When you think about it, most mobile users don’t think about what’s under the hood of their device. Let me amend that phone. More than likely 90% of mobile users, no matter what the OS, under utilise their devices, and probably have no idea what sort of powerhouse they have in the palm [well Palm devices excluded, we are waiting for the Pre] of their hands. Me, I’m always looking at specifications, mainly Processor speed and Ram.
So thinking about the evolution of the mobile phone, the truly detached from a vehicle mobile phone, [not a car phone], we have gone from hernia inducing, over the shoulder, communicators, trending down to phones that, you would lose if you blinked, and finally found a form factor that is a compromise with a simple human condition that goes by the name of “usability”.
With what seems to be the best form factor for a mobile device comes the miniaturisation and enlargement of the power we expect to be included in a mobile device now.
The Qualcomm Snapdragon platform, is really the next step as far as I can see, handheld devices with a 1Ghz processor, this looks like the future of mobile computing, and gaming, and well , whack this in a WinMo phone and I’ll be happy! 
Via ExperienceMobility
There have been a plethora of posts and wide speculation as to whether the newly inaugurated President, would be able to keep his beloved BlackBerry. In fact the idea that he even embraced modern technology endeared him to me before I even thought about what it meant for Obama to win office. Hey, any geek is a good geek right?
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As I type this on my Eee PC, I really think it’s time to say, Netbook, Netbook, Netbook, cause that name for the little laptops we’ve come to love, is not ours to use. Well that’s not exactly correct, we are not allowed to profit from the use of the term. This is probably one of the most bizarre turns of events in internet glossary editing I’ve ever come across. The range of little notebook/laptop devices that have come under the “netbook” label recently is enormous. Many hardware developers, from Asus to Dell to Acer to MSI, Lenovo, to name a very small few, have picked up the form factor that we’ve been called “netbook” for quite a while now.
Apparently though, long time hand held device manufacturer Psion, actually coined the phrase/name, a long time ago, and are taking umbrage at the use of the term, a little late. I mean, that netbook was not made famous by Psion, I actually believe that the advent of full featured itty bitty laptop devices, focused on the main functions utilised by everyday PC users, brought the name to a globally recognised term. Before that. I hadn’t heard of a netbook. Had you? The legal ramifications of something like this are, well, Psion are telling people to “Cease and Desist” but it’s evolved since then, and it seems you are not allowed to gain profit from using the term netbook.
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This may seem like an off topic post, I mean what do your old LP’s have to do with mobility? With all of the Media player news this week, this really becomes relevant, and it’s a great device if you’re an audiophile of the vynil persuasion, no S&M inferences intended, you’d love a way to transfer your vynil to digital with all of the pops and clicks.
I only own a couple of original LP’s, two Max Roach albums, and a limited edition Grand Funk Railroad album.
Now the debate over which is best, the original LP or the same music, digitally re-mastered, is a sore point. what if you could take directly from an LP player to a digital source. I’ve never been quite cognisant of the differences, but I’ve always been scared of scratching a record. To the extent that I wouldn’t play them. The cassette tape saved me from a lot of the angst of handling vynil.
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