Is the iPhone as good as its hype? Does iPhone’s much-discussed touch-screen interface really make using the device simpler and more intuitive? That is the question. There are another two products in this usability comparison test were selected for two reasons: They were available, and they had competitive feature sets. In particular, the testers needed a touch-screen phone to compare to the iPhone and a more traditional button-based phone with strong multimedia capabilities. LG Prada has received a fair amount of publicity, which is not yet available from a U.S. cellular carrier. LG declined to participate in these tests
Nokia’s N95, based on the Series 60 variant of the Symbian platform, provides only the more traditional type of button-based navigation, but it is a multimedia powerhouse. It boasts a 5-megapixel camera and can create VGA-quality, 30-frames-per-second videos. It also supports many types of media playback and has a long list of other features including built-in Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS, not to mention a bar-code reader that came with the test device. It has a 2.6-in., 320-by-240 resolution display.
September 29, 2007
There is some news from Microsoft Corp. Microsoft Corp. employee yesterday accidentally blogged about an upgrade to Office Mobile that shouldn’t be available for another couple of weeks.
The upgrade, when it becomes available, should solve an incompatibility issue that left Windows Mobile 6.0 users unable to read Office 2007 file formats.
Jason Langridge, who works in Microsoft’s Windows Mobile group in the U.K., wrote that Office Mobile 6.1 was available and he included a link to the download page. But a representative with Microsoft’s public relations firm said the upgrade was put on the site initially for internal testing and was accidentally made available to the public.
The new version of Office Mobile is expected to become available soon, probably within the next two weeks, he said.
September 29, 2007
InPlay Technologies introduced the first
intelligent digital pen for integration with tablet PCs. With a microcontroller inside, the thinnest on the market the pen is a self-contained. the InPEN, is smart device capable of a wide range of unique functions while still allowing for additional enhancements in the future.

InPlay has scheduled demonstrations of the new technology for various attendees at Microsoft’s 16th annual Microsoft’s 16th annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) held this week in Los Angeles, Calif.
September 21, 2007
It is show up that during the last time there are cheaper devices and more mobile access appeared on the market. It means that the more people can use now more mobile applications. With e-mail-capable smart phones now available for the masses, and the masses will start using mobile e-mail.“BlackBerries used to cost $500 or $600, which made them available mostly to people in the boardroom or high-level employees, where that expense could be justified,” Kerton said. “Now, as IT managers are more familiar with mobile e-mail, that brings down the IT challenge. If you add cheaper devices, you have a significant drop in the total cost of ownership. So we’re looking at any employee who spends time away from their desk having e-mail access.”Some of that e-mail access will come via enterprise-class server-based applications such as Microsoft Exchange. But Kerton also predicts the rise of services from vendors such as Visto Corp. and Seven Networks Inc. that are being offered by cellular operators to provide easy, no-configuration access to e-mail for nontechnical users.
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September 16, 2007