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Image Gallery: Native mobile Facebook application comparison

An official Google Android Facebook application was released this week, which prompted us to take a look at the official Facebook application that is available across every mobile operating system except for Palm WebOS. Several screenshots of the apps are shown here with a full article detailing them all on...

Tags: Mobile, Smart Phones, Mobile Operating Systems, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, screenshots, iphone, apple, facebook, windows mobile, android, symbian, nokia, htc, Matthew Miller

Image galleries 2009-09-14

Image Gallery: Nokia World 2009 products and services

Nokia World 2009 was held in Stuggart, Germany in September 2009 and a few new products and accessories were shown with some beta services. Check out these images of the upcoming Nokia products. by Matthew Miller

Tags: Nokia Corp., product photos, nokia, smartphone, symbian, linux, maemo, services, ovi, Matthew Miller

Image galleries 2009-09-02

Image Gallery: King of the QWERTYS

Touch screen smartphones are all the rage today with the iPhone, Palm Pre, and Google Android devices. However, there are still millions of people who enjoy a messaging experience on forward facing QWERTY smartphones. We will be taking an in-depth comparative look at the top three smartphones running Symbian, Windows...

Tags: Smart Phone, Touch Screen Smartphone, Smart Phones, Handhelds, Palm Pre, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, product photos, symbian, windows mobile, blackberry, smartphone, qwerty, messaging, Matthew Miller

Image galleries 2009-07-19

Image Gallery: Matthew Miller's mobile device history, 1997-2008

I was recently asked how many PDAs and mobile phones I have owned since I started using them in 1997 and discovered there were 90 that I could remember. This doesn't even count all the review units I used for 2 weeks to 30 days throughout the years too. Take...

Tags: Mobile, Mobile Device, Matthew Miller, Advertising & Promotion, PDAs, Marketing, Handhelds, Hardware, product photos, palm, pocket pc, microsoft, windows mobile, symbian, s60, apple, nokia

Image galleries 2008-10-03

Edit and create Word and Excel docs on S60 devices with OfficeSuite 4

Nokia markets their Nseries mobile devices as "multimedia computers" and for the most part they do serve as excellent audio and video platforms. The Nseries also comes loaded with other productivity applications, like thw QuickOffice viewer application. Their Eseries line is targeted towards the enterprise user and comes loaded with...

Tags: Symbian, Smartphone, S60, Review, Nseries, Nokia, Mobile software

Blog posts 2007-07-20

MobileTechRoundup show #104; iPhone is returned

Listen here (MP3, 33.2 MB, 36:10 minutes)Subscribe to the show with this link RSSI give listeners my last word on my iPhone ownership over the last two weeks in MobileTechRoundup show #104. Kevin asked some good questions and there are definitely reasons to like the iPhone. We had a listener...

Tags: iPhone, BlackBerry, Apple, MoTR podcast, Nokia, Smartphone, Symbian

Blog posts 2007-07-13

Nokia kicks off Mobile Rules! 2008 competition

Symbian is the world's leading smartphone operating system and unlike the Apple iPhone manufacturers like Nokia actively support 3rd party application development. To emphasize and honor those developers who are out there working to design applications to make our live more efficient, fun, and rewarding Nokia is launching the second...

Tags: Mobile software, Nokia, S60, Smartphone, Symbian

Blog posts 2007-07-12

Apple seems to have forgotten the phone in the iPhone

I just passed 10 days of iPhone ownership after waiting in line for 24 hours and then posting my first and second impressions of the device. I was quite excited about the iPhone after finding out that the AT&T data plan was reasonably priced and gave it an honest evaluation....

Tags: Wireless carriers, Windows Mobile, Symbian, Smartphone, S60, Nokia, iPhone, Feature phones, Apple

Blog posts 2007-07-09

Nokia E90 Communicator available for ordering on Dell.com

I am still testing out the Apple iPhone, but I am also discovering that it is basically a feature phone with iPod functionality that is missing basic phone functions and many smartphone functions. Granted it isn't really designed for power users like me, but the dang interface keeps drawing me...

Tags: Symbian, Smartphone, S60, Nokia

Blog posts 2007-07-04

Mail for Exchange available for Nokia Nseries devices

I have a couple of Nokia Nseries devices for testing and evaluation from the Nseries Blogger Relations program and early last year I was able to use an older version of Mail for Exchange on them to sync with my hosted Exchange account. Versions after 1.3 broke this functionality on...

