App store analytics firm Distimo recently released a bunch of juicy info about the major mobile app stores, and the results are pretty interesting. For one, Android has a much higher proportion of free apps.
Apple and BlackBerry are pretty close with their app stores, offering free apps making up 25% and 24% of their respective […]

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From what we’ve heard about the development process of Windows Phone 7, rumors about the OS predated its earliest seeds. How? The secret lies deep underground in Redmond, buried with a little project called Photon.
We were posting about Windows Mobile 7 (and 8!) in great detail back in 2008, and we weren’t the only ones. […]

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Once upon a time, buying cellphones was easy. You’d go for the cheaper deal and leave it at that. But what about when you’re faced with the choice of paying more now or more over time? Which do you chose?
The NY Times has an interesting example of this dilemma:

Let’s say that you buy a MyTouch […]

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Joking they were not, when Google vowed to take down China. Ok, that’s not exactly what they said—but after refusing to launch two Android phones there mid-January, they’ve now pulled out of a developers event in Beijing. Updated.
Following developer events at TED and MWC (plus the upcoming GDC), they were scheduled to tour around Asia, […]

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