As expected the 3G iPhone was announced today at WWDC by Steve Jobs, it will be available in 22 countries from July 11th and will have the following features.
3G but no further details as of yet.
AGPS in built and can be used in combination with cell tower triangulation and Wi-Fi to help locate an iPhone. Finally real-time positioning in Google Maps.
In association with Mobility Today, J Doss has put together a page with a live audio stream of the Steve Jobs Keynote from WWDC combined with a live chat room where we can discuss what’s happening as it happens.
To join us in the chat room please head on over to http://www.jdoss.net/wwdc/.
The audio stream is provided by iPhoneAlley via www.ustream.tv if you want a proper user name in the chat, register with ustream first.
Thanks to iPhoneAlley for the audio feed.
Phonemag gets the scoop on the new Samsung Omnia. The Samsung OMNIA is powered by Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional and comes packed with MS Office (PowerPoint, Excel, and Word). Even though the OMNIA is 100% touch screen, Samsung included an optical mouse for ease of navigation – the optical mouse is similar to what you’d find on laptops.
If your a Sling user then they have just released some interesting information on a forthcoming release for the iPhone. According to Sling, "Ever since the Apple iPhone hit the market, we’ve been receiving inquiries as to when we’ll have a version of SlingPlayer Mobile for the platform. To date we’ve only expressed our desire to support the platform when it is possible to do so. But with the Apple WWDC kicking off this week, we’re now ready to show off a bit of what we’ve done.
We have been working hard behind the scenes and have some great news to share. Starting very soon we will be getting our hands on some devices to produce our own reviews. We have already got a Palm Centro which we are writing a review and it will be up very shortly but soon we will also start to receive more and more devices and accessories to review. This is a great result for the site and we can guarantee one thing, all our reviews will be our honest opinion.
On top of this we have just about completed the look of the site and we have added an iPhone web icon so if you bookmark us with your iPhone it now has a much better look and we have a tab / bookmark icon too.
The Windows Mobile Team Blog have posted an interesting article explaining how to customise the sliding panel seen on all Windows Mobile Standard (Smartphone) phones. Jorge Peraza is a Developer on the Windows Mobile team that was responsible for the new “Sliding Panel” home screen in Windows Mobile 6.1.
Get iPhone-style internet browsing on your Pocket PC. TouchBrowser lets you control everything using only your fingers. You can type using the large keyboard, glide through web content and scroll through pages with a flick, with full page view.
Tired of Pocket Internet Explorer? Forget about the stylus, the tiny scrollbars and the keyhole view of the internet. TouchBrowser gives you the smooth webbrowsing experience of the iPhone, right on your Pocket PC. It lets you scroll pages with animation and iPhone inertia effects for easy reading.
Just watched this which I caught over at all about symbian, its an S60 Touch UI demo video with many examples of the UI in action. Good stuff, although dragging down the web browser screen to make the content move up seems counter-intuitive, along with using a stylus, Windows Mobile users want to move away from that so Symbian needs to think more about that one.
One thing that springs to mind here is that all the major players in the smart phone market have really upped their game since the launch of the iPhone. Its great to see the innovations at all the different platforms and love or hate the iPhone you have to say its done all consumers a lot of good. Video after the break.
FlexMail 4 is a full-featured award-winning (2004/2005/2006/2007) Email application that works with your device’s built-in Messaging client to provide the best Exchange and IMAP connectivity available on Windows Mobile! Use FlexMail to improve your ActiveSync or SMS messaging with our multiple signature support, multiple folder searches, and cross-account email copies and moves. Use FlexMail to connect with the best IMAP feature-set on Windows Mobile with easy to configure yet powerful folder settings. Set each folder to download differently, notify of new messages, and get email using PUSH use IMAP IDLE.
It’s easy to take for granted the 3G iPhone’s launch at this point. After all, Steve said it was "coming later this year," as did a number of prominent mobile executives. And then there’s been the barrage of carrier announcements, many in international markets that use UMTS and have zero support for the iPhone as we know it today. But the fact of the matter is we’ve had very little to go on by way of material evidence — until now.
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