I’ve had my fair share of cell phones over the years and it’s always fun to compare new devices with old units. Design and functionality are always changing. New devices are considerably smaller than just a year earlier. Well, here’s a pretty cool site that covers off some of the more popular and unusual mobile [...]
Daylight Savings Time – How Did Your Devices Do?
Today we entered into Daylight Savings Time by moving our clocks forward by 1 hour. As a result, today is only 23 hours long and it’s a little brighter out for a littler longer. If you haven’t switching your clocks at this point, I strongly recommend you do it now before you’re late for work [...]
HTC Returns to the Messenger Market with the Maple Smartphone
It’s been a long time since HTC had a device in the messenger space. The Excalibur, HTC’s first messenger style device, was a smash hit with T-Mobile users under the name of Dash. This device was also sold across many other carriers and under many other names, including HTC’s brand as the s620. Following the [...]
What Devices are Used by Mobile Device MVPs?
Fellow Mobile Device MVP, Todd Ogasawara, thought it would be a good idea to interview the Mobile Device MVPs and see what device(s) they are using. This video was recorded during the MVP Summit this past week in Seattle. The summit was 2 days of product group meetings with a day on either side of [...]
Taking a Closer Look at Microsoft Tag
Microsoft recently took the wraps off a new barcoding standard. The new system is called Tags and uses triangles arranged in a 5 x 10 grid with 4 different colors to produce a high capacity color barcode. What makes this new system better, or worse, than regular barcodes, QR Codes, or any of the other [...]
HTC Responsible for 80% of Windows Mobile Device Sales
It shouldn’t come as a big surprise to hear that HTC has sold 80% of all Windows Mobile smartphones sold to date. After all, they dominate the Million+ sellers list with 7 out of the total of 11 devices. But when you start to break down the numbers, it really starts to get interesting. Microsoft [...]
Pantech and AT&T Launch Matrix Pro Smartphone
Pantech, along with AT&T, announced the release of the Matrix Pro – a follow-up to their original dual slider. The Matrix Pro is a member of AT&T’s 3G family of devices, which means you can expect some serious speed when surfing on this device. It also sports a 528MHz processor, 256MB ROM / 128 MB [...]
LG Makes a Serious Commitment to Windows Mobile
Today at Mobile World Congress, LG announced their support for Microsoft’s Windows Mobile in a strong way. LG will make Microsoft’s Windows Mobile operating system the primary operating system for their smartphone devices. Over the next 4 years, LG will produce 50 different mobile devices powered by Microsoft’s Windows Mobile operating system. The bulk of [...]
Top Selling Windows Mobile Devices of All Time
During the Windows Mobile talk at CntrStg @ CES, Greg Sullivan mentioned that there are 11 phones that have sold in excess of 1 million units. That’s a pretty impressive achievement. I was curious to know more about these 11 devices. Like, how many are touch screen vs non-touch screen? And what manufacturers have made [...]
The Future of Internet Connectivity is Your Mobile Phone
It’s true! They’ve done studies and talked with experts and they’ve come to the conclusion that your mobile phone will be the primary method of connecting to the internet in the next 12 years or so. All joking aside, this isn’t all that surprising to some of us. Using our mobile devices has become the [...]
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