Connected Phone Articles

The Blackberry is currently the most widely used mobile phone by business people because of it’s great messaging features. It is also slowly becoming a must have cell phone for the teen generation because of it’s messaging features and teenagers simply love to send SMS. But RIM, the makers of Blackberry, isn’t going to stop on its tracks. If fact they’re full blast into developing the next iteration of their BlackBerry platform — version 6.

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Yahoo has recently released it’s mobile app for Yahoo Mail. I’ve just installed the Yahoo Mail mobile app for Android on my Samsung Spica to check it out. To sum up my first impressions, it’s quite good actually — better than the mobile web version for Yahoo Mail.

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What seems to be all around the Internet these days is the issue of the just released iPhone 4 antennae / signal strength problem. Almost every mobile related site has had some discussion about the problem. It has turned in so much buzz that people have named it the “Grip of Death”. Continue reading …

Nokia’s performance as a global mobile leader has been going under fire these days. Recently, Rick Cadden, the founder of the Symbian Guru web site has decided to stop updating the site out of frustration. Rick decided to buy an Android based Nexus One. Nokia’s Symbian platform hasn’t been evolving up to speed in comparison to it’s competitors like Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS. A Twitter conversation between Eldar Murtazin and Jan Ole Suhr thinks mismanagement may be the reason for Nokia’s problems.

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I myself have been a Nokia / Symbian mobile phone user for quite a while now. This last couple of years, I’m getting impatient with the way Nokia and Symbian with the way they are coming up with next evolution of mobile phones. Symbian’s touch OS, the Symbian v5,  is failing big time in terms of usability and user experience. Nokia’s Symbian flagship phone runs on meager 400+ Mhz. But I’m still hoping things will turn around for the world’s leader in terms of global market share — hopefully soon.

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One of the mobile phone hardware design that I love is the Sidekick LX 2009. I’m a fan of it’s sleek design. I was sad when Danger got acquired by Microsoft and the platform just sort of slowly started it’s demise. Today T-Mobile announced that it is pulling the Sidekick from it’s list of mobile phone offerings starting July 2 according to the Phonescoop site.

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I’ve finally gotten a replacement Nokia N900 mobile phone from WomWorld / Nokia yesterday. The first thing I tried out on the N900 when I got it up and running yesterday was the web browser. I tried browsing the Connected Phone site to see if it will render properly on the N900 and it did. Before starting off several articles about the Nokia N900, I thought I’d post something about syncing the Mac OS X addressbook and calendar with the Maemo based Nokia N900.

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Today is the start of the 5-day Apple 2010 Worldwide Developer Conference in Moscone West San Francisco. This year there are several announcements from Steve Jobs that most people in the tech world have been waiting for. I am particularly interested because I believe that the news coming out of the conference will have a very important impact in the mobile industry.

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The loooong wait is over. Today, I received a trial unit of the Nokia N900 from WomWorld/Nokia. I am going to have the chance to use and try out the Maemo based Nokia N900 for 4 short weeks. After receiving the package, I quickly took the N900 out of the DHL packaging. I took some pics of it just to remind me that today I am actually going to have some hands-on with the N900.

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If you have some 1st generation iPhone that happens to be lying around and gathering dust. You can try running the Android open mobile platform on the iPhone. A known as planetbeing has apparently been hard at work porting Android to the iPhone. Now he has finally posted the youtube video below of Android running on the iPhone.

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