Rants
AT&T and LTE: Are you kidding me?
Hey Doc, I don’t care what whose sources either you or Engadget are using to even suggest AT&T has figured it out, specifically that AT&T’s throughput in New York City is the best in the business at 1523kbps which would be several times faster than what I’ve seen routinely in midtown Manhattan during business hours [...]
A BlackBerry Hit Piece
I haven’t written about the failures of a platform in about a year but I’m drawn to do it again. Why? Well when we learned that we could run BlackBerry software on Windows phones I was initially excited to try it out. But even after talking to BlackBerry users there was a simple consensus [...]
Windows Phone 7 Is A Leap Forward
Ever since watching the release event for Windows Phone 7 Series we’ve been internally discussing what this all means. And the more I think about it, the more I see this as a huge leap forward for the platform. I know that some people are already upset that there aren’t going to be UI [...]
Microsoft’s Mobile Hail Mary
In an effort to escape my abyss of obscurity in the mobile software market, if I were Microsoft, to distance myself from my embarrassing mobile past I would commit at least a thousand developers to perfecting the next release (including one or two who are actually on the payroll and not some random ugly website [...]
Marketplace Does Have Good Dev Support
I don’t have enough fingers to count how many articles I’ve read about Marketplace and how it’s unfriendly to developers, nonresponsive, etc. Well I’ve had several opportunities to test these theories both first hand and through conversations with some developers and as it turns out, Marketplace is a pretty friendly place. Let me start with [...]
Not Going To Lie – I Like This Idea
This is not a WM device. It’s Lenovo’s LePhone running Android. But it has one really unique feature that I think is pretty innovative and I wish came to WM. The keyboard is detachable. So you can use it like a touchscreen only phone with an onscreen keyboard or pop it into the clear [...]
Windows Mobile – In A League Of Its Own
Microsoft has always taken a different approach than other manufacturers when it comes to mobile platforms. Both Blackberry and Apple produce the hardware and operating system for their mobile devices and third parties are invited to the party to make accessories and apps. Microsoft, as we know, has not entered the mobile hardware market yet [...]
10 Predictions For 2010
Wow can you believe it’s almost 2010 already? 2009 was fun but let’s take a minute to throw out ten mobile predictions for 2010. Take a read and tell us what you think is likely, unlikely and unmentioned. Are you looking forward to mobility in 2010?
(Due to the length of this one, hit the [...]
A Well Placed Ad
Always nice to see Microsoft advertising effectively. Take a look at this ad placement in the middle of an article called “BlackBerry users dealing with e-mail outage”. Their ad appears right after “RIM’s system is relatively reliable, but its centralized structure means that any problems can affect millions of users.”
I know it’s just adsense or [...]
Spare Change
As you probably know, we try to remind people as much as possible to support the developers and there’s good reason for it. The reason most of us use a Windows phone is because of the huge amount of tweaking and software available for our phones and it’s all at our fingertips. But we can’t [...]
