Sure... and they will piss off the telcos that are paying them to use mediaroom... Also, about xbox, operators don't even want their xbox thing... i know that at least 2 operators(one of them is a very very big) who are developing mediaroom apps to act as a client to cloud games platforms(like onlive) Unfortunately, MS doesn't like this, so they are having problems (MS has do add gamepad drivers to their custom wince build used in mediaroom)
Just to add: I payed $500 for my android(the same thing is also true for an iPhone) smartphone upfront... then i pay an average of $10 of calls/SMS plus $7.5 for a mobile internet package... I would be very dumb to subscribe a $2200 plan over two years just to get my phone for free... $2200 is roughly $91 per month, I bet most(like 90%) people don't have the need to spend over $90 per month of mobile communications...
Americansand their shitty mobile market. We (Europeans) buy phones... and we buy mobile communications packages...Two different things... When you say "iPhone is $2200 over 2 years", it sounds very ridiculous to me... if you have plan that costs you $2200 over two years, then or you talk to much on phone to justify that price or you're dumb... Buy a fucking phone... then subscribe to whatever plan that fulfills your mobile communication needs... and not more then that...
"Dual core devices are not new. The HTC Wizard had this in '05. However, the phone had separate cores so the radio could do what it needed to while the OS was able to do what it needed, both cores running at a fairly low clock speed. The device had a pretty amazing battery life though."
That's not dual core... All current smartphones use that... One Application CPU that runs Android/Symbian/iPhoneOS/whatever and another CPU inside the modem that runs the GSM stack on a RTOS... Only very low end phones run the GSM stack on the app processor...
Netflix uses MS PlayReady DRM... Microsoft provides an implementation of a PlayReady client in ANSI C... Android has a NDK to write native apps.... So, what's the problem here?
As usual, TFA doesn't mention Symbian, the world's number #1 smartphone platform anywhere in the world except US...
Not that i'm not saying that Symbian is better than any of those platforms, i'm just saying that Symbian IS(like it or not) the market leader.
Without diving into the specifics, I don't see a problem here. The iPhone was hugely innovative, and there was a lot there that was genuinely new. While in general I'm not a big fan of patents (often the 'innovations' covered are trivial), in this case I think that Apple sort of deserves to profit from their R&D. Clearly, some of the HTC phones are knockoffs.
Well, i see a BIG problem... Apple's cell phone patent portfolio is very small, the only thing they have is some UI/multitouch patents.
On the other hand, companies like Nokia-Siemens, Alcatel-Lucent, Ericcson and Huawei have a huge amount of cellphone patents, if Apple doesn't cross-license its tech, they will be screwed for sure... Also, i bet HTC has more patents than Apple...
The Cellphone doesn't need to know the SS7 gateway(aka pots gateway), that's SIP proxy job...
However you may ask how does the cellphone get the registar and proxy addresses, and the anwser is:or via a field in DHCP or a field in the PDP activation context..
"(...)so basically this announcement means that they are open sourcing their low end crappy OS which has pretty much failed in the smart phone space."
ARE YOU SERIOUS???
Symbian is the leading(not the best, but surely, is the leading) Smartphone OS... Actually, there is more Symbian smartphones in the world that Android+iPhone combined... If you don't believe me, check the numbers... (Worldwide, not only US numbers)
Just because Symbian is not popular in the US, doesn't mean it ist't popular at all... To you guys, US people, the concept of smart phone is new, i know(mainly because of your crappy cell phone market) but in Europe, smartphones is really not a new thing... I had my first Smarphone 6 years ago... A Nokia 7650(Symbian)
It's not technologically possible for a carrier to block non sim-locked phones, there isn't any command on a gsm network to query the simlock status of a phone...
Poor Americans... I don't rely at all on mobile phone provider... If want a certain phone, i simply buy it from whatever store i want and swap the SIM card from my old phone to the new one... Oh... wait... Verizon uses that crap called CDMA... We don't have that in Portugal... However you could just buy a non-verizon CDMA phone, and get Verizon to activate the phone's ESN on you account right?...
I simply don't get why you, Americans, buy providers banded phones with features crippled... When you could buy non-branded phones and swap the sim card(or active the new phones ESN in case of CDMA)
That doesn't mean anything, Symbian will probably die some time in the future, but not Series60(witch is nokia UI ontop of Symbian)
Symbian^4 will move away from that ugly C++ API an will be completely based on QT framework and will break the binary compatibility with previous series60/symbain (http://blog.symbian.org/2009/04/30/reviewing-the-release-plan)
This means that Series60 will be based on QT as well, so they can easily move to a Linux platform if they want... (and break the binay compatibility again in the process, but nokia doesn't have any problem with that, they do it regularly)
Can anyone explain to me why the browsers vendors canÂt simply use the existing codecs in the OS? They could(and should) use Direcshow for Windows, Quicktime for MacOSX and Gstreamer/ffmpeg for Linux?
