Microsoft to start manufacturing phones?

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

Zu-ne. verb. 1. To fuck over or generally bugger up partners who believed your shite for years and invested heavily in it. (From Zune, noun, a music player released by Microsoft which is incompatible with their previous music sales efforts under the PlaysForSure brand and immediately began to undermine their ...

iPhone kicking ass

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

From iPodNNApple ranked third in the global hardware market during the fourth quarter of 2007, according to canalys.com, with its iPhone garnering a whopping 28 percent of the smartphone market. Apple entered the market late in the year, and has thus far shipped only one device. Go iPhone!

iPhone sales predictions

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

IFrogz, among others speculates if Apple will sell 10 million phones by the end of 2008. I like iFrogz, I like the cases and whatnot they do, though I'm currently using a Capsule from SwitchEasy which is excellent. If Apple is to sell 10 million iPhones by the end of this ...

What’s missing on iPhone

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

A discussion on the NiMUG forums about the features missing on the iPhone sparked this post. Proper MMS support - to be honest I don't miss this at all. Looking back on my previous tariffs I only ever sent about 1 picture a month (though my tariff allowed for 15) and ...

iPhone 2007. Windows Mobile 2009? Maybe?

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Mitchell Ashley, Microsoft apologist for NetworkWorld tells us why he thinks the iPhone is doomed The iPhone is certain to fade into history as another cool Apple innovation, that others soon rushed competitive, like-products to market, blowing away any significant lead Apple might have. The iPod mp3 player is an industry ...

Translink for iPhone

Monday, January 21st, 2008

David Rice on NiMUG wrote up this little app: Translink for iPhone

if the iPhone won’t come to the Enterprise, then…

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

iPhone is not available to business accounts in the US and iTunes balks at registering the iPhone to a non-residential address in the UK so it's certainly not aimed at the Corporate Road Warrior but as I've blogged a lot recently, there certainly a lot of buzz about the iPhone ...

iPhone is missing one thing for me

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

Local Storage. I don't really want to use it to download stuff and keep it, that's not what I'm looking for. But a way to, for instance, aggressively cache a web pages so I could, for instance, download the text of "The Importance of Being Ernest" and read it while waiting ...

The Third Party Application Market on Phones and PDAs

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

On my Newton, I downloaded maybe 20 apps. I bought two over the wire. I even bought one in a retail package. On my Palm vX, I bought two apps. A Paris City Guide and a VT100 Terminal app. On my other phones and devices between then and now I've downloaded two ...

That Tsunami on the Horizon: it’s the iPhone…

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

RoughlyDrafted visits the news that the iPhone is already beating the stuffing out of competitors in mobile phone operating system usage. With iPhone demonstrating considerably better statistics in terms of market share, it must be absolutely galling to some: The most recent market share numbers are particularly embarrassing for Microsoft, especially after ...