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ctitanic — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:47:55 +0000

Here is a video about an Android Tablet that is being shown in the IFA 2009 Event made by Smit.

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4.8” 800×480, Built-In GPS and 8 GB Flash Memory.

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Sharp Channels PDAs via The Wayback Machine.

Zealot — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:46:48 +0000

Sharp just announced it’s new “Netwalker” line of Ultra Teeny Tiny Internet Device with No Market to Speak Of (UTTIDWNMTSO), starting with the PC71, a 6.3 x 4.2 x .9-inch device featuring a five inch touchscreen, Ubuntu OS and glorified thumbboard. It is running an ARM Cortex-A8 based processor, with 4GB of storage and 802.11b/g Wi-Fi (but no 3G)….and makes me feel more than a little like Mr. Peabody. I am SURE I have seen this device before in my travels.

Now while I think the device IS sort of cool looking, admit it Sharp, it’s a PDA.

You doubt me, well check my proof after the jump…

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Nokia May Be Getting MIDs Right

Zealot — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:31:01 +0000

As underwhelmed as I was by Nokia’s recent Booklet announcement, I am just as deeply impressed by the next product that Nokia is pulling out of it’s bag of tricks. There have been leaks all over the place for about a month that Nokia was on the verge of releasing a phone of some kind that dropped Symbian in favor of the open source OS they have been flirting with for ages, Maemo. Well, now it is official, but it isn’t a phone, it is a 3G MID with phone capabilities, a 3.5 inch touchscreen and slide out QWERTY called the N900 and it looks to be made of win.

Here are some tidbits from Nokia’s press release…

The Nokia N900 packs a powerful ARM Cortex-A8 processor, up to 1GB of application memory and OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics acceleration. The result is PC-like multitasking, allowing many applications to run simultaneously. Switching between applications is simple, as all running content is constantly available through the dashboard. The panoramic homescreen can be fully personalized with favorite shortcuts, widgets and applications.

To make web browsing more enjoyable, the Nokia N900 features a high-resolution WVGA touch screen and fast internet connectivity with 10/2 HSPA and WLAN. Thanks to the browser powered by Mozilla technology, websites look the way they would on any computer. Online videos and interactive applications are vivid with full Adobe Flash(TM) 9.4 support. Maemo software updates happen automatically over the internet.

On top of that, the N900 includes integrated Bluetooth 2.1, FM transmitter and GPS; a full stack of standard phone features including 3-way conference calling, Microsoft Exchange support as well as the ability to handle up to 10 email accounts; 32GB of internal storage, microSD expansion and 5MP camera with Carl Zeiss lens.

In a word…WANT.

Considering all the people who were saying that these Maemo rumors meant that Nokia was going to deep six S60 (as ludicrous as that sounded when it is the most used mobile OS worldwide by a wide margin), Nokia took great pains to make a clear division between Symbia and Maemo by having Jonathan Arber, a Senior Research Analyst and IDC, say the following…

Just as Nokia continues to expand and diversify its device portfolio, so it is deploying multiple platforms to allow it to serve different purposes and address different markets. While we have seen continued growth in Symbian as a smartphone platform, Maemo enables Nokia to deliver new mobile computing experiences based on open-source technology that has strong ties with desktop platforms.

OK, that didn’t convince me any more than Google’s “Android walks sideways and Chrome OS will walk straight” argument. I have no doubt that Nokia isn;t going to let all the work they have put into Symbian go to waste, but personally I feel that we will begin seeing Maemo on smartphones in much the way Microsoft will be using WinMo 7…a two track attack with S60 on mid level smartphones and Maemo on the iPhone Killers.

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Smartphone or Superphone?

Zealot — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:31:02 +0000

John Sangiovanni wrote an excellent guest column at GigaOm recently in which he looked at the high end phone market as it exists today and sees a new device category developing…Superphones.

