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Video: Android Fullscreen Demos

The folks over at Android Community have posted some exclusive videos of some new Android  demos. Very cool stuff happening with that platform. I am not going to write too much about this as the the videos they provided speak for themselves.

And check out the compass feature in the following video, which I find really [...]

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Motorola готовит новый MING

В мировой сети появилась информация о мобильном телефоне MING A1800 от компании Motorola, который еще не был официально анонсирован. Слухи об устройстве уже появлялись, это наследник модели MING A1200, которая была выпущена в Азии еще в марте 2006 года, где стала достаточно популярной, оставшись малоизвестной на мировом рынке. Motorola MING A1800 базируется на платформе Linux, [...]

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Intro to Gigabyte M528 MID

On the 2008CeBIT held from March 4 to March 9 when GIGABYTE notebooks were in exhibition, GIGABYTE took the advantage to launch refreshing prototype notebook products with innovative technologies - the 4.8” MID (Mobile Internet Device) M528 with compact outlook design and outstanding performance.

The GIGABYTE MID M528 has minimal and fashionable style with elegant and [...]

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Video: Latest on Google Android From MWC’08

One of the potentially hottest and most important upcoming technologies posing a challenge to Microsoft’s Windows Mobile is Google’s Android operating system. Google, along with the “Open Handset Alliance,” announced in November the upcoming platform, and that many of the largest handset manufacturers and most important cellular service providers in the world are supporting it.
Although [...]

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Preview: Motorola A1600 MotoMing 2

After the success of the MotoMING A1200, Motorola has announced that version 2 is on its way. The new MING, the A1600, appears to have a similar design but is a bit squarish with a similar transparent flip casing. It will come equipped with Wi-Fi and AGPS, and retain its touchscreen feature. As the predecessor, [...]

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Mobility: Sony Mylo 2 vs Nokia N810

Pocketables has got a good comparison of  Sony Mylo 2 vs. Nokia N810.

“Although not intended to appeal to the same market, the Sony mylo 2 (COM-2) personal communicator and Nokia N810 Internet Tablet still share enough similarities to warrant head-to-head battles and other comparisons.
I’ve already finished my Nokia N810 review and a full mylo 2 [...]

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Azingo Mobile - Industry’s First Mobile Linux Platform Based on LiMo

Mobile Linux company Azingo, formerly Celunite, today announced Azingo Mobile, a comprehensive suite of open mobile software and services designed to help companies deliver web 2.0 applications, music, video, vivid graphics and more to [...]

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WND PDA Dual Net Phone

The WND PDA Dual Net Phone can be used as a Google Phone, according to the company. Using a Linux 2.6 core, the phone provides applications for creating and editing documents, a web browser, PIM and E-Mail software. The phone can also manage spreadsheets and multimedia presentations, and includes a PC Sync application and an [...]

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HowTo: USB Internet Sharing with Linux and Windows Mobile 6

I have been trying to find out for months how to use internet sharing via usb on a windows mobile 6 device under linux. I had managed in a prior post to get bluetooth PAND working and even to get bluetooth DUN and USB DUN working but had been unsuccessful with the USB internet sharing..until [...]

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Linux Hack On Archos 605 WiFi

Some industrious programmers have found a way to hack the Archos 605 WiFi portable video player to run the Qtopia Linux platform. By the looks of it, the Qtopia hack doesn’t add much in the way of extra media features (the Archos does pretty well as-is), but it opens the door to developing the [...]

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Tango Theme on Your Symbian60 Mobile Phone

Wanna have Tango theme on your mobile phone?! This project is a theme for Symbian60 enabled phones/devices following the Tango Style Guidelines and using the Tango Icon Theme.
Features:

Symbian60 2nd and 3rd Edition support
Portrait support (Landscape soon)
Most Icons are replaced by Tango equivalents
Contains Icons for 3rd party applications
Custom graphics using the [...]

