There have been a lot of so-so and a few really great articles on iPhone in the week since it was launched. What follows are my favorite blog posts, articles, and videos covering iPhone in week one. David Pogue published an early first pass in his “Some Hands-On Time With the iPhone” after spending about [...]
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The Apple iPhone lives
Tuesday, January 9, 2007
The speculation and rumors and leaks were basically right: Steve Jobs has announced the Apple iPhone. (Click here to discuss in the BillDay.com iPhone forum) Touch screen tech known as “multi-touch”, uses your finger, almost entire front of device is screen 3.5 inch 480 x 320 widescreen, 160ppi 11.6mm thick, “thinner than the Q and [...]
Nokia versus Motorola, by the numbers
Thursday, July 20, 2006
Nokia Q2 numbers are out. In a nutshell: NOK shipped 78.4 million phones in Q2 2006 compared to 60.8 million units in Q2 2005 Smart phone (Nokia Multimedia unit) revenues rose 37% to 1.89 billion euros ($2.36 billion) Average selling price declined to 102 euros ($127) from 105 euros, due to large volumes of cheap [...]
'See New' global cellcam contest
Wednesday, October 5, 2005
PC Magazine and others have picked up Nokia’s “Top photographers spearhead Nokia Nseries See New Competition” press release. The gist: You can submit up to five cellcam pics that you’ve taken using a megapixel+ camera phone to the contest. Judges include five widely known photographers who will help pick the best snaps of the lot. [...]
Nokia and Motorola 2MPix cellcam music machines
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Everybody’s been blogging about the Palm+Microsoft lovefest so I thought I’d cover two other new devices that might be important and more widely used in the long run. Both Motorola and Nokia announced 2 megapixel cellcams yesterday. They both support memory cards and various digital audio formats, promising to be good cellpods as well as [...]
ROKR, meet Nano
Saturday, September 17, 2005
Following up on my ongoing love affair with cellpods: Apple and Moto recently launched the ROKR line of cellpods with ROKR E1, the world’s first iTunes enabled cellpod. This much anticipated gadget promises basic iPod playback functionality built into an entry level but functional GSM-based, Bluetooth-enabled cellcam. On the surface this seems to be a [...]
3GSM World Congress 2005
Friday, February 18, 2005
I’ve been reading the deluge of reports and press releases from the 3GSM World Congress 2005 which wrapped up yesterday in Cannes. Expanding upon last year’s limited Sun and Intel & Nokia 3GSM posts, I thought this year I’d summarize the major wireless developments via links to various 3GSM bits from around the Web. Starting [...]
Digicam growth in 2005
Saturday, February 12, 2005
Reuters reports on the photo industry’s predictions that US digital camera sales growth will slow in 2005. While sales increased more than 30% per year in each of the last three years, the industry expects 2005 sales growth to be around 13%. It’s still growth, mind you, but the hockey stick is apparently starting to [...]
Two months of LG L1400 use is enough
Tuesday, February 8, 2005
I’ve been using the LG L1400 for the last couple of months and I’m longing to have a Series 60 or at least MIDP 2 powerhouse back as my main mobile. Stacked against the L1400 for developers: You can’t test any ideas you might have for Nokia’s new Python implementation. No MIDP 2 support severely [...]
Nokia launches Python for Series 60
Wednesday, February 2, 2005
Nokia has announced the general availability of Python for Series 60. This is fantastic news for wireless developers who’ve been clambering for more programming options than just Symbian C++ and J2ME. As was noted in an internetnews.com interview with proud Nokia Python papa Erik Smartt: “It seemed like a good language to bring to the [...]
