I’m talking about the Sony Ericsson P700i and Palm Treo 755p of course. The new Treo is CDMA so us GSM fans can forget seeing it ever. The p700i looks like to be a successor to the M600i so that’s good news.
Update: Here’s another one, this time from LG sporting a Symbian OS.
The Definitive Guide to Stability and Speed @ IntoMobile. I don’t know if it’s indeed the definitive guide or not but since my 6965 can slow down quite drastically sometimes, I guess this is worth sharing.
Update: I recommend tMan as a taskmanager because it’s theme aware and offers a soft-reset function (priceless on a WinMob device ;)). More taskmanagers here.
Speaking of mobile phone stability, it’s nice to hear that the P990i finally comes of age.
MMU’s findings shows the state of broadband in Malaysia is ‘quite bad’ (lol, that’s putting it quite lightly - utterly horrendous is more like it). Can anyone be surprised? Really. Consider these:
3. and 4. means that TM can always under perform and provide sub-par services (and they do) because ultimately the government will swoop in for a rescue and there’s no other choice for us consumers. My 2 sen.
Here’s another piece of news that should make PC builders happy - Samsung builds a better, smaller 4GB DIMM. OK, so you might not necessarily be able to afford one, but this will most certainly lower the price of 1GB and 2GB DIMMs.
Sidenote: Samsung’s move of using better chip packaging similar with what KingMAX has been doing with its TinyBGA chips. Copying is the highest form of praise they say.
Yahoo News just unveiled that RIM has just announced a piece of software that allows BB emulation. That’s right, make your WM device a CrackBerry. Not just adding BlackBerry Connect but the whole 9 yards; check this out:
The application replaces the Windows layout and icons on the display with the look of the BlackBerry interface, customized to the specific buttons and screen size of that device. A non-BlackBerry device would then be able to connect with BlackBerry servers for e-mail, calendar, address book and other applications written for the platform by RIM and third-party developers.
A user would be able to toggle back and forth between the two platforms if they want, for example, to use the Windows Media Player to listen to music.
Also, news has it that more platforms will be supported. Why is this relevant to Palm? Well because a lot of people are saying that this is exactly what is being brewed in a secret lab somewhere. It’s a shame that a 3rd party developer actually came up with a Palm OS 5 aka Garnet emulator for WM5 instead of Palm themselves. I’m guessing that the actual OS developers would be the most ideal team to develop an emulator.
Software Everywhere has yet again attempted to predict Palm’s direction. Why should any Palm enthusiast care? Well because the last 3 turned out to be pretty accurate. But anyway, even it he’s wrong, it’s still an interesting read. And judging from the general direction of some other company’s announcement, moving general computing to the web seems like a good idea. In fact, Palm had a working implementation before - remember Palm.net and PQA apps? I do. I never used any but I remember the idea. Palms were pretty disconnected then so that’s probably why it didn’t take off - take up was paltry at best (I don’t have numbers though). With the Treos literally being connected all the time, now seems like a good time to revive that. With a recent announcement that Palm is tying up with Opera and Opera already has widgets available, might Palm be working on top of this platform? The general idea is that widgets provide fancy UI to display and take input from the user, but all heavy weight processing is done on the server.