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Official OS2008 Release for Nokia Internet Tablets

Users can now download the official installer for OS2008 for your Nokia N800 Internet tablet. You get:

The sluggish Opera browser has been swapped out for a speedy Mozilla based browser
If you’re on an N800, the processor speed has been bumped up to 400 Mhz
Built in Flash 9
FM Radio software
A Beautiful new UI
Improved RSS reader
and [...]

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Opera Mini 4 on Windows Mobile as Default Browser

In case you are interested in how to run Opera Mini 4 on you Windows Mobile device as a default browser, head to my other blog post here …. cause I am loving it.

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AnySIM Creators Considering Open-Sourcing

 
“Well, all the core members of the team are OK with Open Sourcing it. Now we are checking to see if the community likes the idea and see if we can grow support for it. We want to be sure quality software, however, not have a bin-patch-mania of pieces of our hard work by other [...]

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Asus Eee 701 vs. Nokia N810 - Linux Fight!

The first thing to address: Are these two devices truly competitors? The answer is yes - but only to consumers who don’t know what they REALLY want. You see - Both are extremely portable 800×480 Internet centric Linux devices in the $400-$470 street price range. However, both have clear cut advantages in certain areas that [...]

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Enlightenment E17 Desktop UI running on the OpenMoko Neo1973 Mobile

E17 enlightenment running the the OpenMoko Neo1973. If you don’t know, Enlightenment is a popular UI for desktop distributions of Linux, and it appears someone was able throw it onto the Neo with impressive results. Practical or not, it is still really cool. BTW, OpenMoko and Android are competitors when it comes to Mobile 2.0.

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Video Preview: Google Android Platform

If you remember all the recent ballyhoo about Google entering the wireless handset market with a possible gPhone, and their announcement last week that they weren’t going to release the product but instead they’ve created the Open Handset Alliance that ties numerous mobile device vendors to a common API (Applications Programming Interface). As expected Google [...]

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Google Rallies Allies in Open Linux Phone Initiative

Google and 33 other companies have announced an ambitious industry alliance that will maintain a completely open source mobile phone stack. The Open Handset Alliance (OHA) says phones based on its Linux-based “Android” stack will reach market in as soon as eight months.
The Android stack is based on “open Linux kernel,” the group says. It [...]

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Eee PC - Adding a Start Menu plus Customizing It and Video on Installing 3rd Party Apps

If you like to customize your desktop, easy mode can be pretty frustrating. On the other hand, everything is well designed to fit on the Eee PC’s 800 x 480 pixel monitor. (Well, almost everything. Every now and again a menu will pop up that you just can’t edit properly because it extends below the [...]

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Review: Asus Eee PC 701 4G

The Asus Eee PC 701 4G is the new affordable ultraportable notebook that’s bound to be on many consumer’s Christmas wishlist this year. Retailing for somewhere between $299 and $399, the Eee PC isn’t exactly a workhorse, but it will do just about every basic task you’d need from a laptop. Our initial hands-on actually [...]

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Nokia N810 - 3rd Gen Internet Tablet Running Linux

Nokia took another long step today with the N810, the third generation of its ‘Internet tablet’ line which began with the launch of the N770 in November 2005 and was followed by the N800 in January this year.

Like its predecessors, the N810 is powered by Nokia’s own Internet Tablet OS, also known as Maemo. This [...]

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openSUSE Theme for Sony Ericsson Mobiles

 If you are one of the users of the listed Sony Ericsson phones and an openSUSE user, perhaps you would like to try out the following theme. The theme is made for K510i, K550i, K610i, K750i, K770i, K800i, K810i, K850i, W800i, W810i, W850i, W880i series.

Get it here

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Splashtop - Surf the Internet and More in 5-seconds Boot Time Without Entering Windows

With Splashtop you can read e-mail, chat with friends, or surf the Web seconds after pushing the power button!

Asus is the first to introduced the first motherboard, P5E3 Deluxe/WiFi-AP@n, with support for Splashtop, they call Express Gate, a technology that allows a computer to quickly boot an embedded Linux-based operating system with some frequently used [...]

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