I have used the full touch screen 3G smartphone A925 by Motorola since 2003, there are also A1000 an advance model.

Those smartphone works fine without the conventional keyboard, and no worry about any mechanical problem.

How about the future touch screen/pad notebook computer which also does not have a solid QWERTY keyboard, and it only provide a full flat panel with virtual keyboard for text input? Should this new design accept by customers?

Apple 3G iPhone design should be the leading in smartphone operating environment.

What a goof ball!
What a nerd!
What an ultra maroon!

OH wait, I get it. Its a joke. A pun (the lowest form of humor, right?)

A slide out keyboard for the iPhone. Ha Ha Ha. ..... I get it now. :-)

Actually a real keyboard is a great idea. As programs become available to use the power of the iPhone and its real OS, a keyboard will be a great idea. ...... Just not one of those puny tiny things that the BlackBerry uses. Sheeezzzzeee.

Take a look at the bluetooth keyboard that you can get with the Apple units. Its full sized, auto registers , is battery powered and is only slightly larger than the iPhone. If I need to type, I would hope someone (Apple anyone??) updates the OS to allow syncing an apple bluetooth keyboard to the iPhone. And since the iPhone can play movies on a tv, you could set up a small portable 9 inch screen lcd tv to be your screen. They already have those that sync to an iPhone.

Its a mostly done deal and much better than that stupid crackberry thing.

Just a thought.

en

Keyboard iPhone? Never!

There is a real, not imaginary, drawback to the iPhone's on-screen keyboard. Like it or not, the touch-screen is a real step forward in many ways (even if it pinches ideas from Picsel).

But you can't make omelettes without breaking eggs. And what you give up with a keyboard on screen is pretty simple: "Some of the screen is invisible."

If all you want to do is type your name into a dialog box, then who cares? You can see the box. But if you're trying to type something a little more complex, then some people will feel a need to see the screen while they type.

Well, are they right? And if they're wrong, does it matter? What matters is that people buy the iPhone, surely?

"I can't hear you!"

It's not a boat really. No sails. Noisy engine. Wave-piercing hulls (three or them). No wonder they need Sennheiser to provide noise-cancelling headsets for all the crew...

On the right track...

Traincomms... we thought it would all be about WiFi for passengers.

Apparently, that's very low on the list today - or so say delegates to traincomms 08...

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For a moment, you had me going there!

:-)

Make sure I get the full release. But of course, being a PR group, you guys won't do a proper press release for your own stuff, will you?

...I'll get my coat.

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Guy, My warmest greeting to you in the name of the Lord. I am writing this letter with due respect and heartful of tears since we have not known or met ourselves previously... oh wait, actually we HAVE!

Thanks for stumbling upon our Museum of Mobility History (MuMoH). We're telling the world about it formally on 4 June, but very happy that you have found it. We'll be putting up a legitimate wiki to allow people to post information about their own favorite mobility relics. People can see our blog at www.mumoh.com/blog and the wiki will be up at /wiki (and everything can be found through our home page at www.mumoh.com).

Thanks for giving us some early publicity!

Nice to see you commenting! Hope I didn't spoil the chance of a good dinner by mentioning the possibility in public...

:-)

Thanks Guy, honoured to be mentioned on your blog. Funnily enough I have had 2 invitations to lunch from Qualcomm and one invitation to a phone conversation. The phone conversation and one of the lunches were later cancelled. The other (excellent) lunch was eaten, but no reasonable answer to any of the usual criticisms of Qualcomm was put forward.
So maybe, as you suggest, San Diego is beginning to take some of the criticism to heart.
All the best,
David

Edited by author 04-14-2008 07:29 AM

How to spy on your kids...

You give them a "perfectly ordinary phone" and then...

I mean, is this a serious suggestion?

I wonder if they've taken the "fan club" off their list?

- thanks for that!

G

Hey, I just saw your post about Wadja and I created a new account over there (coz I really like the idea of sending free SMS) and I didn't see this guy popping up in my friends' list.
From the few things I saw the site seems cool, simple and fun.

