Category Archives: Mobile 2.0

The #1 priority for “Mobile 2.0″ and why Mobile is Personal

Posted on 9/23/2007 by Erik Starck

C. Enrique Ortiz is right. The same was true for fixed internet. Remember when you had to dial in to get a connection? And it cost money per minute of use? A fixed price is even more…

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Three questions you should ask yourself if you’re building mobile devices

Posted on 7/20/2007 by Erik Starck

Russell Beattie asks Motorola three questions but they can really be extended to any device manufacturer. The questions are:

What’s the platform? Russell writes:

Moto has now launched phones with every conceivable OS there is: Linux, Java,

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David Beers on the Foleo

Posted on 6/17/2007 by Erik Starck

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.

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Mobile OS doesn’t matter – signs of change

Posted on 6/14/2007 by Erik Starck

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:…

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Von Europe: Unify Mobile

Posted on 6/11/2007 by Erik Starck

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

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