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I have just looked at Apple's presentation of the iPad and am genuinely surprised, and disappointed by Apple's new "revolutionary" and "awesome" product. It reminds me of Palm's Foleo in more than one way. more »

The Palm Pre was released over 6 months ago now, yet Palm still doesn't sell unlocked Pres on their website. Instead, their only goal seem to be to hook up and sell their phones with only one carrier, and ignore the rest of the potential market (read: "the rest of the planet"). more »

Those of you who have read some of my other posts probably know at this point that I am not very impressed by the iPhone in its current incarnation. But what would it take for me to actually consider buying an iPhone? more »

During my trip to Madrid, Spain, I had the chance to play around with the Palm Pre for a while (yes, I try out phones even on my vacation if given the opportunity!), and here are some of the impressions I was left with. more »

As many of you probably know, Nokia released a firmware update for the E72 this week, going from version 21.013 to 22.007. more »

Today a number of upcoming HTC devices were leaked, both Android and Windows Mobile. These are presumably all the phones that will be released by HTC by the summer of 2010. I have read several comments where people criticize this new WM lineup, stating that they are too low-end and uninspiring; judging by some of the comments, some seem to have expected the successor to the HD2 already. I beg to differ. more »

I now own an E72. In most regards it is a great device, but I have discovered a few problems with the the current version of the firmware, some of them quite serious. more »

I also had the opportunity to try the HTC HD2 the other day.I don't think there is any need to provide any details about it, as there are plenty of excellent online reviews of it available. more »

As I mentioned in my previous post I am interested in the new Nokia E72.Well yesterday I had the chance to play around with it for a good 20-25 min, and here are my first impressions.On the plus side: + Form factor: the size is ideal, and quite… more »

OK, picture this. You are at the office. You leave your desk for a minute and have left your S60 powered Symbian smartphone on the desk. At that moment an alarm/notification goes off, it can be your alarm-app or your calendar, it doesn't matter which. Now tell me what's wrong with that picture?… more »

During the end of Palm OS's Garnet's existence, it was [rightfully] criticized for not being able to run several applications at the same time. Of course it was not as if Palm did not want to add application multitasking to its phones/PDAs, it was simply… more »

These are the 5 apps I always install on my WM devices, and without which my phone simply is not complete:   more »

The advances in the last 10 years of handheld computing have been quite staggering. We have gone from, in the case of the Palm Vx which was the device at the turn of the last century, a black and white 160x160px screen, a 20 Mhz processor and 8 MB of memory, to 480x800px color screens, 1 Ghz processors and up to 32 GB(!) of internal memory. more »

I don't get BlackBerry.OK, I do.Well sort of.The killer feature of BlackBerry is obviously push email. That goes without saying. And as such it is of great utility for professional use (where "professional" = "for use in a working environment"). So for people whose lives revolve around real-time email, BlackBerry is an "option" (as opposed to "solution").So far so good. more »

The speed at which Android is advancing their OS is amazing. Compare that with WM. more »

I have always stated that the majority of iPhone users are people who have previously used a feature phone, hence the huge wow-factor among its users. That is not to say that the iPhone has not contributed some things to the smartphone arena, among w… more »

Android is like one of those prodegy kids (or in Google's case, adolescents) that can play the piano at the age of 5: as impressive as they play you know they are not at a professional level just yet but that it is only a matter of time until they get th… more »

Symbian is the OS that arguably generates the least buzz these days (WM 6.5 certainly hasn't received rave reviews, but at least it gets *some* reviews). Ever since they decided to go open source under the Symbian Foundation very little has materialized… more »

I remember when Palm presented the Pre back in Jan '08. The impression it left was thoroughly positive, which was probably a combination of the long wait for the replacement to PalmOS (and the little hope that was left at that point regarding Palm's futu… more »