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Bjorn at UltraMobile life has just posted details about the MTube I spoke about earlier this week. The specifications are pretty much as we said, a VIA C7-M 1.0Ghz, 2.8 inch screen at 640 x 480, WiMAX and WiFi and a four hour battery life. You can check out the gallery here

I had a scare last night, I had just got into bed and decided to uninstall an application I had been evaluating from my v1415 Windows Mobile device. The uninstall completed and asked to restart my phone, I select yes and the reboot process begins. As the device began to boot, I got the usual [...]

Craig Pringle has added his opinion on the on going Vista performance debate, I hadn’t heard of Craig until he got a mention on GBM on this very issue. A lot of the points he makes I agree with and have stated so in one of my recent posts about how good the Vista performance is [...]

Here is an interesting article from GottaBeMobile.com about voice usage in the car for all manner of operations like, searching for a song on your mp3 player or calling a contact.   I posted an item about voice control a while back and its good to see this technology is finally starting to hit the mainstream. Its called ‘Sync’ and is a joint effort between Microsoft and [...]

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I posted about the VIA Mobile-ITX platform last week and it’s potential for not just UMPC’s but smartphones, PDA’s and other handheld devices. Well here is the MTube, one of the first devices to benefit from the new VIA platform. Details are scarce at the moment but the general school of thought is a 2.8inch screen with a 1Ghz VIA [...]

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“MojoPac is a technology that transforms your iPod or USB Hard Drive or Flash drive into a portable and private PC. Just install MojoPac on any USB 2.0 compliant storage device, upload your applications and files, modify your user settings and environment preferences, and take it with you everywhere. Every time you plug your MojoPac-enabled [...]

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Expansys have recently recorded a couple of nice overview videos of the new HTC Touch Dual and the HTC S730. HTC Touch Dual: Processor: TI’s OMAP™ 850, 201 MHz Memory: -  256MB ROM, 128MB RAM Display: – 2.6″ TFT-LCD touch screen running at 240 X 320 resolution (QVGA) Network: – HSDPA (upto 3.6Mbps), UMTS, Triband [...]

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Over the weekend I added a few new features to the blog, firstly you’ll notice a tag cloud on the left hand sidebar, I’m hoping this will aid you in finding content a little more accurately. There is also an addition of the ‘Share This’ button which has all sorts of options like bookmark in del.icio.us or email to a [...]

There is a fairly interesting interview with Mike Nash corporate vice president in charge of Windows client operating systems product management at Microsoft. He talks about some of the key components and issues of Vista and what SP1 will include and address. Its really from an developers point of view and the first 5 of the [...]