Cell Phones

Open Session on PhoneGap Development

Curious about PhoneGap? Have questions? Today, Andrew Trice and myself are hosting a 2 hour Adobe Connect session on PhoneGap. This will be an open session for your questions, not a presentation. The Connect URL is: http://my.adobeconnect.com/adobehtml. The date/time is Tuesday 1PM CST to 3PM CST (that’s 11AM to 1PM PST).

Original post from Ray Camden: http://www.raymondcamden.com/index.cfm/2012/5/7/Open-Session-on-PhoneGap-Development

One Day With The New Samsung GALAXY Tab 10.1

World Exclusive !!!! the first video test of  the NEW Android Honeycomb Tablet. Samsung GALAXY Tab 10.1 is your ultimate entertainer, delivering multimedia tablet experience at the grandest scale ever
Watch Full HD movies, take 8MP photos, and play games or surf Flash websites on the large 10.1″ display and dual surround sound speakers
Everything runs smoother, faster and better with the powerful 1GHz Dual Core Processor and Android 3.0, Honeycomb platform.

AIR For Android, Adobe Plans To Deliver Apps Across All Mobile Devices

The bane of all mobile app developers is the need to rewrite the same app over and over again for different devices: the iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Palm Pre, Nokia, Windows Mobile. Adobe is positioning its Flash platform (which includes the Flash player, AIR, developer tools, and media servers) as the write-once, deploy-anywhere solution for both the mobile Web and apps. Today at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, it will announce plans to bring Adobe AIR to mobile devices, starting with Android and Blackberry phones.

Read more on the TechCrunch website.

New Samsung OmniaHD

Samsung OmniaHD
This is the phone I’ll be waiting to come to the U.S. market. Its specifications are fantastic, 3.7″ touch screen, 640×360 resolution, 8mp camera, 3G and Wi-Fi network, GPS, 16GB internal memory, MicroSDHC slot, records high definition video and can play it back on a HD-ready TV.
No price established yet, but be sure it will be expensive.
I just hope its battery last longer than my G1′s.
You may find the whole article here.

My G1 Phone's Battery Died on Me

G1 PhoneAfter about 4 months of use, early this week my G1 phone stopped charging. I could not use it off the charger for more than 1 minute. I called T-Mobile’s tech support and did some troubleshooting with them. Finally they decided to send me a new battery. I was lucky to have a spare phone (my old Blackberry), so I placed the SIM card in the Blackberry and I managed to have a  working phone for the 4-day waiting period for the battery to arrive. I got the new battery Saturday, charged it and it lasted from Saturday night until now (about 24 hours). So I had to charge it again, although I have not talked on the phone for those 24 hours. It seems that the batteries are not well designed for this phone. That makes me think about why din’t I move to the iPhone ?! I’m a loyal T-Mobile customer for about 4 years, love their service (best customer service I ever experienced), never had any problems with access, drop calls, etc… The G1 phone is not bad, it is a start of a new age, open source but it is still very “probie” in this existing cell-war .

Well I’m sure many people are complaining about the same issue and I hope T-Mobile finds a solution soon. I’ll give it another chance, since I had no costs for this new battery, just the headache of not using the Internet in my Blackberry for 4 days.

New Chinese iPhoneys

Network World magazine published today an article about the Chinese iPhone look-alike or even clones. They have many models and are unlocked. Some do not work in the U.S. but the majority of them work here with any provider. Here is the article “Top 16 Chinese iPhoneys“. You may find in the article the place to buy them online.

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