Edited by author 03-14-2008 06:43 AM

Nearly Finnished?

I blame Richard Lander for this awful pun...

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Value for Money?

How good a service do you have to offer for WiFi on a train before people will want to pay money for it?

I think "always on" is definitely worth something! - but always on and "very slow" are not an acceptable compromise. What do you think?

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Yo-ho-ho!

Collecting (by quite legal means) a bunch of Intellectual Properties and charging royalties: a legitimate business? It seems several mobile companies are not happy with the arrangement.

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I don't think so... doesn't seem to be. Why?

Is that forum against Iphones?



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Javatech
mobile marketing applications

These aren't the gPhones you're looking for...

But SOMEONE must recognise what the phones are? please
 check out the video and tell us what you think they are!

Edited by author 01-25-2008 09:59 AM

Me, you? go elsewhere...

I was going to say "I can't believe a million people sign up for Zlango" each month. But sadly, I can.

 

Edited by author 01-10-2008 01:16 PM

Everex Cloudbook

Note to the designers: Very nice - but where's the bleedin' Bluetooth?!?

Some of us live outside the US and want to use wireless broadband through our mobile phones, y'know.

Even within the US, I think you'll find Wi-Fi isn't quite ubiquitous yet...

Douglas Adams Boulevard?

I like the idea of a street named after him! but can't we call it something more exciting than his name?
 

Mike42*
" ANYONE! . . . who - er ! . . . " uses " . . . er ! um ! . . . You just said it ! ! ! . . . Tooth Fairy on the way !

Erwin,
If I understand what you're saying, your analysis is that Qualcomm isn't excluded by Intel's IP, but Intel would be excluded from the GSM IP? I certainly would go along with that.

Mike42: the term 4G is a quote from the ABI report. The story in NewsWireless is a report on the ABI report, so we quote it as they did. I wouldn't disagree with your analysis.

Blimfark: if you read that piece as in any way supporting a Nokia viewpoint, you didn't read what I wrote! And it's not just Nokia; it's anybody who is not a member of the GSM cartel.

Since when was WiMAX a 4G technology?

AFAIK, the ITU, IEEE etc haven't even yet agreed what a '4G' technology will look like.

WiMAX in its current form is no faster/more efficient/better range/cheaper for a given freq/BW/range/power/etc than HSDPA 7.2. And it doesn't have QoS or CS for voice prioritisation. Or just about any other feature that makes HSDPA/UMTS/GSM such a great system, warts & all. And the WiMAX hardware costs will be astronomical, should you decide to roll out a network of the stuff. If the requisite hardware (as the South Koreans have discovered) is the size/weight of a Coke machine, needs multiple 20W PA's, a 2KW aircon plant, LDF5-50 feeder, 21dB panel antennas...hmmm...sorry, why not just use HSDPA?

Anyone who uses the terms 'WiMAX' and '4G' in the same sentence is either in the pay of Intel, doesn't read technical literature, doesn't understand the laws of physics, believes in the tooth fairy, or all of the above.

Cheers,

Mike

Ummmmmmmmm......what?? Lighten up on the Kool-aid

Guy, just to avoid further embarrassment, I think you have got it quite wrong in terms of patents.
Qualcomm though a strong player in W-CDMA (UMTS), does not have many patents in that regime compare to folks like Nokia, NTT-Docomo and Ericsson. That's why they have created an independent 3G ecosystem called 3GPP2 with CDMA2000, EVDO, UMB alike to maintain monopoly control.
In terms of WiMAX though, Qualcomm has got by far the most complete patent portfolio in OFDMA, which is the core technology in WiMAX, through its acquisition of Flarion several years back. It will be a Intel and Qualcomm only game if WiMAX ever flies.

