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Note from Jason Flick
Blackberry - what comes next
Cheers, Jason Flick, |
Motorola unveils would-be Blackberry beater
July 26, 2005
By Tony Smith
Motorola yesterday announced the Q, a smart phone it hopes will do for RIM's
Blackberry and Palm's Treo devices.
Well, not until Q1 2006 at the very earliest, which is when the company plans
to ship the product, network support permitting.
Motorola claims the Q is the "thinnest, lightest" handset with an integrated QWERTY keypad.
Wireless wallets come closer to reality
August 1, 2005
By Sinead Carew
Imagine being able to pay for a song on the
jukebox, buy a bag of groceries or gain admission to a sports arena by simply
waving your phone by a machine.
With consumers in Asia and Europe already using their mobile phones to pay
for soda and parking fees, the long-discussed concept of the wireless wallet
could be slowly creeping closer to reality in the U.S.
Intel gives nod to Boeing's in-flight Wi-Fi service
August 2, 2005
By Jay Wrolstad
Intel is partnering with Boeing on in-flight service, giving the nascent technology a considerable measure of
credibility as Boeing attempts to increase adoption of its service among
airlines.
As part of the collaboration, Boeing's Connexion Wi-Fi service will support
Intel's widely used Centrino mobile-chipset technology, with Connexion earning
certification through Intel's Wireless Verification Program.
Will Nokia switch to Linux?
By David Haskin
July 25, 2005
Will Nokia dump the Symbian smartphone platform in favor
of Linux? A British market research firm speculates that could happen, which
both would rock the mobile device world and makes a fair amount of sense.
The U.K.'s ARCchart notes that the move makes sense because Nokia's royalties
to Symbian will increase rapidly as it moves more of its mainstream devices to
its Series 60 platform, which is based on the Symbian OS. Since most Series 60
apps are written in Java, it would be relatively easy to port Series 60 and
Nokia's other Symbian-based device platforms to Linux, the research firm says.
Hidden treasures: handhelds with surprise features
By Bonnie Cha
July, 2005
At first glance, these six devices look like any ordinary handheld or phone, but
we all know first impressions can be deceiving--these are no ordinary handhelds.
Sure, they organize your contacts, surf the Web, check e-mail, and make calls,
but they also have extra features that'll surprise you.
The Siemens SX66 and the
Samsung SCH-i730 show how intelligent smart phones can be by hiding full QWERTY
keyboards under a clever sliding design.
And could you ever imagine watching TV,
listening to music, and downloading album art on a cell phone?
PDA shipments near record levels
August 2, 2005
By Michael Singer
Falling prices and wireless connectivity have breathed new life into the
PDA market, with sales so far this year on pace to surpass their high-water mark
in 2001.
According to a report by Gartner, worldwide shipments of personal digital
assistants totaled 3.6 million units in the last three months, a 32 percent jump
from the same period last year. The market is now on track to reach 15 million
units shipped by the end of 2005, Gartner analysts said. If that happens, it
would surpass the previous record of 13.2 million PDAs shipped in 2001.
The study also found that Windows CE is the
operating system of choice for business-minded road warriors. The underlying
software accounted for 46 percent of worldwide shipments in the second quarter
of 2005, followed by RIM with 23.2 percent of the PDA software shipped.
PalmSource's 18.8 percent share rounded out the top three.
Events
Lunch with Microsoft CRM
Seminar
August 16, 2005
Microsoft Canada Co.
Mississauga, Ontario
Wireless and Mobile Computing,
Networking and Communications
August 22 – 24, 2005
Delta Centre-ville Hotel
Montreal, Canada
OMA Meeting
Open Mobile Alliance
Technical Plenary meetings
August 22-26, 2005
Montreal, Canada
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