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Mobile phones are powerful content creation tools, perfectly designed to create new and interesting works of multimedia art. With most modern phones not only having the capability to take pictures, but to send them directly other mobile users. It was only a matter of time until teenagers used this promising technology to get themselves into trouble. You can also find local women near you that would love a fuck buddy so they are a great option if you want some real sex.
Dataviz, makers of the popular DocumentsToGo mobile Microsoft Office compatible suite, are promising two announcements at the Mobile World Congress trade show later this month. According to an email they sent out to the press, they’ll be showing Documents To Go for both the iPhone and Android, as well as RoadSync for Android, an Exchange ActiveSync client that will connect Android phones to Microsoft Exchange servers. So far, there’s no full Office compatible suite for the iPhone or for Android phones.
via Appscout
According to Digitimes High Tech Computer (HTC) is expected to launch Qualcomm Snapdragon-based mobile devices in the second quarter of 2009. HTC and Toshiba are among more than a dozen device makers that have signed up with Qualcomm to develop mobile computing devices using Snapdragon solutions. Those device makers also include Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, Acer, Asustek Computer, Quanta Computer, Compal Electronics, Wistron, Inventec and Foxconn International Holdings (FIH).
Whilst the news is positive that we will be seeing these top end processors and graphics chips in future mobile phones a few things don’t make sense. Most importantly if these phones are going to be running Windows Mobile then what is the point. Windows Mobile in its current form has reached its peak and is now dated, as we saw with the recent Touch HD its like putting lipstick on a pig, an awesome hardware set being let down by an inferior operating system. It’s all well and good having great hardware but that has to work in tandem with great software and at this stage we haven’t got the latter and I cannot see 6.5 making that much difference but I stand to be corrected later this month.
An Android handset running with the same hardware may offer something more and that will be an area of interest for the future as it has more room to develop and with it’s open platform we may see much better from Android this year especially when developers are given the opportunity to charge for their applications.
The Microsoft My Phone Beta which we already know about as it was originally called SkyBox is showing up online now just as a coming soon page with a little more information. Basically its Microsoft’s answer to backing up your data into the Cloud and nothing much more really and with a tiny storage limit of 200 Mb. My Phone syncs information on your mobile phone to a storage space on a web site hosted by Microsoft. If your phone is lost or stolen, or if you upgrade to a new phone, you can easily restore the contacts, calendar appointments, photos, and other information that you stored on My Phone to a compatible new or replacement phone. Most phones that run the Windows Mobile 6 operating system are compatible with My Phone service. More details after the break.
Samsung are about to release a new colour variant to the i900 Omnia, it’s purple to complement the already existing black and white versions. Also added in is new security and social applications plus new home screen widgets and a TV-out cable. Specs of the phone remain untouched – 3.2-inch WQVGA touch display, 5 megapixel camera with LED flash, Wi-Fi, HSDPA and GPS support. The internal storage also stays the same with 8 and 16-gig versions.
A real hardware change may come this year for the Apple iPhone. PinchMedia was the first one to have seen the new iPhone and since then there have been some very intriguing evidence of its existence, though no one can say for sure if it’s an iPhone Nano or not an iPhone Nano and we don’t know.
According to an article in Digitimes, Microsoft, which is planning to unveil its Windows Mobile 6.5 platform at the Mobile World Congress week after next, has decided that, going forward, Windows Mobile-based handsets will be promoted simply as Windows phones without specifying an OS version number, according to market sources in Taiwan. Sales of Windows Mobile-based handsets totalled about 20 million units in 2008, accounting for 13% of the global handset sales, said the sources. The reasoning behind this decision, if true, can only be to avoid dating a handsets OS and cloud the waters for consumers so they don’t really know for sure if the device has the latest software, will get the latest software or whatever else to cause confusion. If as we believe Windows Mobile 6.5 will be announced next week but won’t be available until September, this will again cause consumers to hold back on future purchases as experience of the 6.1 upgrade fiasco of last year where some devices have just got the update and others are still waiting is all too fresh in the mind.
Via DigiTimes
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Press Release : Spb Software, world’s top Windows Mobile applications developer releases Spb Wallet 2.0 for Window Mobile and Symbian-based smartphones, with the iPhone/iPod version to appear in App Stores soon. The new Spb Wallet 2.0 – a secure repository of most valuable private information, such as PINs, passwords, keys, account, passport, and credit card numbers – has versions for non- and touchscreen Windows Mobile devices, Symbian Series 60 smartphones (including Nokia 5800 touch screen), Apple’s iPhone and iPod, and a desktop component. The new multiplatform approach allows users of Spb Wallet to keep their private data safe, even when they swap phones or mobile platforms
According to a press release, Motorola have started trials of an LTE network in the UK. LTE, or Long Term Evolution, is a a 4th generation (4G) mobile broadband standard and is aimed to be the successor to the 3G technologies GSM/UMTS. Like WiMAX, this technology will provide broadband services wirelessly but instead of transmitting signals via microwaves, LTE utilizes a radio platform. You will need a LTE modem to access the network, which can be in USB format, ExpressCard, PCMCIA, or embedded in a laptop; it will also likely be featured as the internet connection on PDAs and phones of the future and promises peak download rates of up to 100Mbps. The full press release is after the break.
According to Mary-Jo Foley of ZDNet we won’t be seeing any Windows Mobile 6.5 devices until September at the earliest. This would make sense of the Toshiba TG01 being announced with 6.1. If this is more than just another rumour the update must be more than we were expecting or have seen so far, surely it cannot just be a quick makeover and a few extra services thrown in for good measure. According to Mary-Jo, While Windows Mobile officials won’t talk about ship-date targets some folks familiar with Microsoft’s plans are talking. Here’s the latest from her sources:
- Windows Mobile 6.5 RTM (release to manufacturing): April 2009
- First Windows Mobile 6.5 devices from cell phone makers: September 2009
- Windows Mobile 7.0 release to testers: November 2009
- First Windows Mobile 7.0 devices from cell phone makers: April 2010
So there you go, bet you can’t wait to hear what Microsoft have to say at Mobile World Congress now.
via WMExperts and ZDnet
Mobile phones are powerful content creation tools, perfectly designed to create new and interesting works of multimedia art. With most modern phones not only having the capability to take pictures, but to send them directly other mobile users. It was only a matter of time until teenagers used this promising technology to get themselves into trouble. You can also find local women near you that would love a fuck buddy so they are a great option if you want some real sex.
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