Edited by author 10-05-2007 08:16 AM
Which markets exactly is Qualcomm alienating? N. America? India? China? S.Korea? Japan? Or are you really referring to alienating entrenched handset manufacturers like Nokia who enjoyed a stranglehold on GSM wireless for years and are now seeing new entrants into the handset space which have been enabled by access to W-CDMA technology developed by Qualcomm. Before you buy into the world according to Nokia, be intellectually honest and and compare the uniform 5% or less licensing fee charged by Qualcomm to the GSM licensing fees (reported to be up to 28% for newcomers without IP to trade). Competition is a good thing, despite the opinions of Nokia and their EU lapdogs. Can you articulate one good reason for the UMTS specification in Europe other than protectionism?

My analysis wouldn't go that far, and even if I had more information, I'd still hold back...

What I do observe is that Qualcomm is an unusual company, which bases its revenue on a rigorous enforcement of intellectual property. What I also perceive, is that the market as a whole finds this rigour intolerable.

The morals and ethics of this are a matter for a different debate. What I'd focus on, is the issue of whether Qualcomm is correctly optimising its benefit from its asset base. If it alienates markets as completely as it is doing, could it be worth re-considering whether it's actually losing more business than it gains?

Edited by author 08-22-2007 12:17 AM
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/14/technolo...hnology&oref=slogin

Qualcomm has been accused by various people of some pretty sharp practices, do you think that their GC played any role in such conduct?

Just Wondering

Sod this - I'm off!

Did "Lou" Lupin quit his job at Qualcomm? Or was he "let go"?

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Latest version of Bluetooth

RFID now plays its part in pairing of devices.

Edited by author 05-23-2007 06:24 AM
Re: Vista wireless woes.

I found the problem was a DHCP failure. For some reason Vista miunderstands the DNS server option values that come back from your wireless router, and assumes they are an IPV6 address. Result? "yes I have a wireless connection" but "no, I can't see microsoft.com".

Opening a command window and typing "ipconfig /renew" fixes it. I put a shortcut to this on the desktop, and the owner now clicks on this when he sees the problem.

Sheesh.

iPhone 4 U?

Thanks for that!
There's a lot more iPhone stuff at NewsWireless news

I have to agree, it's an interesting nice-looking niche phone with a few major issues - aimed at serious data users, but only really offering GPRS for most European users, and not available to most US users. I think Apple have proved that to the faithful, the pricepoint doesn't matter, but it is steep...

Personal Coffee Dispensor patent next?

It is yet another "reality distortion field" triumph for Steve Jobs: serious writers claiming that a combination of phone and music player can be patented...

PC as phone...

Steve Litchfield is a bit of a <a href="http://www.newswireless.net/index.cfm/article/3060" target="_blank">Nokia maniac<>, admittedly; but the idea of plugging a phone into a TV and using it as a computer...

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You too, huh...

Reader Adrian James has been trying to set up WiFi on the new Vista operating system...

He's one ahead of me. Even with the power plugged into my Centrino Tablet (no problem with the battery!) I can't get the WiFi LAN connection to work. Connect? yes, it will do that! - but while every other wireless PC in the house is working happily, the Vista machine gets an IP address, and then sulks about "the Internet cannot be found."

Good morning Guy,
I just wanted to comment on your wireless hex conversion nightmare that you wrote about. I also deal with converting ASCII to HEX on a regular basis- I am the go-to person for all of my friends and family when setting up their wireless security for all of their pc's.
After many tries, i found a little Palm program that I loaded on my PDA. It is a basic converter that works one character at a time- yes it would have been great to find a program that would convert a full string, but I can't be too choosy. Using the small program, it allows me to set up numerous routers and access points without referring to a table.
-Mike

Munich,
Thanks for passing that on. I've looked into the folding plug, and here is what I've found: it's not being made, and apparently, never was. More details when I find out more...

Folding plug...

Hi Guy,
    I was Googled to your page:
    http://www.newswireless.net/index.cfm/article/1322
    when I went looking for a folding mains plug which someone had mentioned to me. Unfortunately I can't find any reference to this product at the link on your page: http://www.teleadapt.com/
     
    Is there anything you can do to help me find this product? It seems like such a good idea!
    Regards,

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