I think that the question “Where are you?” is the first sentence pronounced by most people when making phone calls to a mobile phone.
I am sure that pretty much anyone has desired to give fake answers to that question. Something like “I am queuing at the post office” instead of revealing that you are enjoying [...]

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Last Friday I had the opportunity to join the Netwo founders in Rome to talk about Mobile Internet.
I used a small presentation as a guideline for my talk.
For those interested you will find it below. I’m sorry, it is in Italian but it will not be very difficult to go through it since it is [...]

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If you had a chance to go through the Google Android documentation you will have noticed a very interesting thing: a lot of the most interesting APIs are optional.
Having a look at this page will show you the following list of optional APIs:

Location-Based services
Media APIs
3D Graphics with OpenGL
Low-Level Hardware Access

If you have worked on some [...]

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As promised Google has released the Android SDK.
I am just downloading them and will give them a try tonight.
P.S. The Eclipse plugin is great
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There have been speculations around for months and at the end of day it is not a phone, it is a platform named Android.
Lot of interesting things about this.
First of all I would say this not really nothing completely revolutionary for the mobile industry. Just checking my poor memory make me think about LiMo, OpenMoko, [...]

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I have read a very interesting post at 0xDECAFBAD.
The most interesting sentence in that post is the following:
An API is an admission that you haven’t the creativity or time to build everything your website needs.
In a general sense I tend to agree to this sentence. It is true that there are plenty of web services [...]

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Who usually reads this blog knows that I work for Tre Italia.
Anyway I really think this is really a cool product. Just have a look at this link for more details.
I had the chance to have it in my hands a few weeks ago and I have to say that it is really a nice [...]

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On Monday Apple executive warned iPhone owners that hacked their iPhone that such a modification may turn their precious device in a brick after the future firmware updgrade.
You may have a look at the original article from Associated Press by clicking this link.
Well, were you thinking Apple could say something different from that?
To be honest, [...]

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I have been using an 8Gb iPhone for the last week and I have some impressions I would like to share with our readers.
First of all I have to say that this is the typical product that you need to touch with your hands before being able to say anything. Several assumptions I made before [...]

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At least for a while…
In the last few years we have followed the evolution of mobile phone from simple voice devices to enhanced multimedia platforms with a plethora of connectivity options, memory capabilities, hardware components such as cameras, GPS etc. etc..
This has lead to expensive devices and in most cases has lowered mobile phone manufacturers [...]

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It is an amazing movie…

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Mobile phones started to invade our everyday life a few years ago, but we’re still discovering their wickedness. Day after day new and unsuspected situations arise and show the lack of defense of the human race against rules and methods that the usage of the mobile phones introduced in our habits. Same examples are kindly [...]

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On this blog we have been writing a lot of posts on mobile phones, and, sometimes, about other kinds of consumer electronic devices.
We have seen the functionality of mobile phone evolve over time, offering to the customer always new functionality.
Bluetooth, WiFi, better camera lens, Global Positioning System, motion sensors and so on. From this point [...]

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“The cell phone is the new computer”
This is what I can read from many different sources in the last few weeks.
The evolution of mobile devices seems to lead to this way. UMPCs are becoming popular and mobile phones are evolving at a very fast pace offering to customers performances very similar to personal computer.
It really [...]

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