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Archive for February, 2009

A Peek at Our Future…

Microsoft has posted a super cool video of how they see people might work and play in the future. The vision is very inspiring and exciting. Check it out below. Although some of the technologies shown may seem very sci-fi, many of them are actually not that far off. If we look back, computers have [...]

3D UI on Mobile Phones

How 3D do you want your UI to be? The video below shows an implementation by TAT of some 3D UI on a phone. It looks very sweet and nice, but it’s nothing more than eye candy at the moment. TAT (The Astonishing Tribe) is a Swedish company who helped Google develop the user interface [...]

Is Your Next Phone Going to Be Social?

Last week at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the INQ1 won the best mobile handset award, beating out other nominees like Google G1, BlackBerry Storm and the Nokia E71. What’s special about the INQ1? It is the world’s first “social phone”.

Samsung: The Most Innovative Phone Maker?

This week, we have seen a slew of mobile handset announcements from the Mobile World Congress. So many phones, so little time. We wish we can play with all of them! Amid of the new product announcements, one manufacturer stood out from all the others as being the most innovative and has the broadest portfolio [...]

Will Microsoft Catch Up In Mobile?

Microsoft has unleashed a slew of arsenals this week at Mobile World Congress. Just a quick recap of the various announcements made on Monday: Windows Mobile 6.5. Pictures of WM6.5 have been circulating around for a while now, but Mr. Ballmer officially announced it earlier this week. Except phones with WM6.5 by the end of [...]

MobileMe: Why You Don’t Need It

MobileMe is Apple’s online service that let’s you sync your calendar, contacts and email across your iPhone, PCs and Macs. The service is targeted at consumers, because most business users will already have Microsoft Exchange to do all this for them. Apple charges users $99/year for this service, and here is why you don’t need [...]

Palm Pre Nearing Release?

Today, Sprint posted technical specifications about the Palm Pre on their website, signaling that the Palm Pre is imminent. It looks like Palm will make good on its promise after all to release the device before June this year. It also looks like from Sprint’s website that you will be able to use your Palm [...]

Sorry About the Outage

Our hosting service had an outage this morning, so we were down for a while. Sorry for the inconvenience, but we are back up now!

Analyst: $99 iPhone Rumor Coming This Summer

The rumor for a $99 iPhone is renewed today by RBC Capital Markets analyst, Mike Abramsky. Abramsky expects the entry level iPhone and the updated 3G iPhone to hit this summer and will have the following specs: From our perspective, we already said several weeks ago that iPhone Nano is inevitable for Apple, but we [...]

iPhone at College Reunion

Need something to divert your attention from the bad economy, the bloodshed on Wall Street today, or just your books? See what the iPhone would be like at his college reunion!

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