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In a few years time, every photo you take with any camera will be geotagged. What does that mean? The location of where you took the photo is embedded in the photo file. Now you can organise your pictures not just by time but also by place.
Nokia just released an update to their GPS-enabled [...]

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Just finished updating my Nokia N800 from OS2007 to OS2008. What an improvement! The GUI is starting to take shape and find an identity if its own. The bundled applications are very good, for example the map application. Seems like the browser is a bit more stable as well.
So, how am I using the N800? [...]

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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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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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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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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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Something is happening in the world of mobile phones. Something big. Very big.
The driving forces for the change include the miniaturization of the components necessary for building a PC, the cost of wireless high speed internet access and the platformization of mobile phone software.
Signs of the change include how the company that practically invented [...]

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Johan Sch??ns post at the Opera Mini blog raised my curiosity:
The Opera Mini team has been hard at work for quite some time now on the next major version of Mini. We’re proud and excited that people who have had a chance to test early versions call this new generation another breakthrough in mobile web [...]

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That last post got me thinking. The fact that I can’t get the name of any person calling me by having the phone hooking up to a web service and looking up the name from the phone number is such a sure sign of how far from The Mobile Web we really are that I’m [...]

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