Archives for e71

Nokia E71

Why the Nokia N900 is fundamentally better than the iPhone

Nokia N900The 2 reasons why the Nokia N900 is (and will remain) fundamentally better than an iPhone.

Nokia N900 vs Nokia E71

Nokia N900 Comparing the N900 to the E71.

Smartphone data traffic eclipses Feature Phones but the iDevices are coming up fast…

Traffic Share by Handset Category, worldwide, from the Admob Mobile Metrics report February 2009 – February 2010 Latest study shows that smartphones now demand the majority of the data traffic on mobile networks but that mobile internet devices are going to become an even greater data sink, thus hastening the predicted “mobile data apocalypse“.

What platform to write mobile apps for?


Share



[digg=http://digg.com/programming/What_platform_for_mobile_apps] A question came up on the boards.ie programming forum a week or so ago about whether to write apps for the iPhone or the Android platform. With Suura, we’ve been looking at what platforms to write clients for (and which to write for first), and it occurs to me that the data on what’s actually going on and what the hype is pushing are monumentally disparate. Believe the hype and the competition is all between Android and WebOS.

Thing is, all that noise is ignoring a few details. First off, both are tiny. In the telecoms market, even the iPhone is a niche player. Take mobile internet usage – yes, it’s growing, and at a rate noone expected, but look at how much of the overall total is made up of phone browsing compared to laptop browsing in these statistics released byRead the rest

New toy…


Share



After a week spent testing one of our development models, I took the plunge and bought one for myself. No regrets so far!