Phone Maker Nokia to Make Netbooks?
February 28, 2009
The netbook market may suit Nokia well. After all, it likes to call its smartphones “multimedia computers.”
It’s Official: Windows Mobile 7 to Come in 2010
February 28, 2009
Windows Mobile 6.5 smartphones may not be available until the fourth quarter of this year, but now many users may skip it.
Report: Local Mobile Search to Grow 130.5 Percent by 2013
February 28, 2009
Kelsey also reports that the 54.5 million mobile Internet users in the United States comprise 25 percent of online users.
Do Android Notebooks Threaten Microsoft?
February 28, 2009
Microsoft has a number of plans to combat the growing threat from Google, including the much-discussed partnership with Yahoo.
BlackBerry Bold Too Hot to Handle in Japan
February 28, 2009
It seems that recharging Research in Motion’s BlackBerry Bold can be a touchy issue.
Unlocked G1 Phones Blocked From Some Apps
February 28, 2009
A loophole in the Android dev program is now closed.
Nokia Seeks Volunteers for Cutting Labor Costs
February 28, 2009
Top mobile handset player avoids layoffs in lieu of new workforce approaches.
Palm Precoming soon in Europe
February 27, 2009
“Palm’s upcoming Pre handset is now listed on several regional Palm sites – the UK, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain, as “coming soon”. No details on pricing, or release is to be found on any of the sites. Oddly, as you can see, it seems Palm forgot to edit out EV-DO, and replace it with GSM/HSDPA. If you wish to be notified when the Pre is released in any of the aforementioned countries, you can do so, on Palm’s website for your country. The Pre is the first Palm device to run on the company’s new webOS, is powered by an OMAP processor, and sports a large touchscreen, with slide-down QWERTY keyboard, and 3MP camera” via mobile-review.com
Nokia 5800 XpressMusic for North America is now available
February 27, 2009
To Touch or not to Touch?
February 27, 2009
“Now, please don’t write me off as a ‘boring old fart’. OK, so I probably am one, but that shouldn’t discount my opinions – and I have used almost every phone and PDA from the last 15 years, so my thoughts should count for something. The subject under discussion here is Touch and my conclusion so far is ‘Unconvinced’….The first touch-based PDAs appeared in the mid 1990s, with Palm’s stylus-based PDAs, closely matched by Psion bringing in touch into their EPOC-powered palmtops and then Windows Mobile (nee Pocket PC) joining in the fun around the millennium. EPOC mainly evolved into Symbian OS, running the S60 and UIQ interfaces, with the former unashamedly button-driven and the latter unashamedly stylus-driven.Despite the relative success of Palm’s PDAs, I think it’s fair to say that the reliance on using a two-handed, stylus-driven interface meant that none of these touch-screen devices really became totally mainstream, in the sense that you’d see your mum or brother or colleague using one with no encouragement from you.And then the Apple iPhone came along. Its main innovation was that it dispensed with the conventional wisdom that touch meant a stylus and allowed the use of a grubby, greasy, uneducated finger instead as its main driving force. You still had to use two hands (most of the time) but at least one barrier to use was removed for the main in the street.” Read more here: