by Chris | Feb 12, 2008 | Development, Hardware, Mobile
Besides the well known top dogs in the mobile world, like Nokia and SonyEricsson we had one of the newcomers in our video walk through, yesterday. But that newcomer Garnim did not need to step to far from his core business as they are big in the GPS-handheld-device...
by Chris | Feb 11, 2008 | Hardware, Mobile
Here is a short video walkthrough of the new handsets presented and other insight at the GSMA Mobile World Congress today: Garnim Nuvifone … the Smartphone mixed with a personal GPS navigation device. Nokia N96 … their new flagship product to compete with...
by Chris | Jan 18, 2008 | Applications, Applications, Development, Development, Hardware, Mobile, Web
The people at Skyhook Wireless really did a smart job with their Wi-Fi Positioning System: They just use the highly distributed public and private Wi-Fi infrastructure of everyone as reference points for their location tracking. So basically every WiFi-enabled device...
by Chris | Jan 16, 2008 | Applications, Development, Development, Development, Hardware, Mac, Mobile, Web
Steve Jobs presented a new feature of the iPhone – and also the iPod touch. Especially the iPod touch transforms into a new category of devices by adding location based services: By cooperating with Skyhook Wireless it is possible to get the own location by...
by Chris | Dec 1, 2007 | Hardware, Mobile
Great to see, that T-Mobile can listen to the complains of their customers. At the start of the holiday season the big "magenta" touched up the iPhone-rates in Germany: You don’t find any EDGE-bandwidth throttling in the rate description. Finally, the...
by Chris | Nov 25, 2007 | Development, Hardware, Mobile
It really looked that easy: Apple picks one exclusive mobile network operator, negotiates a data flat fee fort he iPhone customers and makes money out of hardware sales and mobile spendings of the iPhone customers. And by the way Apple creates an iPhone-hype for the...