When you purchase the Motorola Dext (aka Droid) handset from Orange UK, it comes with a PC Suite which is entitled 'Motorola media Link'. When Motorola Media Link offers you the chance to 'Upgrade to Premium', don't. The resulting download is actually an earlier version of the software.
Piggybacking on the announcement that it already has a commercially available Windows 6.5 handset available, China's ZTE emphasized how it ends to make smartphones genuinely affordable.Figures like 22 per cent of all handsets in 2010 being smartphones and raising that to 40 per cent in 2012.
There've always been products which claim ease of conversion from full web (HTML) to mobile (WML & XHTML) but Mat Diss, co-founder with Bemoko, reckons to have cracked it. Developers write in HTML and his software does the rest.
Surely I'm not that unusual in having more than 200 entries in my handset's phonebook? So why was it so difficult to transfer my numbers from a Nokia to the Samsung S8000/Jet?
Rating: Critical review of an iconic handset - Part I
Rather reviewing Samsung's S8000 from the Press release, I've actually been putting the handset through its paces. Some interesting discoveries have resulted – including the fact that the GPS facility appears to be disabled in the UK version.
It's no secret that mobile operators has little idea what apps their mobile data networks are actually carrying. Alcatel-Lucent, however, claims its 9900 Wireless Network Guardian (WNG) device discover this in real time.
Rating: Mapping and presence improve
its attraction
Crazy as it may seem, 58 per cent of
respondents to a study commissioned by RIM from Forrester reported
that putting CRM apps onto mobile phones was a key part of their IT
strategy for 2009.
It's a network manager from Hell's (NMFH's) dream come true. Dictate
to your network users via that fashion icon – the Apple iPhone – without having
to return to your desk.
Rating: Forsyth says in a perfect world everybody would be Symbian - sort of
At yesterday's MEX meeting, John
Forsyth - who is on the leadership team with the Symbian Foundation -
maintained that in certain circumstances, the entirety of a handset
vendor's software R&D budget is being wasted on maintaining such
a physically large number of handset models. Yet he still appealed
for handset diversity.
