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It’s 2008. Why is Sync Still Such A Sore Spot?
05.08.08 | Permalink | 7 CommentsI recently replaced my SO’s trusty old Sony Ericsson K750 with a sparkling new Samsung SGH-U600. Decent little phone, for the most part, and she seems happy enough with it. Of course part of the “sales experience” entails me moving all her contacts over. I’ve not really had a problem syncing contacts since I switched [...]
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Keeping Your OS an OS, and the UI the UI
05.06.08 | Permalink | 6 CommentsHTC, best known for its wide range of Windows Mobile devices, today announced the Touch Diamond, an update to its Touch device released several months back. The Touch was notable because of the TouchFLO UI, an HTC-created, customized user interface that ran on top of Windows Mobile. The Diamond features a new version, called TouchFLO [...]
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Mobile Phone Evolution
Students Hate Mobile Barcodes? Or Just The Way They’re Marketed?
04.10.08 | Permalink | 2 CommentsVia MocoNews, the NYT has a case study on a test of mobile barcodes at an Ohio university. The test hasn’t proved very popular among students, despite the attraction of some of the services on offer, such as barcodes on bus stops that users can take a picture of to find out when the next [...]
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LG Rolls Out A Phone For Hannibal Lecter
03.25.08 | Permalink | 2 CommentsLG has released a new device called the LG-SH240. Looks pretty basic with its 2-megapixel camera and all (especially for a Korean handset).
But its key feature isn’t one defined by tech specs. Apparently its selling point is a keypad that feels like human skin.
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Forget Mobile OS and Fight Over The Runtimes
03.04.08 | Permalink | 2 CommentsBoth Russell and I wrote last week about the tussle between native mobile apps and mobile web apps. I posited that we’re nearing a point in which the “best” mobile devices (from a development viewpoint) will be the ones with the best and most powerful browsers, rather than the ones with the best operating system. [...]
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More Interest In Melding The Physical and Virtual Worlds
Over at the CeBIT show in Germany, Vodafone has been showing off Otello, a visual search engine. It’s still in the early stages, but it works like other similar systems, allowing users to send a photo in by MMS, and Otello’s servers will do their image-recognition magic, and send back search results or other info.
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Look How Far We’ve Come…
01.21.08 | Permalink | 2 CommentsJapan to get cellphone ’sommeliers’: official - Yahoo! News:
Japan is to start licensing cellphone “sommeliers” to guide consumers through complicated functions as mobile telephones become ever more advanced, an official said Monday.
The communications ministry said it was planning to support a private-sector plan to launch an exam to license specialists who sell cellphones. “We [...] -
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CES Has Finally Been Digested
I’ve had a little time to mull over my CES experience and form some thoughts about it. The show itself is more than a little overwhelming; it’s hard to express its scale, and the difficulty in shuttling between its different locations, on and off the Las Vegas Strip, doesn’t help things a whole lot. In [...]
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About Those iPhone Google Stats…
01.15.08 | Permalink | 2 CommentsThe blogosphere’s been abuzz with the NYT story about how much mobile traffic Google got from the iPhone on Christmas and a few days after. Apple +iPhone + Google + tech blogs = lots of mindless gushing.
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Early Android Device Spotted
12.11.07 | Permalink | 2 CommentsJapanese operator Willcom has been showing off (via Engadget) a prototype device running Google’s Android platform. The screenshots look pretty nice, but they’re really going to have to work on the form factor and design if they want to sell many of these. Also, having an ethernet jack instead of a mobile data connection probably [...]
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