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Thoughtfix got his hands on the Nokia N800 NAVKIT and after reading his review and watching the several videos, I came away pretty impressed with the system. The Read More »

Raon EVERUN pre-orders at two resellers already

Gee THAT was quick! We got direct word from two resellers that they’re now taking pre-orders … Read More »

 
 

When I got a chance to review the original Raon Digital Vega, I liked some of the key aspects such as the long battery life and sharp screen. What … Read More »

Judie Lipsett Hughes is the latest HTC Advantage X7500 owner and runs through the obligatory unboxing video. You get a real good feel for how well the magnetic … Read More »

Hot off the press: FlipStart Labs just selected Dynamism as the first reseller of the diminutive FlipStart ultra-portable computing device. For $1,999 at Dynamism’s site, you’ll get your … Read More »

The Nokia N800 continues to surprise, even as I box mine up to send back to Nokia: apparently, you can now run FreeSWITCH on the N800 thanks to … Read More »

EA Dips on Spore Delay, Failure to Fully Wii Up

So here’s the two big lessons on today’s news (read here and here) that Electronic Arts (ERTS) is posting a quarterly loss, forecasting a net loss for the 2008 fiscal year, and worst of all for gamers, delaying the much-anticipated Will Wright game … Read More »

Announcing, NewTeeVee Pier Screenings!

If you ever lived in New York, the best part of summer was going to Bryant Park on a warm evening, sitting down on a blanket and watching The Sound of Music, with hundreds of others. Drinking wine, eating some cheese and generally enjoying the communal … Read More »

Will Web Kill SportsCenter

Back in the day when ESPN launched Sports Center, it put an end to the value proposition of the sports page — wire-service box scores and game recaps. The highlights game was over, for both newspapers and the three-minute sports-guy recap at the end … Read More »

Take a good close look at that picture to the right. You probably recognize the Cingular SIM card, but you might be wondering what device’s innards it’s attached to. Normally, the … Read More »

There is no doubt an article published by TG Daily is going to attract a lot of attention in the next few days, especially since Slashdot has picked it up.  I could have predicted that would happen since it’s a chance for Slashdotters to … Read More »

If you’re free at noon EDT this Friday and have an interest in the company with the S-XGen device, there’s an investor conference call available. There’s a toll free number as … Read More »

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The Battle of the Boroughs: Queens-born Carl Ichan got in Ed Zander’s face. Brooklyn born Motorola CEO is firing back. In a letter filed with SEC he fires back, and says Moto doesn’t need Icahn. Cablevision family wants it back: The Dolans want to … Read More »

None other than Hugo Ortega received an OQO Model 02 complete with a double-capacity battery and docking station. In typical and fun Hugo style, he shares the unboxing … Read More »

Richard Bloor of Symbian One on the recently concluded S60 Summit in Madrid: Blogging, like reality TV and soap operas, is essentially about living vicariously. The closest an outside observer could get to that, for the S60 Summit, was on flickr where ohl@work and Read More »

When we looked at the back page of Friday’s Marketplace section of the Wall Street Journal, it looked like the delivery person had perhaps taken offense with the Vonage ad campaign about its patent case with Verizon, with what looked like some black-pen editing, the … Read More »

Venture capital has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into companies building equipment to enable FMC (fixed-to-mobile convergence) products and services. To date, the cellular operator market opportunity has languished but the tide may be changing if the MVNOs take advantage of the technology. FMC, among other … Read More »

The touch interface is clearly gaining momentum: we’ve got touch-enabled Tablet PCs, UMPCs, PDAs, smartphones and other small handhelds. Palm rejection is a staple in the latest Fujitsu P1610 devices … Read More »

When do you know it is time to whack an idea that is not working? Entrepreneur’s Dilemma! My latest on Found+READ Read More »

Last couple of days from many different sources we have been hearing about this little company called Scribd. A funding frenzy is taking place around the company, with some of the top name venture capitalists jostling to invest in the company. There has been talk … Read More »

The new AT&T – a combination of SBC, BellSouth and Cingular Wireless – reported its first quarter 2007 earnings, and predictably all the numbers were up (revenues ), leading to gushing headlines everywhere. But like everything, one has to look at more than just the … Read More »

As we alluded on the last MobileTechRoundup podcast, the Nokia N800 is quite a usable Internet device. It easily handles the basic web functions that most folks need. The recently added … Read More »

The sweet irony – cable modem shipments are hitting a new record – and one of the early cable modem pioneers is being sold like a purple velvet jacket from the 1960s only Austin Powers would love. Motorola, it seems has won the bid for … Read More »

