Got myself a true mobile web tablet yesterday: a Nokia N800. Let’s see if it will replace my Sony Ericsson/UIQ + Opera Mini-combo for doing all that micro-surfing to kill off dull moments throughout the day. Time will tell.
First impression: a much better device than the Nokia 770, which was a typical 1.0 showing great [...]

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Platform battles… aren’t they fun?
Actually, they’re not. They keep a lot of innovation from happening. Will Google’s move to launch the alliance make the platform battle finish sooner than it otherwise would? Probably not. From that perspective, the Open Handset Alliance was a disappointment.
If you expected a cool device from Google, you should be also [...]

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This small notebook with a 7″ inch screen is yet another sign of how there’s opportunity in the black hole of portables: the market between the mobile phone (<3 inch displays) and the laptop (>10 inch displays). The market of web tablets:
It’s not a laptop. It’s not a notebook. It’s not a ultra mobile PC [...]

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A few disruptive innovations are getting ready to hit the market, opening up for small device manufacturers to fill the hole between the <3 inch display devices (mobile phones) and the >10 inch display device (laptops). The hole reserved for web tablets.
One of them is flash memory replacing the hard drive. Another one is new [...]

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Trying to connect some dots…
I’ve written about the internet as the mobile OS a couple of times. What I mean by that is that most mobile applications we will be using will be to at least 80% based on a strong web service as the backbone. What we see in the phone will be a [...]

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GigaOm is listing a few “facts” about the so far non-existing Google Phone. The first two are:
1. Google Phone is based on a mobile variant of Linux, and is able to run Java virtual machines.
2. All applications that are supposed to run on the Google Phone are java apps. The OS has ability to run [...]

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Wow, what a success. At least the first weekend, the iPhone went for a knockout and succeeded. Up to 700′000 phones is nothing short of amazing especially considering the price. The iPhone has already become and iconic product that has changed the market. Every other smartphone will be compared to the iPhone.
Iconic mobile phones are [...]

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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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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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Doubtless, Google is going mobile. But regardless of the rumors the Google Phone is about as likely as a Microsoft PC.
Building and selling a phone at the scale that a Google Phone would require is a lot of work and requires a huge infrastructure. Selling boxes with hardware in them is a completely different business [...]

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Just got back home after visiting the first Nustart Hej!-conference about entrepreneurship and web 2.0. It was a pretty good conference with the same feel and content as Reboot or LIFT. A typical “conference 2.0″ where everyone is blogging, photographing or filming the event. Nice.
Amongst the speaker were a few entrepreneurs talking about their services [...]

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It’s not just Apple and Nokia building web tablets. Intel bets on Linux as the OS:

GALLERY: Intel’s new Mobile Internet Device with Red Flag Linux | APC Magazine
Intel will shortly announce that its new Mobile Internet Devices will be powered by Red Flag Linux.
Though on the surface they look the same, I’m certain the Intel [...]

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