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After all the hype about the various Pad devices announced or on the market I would today like to comment my first experiences with the HTC EVO 4G, which was promoted at Google I/O. This device is only capable to support CDMA based networks, so SPRINT's one month promotion of free data and voice usage were unfortunately of limited value to European visitors of the event. A full interactive demo video is available at engadget 's website showing the real interaction with this new device. It is of specific interest, as it is a nice combination of screen size (4,3 inch capacitive touch screen), processing power (1 GHz snapdragon processor) and some advanced Andoid phone features. A full size review can be found at the same site here . So lets go step by step:     As always: Size really matters. UI navigation, usage quality of the soft keyboard and sliding thru long lists is so much better, than ever seen.  Even compared to the Nexus One the touch experience is signific...

It is amazing, how fast this company is moving forward. Todays announcements were focussed on two issues: The new Android Release 2.2 and the Google TV announcement So let's take Android first. Lots of incremental improvements, like the JIT (just in time) compiler, that improves the speed up to 3 to 5 times and the possiblitiy to move applications onto the SD card. Added control featurtes to allow remote admin of the devices for corporate usage. And then the feature I like most: The personal hotpsot. No more Bluetooth tethering. Just setup your own hotspot with your mobile. A feature already offered by some PalmOS and Windows Mobile 6.5 devices. Now available for all 2.2 compatible devices. Not to forget the impressive feature of cloud to device messaging, that allows Android Intents (a special event function of the OS) to be triggered by a web browser. The demo showed the instant forwarding of a maps turn by turn navigation from the browser to an Android handset. Google T...

I have to do some updates on the event organization: At 2 pm the situation changed: Nothing goes. One of the main events, the Fireside Chat with the Chrome developer team, was out of any reach for me. Sure, I was a bit late, but about 20 to 30 people left the room, when I was stranded at the entrance door and just blocked by a young man with a staff T-shirt. A press team with a big camera got in. But not me, the normal attendee. This is no fair use policy! I really have to complain. I now missed two third of my planned programm today as I cpould also not get into the Android intro, because the keynote was delayed. What a shit. But they are as they are. They do what they like and stick to their policies.  No one was allowed to get in. No way. I could not believe that this is the reality until I realized it sitting on the floor in front of the meeting and always people dropping out. And not getting in. And the WiFi fully crashed down at least in the 2nd floor. The Wave server c...

Now we got them: the expected and speculated "official" announcements on first day's keynote. VP8 will become fully Open Source. The solution for all real open source projects like Mozilla and Android. Anyone is now enabled to create and distribute HD videos without having to take care of license cost. Even if professional broadcasters will not change their distribution format away from H.264, lots of people joining the big cloud and creating the long tail of user generated content are now safe. And also all the freeware and sharewar developers can now fully integrate this video format without getting sued by anyone else. This is a great day for all free software to come. Some millions of users may not be able to join up with that content: The ones using the nice gadgets of the Cupertino fruit seller ;-). And the MPEG LA license pool may loose some revenue. Wave is from now available for anyone interested. By the way, the Google I/O event is fully documented in realti...

After some while using the iPad and reading lots of reviews I still think, some relevant experiences with it have not been posted. As I am living in Germany I also want to comment on the support in some major German online news portals. But lets work it out step by step: Browser: As all reviews say, its pretty much the same browser as in the iPhone, but with a much larger display connected. But the usage feels quite different. You easily accept some restrictions, if you use this browser on the iPhone, because you just have such a small screen and you're just happy to get access to the sites you are looking for. But frustration rises fast, if you have this nice full format display in use. Some websites just feel somewhot strange, because they make some more intense use of scripting and mouse over events, which is not supported by this limited browser version. But it can get more serious, if the embedded script get more complex: I was dropped out of an ordering process in ebay ...