“Apple has another winner with Snow Leopard”
August 28, 2009
Reviewer Edward Mendelson (pcmag.com) calls Snow Leopard Apples fastest, most functional, and feature-rich operating system yet, awarding it 4.5/5 stars and a Very Good editors rating.
Alltel Wireless Picks Up BlackBerry Tour
August 28, 2009
Carrier to offer RIM world smartphone in remaining 91 markets in which it operates after acquisition by Verizon Wireless earlier this year.
Palm Pre Launches in Canada
August 28, 2009
Canadian operator becomes only the second mobile operator, after Sprint, to deliver Palm’s latest smartphone—the first to run on the new webOS—in North America.
Nokia Enters Netbook Arena; Preps New Tablet, Touch Smartphone
August 28, 2009
Cell phone and smartphone giant covers all the bases with trio of upcoming devices — its latest Internet Tablet, the N900 with Wi-Fi and 3G; first netbook, the Windows-run Booklet 3G; and a smaller version of the N97, feature packed touch-display smartphone.
Nokia 5530 XpressMusic review: Winner by design
August 27, 2009
“The XpressMusic lineup is fired up and coming after you with all they’ve got – from QWERTY smartphones to touchscreens. In fact, with the arrival of 5530 XpressMusic, the Nokia music line has more touch phones than the Nseries. We told you, they’re dead serious about it. With the 5800 XpressMusic shaping up as quite a blockbuster, Nokia had hardly any choice but to build on that momentum. The way up from the 5800 goes into Nseries territory really, so a lower spec’d device with an even sweeter price tag seems quite the right thing to do to reach the masses. And well, strategically expand the user base for the Touch UI edition of Symbian S60.” Read more here:
First look at Nokia N97 Mini at mobile-review!
August 26, 2009
Skyfire 1.1 Client Released for Symbian and Windows Mobile
August 26, 2009
“Skyfire today announces an updates to its web browser, bringing version 1.1 to both Symbian and Windows Mobile smartphones. The new version will improve the performance, especially the speed improvement on the scrolling and zooming. The new version is available at http://get.skyfire.com (at this time I am still getting v1.0 cab from the site)
Check the change log below of the version 1.1.0.13041 for Symbian and version 1.1.0.13052 for Windows Mobile
- Improved page load times.
- Improved scrolling and zooming on Symbian.
- Improved reconnect. Skyfire will show clearly when you can start interacting with the web page in case it previously timed out and disconnected (to save battery life).
- WML support. If you are browsing to mobile sites that use the old mobile WML markup, you can now view the content.
- Improved mobile website support.
- Page up/down navigation via short-key: You can use now ?2? and ?8? to easily navigate one page up or down. Great for reading articles. Now the short-key for invoking the Superbar is *.
- Updated Plug-ins: For Flash, Silverlight and QuickTime we have the newest versions to give you more compatibility with more sites.
- Skyfire quits on startup on Windows Mobile 6.5 devices: It affected a limited number of 6.0 and 6.1 devices as well. (Fixed Issue 7369)
- Multi-line text entry behavior on Symbian: This was an issue when you exited text entry mode with predictive text on, or used the navigation keys. (Fixed Issues 7149 & 7112)
- Superbar state on Symbian: Cancel button did not always exit from Superbar. (Fixed Issue 7156)
- Samsung Propel and Jack (AT&T): Could not uninstall Skyfire if the SIM card was missing. Fixed.
- Short-keys inconsistent on non-standard keyboard. On some keyboard layouts (half-qwerty, dual keyboards), the short-keys do not work as expected. (Issue 7498, 7408, 7581)” via slashphone.com
Nokia 5230 rocks the crowds around the world with a touch of color
August 26, 2009
iPhone Meets Genome
August 26, 2009
Illumina, a San Diego, CA-based biotechnology company that designs breakthrough tools for genetic analysis, uses iPhone to track customers and manage employees across five continents. And soon it will make it possible for consumers to carry their personal genomes with them on iPhone.
HTC Mega: Cheap Windows Mobile Goodness for the Masses
August 25, 2009
- 3.2 MP (fixed focus)
- 2.8″ 320×240 screen
- 7.2 Mbps HSPA (dual band: 900/2100 MHz)
- GSM/EDGE (quadband)
- WinMo 6.5
- 256 MB RAM
- 256 MB ROM
- WiFi
- GPS
- Bluetooth
- microSD support
- 528 MHz Qualcomm CPU
- 1100 mAh battery
It’s all pretty standard fare really, not a lot to get the high-enders excited, but then that isn’t who this is aimed at is it? As for release we’re hearing Q4 being touted.” via mobile-review.com