Tags: Symbian, Smartphone, S60, Nokia, Mobile software

Blog posts 2007-07-02

MobileTechRoundup show #103: Are any of the hosts planning to pick up an iPhone?

Listen here (MP3, 29.8 MB, 32:30 minutes)Subscribe to the show with this link RSSThis week is iPhone week and James, Kevin, and I just couldn't avoid talking a bit about the upcoming release in MobileTechRoundup show #103. Kevin asked each of us if we planned on getting an iPhone so...

Tags: Windows Mobile, Tablet PC, Symbian, Smartphone, S60, Nokia, MoTR podcast, iPhone, HTC, Apple

Blog posts 2007-06-26

First Look: TalkPlus Mobile S60 client

There are some very good Voice 2.0 services available to help you be more productive and efficient in your work and one company that I chatted with back at CES in January is TalkPlus. I tried out their TalkPlus Mobile service late last fall and in the winter, primarily using...

Tags: Voice 2.0, Symbian, Smartphone, S60, Nokia, Mobile software, mobile services

Blog posts 2007-06-25

Nokia Eseries devices are widely available in the U.S.

I purchased a Nokia E61 to replace my Treo 650 from a US importer last year and have since upgraded to a Nokia E61i, again via a US importer. Nokia posted a press release announcing that Nokia E-series, these are the enterprise focused devices like the E61i, are broadly available...

Tags: Wireless carriers, Symbian, Smartphone, S60, Nokia

Blog posts 2007-06-25

GrandCentral may be acquired by Google

According to an unconfirmed report on TechCrunch the excellent Voice 2.0 company that I have talked about a few times, GrandCentral, may have been acquired by Google. This is one way to arrange major funding for your company and I just hope we don't lose the functionality and features that...

Tags: Voice 2.0, Symbian, Smartphone, S60, mobile services

Blog posts 2007-06-24

MyStrands social recommender service secures US$25 million in funding

In my personal experience, the internet seems to be evolving into a tool that is actually connecting people more than isolating them. I know in the last couple of years that I have met and corresponded with more people than I would have in my limited "real-life" sphere of living....

Tags: Windows Mobile, Symbian, Smartphone, S60, mobile services

Blog posts 2007-06-20

Opera Mini 4: who needs an iPhone for mobile web browsing?

As we get closer and closer to the release of the Apple iPhone I think some people are finally taking a more in-depth look at what other choices there are already on the market and trying to understand if the iPhone is as revolutionary as Apple has stated. One area...

Tags: Apple iPhone, BlackBerry, iPhone, Matthew Miller, mobile, Mobile software, Nokia, Opera Mini, Opera Mini 4, Opera Software ASA, Palm, Review, S60, Smartphone, Symbian, T-Mobile Wing, Web browser, Windows Mobile

Blog posts 2007-06-19

IM from your Nokia device with Gizmo Project

A couple of days ago my Mobile Tech Roundup podcast co-host, Kevin Tofel, posted news that Gizmo Project added IM support for AIM and MSN Messenger. They even made it very easy to add your buddies to your Gizmo Project contact lists. You can also call people on Yahoo Messenger,...

Tags: Mobile software, Nokia, S60, Smartphone, Symbian, VoIP

Blog posts 2007-06-14

Sync your Nokia mobile device media to your Mac natively

As regular readers know I am a part of the Nokia Nseries Blogger Relations program and get the opportunity to review some very cool Nokia smartphones like the N95, N93 and N73. My primary home computer is a MacBook Pro and up until now I have always used the Nokia...

Tags: Symbian, Smartphone, S60, Nokia, Mobile software

Blog posts 2007-06-08

MobileTechRoundup show #99; New devices in the house

Listen here (MP3, 33.7 MB, 36:40 minutes)Subscribe to the show with this link RSSI was on the road again for MobileTechRoundup show #99, but that didn't stop Kevin, James, and myself from talking about the sale of my Samsung Q1 UMPC and Nokia E61 and the purchase of my new...

Tags: Windows Mobile, Symbian, S60, On the road, Nokia, MoTR podcast, Mobile software, Apple

Blog posts 2007-05-20

fring now supports Twitter

I have to admit that I can't stop using Twitter on my mobile devices, even though I know it is having a negative impact on my battery capacity. I enjoy the community and find it a quick and easy way to stay in touch with friends, most of who I...

Tags: mobile services, Nokia, S60, Smartphone, Symbian, VoIP

Blog posts 2007-05-17