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September 30 Per Google: "T-Mobile G1 supports 16GB micro-SDHC" When T-Mobile USA and Google officially announced the
T-Mobile G1 device powered by Android, they mentioned that the device
would come with a 1GB micro-SD card pre-loaded. But when asked how much
external storage can the device acknowledge, 8GB using a micro-SDHC
card was quoted on the current version of Android software presently on
the T-Mobile G1, and that it would support a higher capacity in the
future with a firmware upgrade. But, today, Android Community got a good piece of info from a Google Spokesperson, that was quoted as saying: “We have completed tests, and the new SanDisk 16GB card will run on the current version of Android. No new firmware required.” This is indeed good news, for people that want to pretend the T-Mobile G1 can live and support as much mass storage as the arch rival Apple I-phone. Now, you can go out and order the T-Mobile G1, and go buck wild in the Android Market store and fill up those GB's waiting to be used. Oh did we mention, the T-Mobile G1 supports Mass Storage, so you can plug your USB cable from the phone to your PC, and it will see it as an external drive. http://androidcommunity.com/t-mobile-g1-....-card-20080930/ Now only if we could get confirmation that the device can support 32GB of Micro-SDHC storage out of the box. Hopefully the 32GB micro-SDHC card will be sold soon. ![[image]](http://www.reaperpcpda.com/images/pdanews/G1site.jpg) Post by terryjohnson16 To discuss this topic, speak your mind here on the Reaper PC/PDA Forum: Click Here Nokia..."linux? We got that." Nokia launches Linux-based Qt Extended mobile platform Nokia announced today the launch of Qt Extended 4.4, a complete mobile and embedded development platform based on the open source Qt toolkit. It is designed with a modular architecture that provides building blocks for assembling a Linux-based software stack for various embedded devices ranging from phones to set-top boxes. Nokia acquired Norwegian software company Trolltech earlier this year for $153 million and is now working to consolidate Trolltech's technologies in order to simplify the Qt software ecosystem. The release of Qt Extended 4.4 is part of an effort to rebrand and overhaul Trolltech's former Qtopia platform. The Qt Extended platform consists of 19 separate components that span a broad range of functionality, including messaging, multimedia, and productivity. "Qt Extended is designed to accelerate software development for a wide range of consumer devices, such as video IP phones, media players and other advanced devices," said Nokia's Qt software vice president Sebastian Nystrom. "With the new release of Qt Extended, we are making it easier to differentiate the user experience and the feature set." The Qt Extended platform The underlying telephony stack supports GSM, GPRS and VoIP. For those capabilities, the platform supplies reference implementations that hardware makers can replace or extend. These pieces are wrapped with an abstraction layer that gives application developers easy access to the functionality in a consistent way across Qt Extended devices. ![[image]](http://media.arstechnica.com/news.media/500/screenshot52.png) The Qt Extended messaging component spans the full range of mobile communication technologies, including SMS, MMS, e-mail, and instant messaging. It is built on top of Telepathy, a modular communication framework that is also used on Nokia's Maemo platform and is increasingly being adopted on the Linux desktop. The platform includes a messaging library that provides application developers with a high-level API for composing messages and manipulating the system's message data store. It also exposes Telepathy-based services, including XMPP communication via the Telepathy's Gabble connection manager. In addition to including audio and video playback infrastructure, the multimedia framework in Qt Extended also offers a set of common widgets for building multimedia applications. The top layer of the multimedia stack is the Phonon abstraction library. Qt Extended supports Helix and GStreamer backends for Phonon, but adopters can also make their own to plug into the stack. The multimedia stack also supports a DRM implementation that is compatible with the Open Mobile Alliance DRM standard. The platform's built-in personal information management (PIM) layer is constructed on top of the SQLite database library. It is fully extensible and can be accessed by multiple applications at the same time. The toolkit includes synchronization APIs and widgets that can be used to develop new PIM