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Safari exploit gives hackers full control over iPhones and possibly PCs and Macs {Engadget Mobile}
Jul 23rd 2007 4:37AM Nokia doesn't use the the Safari BASED browser to as the vehicle to install extra stuff. Should be safe.
G900 gets "sleep of death" patch from Toshiba {Engadget Mobile}
Jul 23rd 2007 4:24AM Windows Mobile is just a lousy operating system for mobile phones. I have been suffering it for a couple of years, two or three hard resets a day for power users continue to be common, as well as performance slowdowns over the time.
The "sleep of death" issue is VERY common also to other manufacturers. Several (high persentage!) Qtek/HTC devices in my company running WM5 are showing the same problem. Too bad that WM6 still hasn't sorted this out.
We resolved to drop WM devices all together. Switching from WM to Symbian/Nokia was like switching from Windows to OSX - suddenly everything works as advertised and it does so very elegantly! Nokia's Internet access autoconfiguration feature is just amazing. Slide in the SIM of any operator and the GPRS/UMTS access points are just there - NOTHING to configure. Same for Wifi. Many WM users who are no power-users, just gave up.
I still haven't had an iPhone in my hand, but currently the range of available Symbian devices, not only from Nokia, is so broad that the iPhone still looks like a very well marketed niche product for people who want fun, but don't require advanced business features. For sure I am not going to trade in my new Nokia E90 with its just perfect qwerty keyboard for any WM or iPhone device.
Hands-on with the HTC Advantage {Engadget Mobile}
Mar 26th 2007 3:33PM Tpp, I will certainly wait for the Nokia E90 for many reasons. Some of them: the horizontal screen resolution is 800 pixel, so there is no need to horizontally Scroll most websites as with the HTC's 640 pixels, the nokia keyboards are more optimised and don't have that unnerving mechanical click of the HTC ones, plus the one you mentioned: it doesn't run Windows Mobile but the much nicer Symbian.
Additionally,.it is pocketable and features a fully usable 320x240 secondary screen on the outside, so you don't have to open (or even mount) the thing to check emails or browse the web during boring meetings.
Just everything more mature and user oriented...
RIM and Samsung make nice on naming dispute {Engadget}
Feb 8th 2007 12:45PM Blackberry vs. Windows Mobile? Don't make me laugh.
Y really tried hard to fall in love with WM's vast availability of 3rd party software, used both the Treo 750 and HTC TTyN - really uptodate devices.
But after half a dozen of daily reboots and a system crash produced by an incoming call (unrecoverable...) I promised not to touch again any Bill Gates stuff on a mission critical environment such as a phone.
This made me discover out why Blackberry and Nokia (Symbian) smartphones do not have that infamous hole where you find the WM devices' reset button. THEY DON'T NEED IT!! They never really crash or at least not as bad as not being able to solve it by turning off/on the phone.
NO BILL GATES STUFF ON MY PHONE, please
RIM and Samsung make nice on naming dispute {Engadget Mobile}
Feb 8th 2007 12:40PM Blackberry vs. Windows Mobile? Don't make me laugh.
Y really tried hard to fall in love with WM's vast availability of 3rd party software, used both the Treo 750 and GTC TTyN - really uptodate devices.
But after half a dozen of daily reboots and a system crash produced by an incoming call (unrecoverable...) I promised not to touch again any Bill Gates stuff on a mission critical environment such as a phone.
This made me find out why Blackberry and Nokia (Symbian) smartphones do not have that infamous hole where you find the WM devices' reset button. THEY DON'T NEED IT!! They never really crash or at least not as bad as not being able to solve it by turning off/on the phone.
NO BILL GATES STUFF ON MY PHONE, please
Samsung outdoes itself with Ultra Smart F700 {Engadget Mobile}
Feb 8th 2007 5:55AM Those Koreans are making rotate the world the other way round! Their world clock reads: New York 13 February, Belin still 12 February. I hope the real product will be a bit more refined than their virtual mock-up.
Any news about the Operating System they are going to use? If it's a home-made, closed solution instead of a nicely skinned Symbian even the sexiest phone is a no go...
