ( 1:√2, about 1:1.41) on the new Google Pixel C Tablet. The explanation is divided in two: It makes websites and webapps more “appealing”. If you divide the Pixel C’s screen in

Continue Reading

Spec comparison is no longer (very) useful

This kind of article is pretty useless. Specs are only a (small) part of the package nowadays. Hardware has become a commodity. It’s the result of the combination of hardware and software that makes the difference. Oh, and design. I almost forgot. Source: The iPhone 6s Plus vs. the competition: Big is beautiful

Continue Reading

Samsung Gear S2 gets it right

Vlad Savov is really pleased with what he’s seen about the new Samsung Gear S2. There’s probably a really important thing in the experience that that smartwatch and the platform it runs, Tizen, offers: I want a watch that can do smart things, not a computer that can do watch things. The rotating bezel, by the

Continue Reading