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Note from Jason Flick First Apple added to the mobile platform mix—or, I should say, will be adding to the platform mix—as the device has still not passed government approval. And now Sun, whose java platform has been successful on only a few mobile OS’s, is taking a new approach to the highly sought after mobile market with Java FX. It is a mobile kernel they acquired through SavaJe, and is targeted initially at dislodging Adobe’s dominant Flash. With developers only getting a peek at it this week, it will be awhile before we know how successful an effort this will be. I still feel this is only the beginning of the mobile software platform war, as there are a few more combatants still to come.
Cheers, Jason Flick, |
P1 is more phone than PDA
By Tony Dennis
May 9, 2007
BILLED AS the latest addition to its P Series handsets, the latest P1
from Sony Ericsson is much more of a real mobile phone than a PDA with wireless
communications built in. Its 25 per cent smaller than the P990 and just feels
like a real handset.
Sony Ericsson hasn't skimped when it comes to cramming capabilities into such
a small package. Not only is it a 3G and GSM phone, it also supports Wi-fi
(802.11b) too. Plus the version we saw actually has Internet telephony built in.
Other communications features include Bluetooth, USB 2.0 and infra-red. The
latter might be a tad old fashioned these days but it can be much faster
than using Bluetooth in certain circumstances.
Nokia Joins 'Mobile Wallet' Initiative
By Barry Levine
April 26, 2007
Nokia is joining the GSM Association's "mobile wallet"
initiative, which seeks to create a global standard based on an embedded,
wireless chip in a cell phone that allows a user to pay for something simply by
waving the phone over a wireless reader. Nokia joins others in the GSM
Association, including AT&T, China Mobile, and NTT DoCoMo.
If a growing consortium of cell-phone makers and operators is successful, users
throughout the world will someday be able to forget their wallet as well.
Palm Introduces the Treo 755p for Sprint
May 9, 2007
Sunnyvale -- Evolving the Treo product line to
keep mobile professionals connected, productive and entertained, Palm, Inc.
today introduced the Treo 755p smart device, a new Palm OS Treo for Sprint. The
CDMA Treo 755p is the first Treo device to offer built-in Microsoft Direct Push
Technology email support; Google Maps for mobile; and the latest Treo design,
with integrated antenna, slimmer form factor and mini-SD slot.
The new Treo 755p brings customers quick, wireless access to web, email,
business, multimedia applications and instant messaging (IM) for Sprint
customers nationwide. The Treo 755p runs on the Sprint Mobile Broadband Network, the
nation's largest mobile broadband network -- reaching more than 206 million
people across the country in more than 11,000 cities and 1,000 airports.
New Global BlackBerry Offers Service Worldwide
By Barry Levine
April 26, 2007
The new BlackBerry 8830 World Edition smartphone has a
trackball navigation system instead of a trackwheel. The BlackBerry 8830 also
has a speakerphone, a media player, voice-recognition capabilities,
instant-messaging features, and Bluetooth options. The BlackBerry 8830 World
Edition will be available through Verizon Wireless in May.
The Global BlackBerry Service provides wireless e-mail access, as well as
contacts, calendar, organizer, and the Web, with one local number for domestic
and international use in Australia, Europe, parts of Africa, Asia, Latin
America, the Middle East, and North America.
Review: Sony Ericsson's W880 9.5mm Thick Walkman Phone
By Michael Oryl
May 4, 2007
At this point in time, most mobile phone enthusiasts are fully
aware of Sony Ericsson's Walkman line of music phones. You might even say that
the company is known for them by now. What they have never been known for,
however, is thin phones. Ever since the launch of the Motorola RAZR that seems
like so many years ago, many of the manufacturers - particularly Samsung - have
been racing to produce thin handsets. Sony Ericsson just kept chugging along
putting out solid, and well tested, designs.
Sporting a bold,
sexy, and, for the first time, thin design, it appears that Sony Ericsson W880
is finally ready to move the company into the thin-is-in game.
The Wonderful Wireless Widget World
By Brad Smith
May 1, 2007
Those little applications used on the Internet to get personalized information are finding their way into the mobile industry.
Wireless telecommunications service providers have been talking for the last
few years about the importance of personalization and now they may have found a
new key to offering that experience by taking a page from the broad Internet.
Widgets, those tiny applications that run on Web pages, may make it much easier
to give mobile phone users the kind of information they want.
Mobile widgets and their cousin technology RSS (real simple syndication) have
become a hot topic in the industry this year, perhaps stirred up when Microsoft
spun off its mobile widget software into a new company called ZenZui. The
software giant isn’t alone, though, with companies old and new offering some
form of widgetry. Among them are Openwave Systems, Flurry, Callwave, Nokia,
Opera and Mobio Networks. Some want to work with the operators, and others have
an off-portal strategy.
