Brighthand: WebLink Wireless and HuneTec Prepare to Take on Blackberry
WebLink Wireless demonstrated at this week’s CTIA Wireless 2003 a handheld that uses Palm OS 5 and runs on the ReFLEX wireless network.
This device has been designed by Korea’s HuneTec. It offers a monochrome screen, an integrated keyboard, and 8 MB of memory.
ReFLEX is the data […]
Archive for March, 2003
On a lighter note…
20Mar03South Florida made Business 2.0’s list of The 101 Dumbest Moments in Business for 2003:
To honor James Earl Jones at a Martin Luther King Day event, the city of Lauderhill, Fla., commissions Texas-based Merit Industries to create a plaque featuring stamps of black Americans. It reads, “Thank you James Earl Ray for keeping the […]
ViewSonic V37
20Mar03Brighthand: ViewSonic Announces V37 Pocket PC
400 MHz XScale, 64MB RAM, 64MB NAND ROM, transflective screen, SDIO, the .NET Compact Framework will be pre-installed, and ViewSonic will offer an SDIO WiFi card shortly after the product launches. No word on the release date or price.
Microsoft will give away 25,000 V37s to Visual Studio .NET 2003 developers.
Three releases and Five years
20Mar03I’m starting to buy into the three releases and five years to hit a home run theory to explain SmartPhone’s lack of progress.
Supporting Evidence:
.NET CF will not be released for SmartPhone 2002 (will show up in the next version).
No major SmartPhone announcements from CTIA / MMDC.
No indication that Microsoft is pushing to get SmartPhone devices […]
Verizon adds Kyocera 7135
20Mar03Kept forgetting to blog this one…
Verizon Press Release: The Kyocera 7135 will be available in April through Verizon Wireless’ business sales channels. PalmInfocenter reports that Kyocera is taking pre-orders for $549 after $100 rebate, or $699 contract-free.
Also noted on Brighthand, PDABuzz, and Mobilemag.
With Samsung showing off the Palm OS 5 SGH-i500, the 7135 now […]
Bill Gates’ MMDC Speach
20Mar03Transcript and video. SmartPhone 2003 is mentioned, no details beyond inclusion of the .NET Compact Framework.
.NET CF finally arrives!
20Mar03The .NET Compact Framework v1.0 redistributable is now available for download. Press Release.
Supports Pocket PC 2000, Pocket PC 2002, Windows CE .NET 4.1.
Microsoft vs. Symbian
20Mar03Why do handset manufacturers prefer Symbian over Microsoft?
Frank McPherson suggests that they don’t want their products turned into commodities.
On the surface that didn’t make much sense to me. Outside of the high-end, aren’t handsets already commodities? Most features are standardized, and I don’t see much that distinguishes the four sub-$100 handsets that T-Mobile offers […]
