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So, off to trendy downtown T.O. hotspot Lobby (corporate slogan: “No, you can’t come in dressed like that”) for the announcement of the new lineup of cell phones from Rogers for the holiday season. It’s a rough life, this being forced to eat Kobe beef sliders and wash ‘em down with raspberry mojitos, but someone’s gotta do it. Read the rest of this entry »
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(1 votes, average: 10 out of 10) Loading ...iPhone impersonators and the landscape of Web design
Telus and HTC launched the HTC Touch smart phone at a downtown Telus retailer this morning. One’s coming in for a full review shortly, but I had some hands-on time with it at the launch, and I must say … well, it’s a smart phone.
It’s not explicitly positioned as an iPhone competitor, but it’s implicit. David Neale, chatting after the launch, referred to the iPhone as “opening the floodgates” for similar devices. Read the rest of this entry »
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(1 votes, average: 8 out of 10) Loading ...A handset with a stunning feature
I was getting a little jaded with the mobile device scene this week. Nothing new, nothing original, nothing revolutionary. (It says something about the industry when you expect a revolution every week.) Nokia sent along the new 6070 handset, and though I haven’t given it thorough investigation — that’ll have to wait for next week — it just seems like a well-spec’d tri-band handset.
Yawn. We’ve come to expect new features every iteration of the mobi, and after messaging, integrating video cams, calendaring, Web browsing, e-mail, well, what’s left to jam into your cell phone?
Then, devoted technophile Kathleen Sibley brought my attention to this: The Stunster. Read the rest of this entry »
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(2 votes, average: 9 out of 10) Loading ...Your future phone
Just basking in the afterglow of having bullied my cell carrier into a better rate and a better phone by threatening to go to the competition … Web surfing, streaming audio and TV, built-in camera (another excuse to keep me out of the gym).
In three to five years time when I’m ready for a new cell phone (provided, of course, this one doesn’t somehow end up in the toilet or washing machine, what will it look like? What functionality will it have? Research firm In-Stat has been looking into that question.
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(4 votes, average: 5.25 out of 10) Loading ...iPhone apps - taking care of business?
By Joaquim P. Menezes -
So many developers are still sore that they’re not permitted to write native apps for the iPhone.
Many continue to bemoan the very limited development potential that restricts them to creating Web apps running within Safari (Apple’s Web browser included on the iPhone).
All that’s understandable.
In fact when the “no native apps” announcement was made by Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, in June, many predicted this would severely limit the usefulness of the iPhone within the enterprise.
But now some software vendors are trying to make the best of (what at first blush appeared to be) a rather shoddy deal.
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(Rate This Article) Loading ...Don’t hold your breath waiting for a Google phone
A friend sends this link to a blog posting about Google jumping into the auction in the U.S. to sell of radio spectrum that will be vacated by TV broadcasters when the switch to digital takes place in February 2009. The upshot, Don Reisinger argues, is a cell phone industry crippled by free Wi-Fi service on Google smart phones. What, my friend asks, does this mean to Canadians? Read the rest of this entry »
