Saturday, August 11, 2012

Best email client for iPhone is now Google

Perhaps Google has found the ideal partner to promote better Gmail within the Apple devices.  Today in the early afternoon (GMT) the site of the Sparrow, a popular email client for Mac OS (also called OS X) and iOS announced that the deal had been accomplished. Google now owns the Sparrow.


This means that Google now owns also one of the most beloved and popular mail clients that compete with the "official" Mail.app in the fields of Tim Cook. The Sparrow arrived as an alternative to Mail.app and even without offering warnings through Push Notifications was very successful. This is an innovative software and beautiful (this week we showed the other pretty well, but to monitor orders). That's what owners of smartphones like.

A few months ago Google launched Gmail application for iOS, both in the iPhone version as in the iPhone version. As far as we know the software not been very successful, both by occasional failures in its operation, as the lack of a differentiated experience to justify the adoption of Google's own solution.

Sparrow's team joins the Google Mail in an attempt to "achieve a greater vision." I do not know exactly what that means, but be assured that Gmail will come in the news for the Apple platforms. Anyway, the bad news is that applications already available will not receive new features, only regular maintenance and bug fixes. In the App Store the software remains in the air for $ 2.99.

We speak of the Sparrow in December 2010 in an article signed by Rodrigo Muniz. By then, he called it "minimal mail client." This is how the software continues, although it has been modified in recent times and won an exclusive version for iOS. It remains unique platforms from Apple, who knows why.

Friday, August 10, 2012

Samsung Galaxy S III: 10 million units sold worldwide till now

A division director of technology at Samsung revealed that the Galaxy S III has sold 10 million units worldwide. This sales pace was above that seen with other champion, the Samsung Galaxy S II.


According to Engadget, Samsung planned to deliver the unit number 10 million in early July. It seems that the thing a little late, but finally came to the Samsung brand had hoped for. The Galaxy product line is the most sold worldwide, including the Galaxy S III and other items.

The Galaxy S III is on sale in Brazil since the beginning of June. It costs R $ 2,099 (official price suggested) is unlocked at some carriers. Of course the price drops if you are in a carrier who lives with expensive plans of subsidized handsets.

Since Apple and Samsung compete through lawful channels in several countries, it is interesting to note that the Galaxy S III took two months to reach the milestone of 10 million units. Meanwhile, there are reports that the iPhone 4S rival apple (in this section the term "rival" is used figuratively) sold 4 million units in only its first weekend.