Sun makes Java mobile triple play
By Gavin Clarke
May 8, 2007
Sun Microsystems is today expected to launch a media platform targeting
consumer devices, pitting itself against Microsoft, Apple, and Adobe
Systems.
Sun plans to raise the curtain on its annual JavaOne conference by releasing
the Java FX Script scripting language and Java FX family, consisting of a kernel
and libraries optimized for resource-constrained devices like mobile phones and
set-top boxes running Java.
Java FX Mobile is due first, with Sun announcing early developer access at
Tuesday's show. Java FX Mobile is based on intellectual property Sun bought from
SavaJe last month. Tools for Java FX will slot into NetBeans.
Not only should the Java FX combo mitigate the need for Microsoft's Windows
Media Player for Smartphones, Apple's QuickTime, and Adobe's Flash, but also
potentially negate content creation tools from all three vendors, according to
Sun.
Sun claims Java FX Script will let developers build and easily deploy content
to the Java FX runtime using scripting, bridging the divide between application
developers and content creators who currently use different tools. According to
Sun, Java FX executes byte code inside the Java Edition Runtime Environment
(JRE) on any device running Java Standard Edition (Java SE).
Microsoft made similar noises last week as it released to beta the
Silverlight media player and launched the Expression web and content tools,
aimed at Adobe.
Femtocells are the Future
By Eric Griffith
April 24, 2007
Are you ready to help the mobile carriers extend their network into your home?
Femtocells -- A.K.A. "access point/mini/home base stations" -- are not really
in use today. However, they have the potential to become a major addition to the
3G/cellular carriers' arsenal in the future by becoming an addition to your home
network. For those looking to ditch their landlines but lacking good coverage in
their living room, it might make all the difference. And it certainly makes all
the difference to the carriers.
For example, picoChip and Global Wireless Technologies (GWT)
said today they've collaborated on reference designs for femtocells and smaller
picocells supporting both CDMA2000 and EV-DO Rev. A, all upgradeable to faster
versions and other tech (like WCDMA/HSDPA) as they become available.
Sprint Nextel (Quote) apparently plans to offer WiMax femtocells to extend its burgeoning WiMax
network indoors, and has put out an request for proposal (RFP) to vendors to
design it.
Samsung Enlists WiMAX in the Army
April
30, 2007
Samsung Electronics says that it is providing Mobile WiMAX technologies to
the U.S. Army's Communications Electronics Research & Development
Engineering Center (CERDEC), so that the army might evaluate the usability of
the technology in a military environment. Engineers at CERDEC will test the
performance of mobile WiMAX compared to fixed networks in an environment of both
mobile users and mobile base stations.
Over the next few months, Samsung and the Army's CERDEC engineers will test
WiMAX at the Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence,
Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) On-The-Move (OTM) testing facility
located at Ft. Dix, New Jersey.
"Mobile WiMAX brings a variety of opportunities in the way people
communicate. We are very excited to provide and introduce Mobile WiMAX
technology to the U.S. Army, who could have a variety of unique
implementations," Kwansoo Lee, executive vice president of Samsung's
telecommunications systems division said in a statement. "Mobile WiMAX continues
to expand globally - and Samsung will, at every step of the way, open new doors
of opportunity."
RIM Announces New BlackBerry Application Suite for Windows Mobile-based Devices
April 23, 2007
Waterloo, ON - Research In Motion (RIM) today announced plans to expand its
support for Windows Mobile®-based devices with a new software application suite
that will enable devices from third-party manufacturers to benefit from the
popular BlackBerry® software applications and services*. RIM plans to begin
offering the new software application suite later this year for select devices
based on Windows Mobile 6. Once installed, the software will provide users with
a virtual BlackBerry application experience, including support for BlackBerry
email, phone, calendar, address book, tasks, memos, browser, instant messaging
and other applications developed for the BlackBerry platform. Devices running
the BlackBerry application suite will be able to connect to BlackBerry services
via BlackBerry® Enterprise Server as well as BlackBerry® Internet Service.
The new BlackBerry application suite will complement existing Windows Mobile 6
functionality and will appear as an icon on the screen in the same manner as
other third-party applications. Upon clicking the BlackBerry icon, a suite of
BlackBerry applications will load and will feature the familiar user interface
of a BlackBerry smartphone.
Your cell phone as a credit card
How to buy everything from vending machine items to movie tickets with
the wave of the phone. Keith gets a demo of the latest technology that could
be coming to a phone near you soon.
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