Qtek 9090 Pocket PC

This was fun. While looking around for some cables i found one of my first ever Windows Mobile phones. An ancient Qtek 9090 Microsoft PocketPC phone.

I remember when i got it I was stoked on how cool this phone was 32bit Intel PXA263 CPU with a blazing speed of 400MHz. a 3.5″ Transflective TFT-LCD screen, a camera, WiFi and bluetooth. And the QWERTY keyboard was actually quite good to use for SMS’ing and emails. Continue Reading

A bit late, but i was planning to comment on an article (in Norwegian) from beginning of November  that refere to a statement from the Gartner Symposium ITxpo 2009 conference.

Made by Gartner analyst Monica Basso that muses that the Windows Mobile OS doesn´t have a future, that Microsoft is working to slow, and that they’re not able to renew the OS according to whims and wishes of the consumers. That they will not be able to regain any market share because of that.

Basis for this is according to Gartner that the Windows Mobile platform is to big and not dynamic enough to be scaled down to function on the less powerful and not so advanced phones, aka the regular cellphones(?) that dominates today’s mobile market. Continue Reading