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HTC HD mini Overview and unboxing Tweet
Sunday, April 11, 2010
The HD mini is powered by Windows Mobile and has a 600Mhz CPU, microSD, WiFi, 5 megapixel camera (with auto-focus), 3.5mm audio port, G-sensor, proximity sensor, ambient light sensor, FM radio, GPS and much more. Here's the unboxing.
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Nokia C3 is the FCC, the QWERTY? (Secret) Tweet
Nokia plans to further increase the number of new Cseries. At first sight it might seem to be oo in January leaked Nokia Symbian QWERTY keyboard and camera pětimegapixelovým. According to available information, but should dispose of C3 Nokia Series 40 user interface and play against a lower designation than Nokia C5. Now appeared on the U.S. FCC, which is not officially confirmed the existence, but also brings some new information. Maybe that will have WiFi and a BL-5C battery with a capacity of 1320 mAh. According to the shape can be concluded that the phone will include a QWERTY keyboard, so will the long promised QWERTY Nokia Series 40 environment
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Change in iPhone developer terms puts Flash in crosshairs Tweet
New rules from Apple exclude "intermediary" development tools -- which just happens to be a key feature in Adobe's forthcoming Flash CS5.
Now that a beta version of iPhone OS 4.0 and the corresponding developer tools have been released to iPhone developers, there's a new developer license agreement to go along with them. John Gruber of Daring Fireball noticed a drastic change to section 3.3.1 of that agreement, which originally forbid the use of private frameworks -- or application programming interfaces (APIs)--and discouraged developers from using documented, public APIs in manner not approved by Apple. Now, it reads as follows.
3.3.1 -- Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by Apple and must not use or call any private APIs. Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine, and only code written in C, C++, and Objective-C may compile and directly link against the Documented APIs (e.g., Applications that link to Documented APIs through an intermediary translation or compatibility layer or tool are prohibited). [emphasis added to highlight new text]
[ InfoWorld's Galen Gruman says that Apple is out to kill Flash. | Neil McAllister explains what to expect from HTML5. | Discover what's new in business applications with InfoWorld's Technology: Applications newsletter and Killer Apps blog. ]
With this change, Apple has amended its agreement so that software approved for the App Store has to be written in one of a select few, Apple-approved programming languages, all of which are supported by its Xcode developer tools.
That seems to put the forthcoming Adobe Flash CS5 square in the crosshairs. Flash CS5's Flash Packager for iPhone promised that developers could write applications in Flash and then build them for use on the iPhone OS.
This wasn't just a feature in Flash CS5, this was the flagship feature -- Adobe's foot in the door to enable its wide stable of customers to create content on an extremely successful platform. It would have helped turn Flash into a cross-platform development environment for iPhone software and other platforms, assuming it's actually capable of producing apps that are as snappy and responsive as Xcode's.
But the new terms of 3.3.1 could have far-reaching complications. Extremely fine performance adjustments that can only be made in low-level assembly language appear to be off limits too. It also means that other languages like C# and Scheme are in jeopardy, and the future of cross-platform environments like Unity look uncertain. (In a statement, Unity Technologies CEO David Helgason said the company has a great relationship with Apple and there was no indication that anything would change in their situation.)
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Now that a beta version of iPhone OS 4.0 and the corresponding developer tools have been released to iPhone developers, there's a new developer license agreement to go along with them. John Gruber of Daring Fireball noticed a drastic change to section 3.3.1 of that agreement, which originally forbid the use of private frameworks -- or application programming interfaces (APIs)--and discouraged developers from using documented, public APIs in manner not approved by Apple. Now, it reads as follows.
3.3.1 -- Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by Apple and must not use or call any private APIs. Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine, and only code written in C, C++, and Objective-C may compile and directly link against the Documented APIs (e.g., Applications that link to Documented APIs through an intermediary translation or compatibility layer or tool are prohibited). [emphasis added to highlight new text]
[ InfoWorld's Galen Gruman says that Apple is out to kill Flash. | Neil McAllister explains what to expect from HTML5. | Discover what's new in business applications with InfoWorld's Technology: Applications newsletter and Killer Apps blog. ]
With this change, Apple has amended its agreement so that software approved for the App Store has to be written in one of a select few, Apple-approved programming languages, all of which are supported by its Xcode developer tools.
