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European I-mode launch - After years of hearing how I-mode, being a much superior technology, would replace WAP in Europe within months, it finally arrives. DoCoMo's Japanese Mobile Internet standard will be offered to customers of it's German and Dutch subsidiary's (e-plus and KPN)
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W-LAN preys on 3G revenue - Another day and another article identifying W-LAN (802.11b) as a major threat to 3G revenue. According to this article, and the report they refer to, W-LAN usage may eat away over 60% of projected 3G revenues. Not only do I agree in principle,
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More roaming for the real world - Swiss Virtual Mobile Operator t-net, announced the WeRoam service. The service allows users to seamlessly roam between GSM networks and W-LAN hotspots for wireless data coverage. Using GSM authentication for both GSM and W-LAN service, seems like a clever move. It brings the
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Month of OS - February seems to be the OS month for portable devices. Along-side the launch of PalmOS version 5 earlier this month, there has been some action at the current 3GSM conference in Cannes. Microsoft has launched 2 new OS versions, Pocket PC 2002 Phone Edition, adds mobile
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Finally. Roaming that really matters - The talk of the town is about roaming, mobile coverage, and what kind of interaction there will be between existing GSM and GPRS networks, with lot's of coverage, and faster 3G networks, initially with less cover. With the introduction of the D211
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Interoperability - We've been there before. The expectation of new, innovative functionality to wow! the consumer. Wether it's on-line gaming with J2ME, or mobile picture messaging with MMS, the danger is the same. That the urge for handset manufacturers and operators to be first with the
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3G phone launch - Motorola presented their first 3G UMTS based phone last week. The A820 is a tri-band GSM phone with added support for UMTS, as well as a colour screen, and a small camera built-in. It also supports BlueTooth, GPRS, WAP 2.0 and J2ME. In other words
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Microsoft Announces Tablet PC Partners - Microsoft has signed partnership agreements with Fujitsu, NEC and Matsushita for the development and production of Tablet PC's based on Microsofts Mira design spec. The spec, developed by Microsofts eHome department, and presented at Comdex in January 2002, combines wireless Internet (802.
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Straight out of India - Indian Hardware manufacturer Infomart, has arrived on the scene with another Linux Based PDA. Based on the same versions of Embedded Linux from Lineo, and the Qtopia GUI from Trolltech, it aims at being binary compatible with Sharps recent SL-5000D. That should give it access
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A word from the Wireless Village - Established in early 2001 to enable interoperability in the Mobile Instant Messaging area, the Wireless Village forum has released it's specifications this week, according to this story from German news site heise.de. The Wireless Village initiative is interesting because of
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OnAir develops handheld stream - Danish tech company, OnAir has gotten an additional 17 mill. kroner investment for their technology that allows streaming of video to handheld devices, according to this article. The Java Applet based streaming technology is currently marketed mostly as a surveillance tool, but other, and less
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Does Sharp have the edge? - According to this review on geekc.com's PDA Geek section, the Sharp Zaurus SL-5000 is just the PDA I want. Running Lineo's embedded Linux, it has a small Opera browser, and CompactFlash support, that apparently runs the D-Link 802.11b