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Before the recent events in my life I decided it was time for me to have a new computer at home, its a work PC but has mixed use as my wife also uses it and I like to occasionally play games. I’ve worked professionally with computers for over ten years and during that time [...]

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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 [...]

I have been watching the press closely when it comes to the Shift. I have considered the dual operating system device as my next laptop or tablet PC in conjunction with a desktop computer I use at work, on this basis I want to get to know the Shift as best possible. If like me you are interested [...]

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 [...]

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We all know the theory of the SSD (solid-state drive), its flash or DRAM based drive and has no moving parts, which largely eliminates seek time, latency and failures associated with a conventional hard disk drive. Not only is the performance of a SSD based device increased due to the faster read/write speeds but also the [...]

I read about some interesting figures earlier today on the steady decline of PDA sales: The worldwide handheld device market posted its fifteenth consecutive quarter of decline in shipments, signaling either vendor intent to scale back production or exit from market entirely, or both. According to IDC’s Worldwide Handheld QView, vendors shipped 728,894 handheld devices [...]

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 [...]

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With the recent news about the release of 8GB MicroSDHC and M2 cards I’m sure your bursting at the seams to get one of these flash storage cards for your device so you can load it full of your favorite music, films and pictures. Well a word of warning, these new large capacity cards may [...]