Monthly Archives: February 2010

Walk 900 miles for Nokia’s N900

Today’s mobile phones are a far cry from what they once were, but in a very good way. No longer the ill-fitting, bulky and clunky chunks of plastic they used to be, mobile units now feature high-tech hardware integrated in ever-increasingly-seamless ways. Mobile phones are more versatile than ever nowadays, with mobile packages getting more flexible and functional with each release from top mobile manufacturers who know how to get the most out of the hardware and software packages they assemble for their discriminating, increasingly tech-savvy public. The trick, they find, is to put together a phone that can do it all and do it well – and that’s often harder than it sounds.

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Blackberry’s almost-perfect Storm

The mobile landscape has gotten more than a little competitive in recent years, what with mobile manufacturers unearthing new ways to integrate higher-tech hardware into their mobile units, thereby making them run faster and more smoothly with greater versatility without rendering them bulky and clunky chunks of plastic that have a hard time fitting in palms or pockets. Mobile phones can now do more things than ever before, and the challenge for mobile manufacturers and service providers is to put together a mobile package that manages to do a wide range of tasks without sacrificing quality and performance – avoiding the pitfall of making a jack of all trades but a master of none.

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New girls on the block!

There is a whole lot to love about mobile phones nowadays, approaching and even surpassing the love and wonder inspired by mobile phones when they were a brand-new concept. Mobile technology has improved and evolved consistently over the years, allowing mobile service providers and mobile content providers to craft and enact changes to the services and content offered, getting higher quality, smaller size and increased functionality and flexibility from every new release. Nowadays, ringtones, mobile music and mobile applications have taken the forefront of the mobile revolution, affording users more variety and entertainment than once thought would ever be possible.

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Glyder 2: More of the same good stuff

Mobile applications are among the best things to ever happen to mobile phones, and to mobile phone users. Whereas once upon a time the most entertainment one could get from a mobile phone – outside its actual call making and taking functions – was swapping multicolored housing plates, now mobile users have a multitude of things they can actually do with the actual phone. Software has grown ever smarter over the years, allowing mini-programs to be loaded into the smartphones to fulfill a variety of purposes, from organizing your week to checking the stock market to enjoying a quick race on an alien world.

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Mobile gaming enters a new Phaze

Mobile content has evolved considerably in the last few years, taking off into new directions and paths as fast as the evolution of the mobile phones themselves creates both the new paths and the new content possibilities. Technology has made it possible for calls to give way to voice mail and text messaging, for nearby calls to become international calls, and for monotones that approximated song melodies with beeps to become real tones that were actual, true clips from the songs themselves. Mobile content has recently undergone another phase of expansion with the mobile app, a small program run by a smartphone platform to accomplish various purposes, from organizing a day planner to fighting a fictional but deadly civil war between races of shape-shifting robots on an alien planet.

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