Forbes says Apple will have a tough time with Businesses

According to this Forbes article, it will be difficult for the Apple iPhone to become popular with businesses. In response to Apple’s announcement to add Exchange syncing to it’s 2.0 iPhone firmware: “It’s like if you want to be a great baseball player. You don’t just go out and buy a bat and glove and think you’re done. They’ve got to learn how enterprises work,” says Mort Rosenthal “We think the iPhone will continue to …

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What is a Smartphone?

Here’s a video that answers important questions such as: What is a Smartphone? What is a Pocket PC? What is a Blackberry? What is a Treo? and What is an HTC device? Be sure to forward this to all of your friends who may have been living in caves for the past 10 years. Originally published on Pocketnow on March 16, 2008. More Smartphone News articles from the Pocketnow archive.

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Your Mobile Digital Lifestyle

Here’s a great video from Microsoft found via PocketPCThoughts. It showcases some events in the average digital lifestyle and how making use of Microsoft mobile technologies can make you cool enough to go to great parties even when your station wagon breaks down. This happens to me all the time. From Mel Sampat’s MSDN blog: This video has been shown at internal Microsoft events a few times. It always draws a great response from the …

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T-Mobile’s Hotspot @Home

Engadget has uncovered some details on T-Mobile’s Hotspot@Home “Talk Forever” service. It’s similar to the regular Hotspot@Home service, but with custom routers (with SIM card slots) that you can plug regular phones into. But the really interesting part is this: Now, here’s where it gets a little weird: we just Googled “HotSpot @Home Talk Forever” and stumbled upon www.tiltyourworld.com, a site that appears to be some sort of Talk Forever training site for T-Mobile folk. …

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Engadget’s Interview with HTC CEO Peter Chou

Ryan Block of Engadget has had the great opportunity to interview HTC’s CEO, Peter Chou. Ryan mostly pressures Mr. Chou with questions about Google’s Android platform, while Chou continues to stress the importance of Windows Mobile in their business. I think that Microsoft Windows Mobile has a lot of value and sometimes people may not see that. Windows Mobile has a lot of value and our commitment to Windows Mobile is not changing, actually. Our …

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