Samsung Galaxy Tab was presented at the IFA show in Berlin today. This is the first real competitor to the Apple iPad and it’ll be fun to see how it will be received.  The Galaxy is running Android 2.2 and has the size of 7″. It also has both front (1,3MP) and back (3MV) cameras, something I’ll envy as long as I have my iPad…. You can also use it for phone calls, with headset/mic or as conference phone placed on the table. Screen resolution is 1024×600 and it comes with 16GB internal storage and is expandable with another 32.

One thing I’m not quite sure about is the recommended retail price of  kr. 7 400 NOK  (about $1 200 USD and €940 EUR) . A bit expensive.

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Here’s a nice post from pocketnow.com explaining the debated layout of the Windows Phone 7 home screen and why it has blank spots on the right side of the screen.

Read the full article here: http://pocketnow.com/windows-phone/divine-proportions-why-the-start-page-has-a-big-blank-space-on-the-side

When i got the iPad I didn’t have a microSIM card and the first thing i tried to do was to try and pair the iPhone and the iPad through bluetooth… guess what; it doesn’t work.. the iPad or iPhone does not see each other as bluetooth devices.

I guess this is the strategy Apple has chosen to sell more of the 3G iPad’s. Would you need a 3G iPad if you could pair? nope….

It looks like the iPad is not able to see any phone or modem capable devices at all by the looks of it, but it can be paired with laptops (at least it can be paired with my MacBook Pro at work) Continue Reading

Nice promo video showing off Xbox live on the upcoming Windows Phone 7

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Erik Rossen of Digi.no wrote about a week ago an article about a commercial initiative to try out QR Codes in marketing. The background is that an open source company named “Already On” has created some sort of framework or integration with Barpoint Mobile’s QR Code solution. In it self it is interesting. Continue Reading

You could wonder? What is happening in the Oracle halls after the acquisition of Sun and Java? I must admit that as an MSFT .netter I haven’t been following the Java community for a veeeery long time, so I am not really sure how “healthy” it is, but my general understanding has been that Java and the platform has been moving more and more towards the Open Source, GPL licensing policy.

I remember reading something about fears for discontinuity of Java from Oracle, but this is not likely. Oracle is most certainly trying to figure out how to make money out of Java. Suing Google is one way of making money out of Java.  What could be another way is to make Android go away leaving only one major java based mobile phone operating system left, Research In Motion (RIM) and the Blackberry.

Stephen Jannise, an ERP market analyst at Manufacturing Software Advice
has been following Oracle and had a close look at Oracle’s Mergers and Acquisitions. One of the companies he has nominated for merge/acquisition is in fact RIM, so could this be the angle? Push out competition, acquire RIM and then “own” the whole java developer community? Continue Reading

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As i told you a year ago you can now kiss “miniTV” goodbye. Low sales and minimal interest for bringing yet another portable device along with you makes the distributing shops Elkjøp,  Expert and 7-Eleven remove the few devices available from their shelves.

Leader of Norwegian Mobile-TV Gunnar Garfors agrees that it hasn’t been a flying success and muses about if it could be caused by lack of marketing, and emphasizes that it has been a trial project in digi.no. – Gunnar, It’s not because of marketing this is a flop! Continue Reading

Today Adobe announced the release of Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1 to mobile platform partners.

Redesigned from the ground up with new performance and mobile specific features, Flash Player 10.1 is the first release that brings the full Web across desktops and devices. Mobile users will now be able to experience millions of sites with rich applications and content inside the browser including games, animations, rich Internet applications (RIAs), data presentations and visualizations, ecommerce, music, video, audio and more.

The Flash player is expected to be available as a final production release for devices once users are able to upgrade to Android 2.2 “Froyo.” Once upgraded, smart phones, tablets and other devices can be updated with Flash Player 10.1 over-the-air via numerous ways including content triggered downloads, system software updates and on-device app catalogs such as Android Market, Adobe Labs and other venues. The upgrade mechanism will vary by device and device manufacturer.

Read the full press release here: http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/201006/06222010FlashPlayerAvailability.html

On June 17. 2010 Microsoft announced their roadmap for the new and improved Microsoft Windows Embedded platform, suited for LOB (Line of Business) type of devices and applications.

One of the major changes from the earlier versions from a developer perspective is the upgrade from the Windows CE 5.x kernel to the 6.0 kernel, which now can handle more than 32,000 simultaneous processes. A huge improvement from the 32 processes the previous 5.x could handle. Each of the 32,000 processes has a upper limit of 2GB of virtual memory space, in 5.x you had 32MB…. Windows Embedded 7 will also support touch, gestures and Silverlight, something that improve the UI and UX capabilities immensely.

he full set of features for Windows Embedded can be found here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsembedded/ce/dd630616.aspx and “What’s new in CE 6.0″ can be found here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa924105.aspx

Windows Embedded will come in 6 base flavors and below  is a short description of each copied from http://www.microsoft.com/windowsembedded/en-us/products/default.mspx. Continue Reading

While we are waiting for the full release of Windows Phone 7 Series, with devices, Marketplace and applications; Android based phones continues to grow and has passed Microsoft and Windows Mobile in the global device market.

A Gartner report released on may 19. shows that Android is the quickest growing mobile operating systems.

The report looks at the global market and market shares in 1Q of 2009 and 2010 and shows that the market leader Symbian is down 4,5% and has now 44,3% share of the market , RIM (Research In Motion blackberry) is the second largest OS with 19,4% share, but is down by 1,2%. Apple is up 4,9% to a 15,4% share  and Android is up 8% to a 9,5%.

The old Windows Mobile OS from Microsoft is down 3,4% to a market share of 6,8%. Continue Reading