That seems to put the forthcoming Adobe Flash CS5 square in the crosshairs. Flash CS5's Flash Packager for iPhone promised that developers could write applications in Flash and then build them for use on the iPhone OS.
This wasn't just a feature in Flash CS5, this was the flagship feature -- Adobe's foot in the door to enable its wide stable of customers to create content on an extremely successful platform. It would have helped turn Flash into a cross-platform development environment for iPhone software and other platforms, assuming it's actually capable of producing apps that are as snappy and responsive as Xcode's.
But the new terms of 3.3.1 could have far-reaching complications. Extremely fine performance adjustments that can only be made in low-level assembly language appear to be off limits too. It also means that other languages like C# and Scheme are in jeopardy, and the future of cross-platform environments like Unity look uncertain. (In a statement, Unity Technologies CEO David Helgason said the company has a great relationship with Apple and there was no indication that anything would change in their situation.)
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Microsoft Office Mobile 2010 Beta Expiration on April 5th Tweet
Last year we released Microsoft Office Mobile 2010 Beta, a suite of productivity applications for Windows Mobile 6.5 phones, on the Windows Marketplace for Mobile. First and foremost, we want to thank everyone who has tried Office Mobile 2010 Beta and has given us valuable feedback.
The Beta expired on April 5, 2010. We apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused. While the expiration date was mentioned in the product terms of use, we realize that you may have questions and we decided to answer them in today’s blog post.
Does this impact me? If so, how?
If you installed Office Mobile 2010 Beta on your Windows Mobile 6.5 device, then this does impact you. As of April 5th, you are unable to launch the Office Mobile applications on your phone.
How can I resolve this issue?
* If your phone came with Office Mobile 6.1 pre-installed (the previous version), then uninstalling Office Mobile 2010 Beta from your phone should resolve the issue as it will revert your phone to the older version of Office Mobile.
* If your phone did not come with Office Mobile 6.1 pre-installed, then you will first need to uninstall Office Mobile 2010 Beta and then re-install the older version of Office Mobile. For the small number of Windows phones that did not have Office Mobile 6.1 preinstalled, it is available here for purchase.
If I uninstall Office Mobile 2010 Beta, will I lose my documents?
No, uninstalling Office Mobile 2010 Beta will not delete or alter any of the documents you have on your phone or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server.
When will the final version of Office Mobile 2010 be available?
Office Mobile 2010 will be available for download through Windows Marketplace for Mobile at the same time as the Office 2010 suite in June 2010.
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The Beta expired on April 5, 2010. We apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused. While the expiration date was mentioned in the product terms of use, we realize that you may have questions and we decided to answer them in today’s blog post.
Does this impact me? If so, how?
If you installed Office Mobile 2010 Beta on your Windows Mobile 6.5 device, then this does impact you. As of April 5th, you are unable to launch the Office Mobile applications on your phone.
How can I resolve this issue?
* If your phone came with Office Mobile 6.1 pre-installed (the previous version), then uninstalling Office Mobile 2010 Beta from your phone should resolve the issue as it will revert your phone to the older version of Office Mobile.
* If your phone did not come with Office Mobile 6.1 pre-installed, then you will first need to uninstall Office Mobile 2010 Beta and then re-install the older version of Office Mobile. For the small number of Windows phones that did not have Office Mobile 6.1 preinstalled, it is available here for purchase.
If I uninstall Office Mobile 2010 Beta, will I lose my documents?
No, uninstalling Office Mobile 2010 Beta will not delete or alter any of the documents you have on your phone or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server.
When will the final version of Office Mobile 2010 be available?
Office Mobile 2010 will be available for download through Windows Marketplace for Mobile at the same time as the Office 2010 suite in June 2010.
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Apple's iPhone OS 4.0: Afterthoughts Tweet
Reflections on Apple's announcements and secrets, strategy and technology in the wake of the latest iPhone announcement.
