Google Gears, the web runtime framework from Google that allows websites and services to be used offline, is heading for mobile phones starting with Windows Mobile devices. Not as exciting as today’s Microsoft announcement of Silverlight for Nokia’s S40, S60 and Maemo platforms, but it further reinforces my argument that the next war on mobile…
Microsoft to make Silverlight for Nokia’s S40, S60 and Maemo operating systems
The runtime platform wars have begun, just like I predicted in my rebuttal to Mr. Mace’s article: “Microsoft with Silverlight on the Desktop and soon to be Silverlight on Mobile will be joining the already under utilized .Net Compact Framework on Windows Mobile devices. Adobe with AIR for the Desktop and soon Air for Mobile…
The locked to operators Nokia 6124 Classic and 6650 announced at CeBIT
The Nokia 6124 and 6650 have been announced at CeBIT, with one twist, they’re locked to operators. The 6124 is for Vodafone, the 6650 is for T-Mobile. I’m sure this is as upsetting to you as it is to me, but knowing Nokia, like the 6555 which was exclusive for AT&T, these devices will have…
Mozilla trying to play in the mobile space, with the old rules
I hate to keep on bringing up the Mobile World Congress as a starting point to every argument I present, but in this situation I can’t help but remember how little people cared about the operators who bothered showing up in Barcelona last month. There is currently a gross realization that the pace at which…
Rant: Why doesn’t Sony Ericsson bring their JAP models to the EU and USA?
The fight for dominating the heart’s of mobile phone fanatics is a battle that drives the industry forward faster and faster each and every calendar year. We, the people crazy enough to buy a flagship devive twice a year, sometimes even a few midrange products to match our outfits, are walking advertisements for companies like…
Video: Nokia N82 Review on G4TV
ZD|Net, which turned into ZD|TV, which changed into TechTV, which transformed into G4|TechTV and finally got hit in the face with a shovel to become G4 is an American television channel dedicated to computer hardware, gadgets, girls, videogames, cars, basically a channel for people who love gear. For an American channel to review a phone…
Into Mobile readers in London: WOM World get together on March 5th
WOM (Word of Mouth) World, the people who connect bloggers to the employees behind Nokia’s products, the people who create online marketing campaigns and the angels in the sky who choose lucky people to get shiny new toys to play with (Disclosure: My Nokia N82 is from WOM World) are having a get together in…
S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 and Nokia N78 preview
Rafe Blandford from All About Symbian posted a preview of the Nokia N78 based on his limited time with the device at the Mobile World Congress. Eldar from Mobile-Review however has a prototype in his hands and posted his initial, Russian only, thoughts on it. Give it a few days to 1 week for the…
Could Android usher in a new era of connected devices?
Android is Google’s open source operating system designed to run on mobile phones, in particular those with ARM processors inside. What is to stop someone from taking Android and creating a UMPC like device or an ultra crazy thin subnotebook? Android applications should run on all devices and I’m sure Google Gears can be ported…
Pictures: Black Nokia N82 in real life
We’ve seen the press pictures of the black Nokia N82 on Nokia’s own website, they were quickly taken down a few hours later with rumors that the device was supposed to launch between the ides of March and early April, but now Mobile City Online, a Manhattan based distributor of unlocked EU and APAC mobile…