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New toys: Nokia N800 and Apple Bluetooth Keyboard

Posted on 11/24/2007 by Erik Starck

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…

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Open Handset Alliance? Please…

Posted on 11/6/2007 by Erik Starck

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…

Posted in Google, gPhone, Java, Linux | 2 Comments

Asus EEE PC screenshots and demo

Posted on 11/4/2007 by Erik Starck

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…

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Smartphones beware – the laptop is shrinking: MUnit – a taster of what to come

Posted on 11/1/2007 by Erik Starck

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…

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The interface is the device

Posted on 9/25/2007 by Erik Starck

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…

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