Mobile

Tina and I checked out the AMD booth at GDC 2007. On display was the new AMD Imageon mobile graphics chipset and Drew Angeloff who helped explain to us exactly what a graphics chipset is and what exciting new technologies are coming to mobile graphics from AMD in the…

To tell you the truth, I prefer to keep my location undisclosed but apparently there is a great demand for human tracking. My co-worker, Nagi Babu Punyamurthula, took it upon himself to create a solution for this need and he called it the "Where Am I Project". After having him explain his…

Call Santa because the Holidays are on their way - and call him from your Windows Mobile Phone. In this episode of our Holiday Preview Guide we check out the sexy new phones coming your way like the HTC Diamond, the HTC Touch Dual and the Samsung BlackJack II. There's plenty of reason to…

One of the things I really like about my Windows Mobile phone (a HTC 8525 on Cingular) is that I can change my entire UI whenever I want. I've used different skins, backgrounds, UI enhancements, heck - I even had it looking like an i-something-or-other for a while. It's this freedom to make the…

There are so many mobile phones in use nowadays that it would be enough for half of our planet's population. The first mobiles appered 26 years ago. According to the latest survey there are 3.3 billion phones in use worldwide today. Of course, it doesn't necessarily mean that every second person…

Not many people enjoy their commute. It's probably the least enjoyable part of the daily experience, plus these days it's the least environmentally-friendly thing most of us do. Well the cats at King County Metro have taken a big step toward getting us out of our cars.Two of the more popular bus…

Fact: more mobile devices today have cameras than keyboards. Fact: teaching mobile devices how to speak human language is difficult and time-consuming. It is with these two things in mind that years ago mobile devices for Asian markets were taught years ago to read QR codes. Well now the Windows…

A few years back the idea of 'convergence devices' fell from grace quicker than we can say pets dot com. Lately though the idea of a new category of handheld device is hugely exciting. Naturally whenever the wind carries the scent of the future, it typically comes from Asia.The Samsung SGH-9000…

The i-mate JAQ3 is certainly the new, hot Windows Mobile device for the size-conscious among us. At just a touch larger than a T-Mobile Dash in every measurement, but with Pocket PC being its ace in the hole, this svelte handset is going to make you the talk of your road warrior circle.Check out…

Belkin's wifi phone for Skype can now be found in the wild, and the first reports back are relatively good. The advantage of being able to manage our Skype existence from either the desktop or the handset outweighs the few niggles related to Belkin's hardware design. The ever-growing access to…