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The OS is called WebOS and is LINUX based. Applications will be written in CSS, HTML, and JavaScript. The SDK should be interesting when it comes out. The new Palm Pre, due out in the first half of this year, has some really nice features. These include a Replaceable battery, and a MicroUSB connector for charging, with USB 2.0 [...]
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Microsoft has been in the smartphone business for a while, but only as a software vendor with their WinCE OS (ok, so Microsoft calls it “Windows Mobile” now, but the WinCE name is so descriptive). There are rumors circulating that Microsoft will be announcing their own smartphone hardware. Microsoft already produces hardware, the Zune [...]
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Palm has announced their new smartphone, the Pre. It’s not out yet, but it does look interesting. Big color screen, a slide out physical keyboard, WiFi, Bluetooth, 3G, calendar/email synch, accelerometer, 3 Megapixil camera, 8 Gig RAM, USB connector and support for additional add on memory. It looks like Palm is stepping up the [...]
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I’ve posted before about my opinion of cell phone text messaging the prices the carriers charge for it. Here’s the short form, it’s a major profit center for the carriers. They are charging a lot for a very low cost feature. It seems that the Senate antitrust subcommittee has figured this out and is demanding a [...]
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Palm has been working on a new OS for the past four years, code named Nova. The rumor is that it will be released at the Consumer Electronics Show in early 2009. A Palm executive makes an interesting observation in BusinessWeek, ”The next 10 years is all about the transition from notebooks to mobile computing.” Palm’s [...]
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The Palm Treo Pro has been announced. Currently only with the overly complex WinCE decended Microsoft OS.
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It’s called Bookshelf, and yes, it costs money. I found it worth the $10 It supports a wide range of formats including ASCII text, HTML, AportisDoc, unencrypted Mobipocket, rft & Word Docs (not docx). I can access my Baen webscription account from it and download books directly as well as tapping their free etext library. [...]
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Comment wise, one of the most popular posts here is about Cell Phone technology. The comments have drifted in to cell phone protocols. There are two main protocols, CDMA and GSM. CDMA is a legacy protocol only used here in the US. The rest of the world uses GSM. This is an issue for hardware [...]
Filed under: cell phone tech | Tagged: CDMA, cell phone, GSM, networking, protocols | 7 Comments »
