Christmas Toys for the boys
STOP PRESS more pictures of released model !!! (Sunday nt) The major mobile US phone show, CTIA Wireless IT and Entertainment 2005 show, opens in San Franscisco on Tuesday.
On Monday Palm, Microsoft and Verizon have announced a press conference in San Francisco, to (it is rumoured)introduce a Windows-based Treo smart CDMA mobile phone with QWERTY keyboard. Palm President and CEO Ed Colligan will be joined by Bill Gates and Denny Strigl, Verizon's president, to announce the new “must have” Christmas Executive toy. This will go head to head in the market with Research In Motion Ltd's popular Blackberry devices.
Palm, which virtually invented the handheld computing market, split and the original PalmSource was bought in June by Access Co. Ltd., a Japanese mobile Web browser company who claim to be treading a Linux route.
Microsoft can link Windows Mobile to its enterprise software, such as Exchange, and so it is ideal for Palm, which has been trying to break into the corporate market.
The Treo 700 will access Verizon's cellular network which allows access, using updated technology, to send data over wireless links at broadband speeds. It will compete with the Blackberry device available from Verizon rival T-Mobile USA Inc, (part of Deutsche Telekom). Motorola will launch Q, a CDMA Treo-like device that will run Windows Mobile 5.0 and is due for “release early next year”. (Which looks a far better / lighter product)
Endgadget has a picture, they claim, of the new Treo 700w device, which really piss off those who have just invested in the Treo 650 mobile – note the landscape screen at right angles to keyboard !
Symbian (partly owned by Nokia) is the major European operating system choice on mobile smart phones. World leader (at the moment) the Symbian OS is very popular in Europe and Japan, where mobile phone data networks are much more advanced than in the U.S.
2 comments:
Symbian is Psion's EPOC in fancy dress. Psion of course were one of the founder members of Symbian and can rightly lay claim to being the inventors of the mass market PDA. Never achieving the poularity in the US that it achieved elsewhere, it nonetheless rocketed Psion's shares, until Palm wiped them out with a device that was simpler, cheaper and did no more than it needed to.
I tried programming the Psion, it was a major pain. Programming the Palm was much easier and I suspect this was one of the major reasons why growth snowballed - the wide availability of shit-loads of great little apps for next to no money.
I still have my Psion 5 and it still boasts the most ingenious and best keyboard of any handheld device.
Having tried (and owned) just about every organiser on the planet, I have to say, they're all shite. Nowadays I use a Smythson old-skool diary and a bog-standard mobile phone with the fewest fancy features I can get away with.
In a drawer somewhere I have the original museum piece Psion unit, we tried to use it for Shop Floor Data Collection but they kept promising an RS 232 interface, which was 12 months late and we moved on to Oyster. Psion = More promises than performance.
V clever guys but wanted to do everything all at once. Plus Venture Capital in UK is scared of innovation.
I have no mobile , nor a diary, I just forget things. "If it's important ", my father used to say, "they'll ring back". Works for me.
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