Submitted by tuxtops on Sat, 02/25/2006 - 17:26
An interview with Rajesh Goyal (an exec at LinuxCertified) describing the Linux laptop and Linux training products provided by LinuxCertified.
Submitted by tuxtops on Fri, 02/24/2006 - 20:27
A Swiss company has published a datasheet for a dual-mode Linux smartphone that also integrates a GPS (global positioning system) receiver, WiFi, and Bluetooth. ImCoSys says its smartphone, a quad-band GSM design with a PDA-like form-factor, will be showcased next month at CeBIT in Hannover, Germany.
Submitted by tuxtops on Thu, 02/23/2006 - 20:21
A lot of today's consumer electronics are equipped with Bluetooth, and on top of the core specification is a set of defined profiles which determine a particular usage model. These profiles are defined within a stack (or a set of drivers). A2DP, AVRCP, HSP, and HFP are four profiles which fit in the context of this review. TuxTops has also reviewed the same product.
Submitted by tuxtops on Thu, 02/23/2006 - 20:20
Rumors of the Sony Ericsson K800i have been circulating for a while, but new photos and a complete specs list were leaked onto a forum yesterday. The handset will be the next gen ahead of the popular K750i and may include a version with UMTS.
Submitted by tuxtops on Thu, 02/23/2006 - 20:19
msmobiles.com was reporting earlier, that HP will release a Pocket PC Phone Edition made by Quanta. While we stated that it will only be an re-pack of the already available XDA Atom from O2 Asia, John Cheong from O2 Asia Pacific wrote this: "We don't offer "me-too" devices, and this is - and remains - our commitment to O2 customers."
Submitted by tuxtops on Thu, 02/23/2006 - 03:22
Cingular and T-Mobile are fighting for Pocket PC phone lovers' business with their respective versions of the HTC Wizard, both released in Feb. 2006. Cingular got a few weeks' jump on T-Mobile, getting a few into consumers' and business users' hands by the second week of February while the T-Mobile version is officially available Feb. 21. What is a Wizard?
Submitted by tuxtops on Thu, 02/23/2006 - 01:02
Quanta/O2 loaned OSNews a unit of their brand new GSM communicator, the O2 XDA Atom. The phone is a GSM 900/1800/1900, GPRS class B, multi-slot class 10, EDGE phone running Windows Mobile 5.1 (the unit arrived loaded with the latest ROM). Dig in for more info about this interesting smartphone, mostly aimed at the Australia/Asian and European markets.
Submitted by tuxtops on Wed, 02/22/2006 - 23:59
Panasonic is shipping a Linux-based mobile handset capable of receiving digital or analog television. The "P901iTV" features a pivoting 2.5-inch color LCD, and works with NTT DoCoMo's 3G network in Japan. Digital TV services will launch in Japan this spring, DoCoMo says.
Submitted by tuxtops on Wed, 02/22/2006 - 23:56
Mobile-Review and PDAExpertos have both published photos of a Haier smartphone running the Access Linux Platform (ALP) recently announced by Access and its subsidiary, PalmSource. The photos were taken earlier this month at the 3GSM Congress in Barcelona.
Submitted by tuxtops on Tue, 02/21/2006 - 19:57
To say that today's smartphones are as powerful as personal computers were a decade ago is quickly becoming cliché, but that doesn't make it any less true. Witness the Cingular 8125: despite being small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, this powerful quad-band phone packs a 200 MHz processor, 64MB of RAM, enough on-board memory to store scores of MP3s, pictures or videos, and a MiniSD slot to add gigabytes of additional storage, as needed.
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