PCs and Laptops
As with mobile devices, unless you are in the Apple camp, there are plenty of manufacturers outside of the USA to choose from. Both Acer and Asus are Taiwanese firms and from Japan there's Sony and Fujitsu. Most countries seem to have specialist PC assemblers like FiercePC in UK who tend to cater to the gamers rather than office buyers. Support a local supplier if you can.
When it comes to the desktop OS, there's limited choice as Microsoft Windows is dominant. However, there are Linux variants such as SUSE which is headquartered in Luxembourg. If you are feeling brave (or mad), there's Huawei's HarmonyOS for PCs or the FreeBSD-based Kylin from China. I'll pass, thanks.
OnePlus are well-known for their successful range of smartphones but what's less well known is that they have a small but growing collection of handy Android apps - Clipt, TagHost and WellPaper - produced by their software development team, OneLab Studio. Starting with Clipt, it's a handy clipboard tool that let's you copy'n'paste between your mobile devices and your PC's
There's a distinct lack of high quality, sophisticated paid commercial mobile apps for both iOS and Android. Is the computer desktop inherently more valuable to the end user than mobile platform computing?
Mobile devices, specifically large screen smartphones, have made significant inroads into the computing spaces traditionally held by full-sized desktop and laptop computers. This incursion can best be measured by personal usage shifts. In my own case, I find myself making much less use of my laptop and desktop machines, with my large screen smartphone making up the majority of my
When it comes to developing for Google's favourite operating system, Android fragmentation is often bandied around as an issue for app developers. But how bad is it really and what's the impact? Fortunately you don't have to make do with my wild guesses and assumptions as Smashing Magazine have a done a comprehensive critical analysis of testing done by app
As a a parent with a tablet-loving daughter, I'm always worried that she's either playing inappropriate games or else building up whopping a credit card bill via in-app purchases. Being tech-savvy, I can easily rectify the latter by controlling the password to my account, but this doesn't always negate pester-power. The former is still a concern and I'm not alone
Last time I had to deal with co-processors was in the 90's when I put in a 386SX/DX combo into a PC. Technically, co-processors are in your computer still - just as one chip. However, Apple has separated the processors once again with the iPhone 5S. The A7 and the M7 processor. The A7 processor will be the primary processing