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The Garmin Nuviphone G60 is a Linux device, but it does not run Android.

Relevant Engadget article. A quick google search will give you more sources.

Heres an article from engadget that talks about it.
http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/08/20/iphone-3gs-totally-capable-of-1080p-video-playback/
Notice the title is"iPhone 3GS totally capable of 1080p video playback"

http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/03/05/windows-3-1-on-s60-dude-says-why-stop-there-ups-the-ante-with/

http://thisnthat.ej.am/2009/03/09/windows-98-on-symbian-3rd-edition-phones/

Don't have much info, just saw this post on engadget. There's also this one.

Your first link says that RIM will have a Mac version of their BlackBerry Desktop Manager software, and that it can sync with iTunes. IMHO I don't think this really counts as making iTunes from scratch, since the article didn't say RIM now has their own music store/application that syncs with BlackBerries. The second link "confirms" the September release date of the Mac native application.

Don't have much info, just saw this post on engadget. There's also this one.

More important is that Verizon's technology isn't used much outside of the US.

Verizon's current technology isn't used much outside of the U.S., but Verizon is switching to LTE in 2010.

Maybe not, the Sprint AIRAVE femtocell here in the USA requires a GPS lock showing it is within the US before it functions! (Source: this review under "design")

and it would be terribly difficult to cut GPS traces and solder Atmel Attiny26 spamming US based NMEA string .. NOT

I often visit the USA for several weeks at a time.

With this device, I'll simply be able to plug the cell into my broadband in the US and have access as if I was home in the UK, without any worries!

Maybe not, the Sprint AIRAVE femtocell here in the USA requires a GPS lock showing it is within the US before it functions! (Source: this review under "design")

AT&T loses.

AT&T is smoked if Apple allows Verizon or any other LTE carrier to get their hands on the iPhone ahead of AT&T's network rebuild 3 years down the road. AT&T is doing this because Verizon is supposedly getting ready to get iPhones as part of their changeover from CDMA to GSM in 2010 (and thus gain LTE capability) - plus Verizon is *already* testing LTE in a couple of markets.

AT&T's foot dragging with coverage problems, their denial that they need better endpoint bandwidth, etc - its now coming back to bite them in the ass.

AT&T is about a year and a half behind Version in LTE testing for deployment (they are projecting 2011-2012 for LTE at AT&T). So they are stuck with 7.2Mbit HSPA.

Verizon will skip HSPA and go straight to the higher speed LTE in 2010, long before AT&T can get there. And that upgrade comes at about the same time Apple's exclusivity with AT&T dies, what a coincidence. hmmmm.

WHats LTE mean for data rates? Here: 60mbits at less than 100 mW demonstrated December by LG at NTT DOCOMO.

Ericsson already has an operational LTE net in Stockholm that runs 50Mb/s supposedly.

And look at this: 170mbits -- in a moving car!

DO WANT!

The only reason to buy a gadget like this is its simplicity. If you're having to reconfigure it constantly, that kind of defeats the purpose

Also, unlike home routers, this puppy doesn't seem to have an ethernet port. Can the USB port provide a network connection? Otherwise, if something's blocking your WiFi connection, you have no way to reconfigure it!

I was so enthusiastic when I read about android, being open source, free as is speech etc.. But then, the more I read and saw about the actual products the more I was whipped back into line, the coup de grace obviously being the very non-free-as-in-speech decision to sell it only through T-Mobile (and whatever that entails), just like previously the iPhone, (which Android phones where supposed to show how we do things in the "free" world).

So after all this I decided for Nokia's 5800XM (cheaper now), which seems to do it just right. I am not bound to a specific carrier and added to that there was the recent announcement that they'll make the Symbian OS open source. I've installed Python on it (which has a very alive developer community) and now have easy direct access to the Bluetooth functions, phonebook, camera, music player, GPS etc.

Add to that an easily replaceable 1320 mAh battery (very useful especially when excessively using the internal GPS :p), Wifi and a slot for 16GB microSDs... - open source/Python and kick-ass hardware, what more could one want from a phone?

Its a problem with product cycles from design to manufacture to landfill becoming shorter and shorter. I have a 3 year old cell phone designed for kids and the elderly that has been partially submerged in dishwater and salt water, dropped out of a moving vehicle and generally banged around more than any personal electronics I own and I fucking love it. Yeah, the screen is tiny but I have never surfed on a cell phone for the internet and pry never will; because I have never found a reason to. Jobs have tried to give me Blackberries and I have broken or lost all the them and I have clearly explained to them why. My new phone arrives today a G'zone Boulder and I have waited a long time for a phone before I chose this one. With some of my engineer friends changing out phones every 6 months I wonder how long they actually took in selecting that phone, how long other engineers took to design it and how quickly clones of it were being made and shipped all over the world so someone like him could throw it away for another cell phone with 10% more screen size, a sleek new shell and whatever whiz bang feature in another 6 months.

