There are a number of blog posts out there today responding to Cringely’s accusation that Windows Mobile will die. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes agrees. InfoSyncWorld has a little more experience with covering the mobile market, and they tend to disagree with Cringely’s assessment. In regards to personal computers fading from ubiquity to invisibility, Cringely says, “And everyone I respect thinks the new dominant platform will be mobile. So it’s my job to tell you, then, that Windows …
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Knight Rider and the HTC Touch
While we already know that Micheal Knight’s love interest, Sarah Graiman (Deanna Russo), carries around a S.E. Xperia X1 for her high tech mobility eye candy, this week on Knight Rider we learn that Micheal (Justing Bruening) uses the HTC Touch. If you saw this week’s episode, you’ll notice that unfortunately he was unable to launch the Touch’s camera application quickly enough to obtain photo identity of the female antagonist who stole the secret briefcase. …
Continue readingGoogle’s Android Fraught with Limitations
A number of Google Android T-Mobile G1 phone reviews have surfaced recently. It turns out, the phone’s operating system is fraught with limitations that Windows Mobile users are likely to laugh at. Click on to see our compilation of problems listed by some of the early reviewers. Originally published on Pocketnow on October 16, 2008. More Thought articles from the Pocketnow archive.
Continue readingWindows Mobile: The Only True Touch-Screen OS
Touch screen mobile smartphones have become all the rage lately, but did you know that Windows Mobile Professional is one of the only mobile operating systems that is completely touch-screen friendly? That’s right, from the beginning when it was Windows CE 2.1 for Palm-sized devices, and then the Pocket PC operating system, it has been designed to be completely usable without any use of hardware buttons. There are on-screen user interface elements such as the …
Continue readingApple’s RDF vs. The Real World
One of the things Apple is most famous for is their Reality Distortion Field or RDF. The video below is another perfect example of how they achieve this. The video shows the Apple “Unslow” commercial showing how fast everything on the iPhone 3G is, side-by-side with a real-life video of a user performing same tasks that were performed in the commercial. As you can see, the real world is nowhere near as fast as Apple’s …
Continue readingUsability Speed Tests: Touch Diamond
Here’s the latest update in our Usability Speed Tests designed to show how easy and quick different Smartphone user interfaces can be. Today we’re looking at the HTC Touch Diamond. Here are the results: 1. 8sec (TouchFLO ) 8 sec (Start menu) 2. 6secs (Launch Google maps) 3. 15 sec (Opera slowness) 4. 23 sec (Play Weird Al music) 5. 76 sec (Add specific new contact) 6. 48 sec (write specific email to new contact) …
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