In what probably was the most exciting Press Release email I’ve received in the past few months, SPB Software, the makers of some of our favorite applications and games like SPB Wallet, SPB Weather, SPB Puzzle and SPB Brain Evolution have notified us yesterday that they announced their signature SPB Mobile Shell 5.0 yesterday during [...]
What baffles me the most when I read mobile opinions from North American and European journalists is how clueless they are regarding the situation in the rest of the world, and how can they deem a product a success or a failure while limiting themselves to their region and without considering its impact on the [...]
While we often take a look at Symbian-powered smartphones in somewhat of a bubble, it’s definitely important to weigh them against other similar smartphones from Apple, HTC, and others. While we don’t have any competing phones available at the moment, the gang at TeknoReview.com have an HTC Touch Pro2 on hand, which is essentially the [...]
David Wood recently posted an interesting thought on the Symbian Foundation blog, positioning Symbian as a consumer brand. This is different than simply being present on consumer electronics – a consumer brand is something that consumers are aware of, and actively seek (or seek to avoid), and is something that Symbian needs badly, if they’re [...]
I just finished reviewing the Palm Treo Pro for MobileBurn.com. I won’t be posting any thoughts on the device itself here, but have already stumbled upon a really awesome feature that I think Nokia should *definitely* perk up and check out. The Treo Pro comes in a box that’s about a third the size of [...]
Some 20 months ago, when I was still a beginning blogger, I wondered why I couldn’t run Windows Mobile or Palm OS on my Nokia 3250. I didn’t want to make them my main OS, I just wanted the choice of running them whenever I wanted to, especially to benefit from the hundreds of medical [...]
Click To Play Tremendous apologies for skipping last week, but as promised, Driving with the Guru is back in action this week with Episode 43. I’ve got my hands on the new Palm Treo 800w from Sprint, which rocks a touchscreen, QWERTY keyboard and Windows Mobile 6.1, among other features. The full review will [...]
One topic that gets quite a bit of debate in the mobile industry is what defines a ‘smartphone’. What makes one phone smart and the other ‘dumb’, and what happens when a ‘dumbphone’ is able to do things that a smartphone can? Dennis over at WAPReview.com (killer site, by the way, if you’re a mobile [...]
When I first held the Qtek 9100 in my hands, I knew something was wrong. Many things actually. It wasn’t about the device itself, it was about the operating system. The first impression is still here, and though at first I couldn’t put it into words, now I can. Windows Mobile was built with “windows” [...]
