Igor Delovski Board

[Ike]

Greenphone - First fully programmable Linux phone

"Trolltech is the company that brought developers the Linux-based
mobile application platform Qtopia. In August it also used the LinuxWorld
conference to announce the Greenphone, which is thought to be the first
fully reprogrammable Linux phone."

[Ike]

Apple's video iPod pricing catches Microsoft by surprise


"Interestingly, Microsoft also hinted that it is working on a Zune cell
phone (no timing announced)," Wu added. "We are not surprised by this
as we believe that all PC vendors will likely participate in the cell phone
space over time due to ongoing convergence in computer and
communications technology."

[XNote]

The article : Amazing X-Ray Glasses from Sprint!

"The phones they send us are so lame there is literally no area you can
go into without being disappointed and shocked at just how shoddy
everything is and how much it costs and what a rip off scam they’re trying
to run here with the music that costs too much and the movies that you
don’t want to watch on the screen that makes them unwatchable and you
just KNOW that if you call to cancel the extra $7/month, their customer
service department is going to give you the phone menu runaround and
then put you on hold for an hour and then you’ll get some cancellation
specialist with an incomprehensible accent who will spend 15 minutes
trying to talk you out of canceling the useless service until you just give
up and let them have the goddamned $7 a month."

The Response: Joel on Phones

"The thing I didn't like about the post is the way he beats around the
bush. Did you like the phone or not Joel?"

[Ike]

Slashdot: Linux: Linux Cell Phones Coming Q1 2007

"Prepare to salivate. D-Link has announced plans to put an unlocked
Linux phone on the market in early 2007. Some features: Dual-mode WiFi
and GSM/GPRS. Up to 24 MB of memory for user file storage, such as
music and videos. 2-inch, 176 x 220-pixel color display. Opera browser.
Email client. 3.4 ounces (95 grams). Tri-band (900/1800/1900) GSM
radio — meaning it should work with any GSM-GPRS SIM card, including
pre-paid SIM cards as well as those from traditional GSM service
providers. Will it really be this easy to wean myself from the Microsoft
mobile teat?"

The phone is expected to list for $600.

[XNote]

Digg: A peek at Windows Mobile 6.0

"With the announcement that the release of the new version of Windows CE
had slipped into some time in the first half of 2007 (with its Windows Mobile
variant to follow a few months later), most mobile Windows enthusiasts had
resigned themselves to sticking with Version 5."

[Ike]

Usenet: GetTextExtentPoint32

"On a Pocket PC the font of a dialog box's DC doesn't match the font of the
dialog box until I set it, therefore I set it, OK. If I don't set it then
GetTextExtentPoint32 yields wrong results. On a Smartphone if I do the same
thing and set the DC's font then GetTextExtentPoint32 yields wrong results."

[delovski]

Pocket PC/SmartPhone & Palm Cross platform API

"I'm looking for a cross platform API for PDAs: Pocket PC / SmartPhone & Palm Cross."

[Ike]

Smart mobile device market growth remains steady at 55%

"The latest research from Canalys highlights the continuing shift from handhelds
to converged devices. Overall year-on-year market growth of all smart mobile
devices was largely unchanged from the previous two quarters at 55%, but
converged device shipments (smart phones and wireless handhelds) rose 73%,
while handhelds continued to slide, down 33% compared to the same period
one year ago."

[delovski]

Digg: iPhone will sport mini OS X?

"Apple would be very silly indeed not to have been developing a mini
OS X along side the main OS transition to Intel... If the rumors are
true about the iPhone, I believe it's going to shake up the handset
market in the same way that the iPod did, i.e. easy to use interface,
friendly navigation, seamless syncing, and beautiful hardware design.
Nokia, Sony, Moto and Samsung had better watch out... "

[delovski]

Slashdot: Apple's Smart Phone Depends on OS X Tie-Ins

"According to AppleInsider, Apple is not only working on a cellphone + mp3
player iPhone, but is working on a second model designed to be a smart
phone, highly integrated with Mac OS and .Mac. The smart phone has gone
through several iterations, as the notoriously demanding Mr. Jobs ordered
the elite team working on the phone to redesign and re-engineer their prototypes.

Capabilities are reported to include Front Row interface, syncing contacts
and iCal with .Mac, "call ahead", iChat video conferencing integration, WiFi,
and a slide-out keyboard. Too good to be true?"

[delovski]

Slashdot: Mac OS X May Go Embedded?

"Apple Insider is reporting that Apple may very well be developing an
embedded version of OSX. The report details what they believe will be the
next step in Apple's future, which is extending its consumer electronics
division. The first child of such a marriage between OSX and consumer
electronic may be the oft-rumoured, not-yet-materialized iPhone — which it
also asserts may well be released next fiscal quarter. It seems to be their
opinion that with both the desktop and the phone running operating systems
with similar underpinnings, 'expansive opportunities' would emerge."

[delovski]

RC: How to get your laptop to resume from standby in under two seconds

"One of my colleagues recently posted the story of the work he did to get
laptops to resume quickly. The fun part was implementing the optimizations
in the kernel. The not-fun part was finding all the drivers who did bad things
and harassing their owners into fixing the bugs. "

[delovski]

nytimes - Big Money in Little Screens

"Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have all trained their sights on cellphones,
which they see as the next great battleground in the Internet search wars."

[XNote]

Slashdot: First Sight of Google Android

"At the Mobile World Congress show, four mobile processor vendors demoed
pre-production devices running versions of Google's Android OS — a Linux-
based, open operating system for mobile phones that will sport Google
applications. The biggest surprise of the demos was how well Android runs
on slow devices.

'TI showed Android on a Motorola Q-like QWERTY handheld with its 200 Mhz
OMAP 850 platform, where the user interface felt smooth and fast, even
with little Apple-like animated transitions between screens.' HTC, Motorola,
LG, and Samsung all belong to Google's Open Handset Alliance."

[delovski]

Introducing Ubuntu Mobile - full Internet, no compromise

"Ubuntu Mobile is an Ubuntu edition that targets an exciting new class of
computers called Mobile Internet Devices.

Ubuntu Mobile, based on the world's most popular Linux distribution, and
MID hardware from OEMs and ODMs, are redefining what can be done in
mobile computing."

[delovski]

JoS: Windows Mobile: Active newsgroups?

"For those of you doing Windows Mobile development, what newsgroups or
other discussion forms do you use?"

[Ike]

Marc Palmer - How Android is just going to be J2ME hell all over again

"I’m lucky to be out of mobile phone development now. I spent about 2
years coding J2ME games for a wide range of handsets and as anybody
who has done it knows, its really shitty. This is because J2ME has stan-
dard APIs, but implementations vary in quality, nuance and in some ca-
ses downright fail to meet spec."

[Ike]

reddit - Google "Not Happy" With Number Of Android App Purchases

"Force the people that work on this crap to use it for 3 months and they'll
get the idea. Make them use a variety of handsets (Some low end, some
with limited memory and some top end)."

[Ike]

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