There’s some nice chit-chat going on about the camera on the N900 right now. Ari Jaaksi highlighted the rather stunning set of photos appearing on Flickr which has prompted a lot of people to go ‘wow!’ I’m holding back on recommending the N900 as a good cameraphone choice based on issues I’m seeing outside the realm of pure image quality. A smartphone is, for most people, a snapshot camera. It’s there to take photos of events as they happen. Family, friends etc. The most important thing is that it produces […]

I should have been in bed but I got hooked into an excellent Gillmor Gang videocast (below) this evening. Robert Scoble, Mike Arrington, P Rangaswami, Kevin Marks, and Saul Hansell talk a lot about the iPhone and Driod war, discuss the differences and then, all of a sudden, at about 39 minutes in, the conversation switches to the Crunchpad. As I watched, I sent three important tweets out: “crunchpad is steamrolling” , “costs keep coming down”. “big news on that shortly” says @arrington Crunchpad is going to sell “for something […]

When will the madness end? New slate devices currently seem to be announced as frequently as a new Eee PC model was a year or so ago. Why are all these slates popping up, and is anyone even buying them? This all seems awfully familiar too… didn’t we already hate these devices once before? What’s with all of these damn slates lately? Over the last few months we’ve seen slate devices spread at a ridiculous pace. For a simple demonstration of this, take a look at the visual version of […]

A company called Innovative Convergent Devices has put info up on their website about a new device called the Vega, which purportedly will be an Android 2.0 powered slate device which will come in your choice of size: 7 inch, 11 inch or up to a whooping 15.6 inch. Check the specs (likely subject to change): Android OS 7/11/15.6 inch resistive touchscreen at 1366×768 Nvidia Tegra (probably the Tegra 600 or 650, which are both Arm 11) 4 hour battery life 512MB of RAM 512MB of memory (expandable through MicroSD) […]

Jenn over at Pocketables.net is getting ready to take a break from the site to become a new mother, but she isn’t leaving the internet empty handed as she goes. She recently got the Kohjinsha PA [Portal page] series convertible which might just be a device so ugly that only a mother could love it — yet still she managed to dish out a mini review of the PA series as her last post until she returns sometime next year. Jump over and have a look at the smallest convertible […]

There’s nothing more fun than walking from mobile phone shop to mobile phone shop trying to work out what exactly is going on in the market. For a start it’s shocking to hear the differences in opinion between shops of the same ‘brand’ and secondly, none of them have a clue what’s going on with their own websites let along what’s happening in the market. Questions about the Motorola Milestone today were met with that millisecond pause that tells you that what comes out of their mouth is going to […]

Jkk has spotted that the Archos 9 has been dissected over at the FCC. Unfortunately you won’t find unicorns or magic inside, but just your everyday Atom guts and computer components. Swapping out the 1.8 inch HDD which (jkk identified to be PATA with a ZIF connector) shouldn’t be hard if you don’t mind cracking the case on your Archos 9 [Portal page] as jkk said, it’s fun to see what they look like inside. And in case anyone was unsure, SIM slot has been verified via these images so […]

Qualcomm announced the ‘first’ smartbook [*1] yesterday. It’s due in 2010 and it’s going to be a very very tough challenge  to make an impact of this wildly dynamic mobile device market we’re seeing right now. My opinion is that ‘smartbooks’ are not going to impress anyone in the first half of 2010 but as we near 2011, they have a chance to break through. Operating system and processing power are the key issues but in this report I talk through a number of the ingredients that go together to […]