Symbian/WinMobile smart phones have tools to lock the handset remotely or in case of new Kaspersky antivirus/security or other 3rd solutions, you can remotely instruct phone to delete all personal data irrecoverably and lock itself. I am almost sure Blackberry, being an enterprise focused device must have similar option.

Remote wipe is a feature of BlackBerry/BES and Windows Mobile/Exchange. No third-party software is needed, unless your phone isn't connected to a BES/Exchange server. When the phone receives the wipe signal, all data stored on the device will be wiped.

The iPhone has remote wipe, but I don't think it has encryption of any of the content stored on the device.

BlackBerry has content encryption and the latest Windows Mobile (6.1) has encryption for the entire user-writable storage area. The key is stored on the device, encrypted with a password. BlackBerry overwrites the key in RAM when the device is locked (that is, when the device is inactive for a certain amount of time or when it is placed in its holster); since WM's encryption operates at a lower level, the key does stay in memory while the device is powered on. Either way, cutting power to the RAM will erase the decrypted copy of the key. Both support encryption of storage cards as well.

As long as the device is set to automatically lock itself out and there is no way to bypass the lock screen, there's not a whole lot you can do to a fully encrypted WM6.1 device without resorting to a RAM attack or finding a weakness in the implementation. Since the BlackBerry will erase the unencrypted copy of the key when the device is not active, it's secure against searching for the key in RAM, too.

The Dream is said to be in compliance with Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR.

You've probably seen my photo around, but I'm trying to get them removed now.

I have quite a few, many of which have someredundancies, but I just don't want to miss out on information :)

They are also cathegorized:

1.) Games
- www.areagames.de - quite decent german gaming site, especially important for local releases
- www.gametrailers.com - a lot of junk I don't care about, but every now and then very good HD vids
- http://news.filefront.com/ (Gaming Today) - Great gaming Feed
- http://sarcasticgamer.com/wp - Often funny, and good comments on things
- http://www.thelastboss.com/ - Was my favorite, giving lots of Vids and stuff, but it seems to be dead since over a year

2.) General Tech
- http://feeds.computerworld.com/Computerworld/News - A little too ITish at times, but great comments and opinions
- http://www.dailytech.com/ - Most of the time the right amout of ITism, but few opinions and trivia
- http://www.chip.de/rss/rss_tests.xml - A lot of reviews on different produkts
- http://slashdot.org/ - Could be more ITish at times, but good general articles make up for that

3.) Handy Stuff (in German mobile = handy, so this is a wordplay)
- http://www.areamobile.de/ - Not so good on the hardware part, but great for knowing releases and new contracts in Germany
- http://feeds.computerworld.com/Computerworld/Handhelds/News - Again good comments and opinions
- http://www.engadgetmobile.com/ - Very good for hardware and some trivia
- http://news.google.com/news?q=i-mate+7150&output=rss - Was looking forward to that device is it looks dead to me...
- http://www.slashphone.com/ - Kind of redundant with Engadget mobile, might get the axe, but still a good feed.

4.) Hardware
- http://www.anythingbutipod.com/ - Good MP3-Player feed, updated seldomely, but is still good
- http://aqua-computer.de/newsfeed_de.rss - A RSS feed of a watercooling company
- http://www.notebookcheck.com/ - Good reviews on new models, updated infrequently
- http://www.notebookjournal.de/rss/notebookjournal_news_feed.xml - Notebook news, updated infrequently
- http://www.notebookjournal.de/rss/notebookjournal_tests_feed.xml - Notebook reviews, very good, updated infrequently
- http://www.notebookreview.com/ - Great page for getting first looks on the new or upcoming top notebooks
- http://www.themp3players.com/ - Also on MP3 player, updated very seldomely
- http://www.hardwarezone.com/ - Good on general hardware (graphics cards and stuff)

5.) Science
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/sci/tech/default.stm - Good articles but sometimes too much on legislation and stuff
- http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/Science.xml - Also great with some good long interesting articles
- http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/ - A very good quick view on what has been discovered or researched

6.) Stuff
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Symbian 65%
Windows Mobile 12%
RIM BlackBerry 11%
IPhone 7%
Linux 5%

Engadget Mobile is a blog about cell phones that uses pink in their title (this is their normal logo). It could, in theory, be confusing to some people looking for T-Mobile. Which is apparently a big enough "could be" for Deutsche Telekom (T-Mo's parent company) and their lawyers.

