Yesterday saw a a moment that many mobile device fans would have deemed unthinkable just a few years ago when Palm and Microsoft jointly announced a Windows Mobile powered Treo. Rafe looks through first the impact on Palm's corporate strategy, before looking at the wider implications for the mobile platform war.
There’s a huge change in Symbian OS with OS 9.1 coming out. While the directors and marketing managers will be prowling the floor of The Smartphone Show for the latest edge available to them, the people who do all the work, the programmers, will all have the chance to learn about the new OS, API calls and the low level magic they can use from the people who programmed it. Symbian themselves.
What can we expect from Symbianand its licencees at the upcoming Smartphone Show 2005? Ewan (with input from the rest of the team) takes a look and makes some guesses, and a few warnings.
Steve muses on the way most of the media ignore Symbian and trumpet Pocket PC, in the face of figures which (to him) seem completely the other way around.
AAS techno-mage Ewan gazes into his electronic crystal ball and, with the help of a number of announcements over the last year, joins the dots to pluck the previously unthinkable out of the ether....
Last year was the year of Snakes, this year All About N-Gage is putting the petty cash on Mile High Pinball to be the game everyone talks about. Dennis Roy is helping guide Mile High Pinball into the hands of as many N-Gage'rs as possible, so we decided to find out just how high this mile is...
