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Entering in the realm of the portable media player, it is only a matter of time before these devices meld with phones. Taking another step towards the amalgamation is Archos. Their players have been consistently excellent and for the next generation they will be jumping online with HSDPA. Read on for more information and a video review from Stuff.tv.
Roughly Drafted Magazine claim to have been told by an inside source the reasons behind the much publicised problems of the iPhone 3G dropping calls which we discussed on our first podcast. The iPhone 2.0.2 update “fixed power control on the mobile,” the source told RoughlyDrafted. UMTS, the technology used to deliver the 3G network, refers to phones and other client devices as “UE” for user equipment, and the base transceiver station towers as “Node B.” Read on for the full explanation but makes sure you have your tech head on first.
The Mobility Today podcast is available. If you use this 
and copy the address into your aggregator. Or you can use our Itunes feed here. You can also download direct by right clicking here Tonight Dave, Steve, Chris and Mike discuss the Palm Treo Pro and why it will be so successful.. and oh yeah the iPhone woes…. Show notes after the break.
The Mobile Marketing Association has published its guidelines for advertising pushed over Bluetooth connections, and considers anyone who hasn’t opted out to be fair game for spammers. The guidelines are now available for public review until 26 September, and take a distinct step beyond the UK’s Direct Marketing Association (DMA) rules in that they consider any handset left in "discoverable" mode to be implicitly giving permission for pushed adverts – something the DMA explicitly rejects.
The BlackBerry phone is a wireless handheld device that was originally launched in 1997 as a two-way pager. The more commonly known BlackBerry we are accustomed to today, which supports push e-mail, mobile telephone, text messaging, internet faxing, web browsing, and other wireless information services was released in 2002. Developed and manufactured by Canadian telecommunications company Research in Motion (RIM), the BlackBerry delivers telecommunications over wireless data networks provided by mobile phone service companies, such as O2, Vodafone and T-Mobile.
Treocentral has upped a great review of the device of the moment, the Palm Treo Pro. Its a long long review and packs in a huge amount of detail. Dieter Bohn knows what he’s talking about when it comes to Windows Mobile and Treo’s, he has a voice to be listened to. "The Treo Pro is loaded with great features, including Tri-Band 3G and Quad-Band EDGE for worldwide, high speed data as well as GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, a 320×320 Touchscreen, and the Treo’s signature front-facing QWERTY keyboard." Check out the full review at Treocentral.
If you do any photo editing, you know of Adobe Photoshop. I have owned Photoshop for years and cannot think of what I would do without it! And, now, Adobe is launching Photoshop.com Beta for Windows Mobile Devices. Only available for a select bunch of Windows Devices that do not include the AT&T Tilt / HTC TyTN II, however, one can safely assume that it is a matter of time before it makes its way to WinMo Pro Devices. None the less, I thought it worthy to post about to get us all green with envy for our other Windows Mobile Brothers who will be participating in the Beta Program.
A new version of DataViz Documents To Go has just been released for Windows Mobile Professional devices or the ones with touch screens if you like. Create, view and edit native Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files and the first and only commercially available mobile office suite to fully support (view, edit & create) Microsoft Office 2007/2008 files and attachments. Full details and a link to the trial after the break.
Google said Monday that it will cut two key features out of its upcoming "Android" mobile-phone OS: a formal Bluetooth implementation, and Google Talk, the developer’s version of instant messaging. However, Google said that the first phones will indeed have support for Bluetooth hands-free devices. On the other hand, HTC or T-Mobile, both carriers that have committed to developing Android phones, will apparently not have access to the API that exposes Bluetooth functionality; dedicated Bluetooth functions will apparently have to be designed in by Google itself.
Apple has been rapped by authorities after it was ruled that an ad for the original iPhone breached regulations. A TV ad showed a user scrolling through various web pages before a voiceover said: "You never know which part of the internet you’ll need…Which is why all the parts of the internet are on the iPhone." However, two viewers said the claim was misleading because the iPhone does not support Flash or Java applications, both integral to many web pages, meaning some site sections or whole sites could therefore not be accessed.
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