Thursday's iPhone OS 4.0 press event brought no earthshaking news -- most of what we learned was either stuff that anyone who was paying attention was already pretty much expecting. After the jump, a few of my initial thoughts.
Apple continues to practice a Benjamin Button approach to operating-system development. iPhone OS got the single most important thing -- its user interface -- right from the start. Subsequent upgrades, including 4.0, have been mostly about adding stuff you'd have assumed would be there from the start-such as multitasking, the ability to organize apps into folders, and file attachments you can open in third-party apps. But when Apple gets around to implementing these features, it tends to get them right. And after spending time with Verizon's more-flexible-but-far-less-polished Droid, I'm not going to mock Apple's unusual strategy. In fact, I wish other companies would imitate it.
We don't know what 4.0 multitasking will do to iPhone battery life. We heard yesterday that Apple's carefully-controlled multitasking options won't kill battery life, but didn't get any benchmark numbers. Of course, the OS is still in beta, and third-party apps haven't been written with multitasking in mind, so useful data may not be available yet.
iPhones (and iPads) don't seem to be getting more autonomous. They're still very dependent on iTunes for syncing, document transfer, and other essential functions -- and you can't even sync over your Wi-Fi network. My biggest disappointment with the 4.0 news so far is that none of it involved giving iPhone OS 4.0 devices more standalone capabilities. I'd like to see backup to the cloud (like Palm's WebOS offers) and the ability to subscribe to podcasts directly from iTunes on the iPhone and iPad, for instance.
Apple hasn't told us everything yet. In fact, Steve Jobs began his presentation by saying that the new OS had a hundred new features, but that he'd only discuss a small percentage of them. Most of the unmentioned ones, presumably, aren't huge -- although tiny changes can sometimes make yapple iphone os 4.0ou a lot more productive. But chances are that there will be a new iPhone this summer, and that it'll have hardware-related improvements that involve software changes that Apple didn't bring up today. (At last year's iPhone OS 3.0 event, we didn't hear about the video-recording capability that debuted in the iPhone 3GS, for instance.) And with the iPad not getting OS 4.0 until the fall, there's a good chance its version will have some particularly iPaddish features that the iPhone doesn't need.
We need a new signature missing feature to grumble about. Until now, if you wanted to knock iPhone OS -- and weren't ranting about Flash -- you probably brought up multitasking. What will we reflexively complain about once 4.0 is out? Maybe the lack of printing.
Apple didn't mention one of 4.0's biggest changes. As John Gruber of Daring Fireball noticed first, the update makes third-party developers agree that they'll write apps using Apple's own programming tools, not ones provided by other companies -- apparently including Adobe's upcoming Packager for iPhone, which converts Flash applications into iPhone programs. If I were a developer, I'd bristle at this. Heck, as a consumer of apps, I bristle at it -- I think smart developers should be allowed to write software using the tools of their choice. But Gruber says that it's not clear it's bad news for iPhone owners, since apps that aren't truly native to a platform from the ground up are rarely as satisfying as ones that are. He's right. In any event, this remains a developing story.
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Thursday's iPhone OS 4.0 press event brought no earthshaking news -- most of what we learned was either stuff that anyone who was paying attention was already pretty much expecting. After the jump, a few of my initial thoughts.
Apple continues to practice a Benjamin Button approach to operating-system development. iPhone OS got the single most important thing -- its user interface -- right from the start. Subsequent upgrades, including 4.0, have been mostly about adding stuff you'd have assumed would be there from the start-such as multitasking, the ability to organize apps into folders, and file attachments you can open in third-party apps. But when Apple gets around to implementing these features, it tends to get them right. And after spending time with Verizon's more-flexible-but-far-less-polished Droid, I'm not going to mock Apple's unusual strategy. In fact, I wish other companies would imitate it.
We don't know what 4.0 multitasking will do to iPhone battery life. We heard yesterday that Apple's carefully-controlled multitasking options won't kill battery life, but didn't get any benchmark numbers. Of course, the OS is still in beta, and third-party apps haven't been written with multitasking in mind, so useful data may not be available yet.
iPhones (and iPads) don't seem to be getting more autonomous. They're still very dependent on iTunes for syncing, document transfer, and other essential functions -- and you can't even sync over your Wi-Fi network. My biggest disappointment with the 4.0 news so far is that none of it involved giving iPhone OS 4.0 devices more standalone capabilities. I'd like to see backup to the cloud (like Palm's WebOS offers) and the ability to subscribe to podcasts directly from iTunes on the iPhone and iPad, for instance.
