Been trying out the new Opera Mini beta on my Sony Ericsson M600 today. This is version 4 of the extremely popular java-based (downloadable) web browser for mobile phones.
My first impression was: oh, no, they made the GUI too slow and cumbersome. The clean simplicity of the first versions seemed to be gone. But [...]

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David Beers runs the blog Software Everywhere and has some really interesting thoughts on the Palm Foleo:
For Hawkins, it’s the smartphone that is the new PC. The Foleo is just the piece that completes the vision.
It’s a long post but well worth the read if you’re interested in the next big paradigm for computing in [...]

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Two observations that point in the same direction: the OS of your mobile doesn’t matter. It’s the internet compatibility that makes all the difference. First an old post by Nokia Linux web tablet product manager Ari Jaaksi:
“Today, we run Linux, X, Gnome, Flash, and friends on Nokia N800. Our big idea form the start was [...]

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Mike Kellett speaks about a new Unify Mobile Platform that so to speak hides the operator from a GSM-phone by creating a virtual GSM network. Quite interesting and worth following.
UM will unify the world’s existing, confused, global GSM bilateral agreements into one seamless and converged network. With One feel, one tariff,unlimited identities and one [...]

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I’m at the Von Europe listening to presentations on fixed mobile convergence (FMC). Current topic is “quad-play”, the new holy grail for operators. Quad-play is what you get when you combine TV, fixed phone, mobile phone and broadband access in one package.
In my world that translates to “internet, internet, wireless internet and - you [...]

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Java will be (is) one of the core platforms for mobile applications. MIDP2/CLDC is the current flavor of Java and has been around for a few years but it’s rather restricted. Even though Mobile Service Architecture, JSR 248, will bring more power to the platform in the form of new APIs, there are still fundamental [...]

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Now I get it. Portfolio, Palm-Foleo. Port, palm. Foleo.
Clever.

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Can you guess who owns the laptop with the stickers? All of them were speakers at Reboot 9.0.
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I’m just returning home from the Reboot-conference, two days of inspiring talks and people. One of the talks was by the CEO of Opera, H?•kon Lie. It was entitled The web everywhere: $10 paperbacks, $50 phones, $100 laptops and $250 game consoles and H?•kon brought a $100 computer to the stage (you know, the one [...]

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