iPhone: The Device that IT Managers will love to hate#

Very interesting article in Computerworld regarding some of the frustrations that IT managers will face with allowing access to corporate resources from the iPhone. Just listening to the Apple strategy of the device shows it is very consumer orientated and certainly not a player in the enterprise. It's interesting to see how this strategy will work for Apple in its quest for mobile dominance. This strategy is distinctly different from the likes of RIM and Microsoft, who have been solving the corporate problem before attacking the mass consumer market. My prediction is that the iPhone will get a lot of attention for its looks and cool factor (typical response to anything Apple by the majority of consumers and Apple knows it) but will get a massive thumbs down when it comes to corporate integration. By the time Apple works this out, RIM and Microsoft will have copied all the cool features and be out with devices that are as cool but have much better corporate integration feastures. All-in-all, an interesting IT space to watching.

7/2/2007 1:17:55 PM (New Zealand Standard Time, UTC+12:00) #    Comments [0]  | 

 

Windows Mobile phone cheap as chips in NZ#

Over the last few weeks Vodafone have released the "Vodafone 1210" - A Vodafone branded Windows Mobile Smartphone originally manufactured by ASUS. The beauty of this thing is the price - $599 retail for a full MS phone in NZ. The only real lacking feature is no camera. But it is fully 3G. It is also only Win Mobile 5 but not 6. No mater I think this great value for money and going on my shopping list! There is quite a bit of info on this in NZ already mainly on geekzone. So here are a few links to find out further:

Vodafone NZ Product Page | Geek Zone Review | Geek Zone rant on locking (and unlocking) the phone | Forum Discussion on the 1210

3/26/2007 3:47:30 PM (New Zealand Daylight Time, UTC+13:00) #    Comments [2]  | 

 

Asus getting in on Windows Mobile 6#

It's good to see another asian manufacturer developing Windows Mobile phones, especially Windows Mobile 6 ones. Asus are traditional mobo manufactor but are now branching into phones with Windows Mobile 6. Definitely one to watch in this area!

2/13/2007 4:04:36 PM (New Zealand Daylight Time, UTC+13:00) #    Comments [0]  | 

 

SP6 - HSDPA#

IMAGE_140-thumb.dasblog.JPGJust found out today that the iMate SP6 does indeed support HSDPA which is fantastic news. Not that Vodafone NZ is trumpeting it yet, but HSDPA is supposed to now be the fastest mobile network in NZ. It will be great to get > 1 Meg a second data connections to a mobile phone!

10/10/2006 3:36:46 PM (New Zealand Daylight Time, UTC+13:00) #    Comments [1]  | 

 

Windows CE 6.0 Released#

logo_win_embedded_ce.gif"Yamazaki" or as it's better known: Windows CE 6.0 has been released to market. Windows CE 6.0 will be the base platform for the next version of Windows Mobile. Press information is here, and from Mike Hall's Blog the following is some basic info on new features:

  1. Operating System architecture.
    • CE 6.0 now supports upto 32k processes with 2GB virtual memory per process (CE 5.0 supported a maximum of 32 processes with 32MB Virtual Memory per process)
    • Operating system processes moved to kernel space (GWES, Device driver manager, file system manager are all in kernel space - improves performance)
    • New Kernel mode and user mode driver model (CE 5.0 only supported user mode drivers) - kernel mode drivers for performance, user mode drivers for stability - plus you can now have multiple instances of the user mode driver manager (hey, you have upto 32k processes!)
    • Strict partitioning of user mode and kernel mode (no SetKMode!)
  2. Tools - The CE 6.0 development tools are integrated with Visual Studio 2005 - this gives you one tool to configure, build, download, debug, and test the operating system and the same tool to write your native (Win32, MFC, ATL, WTL, STL) or managed (C#/VB) applications.
  3. Technologies - more information on supported operating system technologies will be made available at launch.

9/28/2006 1:54:38 PM (New Zealand Daylight Time, UTC+13:00) #    Comments [0]  | 

 

iMate SP6 first view#
IMAGE_141-thumb.dasblog.JPGIMAGE_140-thumb.dasblog.JPGIMAGE_142-thumb.dasblog.JPGI've managed to get my mits on an iMate SP6 pre-release model. It feels nice and solid and has some improvements. Some initial things: It's got a 2 Megapixel camera and is 3G capable. Two cameras with one dedicated for video calling, so yes the first imate smartphone with video calling! No Wifi (I suspect it's pushing sh*t uphill to get Wifi and 3G radio stacks into a unit so small). Check the pictures out (thanks to supermondo camera phone photographer Adam Green) for some pics of yours truly with it. This is the first full featured Microsoft smartphone in my opinion. Not only is it an amazingly compelling application platform but with a high spec'd camera and a decent data connection some very interesting applications are possible!
 
8/30/2006 5:14:23 PM (New Zealand Standard Time, UTC+12:00) #    Comments [8]  | 

 

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