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Alasdair Bailey has given Your Symbian a big plug in his Symbian Expert section of Computer Shopper (a UK magazine) this month. Your Symbian is of course our fortnightly newletter with news and views of the Symbian world in a light hearted vein. The next issue of YS is out on Monday, so sign up now!
Where it all began! The man attributed with the invention of the mobile phone has been interviewed here on BBC News Online about the vision he had for mobile communications and the first mobile telephone call ever made from a pavement in midtown Manhattan, on April 3rd, 30 years ago. It's interesting since we live in a society that associates new technology with youth, yet one the visionaries behind it all is now 74. What a guy!
It seems that lies are the order of the day at Microsoft where they have to twist the truth in order to get credit for anything. Poor things, nobody is buying their smartphone so if someone buys a phone that's kind of like their smartphone, only different, Microsoft adds that to the number of SPV sales....
SwitchBlade is off on a rant, could he sense that a return to old values for the PC market may in turn effect other markets, or is he just off his trolley? Read on to find out.
Ok, maybe not John Kettley per se, but AccuWeather, who provide detailed weather information to those who want more than seaweed in the back yard accuracy, is to develop, along with Summus, a wireless weather application offering access to radar maps and images with enhanced up-to-the-minute weather reports.
Reload your Nokia phone everywhere you go! When technology lets you down and your battery’s flat, it’s back to the dark ages for the perfect solution. Just plug this magic gizmo into your phone and wind it up for some power! A 3 minute wind will give you about 8 minutes of talk time. [read more]
An interesting feature on the Seattle Times' web site, entitled Clash of the Cellphone Contenders looks at Microsoft's attempt to make inroads to the smartphone market, and is really quite interesting (if you don't mind the bits where the same old rhetoric is gushed from a Microsoft face as he attempts lame excuse after lame excuse for Microsoft Mediocrity)....
SwitchBlade is unimpressed. America is declaring war on half of the world, with few people standing in the way. Yet they seem keen to start a world war at the same time....
The BBC is asking anybody who is going to the march against military action in Iraq*, who also happens to have a camera enabled phone, to snap some shots and send them in over MMS......
Nokia have issued the following press release which may, or may not (dpending on how conspiratorial you feel about big companies) be trying to get people to buy their own products as opposed to other people's; "Over the past months, cases have been reported of non-original mobile phone batteries overheating in the European, African and Asian regions, causing damage to both batteries and phones. As these reported cases understandably raise public concern, Nokia wants to raise consumer awareness about non-original batteries and the possible consequences of using non-original batteries". Click the above link for the full press release.
Microsoft has finally decided on how to do away with Sendo's unreasonable assumption that doing business in a fair and professional manner would benefit everybody by throwing back the accusation that Sendo deliberately tried to produce a crap phone, or to put it another way; that "management determined to release an unstable and unreliable product". The only evidence that Sendo wanted to produce a dodgy product (which is what any company breaking new technology into a young market would want to do :roll: ) is that they originally chose Microsoft's Smartphone 2002 platform, but surely, Sendo can argue that any flaws found in the phone were 'features' or 'design decisions'? Anway, for more information view this article on The Register and see for yourself....
