Over at the Mobile World Congress (MWC08) Nvidia made a pretty big announcement that its going to have a fairly big impact on Windows Mobile and the smartphone platform as a whole. They have developed their first mobile applications processor, the APX 2500 which is based around on ARM11 core and able to run at [...]
As far as new announcements go, the Android one was huge. Google is a giant not just on the web but in business in general but to team up with 33 other companies like HTC, Intel, nVidia, Qualcomm, SiRF, T-Mobile, Sprint and Broadcomm to name a few is just colossus. BUT I have some grave concerns: The Open [...]
Industry Leaders Announce Open Platform For Mobile Devices. Well typically yesterday I was in an exam for most of the day and pretty disconnected, so you can imagine my horror when I get home last night and have a quick flick through my feeds to find the latest news about the Gphone and the Open [...]
It was just four days ago since I posted about the state that is the Windows Mobile user interface and why in its current form it will never attract the mass market. Well today the Windows Mobile team posted about Neo, the new interface created in collaboration with T-Mobile for their upcoming Shadow. It’s good to [...]
I read an interesting article over at PCMag.com yesterday about the general mood at the CTIA, wireless and entertainment show 2007. “The one thing that brought many of the new handsets and much of the new software I saw at the show together was a love of Windows Mobile.” Its an interesting article but it [...]
I posted about the HTC S730 a couple of weeks ago and was a little disappointed to hear that the GPS which had been initially rumoured wasn’t present in the specifications. Well over at Smartphone Thoughts sources have confirmed that GPS is present even though HTC will not be supporting it. In my eyes that makes the S730 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This past week I have been on holiday and although I said I was going to disconnect for the week I actually suprised myself with how productive I could be. I took my laptop incase of a major meltdown at work but it actually never saw the light of day. It stayed in my car [...]