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Smartphones becoming generic harware?!

Lars-Olof Allerhed — Wed, 25 May 2011 09:24:50 +0000

There is a clear trend among the smartphone manufacturers to open up there boot loaders for user to load there own roms on to the phones.

First we saw Sony Ericsson CTO talking about the potential of them unlocking the boot loader and a few weeks later Sony Ericsson released a site showing users how to actually unlock the phones shipped with Android.

The actual unlocking is a 14-step process which requires the Android SDK, but overall, it doesn’t look particularly difficult of complicated. It currently only works for or will work for phones from 2011, such as the Xperia arc, Xperia neo, Xperia pro and Xperia PLAY, and then only of they are unbranded.

http://unlockbootloader.sonyericsson.com/

Yester day HTC posted a message on Facebook regarding there stance on unlocking the boot loader.

“Thanks so much for providing feedback, we hear your concerns. Your satisfaction is a top priority for us and we’re working hard to ensure you have great experiences with our phones. We’re reviewing the issue and our policy around bootloaders and will provide more information soon. Thank you for your interest, support and willingness to share your feedback.”

I hope this is a first step moving in the direction where we wont see any more Touch, Sense, UX. Where the smartphone vendors are realizing that it’s to expensive to customize the user experience for every release of Android.

I personally think this is the beginning for the Android side of the smartphone market to move to a pc based model where we will se Google driving the software development just like we do with Microsoft driving Windows or Canonical driving Ubunty and the smartphone manufacturers providing drivers for there specific devices like the HP, Lenovo and Dells of the pc market.

Personally I’m all for this model as it would provide me with faster updates to the latest version of Android and a bigger selection of hardware to choose form, right now you are stuck with the Nexus series if you like to try to keep up with what Google is doing.

Facebook photos

Lars-Olof Allerhed — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:18:00 +0000

How small businesses are using social media

Lars-Olof Allerhed — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 13:15:00 +0000

Are we to obsessed with Facebook

Lars-Olof Allerhed — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 16:12:00 +0000

Facebook’s privacy missteps

Lars-Olof Allerhed — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 11:39:00 +0000

Facebook’s 500 Million Members

Lars-Olof Allerhed — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 11:34:00 +0000

Earlier this year Facebook reached an astonishing number of 500 million members to commemorate the achievement, the team at Facebakers.com put together the comprehensive infographic included below. The illustration breaks down the demographics of Facebook’s burgeoning population (according to their own data on the service), and explores the international makeup of the site.

New years resolutions

Lars-Olof Allerhed — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 12:30:34 +0000

We have seen some amazingly great and to the point cartoons again from the geniuses at The Joy of Tech. This one wraps up the year, with a bang. Enjoy:

Facebook messaging – request your invite

Lars-Olof Allerhed — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 10:37:15 +0000

I doubt that you have missed the last 24 hours of buzz around facebooks new messaging service and by now you are probably woundering how and when do I get access to the service?

Unfortunately the service is by invitation only at this stage so you either have to know some one who has been invited that will send you one of his 2(!) invites or you go to this site to request an invite directly form facebook: http://www.facebook.com/about/messages/