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Smartphone Experts Roundtable Podcast 3

Dieter Bohn — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:27:06 +0000

Join Dieter, Matthew, Kevin, Rene, and Casey as they discuss Mobile World Congress 2009 -- there's a little bit for everybody in this gigantic cross-platfrom smartphone podcast!

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Show notes after the break.

Casey Chan for Android Central
Kevin Michaluk for CrackBerry.com
Matthew Miller for Nokia Experts
Rene Ritchie for The iPhone Blog
and Dieter Bohn for TreoCentral, PreCentral.net, and WMExperts

WMExperts

The iPhone Blog

Turn by Turn GPS is shown off
Docs2Go for the iPhone is incoming
Adobe still doesn't get that Apple's just not that into Flash
AT&T talks about the iPhone because "99.5 percent of the industry is trying to copy the iPhone".

PreCentral.net

Nokia Experts

CrackBerry.com

Happy Birthday CrackBerry.com
SurePress - Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough
BB Application Suite

Android Central

Credits

Special thanks to gmz for the song Parametaphoriquement, licensed under the Creative Commons at CCMixter.org

Phone different Podcast Episode 34

Rene Ritchie — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 01:12:54 +0000

Rene and Chad fill in for Dieter and Mike this week, covering Mobile World Congress, the latest with Google and GPS, more MobileMe, Jailbreaking illegal, and the rest of the news. Listen in!

News

Dieter's at Mobile World Congress, and so is Turn by Turn GPS, and so is Flash "Full" but iPhone Safari already supports CSS animation
iPhone going multi-core, AT&T Going 4G/LTE, Chargers going Universal (should Apple Ditch the Dock?)
Next Gen iPhone Rumors: Could matte black be the new back? Push Notification waiting on Snow Leopard Server? Or will it multitask?
iPhone update: 2 tiny little MicroCell (Femtocell) PNGs
Apple owns 51% of the mobile web and boast 20,000 Apps in 7 months
Google-palooza: Offline GMail Proof-of-Concept, Edit Google Docs spreadsheets, optimized Google Books and Gmail Tasks, Latitude later but Google (Active)Sync now!
Amazon Making Kindle App for iPhone?
Apple Brass Says: iPhone growing, no iPhone Nano, no iPhone Slider, what about re-releasing the iPhone 2G? And Jailbreaking should not have a DMCA exemption
MobileMe adds Large File Sharing and improves Outlook Sync but what else do you want to see in MobileMe 2.0?
Mighty Marvel Motion Comics coming to iTunes!

Store

Chad loves the Case-Mate Dockster Leather Case for iPhone 3G

Credits

Thanks to the the iPhone Blog Store for sponsoring the podcast.

Our music comes from the following sources:

I Called You -- iPhone Remix by Pete Leidy

Sneakmove iPhone Ringtone Challenge

Dear Apple: Please Steal Features From Nokia's Ovi Store

Dieter Bohn — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:17:19 +0000

If you haven't heard, Apple's a no-show here at Mobile World Congress 2009, this show pretty much belongs to Microsoft, HTC, and Nokia (with a side of Samsung and Sony Ericsson). However, as with other trade shows like CES and CTIA, Apple's presence is felt in its absence. Rather than join their brethren in the mobile community, Apple sits it out and watches while other companies are forced to make their announcements in a context Apple has created. To wit: Both Microsoft and Nokia announced App Stores this week. Microsoft's Market is basically a no-show, though, all we have is promises. Nokia's isn't ready yet either, but it will be in May.

Actually, we know quite a bit about Nokia's App Store, called the Ovi Store. It's an extension (and replacement) of their earlier services and includes everything from apps to ringtones to wallpapers to widgets. Here's the thing, folks: Nokia may have solved the #1 problem at Apple's App Store: finding apps that are 1. good and 2. interest you.

What Nokia has done is build a sophisticated relevancy engine that can sort apps based on a variety of factors that are actually relevant to you -- like what you friends are using, or what kind of app you like to download, or what music you tend to prefer. It looks to be much better than your standard "top 50" list and if Apple is smart and shameless (we know they're both), they'll steal these features as soon as humanly possible.

The Ovi Store also looks to be a little kinder and gentler on developers too, giving them more power over how (and if!) their app will be distributed.

I've written the whole thing up over at sister-site Nokia Experts, go on and take a look.

[How about Apple needs to expand iTunes GENIUS recommendations to the App Store immediately? -- Rene]

Live at Mobile World Congress

Rene Ritchie — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:30:15 +0000

Smartphone Experts' always-on-the-go editor-in-chief Dieter Bohn is in Spain and on the floor, ready to send us back any and all news from Mobile World Congress this week. Of course, Apple isn't there, and most general-purpose smartphone shows are pretty happy to pretend the iPhone doesn't exist, so while we won't see anything in the way of new hardware or firmware, we have heard some rumors about pretty big software announcements. (Hint: rhymes with socs2go).

For those interested in what the competition is ~~iCloning~~ doing, keep an eye on these Mobile World Congress sections of PreCentral (including GSM Pre!), WMExperts (including the Touch Diamond 2 and Pro 2), Android Central (pending), and Nokia Experts (pending).

See anything that should make Apple nervous?