If WindRiver slowly gets 'nudged' to drop PPC support/updates/new versions of VxWorks and boost x86 support, then that may be enough to get us off the VxWorks teat and on to something more open, like RTEMS.
Why RTEMS? why not use embedded Linux like uclinux, Timesys, Montavista,etc?
I am pretty sure this will be based on that stupid Microsoft iptv middleware named Microsoft Mediaroom(formerly known as Microsoft TV IPTV edition) witch is already ported to Xbox360.
Mediaroom is full of DRM, not based on OpenIPTV Forum standards, doesn't scale well(while it is based on multicast, it uses unicast heavily) and is a real PITA for developers( you have three choices to develop apps on the platform: XHTML/JS/CSS running on Tasman rendering engine, with was the renderer used in IE for Mac witch is real slow and very limited, you can also use a stupid XML declarative language(called Mediaroom Presentation Foundation) and RDP on a remote terminal server (yes, remote desktop)!
With better choices in middlewares, i just don't know how operators keep choosing this piece of crap middleware
yupe, thats right:) and all native UMTS SIMs do not use COM128v1, networks still support old GSM auth algorithm(using standard 2G GSM SIMs), but when they force UMTS authentication algorithms, and they swap all 2G SIMs for 3G ones, goodbye sim cloning...
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Windows Phone 7 is an awesome product? If had to choose between WP7 and Windows Mobile, i'd choose Windows Mobile...
Sure... and they will piss off the telcos that are paying them to use mediaroom... Also, about xbox, operators don't even want their xbox thing... i know that at least 2 operators(one of them is a very very big) who are developing mediaroom apps to act as a client to cloud games platforms(like onlive) Unfortunately, MS doesn't like this, so they are having problems (MS has do add gamepad drivers to their custom wince build used in mediaroom)
Just to add: I payed $500 for my android(the same thing is also true for an iPhone) smartphone upfront... then i pay an average of $10 of calls/SMS plus $7.5 for a mobile internet package... I would be very dumb to subscribe a $2200 plan over two years just to get my phone for free... $2200 is roughly $91 per month, I bet most(like 90%) people don't have the need to spend over $90 per month of mobile communications...
Americansand their shitty mobile market. We (Europeans) buy phones... and we buy mobile communications packages...Two different things... When you say "iPhone is $2200 over 2 years", it sounds very ridiculous to me... if you have plan that costs you $2200 over two years, then or you talk to much on phone to justify that price or you're dumb... Buy a fucking phone... then subscribe to whatever plan that fulfills your mobile communication needs... and not more then that...
"Dual core devices are not new. The HTC Wizard had this in '05. However, the phone had separate cores so the radio could do what it needed to while the OS was able to do what it needed, both cores running at a fairly low clock speed. The device had a pretty amazing battery life though."
That's not dual core... All current smartphones use that... One Application CPU that runs Android/Symbian/iPhoneOS/whatever and another CPU inside the modem that runs the GSM stack on a RTOS... Only very low end phones run the GSM stack on the app processor...
Netflix uses MS PlayReady DRM... Microsoft provides an implementation of a PlayReady client in ANSI C... Android has a NDK to write native apps.... So, what's the problem here?
As usual, TFA doesn't mention Symbian, the world's number #1 smartphone platform anywhere in the world except US... Not that i'm not saying that Symbian is better than any of those platforms, i'm just saying that Symbian IS(like it or not) the market leader.
Without diving into the specifics, I don't see a problem here. The iPhone was hugely innovative, and there was a lot there that was genuinely new. While in general I'm not a big fan of patents (often the 'innovations' covered are trivial), in this case I think that Apple sort of deserves to profit from their R&D. Clearly, some of the HTC phones are knockoffs.
Well, i see a BIG problem... Apple's cell phone patent portfolio is very small, the only thing they have is some UI/multitouch patents. On the other hand, companies like Nokia-Siemens, Alcatel-Lucent, Ericcson and Huawei have a huge amount of cellphone patents, if Apple doesn't cross-license its tech, they will be screwed for sure... Also, i bet HTC has more patents than Apple...
