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Windows Vistalle lopullinen (Active Sync) Mobile Device Center versio on valmistunut ja on ladattavissa Mobile Device Center kotisivuilta.

Tietokone lehti uutisoi tänään verkkosivuillaan otsikolla "LG:n Iphone-kopio kauppoihin ennen Applea".

Voiko mikään olla enemmän poissa totuudesta kuin tuo? Mitkä ovat perustelut siihen että LG kopioi Applea? Koska LG:n Prada puhelin tulee jo kauppoihin maaliskuussa, eikös se silloin tarkoita sitä että tuotekehitystä puhelimen kimpussa on tehty jo kuukausia ennen sitä - ja vielä yhteistyössä Pradan kanssa.

Miksi Apple saa toimittajilta aina tällaista kohtelua? Applen suunnitteluhan on on ollut täysin salaista puuhaa - ennen puhelimen julkaisua vain Applen kolme ylintä johtajaa oli edes nähnyt puhelimen.

Voisiko olla, että Apple olisikin kopioinut LG:tä? Toimittajillakin tulisi olla mielestäni jonkinlainen vastuu uutistensa sisällöstä.

I want one. Hopefully it is in reasonable price range, otherwise I can not see a big success for it. Still, I want one. Do you?

• The Ultra-Mobile PC site
• Origami
• The hardware

Updated: Look for more here

I am quite excited about the Microsoft Origami project. If it is something like a small TabletPC with reasonable pricing - I want one. But let's see until Cebit next week (9.3.06) when they have promised to reveal the secret. Until then look at the Origami Project here.

Just read the news at msmobiles.com that Nokia should start making Windows Mobile phones for the US market if they want to stay there on "top of the hill".

According to Gartner "In the enterprise market, Nokia should expand its smartphone portfolio past Symbian to include Microsoft-based products. Nokia is in danger of making the same mistake again — trying to force end users to take its preferred solution rather than giving them what they want. In North America, enterprises will demand Microsoft-based products. Nokia should not discontinue Symbian devices, but it should focus Symbian products on the consumer and prosumer market, while offering Microsoft-based products to the enterprise market."

I predict that within two years from now Nokia will make windows mobile phones. That has been my feeling a long time. Go for it Nokia!

• original news source - msmobiles.com

From Endgadget not a good review of Nokia 9300i:

Maybe we're a bit spoiled with our Treos and our HTCs (aka Qtek), but when All About Symbian concludes that despite lacking a number of popular features Nokia's upcoming 9300i clamshell smartphone is a good device for business users on the go, it automatically gets knocked off of our short list. The 9300i is exactly the same as the 9300 in every way save for the addition of WiFi, which turns out to be a mixed blessing because the pokey 150MHz processor can't render pages as fast as the 802.11 can pull them down. Like its sibling, the 9300i lacks 3G data capabilities, a camera (which makes sense for the targeted audience), and a usable joystick/rocker, although it gets high marks for the rest of the keyboard ergonomics, the sharp LCD (albeit with an odd 640 x 200 resolution), and implementation of Symbian Series 80. This device also does all of the usual multimedia/office functions you'd expect from a smartphone, and sounds like it does them fairly well, but in the end it seems like it will probably be resigned to serve as a safe choice for Finnish corporate IT buyers

P.S I am a Windows Mobile user

During a press conference yesterday representatives of Siemens Mobile (now owned by BenQ) have confirmed:

... that they are not interested in further development of smartphones based on Symbian operating system. Instead they will be producing and selling phones based only on Microsoft's Windows Mobile. Of course Siemens Mobile / BenQ will be producing also phones based on proprietary (non-smartphone based, closed) operating systems, but as far as smartphones are concerned: only such that will be based on Windows Mobile! The first one will be Siemens P50 (formerly known as BenQ P50) but more is coming.

There are many reasons why it is bad business decision for mobile phone manufacturers to make Symbian phones but among top reasons may be: a) fact that given manufacturer must compete with Nokia on Nokia's terms and since Nokia spends millions of USD on marketing, such competing can't succeed - it is like fighting fire with fire - it simply doesn't work and one needs to fight fire with water and one needs to use Windows Mobile! ... or b) fact that by using Symbian one is directly supporting main competitor.

Please note also that although Samsung has not dumped Symbian yet, it is producing its most advanced (Wi-Fi, hard disks) smartphones only with Windows Mobile. On the other hand Palm has clearly denied that it will pick Symbian for upcoming Treos. Increasingly phone vendors are realizing that Symbian is bad idea. Bad business decision.

Mitähän uskoisi?? Alkuperäinen uutinen täältä.

Uusi ActiveSync 4.0 on julkaistu

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By Mobile Pipeline News 

Symbian, which currently has a strong lead as a smartphone platform vendor, will see its lead seriously eroded by Microsoft's smartphone platform, a market study released Monday by ABI Research claims.
Specifically, the study claims that Symbian's market share chould dip below 50 percent with Microsoft picking up most of the rest of the market share. Symbian is co-owned by a consortium of vendors such as Nokia and Sony Ericsson, all of which use the Symbian platform.

"The problem for Symbian is that they're only targeting higher-end phones, which form a tiny part of the (smartphone) market," ABI Research analyst Brian Pellegrini said in a statement. "Not too many people are going to have these expensive models. Most will have simpler 'enhanced' phones with a color screen, maybe a camera, but not many very advanced features."

Recent market studies have shown that smartphones based on Symbian's smartphone platform have a large worldwide lead, although the palmOne Treo, based on the Palm OS, has the lead in the U.S. However, the ABI study indicates that, while Microsoft has not yet had much success as a smartphone platform vendor, the market is young and the company has many advantages.

"Money is not really an issue for them," Pellegrini said. "They have even talked about offering free Windows Mobile licenses, just to get the product used."

Pellegrini noted, however, that Microsoft also faces serious hurdles, such as the fact that many vendors may not like the fact that its Windows Mobile Smartphone platform is not open source. However, overall, Microsoft's deep pockets and ability to be patient in the market puts it in a good position.