Last week at Mobilize ’08, I had the opportunity to sit down with Morgan Gillis, Executive Director of the LiMo Foundation. This industry consortium was formed last year and has been tasked with building a scalable Linux platform for use in the mobile handset market. The LiMo Foundation (shorthand for Linux on Mobile Foundation) has…
As a part of the Launchpad activities at the Mobilize Conference, a new start up called Fonemesh will publicly announce their potentially disruptive technology to the world. I had the opportunity to interview Caleb Kow, the man who is leading the team behind FoneMesh. To understand what Fonemesh is all about, one must first know…
After much speculation of what features and looks the Nokia N79 would have, Nokia has finally announced the highly anticipated Nseries handset. The candybar N79 has a great array of capabilities including Quad-band GSM (850/900/1800/1900Mhz) and dual-band WCDMA (900/2100Mhz). Which in normal human terms means we in the United States will not have 3G connectivity.…
Garett Rogers of ZDNet posted recently that Google’s Andoid is shedding its allure with developers and therefore won’t be as attractive as an mobile application platform. In turn, Rogers argues, Android-powered phones won’t be as competitive as the newly released iPhone 3G. My reply is “wait a minute!”. Why? Mainly because Android hasn’t appeared tangibly…
Symbian, the UK based smartphone software maker who was recently acquired by Nokia, is trying to become more tied in with online software giant Google. Symbian will soon be open source and will attempt to use it’s relationship with Google to become an even stronger smartphone player. In a quote from Reuters, Symbian SEO Nigel…
Sam Dean argues that Microsoft would be wise to open source parts, if not all, of their crappy Windows Mobile operating system. This is an interesting thought, especially with the news a few weeks back of Nokia buying and open sourcing the market leading Symbian operating system combined with the pending arrival of Google’s Android….
Nokia Opens Their Platform And Causes Industry Change Today’s news about Nokia and Sybian joining forces is starting to sink in and people are beginning to question what it means for the mobile platform. In one fell swoop, Nokia has achieved what Google can only hope Android will be in 3-4 years. That is, Nokia…
Nokia Answers Back A compelling reason I enjoy Nokia smart phones is their use of the Symbian operating system. This mobile OS is found on many phones including Nokia, Sony Ericcson, Panasonic, and a few others. Up until now, Symbian has operated as a separate entity that created an environment that was very inviting to…
One factor that prohibits me from adopting SMS is the fact that it, as a data medium, is so expensive to use. Twenty cents to send 160 characters to someone? That seems outrageous. However, in Europe and Asia, where voice calling is expensive due to voice tariffs, SMS is popular because in these areas it…
I almost had a hernia from laughing so hard when I read this in my newsreader this morning. According to Symbian Freak, Microsoft wants to attain 40% market share of the smartphone market by 2012. I’m sorry Microsoft, but you’re a loser in the mobile field. Between the Apple iPhone, Nokia s60 devices (which currently…