“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.
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Just a little bit more serious than the previous post.
We, poor Europeans, will not be able to put our hands on the iPhone in the near future. The only option we have is to meet some old friend from states or read online reviews.
I have gone through the iPhone user guide (you can find it [...]

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This post is sort of a joke.
The iPhone finally hit the store and all the people waiting on the line for the last few days have been able to get their so long awaited toy.
I have gone around the net trying to find first impressions on the products and, not surprisingly, among the enthusiast there [...]

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I have read a lot of blog posts about iPhone sightings in the United States and, in some cases, those are presented as exceptional events.
I run a quick Technorati search a few minutes before and got 117 result for the search iphone+sighthings. Quite funny.
I have to say that working for a mobile operator gives you [...]

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Interesting article today on Telecoms Korea: “Pantech Handsets Cause Stress“.
Well, that’s quite funny. Don’t have anything to say about Pantech mobile phones. Their penetration in the Italian market is not really remarkable at the mobile but the interesting thing here is another.
Korean mobile phone users, among with Japanese people, are the most advanced users of [...]

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I noticed an interesting news on the VNUnet website titled “BitTorrent unveils consumer electronics SDK“.
If you go through the article you will find that the peer to peer software developer has released an SDK to allow integration of Torrent technology into consumer electronics device.
Well, actually not really new. There are already some devices that integrates [...]

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In the past few years all operators have started populating their mobile phone with branded applications in order to boost their data ARPU.
In the last few months they seem to be focusing on the mobile phone idle screen.
It’s quite easy to think at the mobile phone idle screen as the personal computer desktop. Actually I [...]

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In the last few months I went through a number of mobile web browsers in order to test their functionality while browsing what we call “The Big Internet”. Between these browser I can count Nokia Web Browser (WebKit), Novarra, Opera Mini, etc.
They were actually very good in delivering what they promised. Surf the internet on [...]

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I always read Michael Gartenberg blog with great interest and I find myself agreeing on his views most of the times.
In his last take (that you can read by clicking on this link) Michael makes a comparison between a high end camera phone (Nokia N95) and a DSL camera (Canon DS800).
As you can expect there [...]

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The market scenario for mobile Operating Systems today can be divided in three categories:

Plenty of proprietary Real Time Operating System almost closed to third parties.
Symbian, including UIQ.
Windows mobile.
SavaJE OS. (They actually launched one device, at least).

That’s it. Not much to play around with.
In the past few weeks we have seen plenty of speculations and some [...]

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I have been working with the guys at beeweb for a very long time and I have always found them to be very clever in mobile product design and development.
I know most of the guys at beeweeb and working with the has always been real fun.
I understand that they have released the Mobile Web Toolkit [...]

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It seems that in the near future NTT-Neomeit, a subsidiary of NTT will launch a service that will allow customers to remote control devices in their houses via their mobile phone.
From what I can read from Pink Tentacle here are the main features of the system:

Customers will control remote devices using a web interface on [...]

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As mobile phone technology evolves over time we see that a lot of high end phones are similar to personal computers in terms of functionality and applications. You can run a media player, look at your office documents, send and receive e-mail messages with attachments.
Open Operating Systems allow the user to choose additional applications to [...]

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In the last few days a lot of new users that bought the brand new Nokia N95 found that some of the functionalities were disable in the operator flavored version of the Symbian 3rd Edition Operating System.
The Internet Telephone application is missing for O2 and T-Mobile customers.
That is not new to the market. Just to [...]

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