Linked List: July 12, 2010

Monday, 12 July 2010

HP Hints at Flexible Displays for Palm Devices ★

Sounds cool — but why not, you know, actually make them first?

Consumer Reports Won’t Recommend the iPhone 4 Over Reception Issue ★

Mike Gikas:

It’s official. Consumer Reports’ engineers have just completed testing the iPhone 4, and have confirmed that there is a problem with its reception. When your finger or hand touches a spot on the phone’s lower left side—an easy thing, especially for lefties—the signal can significantly degrade enough to cause you to lose your connection altogether if you’re in an area with a weak signal. Due to this problem, we can’t recommend the iPhone 4.

Louis Gray on Switching From iPhone to Android ★

Thoughtful piece, but much of it boils down to thinking that Android will be better than iOS, not that it is now.

Aron Trimble on How to Use iPhone 4 Data Plan With iPad 3G ★

Not exactly convenient, but it works.

App Inventor for Android ★

Google:

App Inventor is a new tool in Google Labs that makes it easy for anyone—programmers and non-programmers, professionals and students—to create mobile applications for Android-powered devices. And today, we’re extending invitations to the general public.

So has Google beaten Apple in the race for a HyperCard for mobile, or is this something less?

ESPN on Bob Sheppard ★

Nice essay by Wallace Matthews, and a great video segment by Buster Olney.

App Store Password Caching ★

Manton Reece, on how Mike Rohde got stuck with $190 worth of unintended in-app purchases:

It is fairly well known that after the App Store prompts for your iTunes password, you can download more apps for a certain length of time (at least a few minutes) before it requires a password again. What seemed less clear is that this applies to in-app purchases as well.