Verizon Wireless is betting on the new BlackBerry Storm for the all-important holiday season, hoping the highly anticipated smartphone can compete against the iPhone offered by rival wireless provider AT&T Inc.
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I got to spend a couple of hours today with the highly-anticipated Blackberry Storm (a.k.a. 9350) from RIM and Verizon Wireless. I created an overview video (05:51) of some of its features and the overall user interface. Apologies for the GSM interference coming from my iPhone.
Some highlights include: the media application, 3.2MP camera (with flash and image stabilization), rear panel with removable battery, memory card and SIM slots, hardware buttons, accelerometer, hybrid capacitive/resistive touchscreen, Web browser and visual voicemail with archive and forward functionality.
Today at Dealmaker Media’s Under the Radar conference, one presenting startup stood out from all others to win the audience choice award: PhoneTopp. I got a chance to sit down with company chief executive Tom Barsi earlier in the day to go over the online conference and collaboration tool built to use with select smartphones.
VMware, which consumers know mostly for their Fusion desktop virtualization software, is moving into the mobile space, albeit surreptitiously. The company has announced VMware MVP, a thin layer of software that will interface between handsets' hardware and operating system, allowing for a standardized development platform across any handsets that include it. What does this mean for regular consumers? For now, not much. If the tech finds enough support for hardware vendors, though, the consequences could be major.
Apple, with its one-stop App Store for the iPhone, made downloading programs like games and utilities for the device easy by using the phone itself. Google is doing the same thing with the new Android Market for Android phones, and next March, Research In Motion will start its own application store for BlackBerrys.
Is this how we’ll get all our phone software in the future? Experts say it is, especially for those who have smartphones with Web, e-mail and other computer-like programs on them.
In XP this was simple: Connect the mobile, activesynch starts and WMP finds the storage card so I could synch music over.
synchronization of Outlook information, Office docs, pics, music, videos and applications from your desktop to Windows Mobile-based Pocket PCs & Smartphones.