Apple hasn't told us everything yet. In fact, Steve Jobs began his presentation by saying that the new OS had a hundred new features, but that he'd only discuss a small percentage of them. Most of the unmentioned ones, presumably, aren't huge -- although tiny changes can sometimes make yapple iphone os 4.0ou a lot more productive. But chances are that there will be a new iPhone this summer, and that it'll have hardware-related improvements that involve software changes that Apple didn't bring up today. (At last year's iPhone OS 3.0 event, we didn't hear about the video-recording capability that debuted in the iPhone 3GS, for instance.) And with the iPad not getting OS 4.0 until the fall, there's a good chance its version will have some particularly iPaddish features that the iPhone doesn't need.
We need a new signature missing feature to grumble about. Until now, if you wanted to knock iPhone OS -- and weren't ranting about Flash -- you probably brought up multitasking. What will we reflexively complain about once 4.0 is out? Maybe the lack of printing.
Apple didn't mention one of 4.0's biggest changes. As John Gruber of Daring Fireball noticed first, the update makes third-party developers agree that they'll write apps using Apple's own programming tools, not ones provided by other companies -- apparently including Adobe's upcoming Packager for iPhone, which converts Flash applications into iPhone programs. If I were a developer, I'd bristle at this. Heck, as a consumer of apps, I bristle at it -- I think smart developers should be allowed to write software using the tools of their choice. But Gruber says that it's not clear it's bad news for iPhone owners, since apps that aren't truly native to a platform from the ground up are rarely as satisfying as ones that are. He's right. In any event, this remains a developing story.
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Comparing smartphone operating systems Tweet
The announcement this week of iPhone OS 4.0 marks Apple's latest salvo in the smartphone operating systems war. Indeed, that fight has been been especially heated this year. Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 is a top-to-bottom overhaul of the Windows Mobile OS and Google continues to aggressively roll out updates to Android. Palm hasn't been quite as active recently, but we're not discounting WebOS quite yet.
The following chart, which compares popular features among the latest OS releases from each manufacturer, demonstrates just how competitive the OS battle has become. For example, though we welcome multitasking on iPhone OS 4.0, we can't forget that the features has long been a part of Android and WebOS. With the number of available apps, however, Apple continues to lead the way.
Like we said, it's a brawl for the ages. As each company fired a shot, you can expect its competitors to respond in force. And that's something we love to watch.
Apple iPhone 4.0 Google Android 2.1 Palm WebOS 1.4 Windows Phone 7
Consumer availability This summer Now/td> Now Fourth quarter of this year
Multitasking Yes, but iPhone 3GS only Yes Yes Yes, but limited. Third-party apps will not be allowed to run in the background.
Notifications Yes, but only one at a time Yes, with multiple notifications bar Yes Yes
App folders Yes Yes No Apps arranged in "Hubs"
Tethering Yes, but AT&T has yet to support the feature Possible with third-party apps Yes, but dependent on carrier TBD*
VOIP Yes, with third-party apps Yes, with third-party apps No TBD
Gaming Many gaming apps available. Game Center feature adds new functionality Many gaming apps available Palm publicly released its PDK in March for game development. 3D games are already available. Xbox Live integration
Flash support You're kidding, right? Yes, but depends on handset Yes Yes, but not at launch
Number of titles in App Store iTunes App Store: More than 185,000 Android Market: More than 30,000 Palm App Catalog; More than 2,400 Windows Phone Marketplace; hasn't launched yet
Voice commands Yes Yes No TBD
Mass storage No Yes Yes TBD
Universal search Yes Yes Yes Yes
Music store iTunes Music Store Amazon MP3 Store Amazon MP3 Store Zune
Web browser Safari Android WebKit Internet Explorer
Copy/paste Yes Yes Yes No
Pinch and zoom multitouch Yes Yes Yes Yes
* Microsoft has yet to fully detail the features for Windows Phone 7.
