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28-Jan-2005

PC Magazine Nokia 6230 review

Filed under: Photography, Recommended, Wireless — Bill Day @ 12:30 am

Nokia 6230 battery compartment

It’s a bit late to the game given that Nokia 6230 has been reviewed various places since the first half of 2004, but PC Magazine’s posted their own short review.

The review is in their typical US- and PC-centric fashion. Worth a read however if you’re looking for a cellpod or a first rate EDGE modem at a discount price.

Moto Linux powered handsets in 2005

Filed under: Open Source, Wireless — Bill Day @ 12:25 am

According to LinuxDevices.com, Motorola will launch 8-10 Linux based handsets in 2005. This would constitute roughly one quarter of Moto’s new handsets in 2005.

That’s cool. Not so cool, however, is this dorky quote from Jim Ready, the CEO of MontaVista (makers of Moto’s Linux distro):

[Motorola's] ability to pop out three phones based on the same OS is making people in the industry say ‘Oh sh*t, how’d they do that?

Three phones, or even eight or ten, based on one OS, Jim? Have you seen how many Nokia cranks out based upon Series 60/Symbian?

Mobile phone industry performance and predictions

Filed under: Wireless — Bill Day @ 12:17 am

Investor’s Business daily reports on 2004 performance and 2005 predictions.

UWB’s double standards

Filed under: Wireless — Bill Day @ 12:08 am

IBM developerWorks has published a look inside the standard wars for ultrawideband (UWB) wireless technology.

History repeats itself again and again, doesn’t it?

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