Links for all your mobile platform and device needs
Not all of them but at least can help you figure out your own answers, or better: bets for the future of mobile platforms.
Starting a little bit old, but a nice yet simple point of view from Alistair Croll here where he shares with me the surprise to know that the n810 is a step out of a full dance.
Of course he talks about Android, and this new Google adventure is already bringing up a lot of reviews, sometimes not the kind of reviews google fans would like to read. For me the most important: is it going to improve or not interoperability? PC advisor article points to not, but I’m inclined to think that yes. BBC brings a note about Symbian’s opinion with the basic line :
Google’s dominance of the web will not translate to the mobile phone market, a senior executive at Symbian has said.
Which I totally agree. For more on android, get to know the man behind it here, a “this is pure PR” based article here, then there’s a nice FAQ here, courtesy of BBC, a Zdnet article full of analyst’s opinions here and a ok article at gizmodo here. A note: I do not only believe in what android is after (an open platform) that I also am very proud to see that my buddies at work (INdT) have always pushed this thing further, and more proud when I think of openMoko, the one which is truly an open mobile phone software stack blabla. And to finish this the all might question : “will Android kill the iPhone?” the question is here
but I would say that would be more probable to have Android powering a future iPhone (I know, linux is not bsd, iPhone has it own “cocoa” Application framework, but I just want to make it hard) than killing it.
Enough of Android, I was happy to read that EA is donating Simcity for the OLPC project! Better yet, the guy behind the port to python, is the guy who did the multiplayer version of the game, fitting pretty nice on the XO laptop goals, that is collaboration and learning between the kids.
On the iPhone side, it’s now officially on Europe, and T-mobile has released the figures for the first day : 10.000 units. Not bad, but I think people were expecting more.
speaking of internet tablets, take a look at the first part of Reggie’s from ITT video going through the features and hardware design of the Nokia N810 : here
I use Touch-Commander.com which provides sliding “one touch” access to phone calls, emails, SMS messages, calendar functions, pictures, music, videos and other applications and commonly used content.
Touch Commander is much the same as the finger touch scrolling, browsing, and spinning of a three dimensional interface by the finger, that is found on the Apple iPhone and the TouchPhone by HTC.
November 11th, 2007 at 9:13 am