Labels: Android , Apple , Iphone , Microsoft , Palm , Windows Mobile
The following chart, which compares popular features among the latest OS releases from each manufacturer, demonstrates just how competitive the OS battle has become. For example, though we welcome multitasking on iPhone OS 4.0, we can't forget that the features has long been a part of Android and WebOS. With the number of available apps, however, Apple continues to lead the way.
Like we said, it's a brawl for the ages. As each company fired a shot, you can expect its competitors to respond in force. And that's something we love to watch.
Apple iPhone 4.0 Google Android 2.1 Palm WebOS 1.4 Windows Phone 7
Consumer availability This summer Now/td> Now Fourth quarter of this year
Multitasking Yes, but iPhone 3GS only Yes Yes Yes, but limited. Third-party apps will not be allowed to run in the background.
Notifications Yes, but only one at a time Yes, with multiple notifications bar Yes Yes
App folders Yes Yes No Apps arranged in "Hubs"
Tethering Yes, but AT&T has yet to support the feature Possible with third-party apps Yes, but dependent on carrier TBD*
VOIP Yes, with third-party apps Yes, with third-party apps No TBD
Gaming Many gaming apps available. Game Center feature adds new functionality Many gaming apps available Palm publicly released its PDK in March for game development. 3D games are already available. Xbox Live integration
Flash support You're kidding, right? Yes, but depends on handset Yes Yes, but not at launch
Number of titles in App Store iTunes App Store: More than 185,000 Android Market: More than 30,000 Palm App Catalog; More than 2,400 Windows Phone Marketplace; hasn't launched yet
Voice commands Yes Yes No TBD
Mass storage No Yes Yes TBD
Universal search Yes Yes Yes Yes
Music store iTunes Music Store Amazon MP3 Store Amazon MP3 Store Zune
Web browser Safari Android WebKit Internet Explorer
Copy/paste Yes Yes Yes No
Pinch and zoom multitouch Yes Yes Yes Yes
* Microsoft has yet to fully detail the features for Windows Phone 7.
Labels: Android , Apple , Iphone , Microsoft , Palm , Windows Mobile
Google Chrome for Nokia N900 now available for download Tweet
After the firefox now the fastest browser on Earth Google Chrome gets ported to Nokia N900. The Google Chrome aka Chromium is not officialy ported by Google. This version is based on Debian 32 bit release. It works great and the flash content works very well too. The porting is done by Jacekowski. The browser have some small bugs. Hope there will be a more stable version soon. Read after the break for install instructions and download link.
Check out the ACID test results. Download From this link HERE And here are the install instructions from :
* This packages don’t work with app manager – you have to install them using dpkg in console
* Chromium should work with libxss from extras-devel repo or libxss from here
* Note: If you use extras-devel repo version you will have to use some –force when installing chromium )
Installing Through X-terminal in N900:
1. Download both files in the above link to root directory in Nokia N900 then
2. Type root then
3. type cd /home/user/MyDocs/ dpkg -i name-of-the-lib-file.deb
4. dpkg -i name-of-the-chromefile.deb
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Check out the ACID test results. Download From this link HERE And here are the install instructions from :
* This packages don’t work with app manager – you have to install them using dpkg in console
* Chromium should work with libxss from extras-devel repo or libxss from here
* Note: If you use extras-devel repo version you will have to use some –force when installing chromium )
Installing Through X-terminal in N900:
1. Download both files in the above link to root directory in Nokia N900 then
2. Type root then
3. type cd /home/user/MyDocs/ dpkg -i name-of-the-lib-file.deb
4. dpkg -i name-of-the-chromefile.deb
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Open Screen Project Fund winner - That Roach GameI.mp4 Tweet
That Roach Game, by Breakdesign, is a fantastic, Flash-based game that won an Open Screen Project Fund award. Available for all Nokia S60 5th Edition touch devices, it's a phenomenal, easy to pick up and play game, albeit with a slight gross out factor. Get it from the Ovi Store today.
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Labels: Nokia , Videos
iPad vs. iPhone 3GS Speed Tests Tweet
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