Tue September 28 2004
PalmOS Cobalt 6.1 News - Tungsten T5 late arrival? |
04:38 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones The Register has a quick write up of the new Palm OS Cobalt, which was presented at Palm's European developer conference in Munich this week. According to the article, integration has taken longer than expected, and the first new phones won't appear until the first quarter of next year. I am not sure if by "phones" they also mean handhelds, but if yes, then don't expect to see the new Tungsten T5 under your Christmas tree this year! New hot Cobalt features mention in the article: |
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Gizmondo Scoops Design Solution of the Year Award |
04:19 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones The Windows CE powered mobile gaming device Gizmondo won the "Design Solution of the Year Award" at the Electronics Industry Design Awards in London, a competition claimed to be the "ultimate industry accolade" in the British electronics market. Carl Freer, Managing Director, Gizmondo Europe, commented, "We are very proud to have won this award which acknowledges the revolutionary nature of our design. Gizmondo is set to change the face of mobile gaming." The features of the Gizmondo truly look spectacular: 400Mhz ARM9 CPU, GSM Tri-band, GPRS Class 10, Sirf GPS, 2.8” TFT screen running at a 240 x 320 resolution, NVIDIA GoForce 3D 4500 WMP, WAP 2.0, MMS/SMS/EMS, MP3 Playback, Polyphonic MIDI, MPEG 4 playback, JPEG camera, SD flash card reader, Mini-USB client, Bluetooth class 2 for multiplayer gaming, GPS Tracking and Mapping applications, Windows Media Player 9, Customised Windows CE O/S, Stop gameplay when battery near empty. Gizmondo is scheduled to conquer the UK gaming market in the fourth quarter this year. |
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DRM-protected e-books: Pro and Contra |
03:15 AM by Alexander Turcic in E-Book General | News In case you have missed it: I heartly invite you to join our ongoing discussion on whether or not it is right to a) DRM-protect e-books and b) crack them again. I personally find it a very interesting discussion on a very controversial subject which is probably puzzling the minds of many PDA owners. |
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Mon September 27 2004
Sunrise 0.3.4 released |
12:00 PM by Laurens in Archive | Sunrise This release introduces the following features:
More info: Sunrise News |
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Another round of free Gmail invites |
11:37 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Announcements Simply reply to this thread and tell us what you would like to see more at Mobileread.com in future! and tell us something nice Make sure to PM me your e-mail address so that I know where to send the invite to. I have like 12 invites many invites waiting for you and will tell you when I run out of them... this is your chance if you don't have an Gmail account yet |
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PalmSource's Shift to Smartphones |
08:43 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones Who is going to run the show in the future - PDA or smartphone? If you have followed our recent discussion, you know that despite our undisputed love for PDAs, the PDA market is having a tough time these days, while the smartphone segment is heating up (research firm IDC projects that smartphone shipments worldwide will reach 90 million in 2008, up from roughly 17 million this year). So far Symbian has dominated the smartphone market. I personally hate Symbian. It is slow and it doesn't offer the flexibility that I know from more advanced operation systems like Palm OS. Fortunately or not (depends on how you see the future), PalmSource is slowly shifting towards smartphones now, as newest licensing arrangements with smartphone players like Kyocera and Samsung reveal. Today I found an interesting NYT article which states that PalmSource plans to announce tomorrow its first operating system designed specifically for smartphones. PalmSource said its software would be available in 11 smartphones without naming the manufacturers. "We are reinventing the company," said David Nagel, PalmSource's chief executive, in an interview during a recent European tour. The company is betting that the same ease of use that made the Palm a popular hand-held organizer will draw people to phones using the software. In other words, PalmSource clearly wants to be part of the smartphone hype. Let's only hope that it won't abandon its original roots and leave palmOne without a future operation system. |
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Sun September 26 2004
Virtual Movie Theatre |
11:00 PM by cbarnett in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones Geekzone have posted an item of interest about Eye-wear that simulates watching a 30' diagonal screen from 6 feet away. While not truly home theatre material yet, the device is light and attractive, and looks like it could penetrate the home market if marketted properly. Here's the press release from the developers, Kopin. Craig. |
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Convert Lit News Updates |
12:00 PM by Colin Dunstan in Miscellaneous | Lounge I just stumbled over two interesting news updates regarding Convert LIT:
In case you haven't heard of Convert Lit yet: |
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