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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A couple interesting tidbits came across my rss reader today. First this bit on ars technica that tells how cable companies are going to run into a bandwidth crunch very soon now. What with all the HD, video on demand and high bandwidth internet use, they’re going to need to do some infrastructure work to [...]

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Scott sent me a link to this InfoWorld piece about their hands on with a Foleo. Like Britney was, the Foleo seems to be at an awkward transitional space and it doesn’t seem to know what to do. It’s grown up past being a smartphone, it’s bigger with a sexy full width keyboard and big [...]

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So I think about phones a lot. I think a lot about why phones, generally speaking, suck. For awhile there I was buying Apple’s jive that phone’s are all about the software and that’s what makes it. On the one hand it seemed to make sense - all the handset vendors (Motorola, Nokia, Sony, Samsung, [...]

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So you know I don’t have very much respect for the Official Palm Blog. It has been a really terrible blog for pretty much it’s entire existence. But I just saw a reasonable post on the Foleo where they actually seem to be doing some marketing and try and develop a little excitement around the [...]

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So, my Treo 650 for some reason wasn’t working while I was away (although, it seemed to have a couple bars of signal). So, when I finally got back into range it kicked in - kicked in so hard it threw itself into a reset loop. This was great - I forgot how to hard [...]

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by Kirk Unit
Just to update Felix’s story on the impending iPhone update — the rumor was right that the update was coming soon. In fact, the update was available a few hours after everybody read about the rumor. Turns out it’s just some critical security fixes (specifically, the Safari flaw discovered by these guys) [...]

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So, as my Treo 650 frustrates me more and more my thoughts turn towards my next phone. Inevitably this leads me to the iPhone, but a contender in my brain has always been the Helio Ocean. I mean, I kind of know I’m not going to get one because the non-starter for me (which may, [...]

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Well I’m sure Apple is not quaking in it’s iPhone having boots, but Openmoko has released a developer/alpha version of it’s free (as in liberty) phone the Neo 1973. Unique for being not just free software but free hardware as well - they’ve gone out of their way to choose fully documented components and have [...]

Categories: free software · gear · hardware · smartphones

So it’s been a couple of months since the blog.palm.com launched, the official mouthpiece of Palm. I don’t think I’m being unfair in calling it an abject failure. One wonders what Palm was thinking when they launched it, it is like they had no idea what they wanted to do with it but felt they [...]

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