Oracle on Symbian
Symbian as announced that it has teamed up with Oracle to give users access to Oracle Database Lite databases running on Symbian devices.
At first sight this might seem overkill or Oracle trying to muscle in on an expanding technology segment. Ho…
Which Smartphone Mobile OS for BenQ Mobile ?
BenQ Mobile, the company formed from BenQ and Siemens became a legal entity at the beginning of this month. Both companies are similar in that they previously produced proprietary OS phones and a very few high end smartphones based on a 3rd party …
HSDPA (High Speed Download Packet Access) To Solve Latency Problem?
A recent study by AirCom of Vodafone and Orange 3G networks has shown that indoor, contended download rates typically average 198kbps and 178kbps respectively. This is significantly less than the advertised maximum speed of 384kbps.
Orange and …
The Enterprise Mobile Experience
The recent MEX conference concentrated on the Mobile Experience where ‘experience’ was taken to mean everything that the user perceives rather than just the user interface. Discussion inevitably focused mainly on the consumer experience. However, …
Tariffs and Services
At the recent MEX conference, Juha Christensen, CEO of Sonopia, explained how the mobile user experience covers the time from shopping around for a phone, right up to months or years later when you decide to replace your phone. One of the crucial …
A week in mobile
The mobile industry has been extremely active over the last few days, with several major announcements coming from CTIA in San Francisco and 3GSM Asia in Singapore. Before we get into the specifics of some of these annoucements, it is worth notin…
Palm and Microsoft – a recipe for innovation?
Today’s announcement that Palm will build a Windows Mobile version of its Treo smartphone is representative of a significant change in the industry. Palm was a company built on a vision of delivering a very specific user experience, characterised…
Are handsets suitable for e-books?
An announcement from HarperCollins, one of the world’s largest publishers, that it will offer free chapter summaries direct to consumer’s handsets in Australia started me thinking about the viability of the mobile handset as an e-book platform. T…