Thank you to everyone that has been following our interview with Microsoft’s Alex Reeve, Director of Mobile Business Group in the UK and to those of you that sent in your questions for Alex.
For those of you that were not able to join us live we had a great followup interview with Alex, it’s incredible to think that it was almost 3 months ago since our last interview with him!
Sorry that we were not able to get to everyone’s questions but below you will see the questions and answers that we were able to cover in the time available. It’s interesting to note that the same questions came from lots of you so those are the ones we made sure to include.
To those of you following live we apologise for the slow start, Twitter decided to fall over just as we got going!
Zareth, Ratt and Flames get together for some chit chat about the mobile news in the last week. Amongst the topics discussed are Android speed increase, The HTC Wildfire, HTC Smart, rumoured Windows Phone 7 phones and much, much more.
Regulars: Flames Bitchardson, Ratt Mavis, Zareth Byles and Randy Pee
This will be why we heard that O2 were not buying anymore Palm Pre’s.
“We are excited to bring Pre Plus and Pixi Plus to the market for O2 customers,” said Jon Rubinstein, Palm chairman and chief executive officer. “With the choice of these two new Palm webOS phones, customers across the UK can stay connected, so they never miss a thing.”
The Dell Inspiron Mini 1012 or ‘New Mini 10’ as it’s also known on the Dell website is another Atom based netbook, and as the name suggests it has a 10 inch screen (10.1 actually) – the difference here is that it’s a higher resolution than the standard 1024×600 we’re used to seeing.
The Mini 1012 is running a fairly standard 32bit Windows 7 Starter for Small Notebook PCs on a 1.66GHz Intel Atom N450 Single Core CPU, paired with 1GB of RAM and an Intel 3150 Graphics Media Accelerator.
This particular unit has the 6-cell battery giving a claimed 9.5 hours of battery life – and the case is styled to keep this larger battery nice and sleek – no ‘lumpy’ batteries here.
Rumours abound at the moment when it comes to tablet style devices, with rumours from RIM, HTC and just about every other manufacturer out there.
One little gem that one of our readers pointed out to me (thanks Mike) is the Eken M001 Android tablet. Looks pretty interesting, reasonably high-res 7″ 480×800 TFT display, SD card reader, WiFi, 600MHz CPU and 128MB RAM. The drawback is that it’s only running Android 1.6 but the biggest plus point is perhaps that the rumours say that it’ll retail for around $100, if that’s true and not just vapourware then this could be a real bargain and a great competitor to the iPad!
Further to our recent successful interview on twitter (twinterview) with Alex Reeve from Microsoft you may be pleased to hear that on Thursday May 20th at 12.30 hrs GMT we will be hosting round two.
Once again this will be an opportunity for both yourself and us to ask Microsoft questions about Windows Phone 7.
So please have a good think and let us have your questions. Depending on how may we get we cannot guarantee all will be asked but we will endeavour to do our best.
You can submit your questions to us one of two ways. Firstly on the forum under this post or secondly you can email either Matt or myself:
We have already seen an early version of a Windows Phone 7 device from LG but could this new leaked image be the updated version or even the final product?
It certainly looks pretty nice sporting a new design of the three ‘oh so important’ hardware keys below the screen .
The image was ‘allegedly’ posted onto Flickr by a French Microsoft employee. Not sure if he still works there!
With Microsoft gearing up for there next ‘7’ event at the end of the month could this LG device be the one they will be using?
Those Tinkerers over at XDA-Developers have managed to pull this image that might just be the HTC Mondrian, a rumoured device mentioned in the offical ROM leaked out last week. XDA-Developers have also pieced together specs from an ongoing analysis of the registry and RGU files. So far they’ve spotted references to a 4.3-inch WVGA (480×800) display from Optrex and a 1.3GHz QSD8650A/B Snapdragon from Qualcomm.
Earlier today we broke the news that the HTC Wildfire has been announced. Last week I had a decent hands on with the device and what I can tell you is it is real sweet. It’s no contender for the Legend, Desire or Nexus One but it is not meant to be. The HTC Wildfires target market will be young adults who may currently be using a feature phone. The Wildfire will be a budget Android device, a nice stepping stone to a smartphone.
Sporting HTCs Sense UI, the Wildfire is as user friendly as we have come to expect from HTC. Hardware wise we have some decent specs on this cost effective new device. I say cost effective as that’s what I have been told by HTC. We will have to wait and see what prices the networks charge but if I was a gambling man I would bet the HTC Wildfire to be £15-£20 per month on a contract. We will have to wait and see.
Below is a quick video I shot of the HTC Wildfire just to give you a brief insight. We will let you know as soon as we get our hands on a review device. I don’t think it will be long!
Last week I was lucky enough to be invited to a top secret location for an introduction to the HTC Wildfire. After using this new device I can honestly say it’s a beauty. Kind of a mini HTC desire available in four colours. The Wildfire is designed to be a low cost Android device aimed at the younger generation of today. Will it be a hit? It certainly should be. No word yet on price and I think this will be the deciding factor.
I also managed to shoot some video of the HTC Wildfire and we will bring you that later on today.
Thank you to everyone that has been following our interview with Microsoft’s Alex Reeve, Director of Mobile Business Group in the UK and to those of you that sent in your questions for Alex.
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