Well mum’s no longer the word in the UK, the iPhone’s officially launched on O2. The event was this morning in London and there weren’t too many surprises. It’s launching on November 9th (ok, that’s a little wierd) and it’s going to be EDGE and not 3G. Interestingly, O2 is going to have free WiFi [...]

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UPDATE: Ben Combee just schooled me in the comments. That is a 5-way directional pad around that big center button. It still doesn’t look nearly as comfy and accurate to use as the nice big one on their current lineup, but maybe it is, if it ever makes it to these shores I’ll check it [...]

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Well, the new phone looks like the magical Centro of the $99, tiny, 3G’ness but it isn’t, it’s the Treo 500. I have so many problems with this I can’t number them, ok, I can, three (via PIC).
1) Well, I can’t believe that the next step in their product line is a Windows Mobile device [...]

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You know as much as I wasn’t expecting it (because I never really thought about it) in retrospect the only surprising thing about Colligan cancelling the Foleo is how not shocking it is. It explains the lack of even one marketing dollar spent on this “new, revolutionary” device. It’s sort of exactly like what happens [...]

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Exterminate! Exteeeeerminate! Well the Manchesterians went for the gusto, trying to break the world record of largest number of people dressed up as Daleks in one location! Apparently there’s still no official decision on whether this actually broke the record, but I’m holding my breath. Someone has uploaded several videos from the event - they’re [...]

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Huh, lotta Palm posting this week. Anywho… Gizmodo had a shot (hopefully real) of the upcoming Palm Centro on Sprint. We’ve all see those other rumored shots of it and those ones were terrible, but this one is actually not bad.
It is hard to get a sense of the size of the device, but it [...]

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So we talked about Engadget’s open letter to Palm. Well, on Palm’s blog Ed Colligan wrote a short response to it. It is not at all impressive.
Let’s start with the very biggest and most obvious problem:
Let’s remember that it is very early in the evolution of the smartphone and there is enormous opportunity for us [...]

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This was going to be a much longer post than this, but Scott wrote up mostly what I think. I think it’s fair to say that there is a technical problem at Palm - they have not been executing on their current product line, it would be hard to dispute that. The oddity that Scott [...]

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UPDATE: Ben Combee writes in to drop the word that Barron’s was an oversimplified version of the truth. The sync problem seems to be intermittent and crops up only over time under a lot of email load - discovered over the past 6 months during stress testing. Read Ben’s comments for more. This is another [...]

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A bunch of stuff has transpired in the smartphone world that interests me. First off, I made a certain prediction about what was coming up on Palm’s official blog. I thought they’d post up something about the 700 fiasco and then follow it up with another, as well as writing a short blurb with the [...]

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