PDA
Sony Xperia X1
Check out the new go:XPERIA site. There have been a whole heap of new phone announcements over the past couple of days, but only one has really caught my eye. Sony’s new Xperia phone looks like a lovely replacement for my ageing* Nokia E70. The device looks incredibly slick, and is definitely the nicest looking [...]
RIP PalmOS
We interrupt your normal broadcasting with this special bulletin from our reporter in the field.. For over 5 years now I’ve been a PalmOS developer working in three different companies, developing a series of interesting and cutting edge products in this niche market. I’ve developed on PalmOS devices from the Palm Personal to the Treo650 [...]
Microsoft Origami
Astroturfing* like the best of them, Microsoft is drip-feeding information about the codenamed ‘Origami‘ project. So far we have some images that Engadget picked up, and now a nice flash video of a device. Call me cynical, but I’m betting that neither of these are accidental finds, rather some ‘insider’ mailed a ‘scoop’ to a [...]
Sony Ericsson M600
Call me callous, but I really have lost the love I once had for Symbian smartphones. This new Sony Ericsson M600 doesn’t really make me feel any more amourous. Sure, it’s a non-flip incarnation of the good old P900 series (more specifically the P990), but it looks like a brick, and uses yet another proprietary [...]
Fun With ActiveSync and SSL
New phone, new hassles. Same old same old. Due to a corporate discount opportunity, I’ve picked up a nifty little HTC Apache PDA/Phone attached to the local monopoly carrier’s EVDO system. Sweet, I thought, MS Exchange activesync over EVDO will mean I’m never out of touch. Activesync under Windows Mobile 5.0 is streets ahead of [...]
New Nokia Phones
Nokia has unveiled three new Series 60 smart phones: The E61 (pictured). It has 75 MB(!) of built-in memory and a miniSD slot for additional storage. It also has built in WiFi and Bluetooth. Stacked! Despite this, the E61 is only 14mm thick, and is looking like a fairly well executed Treo/Motorola Q killer. The [...]
Palm Treo 700w
Engadget, ever the front-runners, have got their hot little hands on a Palm Treo 700w. The 700w is the long-expected Windows Mobile version of the popular Treo 650. The 700 appears to be a hardware revision as well as the new OS – the device is slightly slimmer than the 650, and button positions are [...]
Access buys PalmSource
Access, the Japanese company behind the popular Netfront browser for phones and PDAs, has purchased PalmSource, the software part of the Palm PDA business, for around USD $324.3 million. Not sure what the plan is here, but PalmSource has been looking more and more shakey recently, with the delays in their latest Cobalt operating system, [...]
Treo 670 Running Windows Mobile
Ok wow, this is a Big Deal. Engadget has spy pics and videos of rumoured Palm Treo 670 running the latest version of Windows Mobile. This is big in so many ways: the end of PalmSource (effectively); the fantastic hardware design of the 650 utilising the suprisingly mature WM5.0 software should provide a killer platform [...]
Brando UltraClear Screen Protector
This is just a simple endorsement. I’ve used a few screen protectors on several PDA devices over the years, and none comes close to the one I’ve installed today. The Brando UltraClear screen protector is the only protector I have tried that genuinely mimics the look and feel of the standard iPaq screen. If you’ve [...]
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