Feb
16
Android shipping 60,000 phones per day!
Holy cow! 21.9 million Android handsets per year! Greg Kumparak has the stats in a post titled, “Google: Android now shipping on 60,000 handsets per day.”
Feb
4
ShopSavvy Platform Update
ShopSavvy is current available on Android (Droid, Hero, Nexus, Eris, G1, MyTouch) and iPhone 3GS. We are currently working on versions for:
- Android (Tattoo, Lancaster – i.e. non-AF cameras) – April 2010
- iPhone (2G/3G – i.e. non-AF cameras) – March 2010
- Windows Mobile – May 2010
- Blackberry – May 2010
- PalmOS – June 2010
Based on our current workload and staff these dates seem reasonable. Of course, our iPhone version took us almost three months longer than we expected (and we still don’t have the 2G/3G working well). We get LOTS of emails each day, hopefully this update will help.
Jan
16
Facebook and Android Exploration
The other day I read about mplayit Android Arcade on TechCrunch. Living inside of Facebook, mplayit helps Facebook users discover Android applications. Leana Rao explained how the site works:
“Once you start clicking on various app and downloading apps, Mplayit will begin to recommend apps to you based on your behavior on the site. And you can share apps on Facebook and Twitter. The Facebook page also shows the activity that’s taking place in other app marketplaces, such as Apple’s App Store or the Android Market, to show users what apps are receiving the most downloads, reviews and more. Users will also be able to see the “apptivity” within their social network, so they can clearly see what apps their friends and family are most interested in.“
Of course I have become more of a fan since they included ShopSavvy as their number one featured application (as seen below):
Jan
11
Scanning Household Items with ShopSavvy
We thought it would be fun to start doing a video series called ‘Will it Scan’ (an homage of sorts to Will it Blend). Jake and Brad put on their custom ShopSavvy lab coats and recorded the first episode in ONE take. In our first episode we scan six common household items – the point of the demo is to show that, yes they will scan, but maybe you shouldn’t be scanning low value items. The best use of ShopSavvy is for books, dvds, games and electronics – items with lots of price variations between local retailers. We are still trying to come up with a theme song and next time we will try to cut it a little shorter. Let us know what you think:
Jan
10
CES, ShopSavvy and Android
I spent the last week at CES talking about ShopSavvy and checking out all of the cool new gadgets our users will be scanning. We demo’ed our two new ShopSavvy features including QR Code scanning support and Augmented Reality product and retailer search (we call it ‘product radar’). Everyone thought the augmented reality feature was cool, but I was really surprised by the number of meaningful conversations focused around QR Codes. Publishers, retailers and manufacturers all wanted to talk about how we could help them leverage QR Codes.
While at the event I carried my Nexus One and almost everyone had to check it out. Hanging out at the LG Booth I was uber-impressed by the 6.9mm thick (or thin) LED television (picture below), but the LG rep just wanted to play with the active wallpaper on my phone. Of course, this was just part of the story. The biggest ‘buzz’ after you tried out four or five of the 3D televisions was all about Android. Scott Fulton wrote about the ‘android buzz’ suggesting, “Android has emerged from CES 2010 as the software platform story of the year.“ Android was at the heart of so many of the coolest new gadgets I lost count. Some of the more exciting Android-based gadgets included Motorola’s Backflip and the Alex e-reader. The Android-based gadgets spanned segments including automotive, home theater and games. Android was the ‘Intel inside’ of LOTS of devices.
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