He numbered in this new Superphone category such devices as the iPhone, Samsung Instinct and LG Dare and sees them as devices with “vastly better performance, desktop-grade web browsing, and high-resolution displays”.

I definitely agree with his main point, and feel that a serious paradigm shift is taking place in the smartphone market as devices like the iPhone are transcending even the broad feature sets found in smartphones. Just as the first smartphones such as the Treo and the original BlackBerry melded the cell phone and the PDA (killing the PDA category in the process), so I feel the iPhone and it’s cousins are merging smartphones and MIDs (soon to follow the PDA into Betamaxland). They are more or less the mobile Internet devices that we have seen alot of vapor about, without many actual releases. The slow roll out of WiMax in the US, the duck soup of 3G standards in Europe and Asia and the resulting dependency on WiFi for mobile internet by many devices has effectively shut the window of opportunity on the MID as a mass market device in my opinion. As an ultra mobile notebook replacement MIDs have been overwhelmed by the Netbooks, and as a Mobile Internet device by the so called Superphones .

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New Windows CE Device

ctitanic — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:55:04 +0000

I really don’t know how to called, MID? Handheld PC? Pocket PC? But for sure, UMPC is not.

4.3" TFT,ARM926EJ@266MHz CUP inside.5GB memory shared,Windows CE 5.0 system and WIFI. installed MSN,Skype,IE Web browsing,Word,Excel,PPT,PDF viewer,Flash,Nintendo games,etc

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Gizmodo Is Confused but Warner figures it out

Jack Cook — Sat, 31 May 2008 14:54:01 +0000

So Gizmodo is confused about the naming structure out there for UMPCs, ULCPCs, mini-notebooks, ultraportables, subnotebooks, and netbooks They just don’t understand the difference between all of them but not to worry Giz, Warner Crocker from GottaBeMobile has it all figured out. Yeah we can probably blame the marketing folks for all the names but blame does not answer the questions “what is a ULCPC?” or “what is the difference between a Subnotebook and a mini-Notebook?”

So after a serious amount of time researching the meaning of each, Warner has come up with the Crocker Concise Definition Mobile Dictionary. In his first release of this soon to be time honored classic, Warner clearly defines the Subnotebook, Ultraportable, Mini-Notebook, Ultra-Low Cost PC (ULCPC, Netbook, Ultra-Mobile PC (UMPC)).

So if you want to know the meaning of each, I urge you to head over to GottaBeMobile and find out the true meaning of each and urge Warner for the quick release of Revision 2

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Tethering the AT&T Tilt to Nokia N800/N810 …

gasusan2005 — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:38:37 +0000

Jenn, over at Pocketables.net, has explained in step by step instructions how to tether her AT&T Tilt (WM6) to the Nokia N800/N810 Internet Tablet.

Although various hacks and utilities exist to enable the functionality, I didn’t have to use any of them because the Tilt actually supports BT DUN right out of the box. Or at least it does after all the AT&T nonsense is wiped off. (Given that AT&T buried Internet Sharing and put Wireless Modem in its place, I wouldn’t put it past them to have somehow disabled DUN too.)

Unfortunately, just because the functionality is there doesn’t mean it automatically works. The main obstacle when trying to establish a BT DUN connection between the Tilt and the N800/N810 is that Nokia’s predefined operator settings aren’t correct

Head over to Pocketables.net and see how it is done!

Source: (and photo credit) Pocketables.net

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DirecTV – Remote Recording

chevybythesea — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:11:49 +0000

Joining the rest of the world, and embracing the need for technology to improve the mobility of our needs, DirecTV has added the capability to add shows from a remote location.

With the DVR Scheduler (previously known as Remote Booking), you can log onto the mobile site at m.directv.com, and bounce a record signal from DirecTV’s satellite down to your DVR in minutes. The soft launch has HR20-700 DVR models going live right about now, with more models and an official rollout scheduled for February. Even the venerable TiVo HR10-250 is scheduled to get this feature.

No more leaving the house, getting to work, and wondering if you are going miss the latest ~~Martha Stewart~~, umm, I mean Monster Garage.

