The iPhone turns 15
The iPhone turns 15 this year. I take a look back at some major iPhone moments since the smartphone’s 10th anniversary.
Tag: smartphone
RIP BlackBerry OS (and the classic BlackBerry phone)
As of January 2022, support for the BlackBerry OS, and thus by default the classic BlackBerry phone, has been discontinued.
Digital camera sales down by 87% since 2010
Since the debut of the iPhone in 2007, smartphones have grown to dominate the consumer photography space. For the average person, smartphones […]
A switch from Android to iOS (and impressions so far)
For nearly the entire smartphone era, I’ve been a user of various Android phones, after ditching my first phone, the Palm Pre. […]
The top online payment method is… the credit card?
For awhile, there’s been numerous attempts to get the general public to switch to using various electronic (and proprietary) payment systems. Of […]
Android turns 10: My experiences with Google’s mobile OS
Google’s Android mobile operating system turned 10 last month. Since its 2008 launch, the Android OS has gone from being part of […]
Android P to be named “Pie”
Google’s announced that the next version of Android, previously named “Android P,” now has an official name. In keeping with the dessert-themed […]
Whatever happened to Microsoft and Blackberry’s mobile presence?
A few years ago, I wrote about how Android and iOS came to dominate the mobile device space. There’d been a lot […]
Smartphones are now the dominant means of photography
I’ve previously written about how photography’s shifted over the years. In 2003, digital cameras first outsold film cameras, with the latter soon […]
Android O to be named “Oreo”
Last week, on the same day as the much-hyped total solar eclipse, Google announced the name and features of the newest version […]