The engadget people are dissembling. If you look at http://www.engadgetmobile.com/ the logo, in addition to being magenta, looks like this:

engadgeT--mobile

I think they might have a problem.

LOL. Who'd've thunk it actually had a meaning... ...back on topic, somewhat, I notice this article, about an 80GB iPhone... :

http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/06/26/80gb-ipho ne/ :D

Forgetting GPS? The original image lied about the N95's WiFi capabilities.

Even though a two year agreement is required with AT&T in the US, the iPhone is not subsidized, meaning that is the real price.

And you're correct: the only feature loss would be "visual voicemail", but "normal" voicemail functionality and all other phone features, as applicable, should absolutely work.

...or, they don't need to.

And before anyone says that we "don't know" whether the iPhone has a user-accessible SIM tray, yes, we do.

And yes, iPhone will work on any GSM carrier; that's the whole purpose of standards like GSM, and iPhone is a GSM phone. Network-specific functionality (such as visual voicemail) will not work, but the phone and basic voicemail functionality, data functionality, etc., will absolutely work.

When Apple is ready to launch iPhone in Europe - it has previously said Q4 2007 - I have no doubt they'll be launching it, whether it's with one partner or multiple, or Apple makes some compromises to make a deal happen.

I also take issue with the article's claim, regurgitated in the summary, that selling iPhone without a simlock is "not an option" in the US. Several phone manufacturers

And before anyone says that the iPhone is subsidized, therefore it must be a million dollars without a contract, you're wrong. Even though a two year contract with AT&T is required for iPhone in the US, the iPhone is not subsidized - the price is what it is.

And mobile operators calling Apple arrogant? How amusing. Also, I have another idea: how about people stop predicting the doom of the iPhone before it's even out yet?

News of this device hit the net in December 06 complete with plans of the touch screen technology, while the iPhone was announced in January 07.

In theory this isn't even a ripoff/response to the iPhone but a natural progression of the HTC design of Windows Mobile PDAs that accompanies the release of WinMobile6.

If you don't believe me: http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/29/meet-your -shiny-new-2007-htcs/

When, exactly is it coming out? And where can I read about it? My girlfriend is getting ready to buy a new phone...

I don't know many details... "Many markets" in July, QVGA, up to 2GB MicroSD (earlier models go up to 1GB) and 500MHz, 2mm slimmer, that's all I really know.

• Motorola RAZR 2 hands-on
• Motorola Sharpens Its Razr

Try google, buddy. :)

Verizon is advertising a package that combats this as well... I didn't find their commercial on youtube, but it's the one with the mom being able to quit her second job because they can now afford texting, pix, and flix... whatever the latter two are.

When price is a concern look to knockoffs

I'm with you on the buttons and I like phones that have replaceable batteries. These uber converged devices also come with another worry - theft or damage of a single device will mean losing a lot more of your data. A lot of my friends have ended up with busted iPods and had to restore their music from their HDD - however if your iPod is also your camera and you have a bunch of photos that aren't backed up yet then those are just gone. Companies are really going to have to work on improving failure rates before these can replace multiple devices.

If they are inclined to do so (and given the hype around the iPhone), the established phone developers can come up with something very similar and have it out earlier and at a lower cost. Nokia's Aeon concept looks like a promising candidate to build on as does the Siemens-Benq's Black Box concept. In addition, IIRC the Aeon prototype was fuel cell powered.

At least from a European and especially Japanese perspective the iPhone is already severely outdated. No 3G, no GPS etc? It's a beautiful phone, but the eye candy can be imitated and cloned and used in a better phone. Assuming that the other phone companies are complete nitwits they can easily create a more attractive package and get it out earlier and cheaper.

Can you point me to some of the phones with those features, specifically a phone with an interface even close to what the iPhone has?

Even close? Sure, I'd be delighted:

http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/01/11/iphone-an d-lg-ke850-separated-at-birth/

The url alone says it all - there's hardly even any need to click it. I think my point (although clearly not one grasped by the aforementioned fanboys who modded me a troll) is that it just beggars belief that someone can stand in front of an audience (albeit comprised of similar Apple worshipping fanatics) and claim that what their company is delivering is 5 years ahead of the competition without being laughed off the stage.

I own a Mac Pro and an iPod. Apple make some sweet products. But this phone is the greatest example of style over substance that they've produced yet.

Sweet Motorola Ming.

It Can do a lot of what the iPhone can do, comes with a cooler translucent clamshell case, 2MP camera, FM radio, Music, and more...

And Yes - It Runs Linux.

I have not seen any mention of the fact that this is a rebadged WNC GW1 and that you can already import it as the Qtopia twin for around $250 unlocked.