-chevybythesea

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Little Devices Make Big Hit at CES 2008

gasusan2005 — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:24:29 +0000

From Channelintel:

New mobile Internet Devices are hitting the market and at CES 2008 they stirred a big buzz. The full Internet experience in a nifty little device. See for yourself

Source: Channelintel

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The Nokia N810 Giveaway Contest!

ctitanic — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:26:17 +0000

This is what Daniel at Thoughtfix has to say about this giveaway:

This is your chance to get your own Nokia N810 as soon as it hits the shelves.

So, if you think that it’s time for you to try one of these new toys that will open your mind to a world all about being connected 24/7, here is your chance without having to pay a penny.

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MovieTickets.com Debuts Mobile Ticketing Web Apps for Movie Fans On the Go

gasusan2005 — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:28:26 +0000

Leading Movie Ticketing Provider Unveils mobile.movietickets.com and iphone.movietickets.com

MovieTickets.com has just made buying movie tickets in advance even easier with the launch of two powerful new mobile web applications. These new solutions mean moviegoers can search for a movie by location or title, buy tickets, access a listing of new releases, box office information, read movie news, and even view detailed local area maps to the theater and more. They can be accessed by visiting mobile.movietickets.com from any Internet enabled mobile device or iPhone users can visit an optimized site at iphone.movietickets.com.

“MovieTickets.com was an early mover into the mobile space with the launch of our first mobile application over five years ago. These new applications demonstrate our commitment to improving our service offerings and popularizing advance movie ticket purchases as buying options expand and new technology platforms emerge,” said Joel Cohen, Executive Vice President and General Manager, MovieTickets.com.

For more information see

Source: Movie Tickets.com press release

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MTube – the beeper of the future

ctitanic — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:05:39 +0000

MTube is a new MID that is about to hit the market and you probably are asking yourself why I did call it the beeper of the future. Well, as you can see in the picture in the right it looks like a beeper. But I did not call it beeper just because of that. I called beeper because to me this device will do the same thing that beepers did few years ago, they created the need to have a phone everywhere and at any time. The MTube is here to create the need for Internet everywhere and at any time. That’s what the combination of WiMax and WiFi means guys. A future that is here and we have not even noticed.

Processor: VIA C7-M @ 1.0 GHz

Storage: 8 GB Flash

Display: 2.8″ LCD

Resolution: 640 x 480

Dimensions: 8.5 cm x 8.5 cm x 2 cm

Weight: 150 g

Battery Life: 4 hours

Connectivity: WiMAX & WiFi

Video Codecs: H.264, WMV, RMVB, MOV, FLV, DIVX

UltramobileLife

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Mozilla To Port Firefox On Mobile Devices?

Doug Smith — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:40:02 +0000

This would be great news for all of us “less than satisfied” PIE users! According to the::unwired, Mike Schroepfer from the Mozilla Foundation posted on his blog that there are plans to port Firefox to mobile devices. Mozilla also plans to expand their full time contributors to help focus on applications for mobile devices.

This certainly is great news, however, information indicated that we probably won’t see anything until next year. One word Mozilla…. HURRY!

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Nokia N800 successor

ctitanic — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:57:01 +0000

TabletBlog has found some documents at FCC that could confirm the device on the right like the N800 successor.

Well – there’s now a VERY good chance that it could be an early prototype of the third Internet Tablet

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Nokia New Internet Tablet OS 2007 edition version with memory card fix

gasusan2005 — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 11:27:09 +0000

Nokia has released a new version of the Internet Tablet OS 2007 edition, available now for download. This new release (version number 4.2007.38-2) provides a software fix for a bug which may have appeared while copying large amount of data over-the-air or from external SDHC memory card to internal memory or vice versa. In some cases the downloaded data may have corrupted.

This new release fixes also a bug which drops in some cases voltage from memory card, though cards should manage this kind of situations without corruption.

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