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antennagate: if you can’t fix it, feature it!
Sunday, July 18th, 2010iphone 4 – this changes everything. again
Monday, June 7th, 2010steve jobs just announced the brand new iphone 4, available on june 24, 2010.
find all the details at gizmodo, or the official apple page. pre-order starts june 15, 2010.
nokia n97 launched at nokia world 2008
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008i have been a nokia fan since i got my first mobile phone, the nokia 8110 which became popular as the matrix phone. since then i went through probably 10 other nokia phones until i switched to the iphone, then iphone 3g and android g1 and nokia wasn’t catching up, until last night. nokia just launched the n97 at nokia world 2008 in barcelona.
a very slick and beautiful full touchscreen plus slide-out qwerty keyboard ‘internet phone’.
“the world’s most advanced mobile computer, which will transform the way people connect to the internet and to each other. the nokia n97 introduces the concept of ‘social location’. with integrated a-gps sensors and an electronic compass, the nokia n97 mobile computer intuitively understands where it is. the nokia n97 makes it easy to update social networks automatically with real-time information, giving approved friends the ability to update their ‘status’ and share their ‘social location’ as well as related pictures or videos.”
the symbian s60 os based n97 will be released next year with 32GB of memory at an estimated €550. i like the phone but won’t buy it at this price and i hope that ‘social location’ equals recently acquired location based service plazes.
google android phone launched – t-mobile htc g1
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008this morning google and t-mobile launched the first android-powered handset manufactured by htc. this largely anticipated device comes with a big touchscreen and a slide-open full keyboard. it’s a 3g phone, wifi enabled, built-in gps, drm-free amazon mp3 music store, android market app store, 1gb storage, copy and paste and a chrome-lite browser. it will be available october 22, 2008 at $179.
i had the chance to play around with it for a while and i have to say it is better than i expected. the touchscreen functionality competes with the apple iphone, design and look and feel are pretty good (despite what i expected from google), the htc device itself is bulkier, thicker and heavier than the iphone but still competes in a market where blackberry’s and sidekicks are popular devices. there are already tons of fun and helpful applications available and based on it’s open google android platform i’m sure there is way more to come. congrats to t-mobile and google, great move.
for more information check out walt mossberg’s first impressions or simply techmeme.
new apple iphone 3g and mobileme
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008this morning steve jobs held his keynote address at the worldwide developers conference in san francisco’s moscone west unveiling the new apple iphone 3g to be available on july 11th 2008 at $199 (with a two-year at&t contract of course).
“apple iphone 3g – twice as fast. half the price.”
some of the new features are: 3g broadband wireless connectivity, built-in gps and a couple of great location-based services like loopt, contact search, full iwork document support, microsoft powerpoint support, bulk delete and move, saving email image attachments, scientific calculator, parental controls (mainly for youtube/itunes), many more languages supported (on the fly switching), plastic back and thinner edges, the new apple appstore and many more. the new iphone 3g is now also more enterprise-ready by supporting microsoft exchange activesync – push email, calendar and contacts – “the power of a laptop into the size of a smartphone” – more … but i’m actually most excited about mobileme, which is “exchange for the rest of us”.
i’m already a sync fanatic, all my phones (including my iphone), my two laptops (mac and pc) and my desktop at home are synced with each other and with multiple online address books through plaxo, but so far it only syncs my contacts, calendar and notes. mobileme takes this two steps further.
“access and manage your email, contacts, calendar, photos, and files at me.com. All with amazing applications that are so feature-rich and easy to use, you may end up preferring them to your regular desktop applications.”
this is not only an even nicer, more structured and more instant contacts, calendar and notes sync, i can even access my picture gallery and idisk from wherever i am, either through my iphone, my macbook pro (pc’s are supported too) and any web-browser through a feature-rich desktop-application-like web interface at me.com. changes on your iphone for instance will will take immediate effect on your computer, you can access the same files, folders, pictures wherever you are.
i love it, i’ll get the new iphone 3g on july 11th and you can watch the whole keynote here.
apple wwdc 2008 steve jobs keynote live
Monday, June 9th, 2008i’m following the live wwdc 2008 steve jobs keynote updates via macworld right now and reading
“iphone 2.0 software has three parts to it: enterprise support, the sdk, and some new end-user features. ‘let me start with the enterprise. customers have demanded microsoft exchange, so they’ve built it in out of the box for 2.0 software: push email, push contacts, push calendar, auto-discovery of exchange severes, global address lookup, and remote wipe security feature. all built in to iphone 2.0 software. they’ve added secure vpn services from cisco and other network service demanded by the enterprise market. everything that apple was told enterprise users want, they’ve built in.”
reminded me of a conversation which i had with my brother in law regarding the enterprise capabilities of the iphone and that at that point it wasn’t quite ready for enterprises’ security and exchange requirements. in a later interview with business week’s olga kharif i have been quoted
“if things like this are available, companies will give employees a choice of an iphone vs. the blackberry,” says frederik hermann, director of global marketing at jajah.
so i guess now enterprises will seriously consider to replace the old rubbish blackberries against apple iphones 
read on the live notes at macworld.com
ziphone – unlock and activate your apple iphone
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008i actually bought the apple iphone the day it came out and signed up regularly for the two year contract during the activation through itunes. but now i had a couple of friends from europe visiting who bought an iphone over here (in the us) and of course wanted to use it with their sim cards from germany, austria or uk. i still thought it’s quite a hassle to unlock, jailbreak and activate your apple iphone, but no! that’s the reason why i quickly wanted to share ziphone with you. a super slick and simple tool you download and install on your mac or windows computer, you press one button and three minutes later you can enjoy your fully functional, activated and free apple iphone – no contract, you can use any sim card anywhere in the world and everything including updates and syncing via itunes works perfectly.
“ziphone – iphone unlock tool by zibri. no computer knowledge required. enables you to activate your iphone on any network. you don’t need to provide any information to att. there is no need to soldering/opening your iphone. you can use it on as many iphones you want, it works with any iphone, any provider and any sim card in the whole world! actually you only need an iphone and a computer (windows/mac).”
you’ll find the tool and more information at download.ziphone.org / www.ziphone.org
