Mobile Choice has an interesting blog piece about how long people have to wait after handsets are announced, to actually get them! And I say fairplay, they have a point! In the blog, it’s noted that recent culprits have been the Nokia N96, and Sony Ericsson Xperia X1, both of which took a good half-year…
The Final Frontier: connectivity on a plane, but at a (high) price
I’m sitting on a plane as I’m drafting this post. Tapping away, quite intently on my notebook Laptop, and reasonably content since I am just editing text. However, I do yearn for connectivity in the sky, and that is somewhat the point of this post. I thought I would outline the services that would be…
Top ten things to looks for in a Mobile
TechDigest has compiled a list of the top 10 things it would like to see in a Mobile device. I won’t spoil it and reproduce the whole list here, because (a) that would spoil it and (b) you should take a look at their site – really nicely re-designed recently. What I will do is…
Follow-up: Handset trends at MWC that don’t matter
I wrote an article a week ago about trends that are going to be seen at MWC, but which in isolation don’t matter – essentially I was saying technology for the sake of technology does not a good Mobile make! I touched up touchscreens, memory, and camera megapixels as three “measures” of devices these days,…
Configuring IT equipment: The Time Vampire!
Whilst watching a video on the InterWeb the other day I came across the hugely amusing phrase “Time Vampire” – in case it’s not obvious, it’s a person or thing that literally seems to suck your (free/spare) time away! The video I was watching referred to a configuration screen for a piece of CE (consumer…
Making a case for a new Apple TV
I want one. A new one. Not the current one (well OK, I do want that too), but a new upgraded one! Apple have been notoriously quiet on the Apple TV for more than a year, instead focusing on the phenomenal success that is the iPhone 3G, and iPod/MacBook refreshes. But is it possible,…
Would you actually consider a netbook?
I’ve been reading quite a bit recently in the UK newspapers (typically of a weekend), and I would estimate that on 75% of weekends in the year so far, mention has been made in the paper (or supplemental magazines) of netbooks. Netbooks are that class of laptops that are typically: very small 10” or less…
Three handset trends that you can expect to see at MWC, but which are becoming irrelevant
Well this year will be the first year that I am not going to MWC for a while (which I’m a bit sad about – it’s a good show), but the IntoMobile team will have reporters on-site – and they’ll be paying special attention to the devices on show. In fact, some vendors have…
Is Safari really the fastest rendering browser for the InterWeb?
If you check out Apple’s webpages on Safari (http://www.apple.com/safari/download/), then you’ll see that they state Safari is “the fastest web browser on any platform”. I have to say, I disagree…. My quandary begins with porting away from IE a number of years ago – it had become some terrible bloatware, that was slow, and…
Is Mobile TV going to make it?
Well it’s a question I’ve asked a number of times before, citing pieces of evidence both for and against. However, I’ve come across two articles within the same week that are both asking the question about whether Mobile TV is going to continue as a viable service… The first article on Broadband TV News states…