Who’s leading in the market share for Q2 2008? Jkontherun has posted an interesting article and marketshare breakdown of smartphone adoption. The figures are surprising as RIM and Symbian were very much leading the pack in 2Q 2007 and have since managed to increase the gap. Have a look at the article after the break.
Steve Trotto over at Mobile Tech Moment has posted his latest podcast episode number 4. If you haven’t listened to it yet you should check it out. In this episode it’s all about the iPhone 2.1 update and early impressions of what it fixes and if it is the answer to our problems. He is joined by David Ciccone, J Doss and Bill all from Mobility Today. You can get all the details here.
The Kinoma Play software that we recently reviewed has received a second update to make it all run much smoother and faster. Check out our review here. If you are already using it then you can go to "Check for updates" and it will automatically install the update. If your not using it you definitely should give it a try as it is a great piece of software. Full list of fixes after the break.
The iPhone 2.1 software update in now available to update your iPhone 2G and 3G in iTunes. The iPhone 2.1 software update contains many bug fixes and improvements and is a highly recommended update. To get it, connect your iPhone to your computer using iTunes 8 and click Check for Update. Here are a list of updates.
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Posted by: Matt
WMExperts have got some hands on time with the Velocity Mobile 103 phone which we mentioned the other day was getting close to a launch. Well they have posted a quick look video which shows the outside of the device as well as a quick look at the Odyssey interface which is Velocity’s answer to TouchFlo 3D. Check out the video after the break.
Pocketgamer has an interesting article on the upcoming Gizmondo 2.0:
We’ve reported before on plans to relaunch the Gizmondo handheld gaming device this year.They were announced in January, then delayed in February, and then former Gizmondo boss Carl Freer popped up in May saying it was all still on.
This might just be a dream come true for some folks. Yrgo from 2daysoft allows you to redesign your today screen. This is really nice looking software with very few limitations. Have a look at the video after the break for a demonstration.
The guys over at GSMArena claim to have been tipped off on the full specs of the HTC Touch HD which we posted about yesterday. If they are the real deal then this device just looks better day by day. They claim that beautiful looking 800 x 480 screen is a whopping 4" in size. Not only that but GPS is onboard too, full details after the break, now I have never been this excited about a Windows Mobile device before.
Following up from yesterday’s post by Matt it looks like the specs of the new device have now been leaked. I have spoken to HTC about this but they were not able to comment on this at the moment bud did reveal that there would be a few new devices being released over the next few months that have had no coverage yet.
System:
– 4-inch 65K TFT touchscreen with 480 x 800 pixel resolution
– 512MB ROM, 327MB available to the user
– 288MB DDR SDRAM
– microSDHC (up to 32GB)
– Built-in accelerometer
Connectivity
– GSM900, GSM1800, GSM1900, UMTS900, UMTS2100
– CSD, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, HSDPA
– mini-USB connector
– Bluetooth 2.0+EDR
– Wireless LAN
– FM radio with RDS
– 3.5mm standard audio jack
– GPS receiver Qualcomm gpsOne with A-GPS
Camera
– 5 megapixel autofocus camera
– No camera flash
– Video recording: 320×240 pixels(QVGA)@30fps
– Secondary VGA video calls camera
Battery
– 1350 mAh capacity
Based on Windows Mobile 6.1, the new HTC Touch HD measures 115 x 62.8 x 12mm (which is just about the iPhone 3G with 115.5 x 62.1 x 12.3mm). Boasting a large display at 4-inch with the overwhelming resolution of 800 x 480 pixels. It also seems to be running TouchFLO 3D.
HTC Touch HD
The HTC Touch HD (we don’t know whether that would be its retail name) is powered by a 528Mhz CPU courtesy of the Qualcomm 7201A platform. There are 512MB flash memory and 288MB of RAM.
Of course, goodies like GPS, Wi-Fi and HSPDA go without saying, but the HTC Touch HD also has a 5 megapixel camera (without a flash though). Unfortunately, video recording is not that high-end as it maxes out at QVGA@30fps.
The Touch HD is due this Christmas, so we could be in for some official announcement really soon.
Source: GSM Arena
Posted by: John
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