The Cellphone doesn't need to know the SS7 gateway(aka pots gateway), that's SIP proxy job... However you may ask how does the cellphone get the registar and proxy addresses, and the anwser is:or via a field in DHCP or a field in the PDP activation context..
"(...)so basically this announcement means that they are open sourcing their low end crappy OS which has pretty much failed in the smart phone space." ARE YOU SERIOUS??? Symbian is the leading(not the best, but surely, is the leading) Smartphone OS... Actually, there is more Symbian smartphones in the world that Android+iPhone combined... If you don't believe me, check the numbers... (Worldwide, not only US numbers) Just because Symbian is not popular in the US, doesn't mean it ist't popular at all... To you guys, US people, the concept of smart phone is new, i know(mainly because of your crappy cell phone market) but in Europe, smartphones is really not a new thing... I had my first Smarphone 6 years ago... A Nokia 7650(Symbian)
I don't think so... H.323 is obsolete... SIP is the way to go... Asterisk and/or Freeswitch FTW!
Yes, it IS... Xvid is based on MPEG-4 part2 which IS a proprietary and patented format...
Isn't Mac Minis and all current MacBooks based on Nvidia's ION???
you can use any GSM 3G phone on any GSM 3G network, provided the phone supports the frequencies for the country
Really, it's provided the phone supports the frequencies for the country *and* the provider's network.
FALSE!!! The phone doesn't have to explicitly support the provider's network... Just have to support the frequency used by the provider...
It's not technologically possible for a carrier to block non sim-locked phones, there isn't any command on a gsm network to query the simlock status of a phone...
/me goes to send Nokia some feedback asking them to support 3G CDMA.
Why should they support 3G CDMA??? It's a crappy and outdated technology that will die soon(4G/LTE will not work on CDMA, only GSM)
WCDMA IS NOT CDMA.... WCDMA is 3G GSM, 3G CDMA is called CDMA2000
I agree... However you have to agree that CDMA/EV-DO is a inferior technology when compared with UMTS/HSDPA...
Poor Americans... I don't rely at all on mobile phone provider... If want a certain phone, i simply buy it from whatever store i want and swap the SIM card from my old phone to the new one... Oh... wait... Verizon uses that crap called CDMA... We don't have that in Portugal... However you could just buy a non-verizon CDMA phone, and get Verizon to activate the phone's ESN on you account right?... I simply don't get why you, Americans, buy providers banded phones with features crippled... When you could buy non-branded phones and swap the sim card(or active the new phones ESN in case of CDMA)
That doesn't mean anything, Symbian will probably die some time in the future, but not Series60(witch is nokia UI ontop of Symbian) Symbian^4 will move away from that ugly C++ API an will be completely based on QT framework and will break the binary compatibility with previous series60/symbain (http://blog.symbian.org/2009/04/30/reviewing-the-release-plan) This means that Series60 will be based on QT as well, so they can easily move to a Linux platform if they want... (and break the binay compatibility again in the process, but nokia doesn't have any problem with that, they do it regularly)
We use Teletext Subtitles
Can anyone explain to me why the browsers vendors canÂt simply use the existing codecs in the OS? They could(and should) use Direcshow for Windows, Quicktime for MacOSX and Gstreamer/ffmpeg for Linux?
If WindRiver slowly gets 'nudged' to drop PPC support/updates/new versions of VxWorks and boost x86 support, then that may be enough to get us off the VxWorks teat and on to something more open, like RTEMS.
Why RTEMS? why not use embedded Linux like uclinux, Timesys, Montavista,etc?
I am pretty sure this will be based on that stupid Microsoft iptv middleware named Microsoft Mediaroom(formerly known as Microsoft TV IPTV edition) witch is already ported to Xbox360. Mediaroom is full of DRM, not based on OpenIPTV Forum standards, doesn't scale well(while it is based on multicast, it uses unicast heavily) and is a real PITA for developers( you have three choices to develop apps on the platform: XHTML/JS/CSS running on Tasman rendering engine, with was the renderer used in IE for Mac witch is real slow and very limited, you can also use a stupid XML declarative language(called Mediaroom Presentation Foundation) and RDP on a remote terminal server (yes, remote desktop)! With better choices in middlewares, i just don't know how operators keep choosing this piece of crap middleware
yupe, thats right :) and all native UMTS SIMs do not use COM128v1, networks still support old GSM auth algorithm(using standard 2G GSM SIMs), but when they force UMTS authentication algorithms, and they swap all 2G SIMs for 3G ones, goodbye sim cloning...