SPECIAL REPORT: On April 19, the San Francisco Marriott played host to “Mastering the Craft of Online Gaming”, a conference dedicated to the business of building MMOs. Overall, the event was underwhelming and unattended, but that doesn’t mean there weren’t some interesting tidbits to … Read More »

WebWorkerDaily: Yes, You can make Outlook, GMail Like WebWorkerDaily: Busyness vs. Burst FoundRead: Vesting Hacks I and II FoundRead: How Loomia got its mojo back NewTeeVee: 7-minute Sopranos – the Inside Job NewTeeVee: Ten Joost Channels worth watching Read More »

There is nothing like having the top job at a phone company. Whether your stock goes up or down, you still make millions. In fact you make way more than say CEO of GE or Pepsi. * In 2006, Richard Notebaert, CEO and Chairman of Qwest got … Read More »

You know a review is going to set me off when it starts with these lines:"Pity the poor UMPC. The much-hyped ultramobile PC has been hailed asthe next big thing for … Read More »

Just saw on Twitter that the folks at Orb have teamed with Nokia to offer Orb’s MyCasting functions for the N800. This makes the N800 even more compelling due to the … Read More »

After spending more than a few minutes sampling CBS’s free live Internet streaming of video from both the NCAA Men’s Basketball tournament and the Masters golf tourney, it’s clear that more live sports coverage will be a popular staple of web TV going forward. With any luck, … Read More »

In a deal the companies say is worth millions ( millions! ) of Euros, Ericsson announced Tuesday that it will supply and manage the spare parts needed for Vodafone’s mobile networks. The deal covers both 2G- and 3G-flavored networks, the companies said. Read More »

Freescale, a chip company that was carved out of Motorola says it has launched a new GPON subsystem that was co-developed with Alcatel-Lucent. ALU recently became one of the big suppliers of GPON gear to Verizon’s FiOS network, that is going through major … Read More »

While searching for info on any Kohjinsha SA-1 touchscreen developments, Pocketables found that the SA-1 is now available with a 100 GB hard drive. The prior models offered 80 GB of storage capacity, which is still quite sizable for a small handheld computer. … Read More »

How many virtual mobile operators does the world need? Ask Juha Christensen, former head of Microsoft’s mobile division and a founder of Symbian, and his answer would be: as many as you can think of. Christensen has a new start-up, Sonopia, that has put together a … Read More »

Internet OS sector seems to be getting increasingly crowded. Start-ups such as YouOS, EyeOS are vying for mindshare with Internet giants like Google. The seriousness of market is reflected by the fact that earlier this month, Microsoft set up an all-star group to tackle … Read More »

I never gave in to the Sony PlayStation Portable urge, but I know James did, and I suspect many of you did too. The PSP continues to become much more … Read More »

Nokia N800 owners are dancing in the streets thanks to the addition of Rhapsody’s music service. While  some of ‘em clearly won’t end up on "Dancing with the Stars", they can … Read More »

HTC just announced two devices for the US market, the Advantage which has been discussed for a while and a new device they’ve managed to keep under wraps, the Shift.  The Advantage is the Windows Mobile based PDA with a a detachable keyboard, 5 inch VGA … Read More »

OK, let’s get my mug off of the front page with some posts here; thanks for all the well wishes by the way, BUT it’s back to work time. That’s just what ThoughtFix did: he got to work on a Kohjinsha SA-1 review … Read More »

You’ve seen pics of our small mobile offices: I use the Samsung Q1P with the ThinkOutside Sierra keyboard while James is currently toting the Fujitsu P1610. I just saw that Michael … Read More »

Trying to create an upstart hipster cell phone company is utterly expensive. Peter Adderton and Sky Dayton, the CEOs of MVNOs Amp’d Mobile and Helio, know this all too well by now. Amp’d is adding another $107 million in funding, according to PEHub … Read More »

When it comes to adapting information technology, Washington is always about two years behind the rest of the country. So it makes sense that, finally, Web 2.0 is catching hold and gathering momentum here, in early 2007. Washington’s political operative and consulting class has been energized by … Read More »

More news is surfacing on the Asus T83 UMPC; or is it a small convertible Tablet PC? Semantics aside, the additional info is interesting as is the roughly five minute video. I’m a little leery of some things said in the video, most notably … Read More »

Remember that plucky little brick of a handheld with the stellar battery life we reviewed in January? The Raon Digital Vega was mighty mite in terms of runtime, but wasn’t … Read More »

UltraMobileLive has some official pics of a new Asus mobile device, possibly dubbed the T83. The unit looks similar in form factor to the Fujitsu P1610 as it includes a … Read More »

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