applications. The platform includes a reference implementation of a very basic PIM suite. The user interface is, of course, built with the Qt widget toolkit. The layout and design of the menu system, dialer, and window manager can be customized with XML-based theming descriptions. It also includes an extensible input method system that supports basic handwriting recognition, standard phone numerical pads (with predictive text), and qwerty keyboards. ![[image]](http://media.arstechnica.com/news.media/qteui3.png.png) ![[image]](http://media.arstechnica.com/news.media/qteui4.png.png) ![[image]](http://media.arstechnica.com/news.media/qteui2.png.png) Qt Extended comes with a lot of other useful things, including the QWebKit widget for building mobile browsers and rich Internet applications, support for Bluetooth and WiFi, and some important architectural components, like a policy-based security system for sandboxing applications and an interprocess communication layer that leverages Qt's signal and slot model. Running Qt Extended Nokia is distributing two basic reference platforms built on top of Qt Extended. One of them is a GSM phone platform that is designed for the OpenMoko handsets, and the other is for a desktop video phone device. These reference platforms can be used as a starting point for device makers that are building their own Qt Extended hardware products and can also be used by third-party application developers who want to target Qt Extended devices. There are numerous commercial products that run various flavors of the Qt mobile platform, including the Sony Mylo, the Dash navigation system, and the Netflix Roku streaming video box. I've experimented with a previous version of the Qtopia phone reference platform on one of Trolltech's now-defunct Greenphone devices, but the best way for developers to do application testing and get a real hands-on feel for the platform now is to test it on an OpenMoko phone. Relative to some other mobile platforms that we have looked at recently, Qt Extended is a strong contender, and it has a lot of nice capabilities. The biggest strengths are the quality of the development tools and the flexibility of the toolkit. There are a lot of things in Qt that make it a real asset on mobile devices. For example, it's easy to create visually rich touchscreen-friendly Qt widgets using SVG and CSS. ![[image]](http://media.arstechnica.com/news.media/450/screenshot54.png) ![[image]](http://media.arstechnica.com/news.media/450/screenshot55.png) Qt Extended is distributed under the same kind of dual-licensing model as the desktop toolkit. Qt developer Lorn Potter commented on this in a blog entry this past weekend. "Qt Software and Nokia are still committed to releasing Qt and Qt Extended under the GPL as open source, and will continue to do so," he wrote. "Changes are a part of life and what make it exciting. The Open Source community has nothing to fear by this name change, or by Nokia buying Trolltech." Check out the Qt Extended launch web site for more details about the platform and some demo videos. Reported from: Ars Technica http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/200....e-platform.html via... OS News http://www.osnews.com/story/20344/Nokia_....Mobile_Platform Posted by dadeisvenm To discuss this topic, speak your mind here on the Reaper PC/PDA Forum: Click Here September 25 Windows Mobile 7 delayed
Microsoft has reportedly delayed Widows Mobile 7 until the second half
of next year. The timing of this report comes on the heels of the
announcement of the Google's T-Mobile G1 Android phone announcement. It
now seems that the releases of the mobile OS has been pushed back to
the second half of 2009. ![[image]](http://www.reaperpcpda.com/images/pdanews/IEgestures.jpg) This could be bad news for Microsoft in the mobile spaces since Google, Apple, and RIM are all releasing getting attention with new OS releases and updates this year. The first mention of Windows Mobile 7 here at Reaper PC/PDA was on January 8th of this year at this post: Windows Mobile 7 Plans revealed To discuss this topic, speak your mind here on the Reaper PC/PDA Forum: Click Here T-Mobile listens and removes the 1GB data caphttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/09/24....endly-approach/ "Our goal, when the T-Mobile G1 becomes available in October, is to provide affordable, high-speed data service allowing customers to experience the full data capabilities of the device and our 3G network. At the same time, we have a responsibility to provide the best network experience for all of our customers so we reserve the right to temporarily reduce data throughput for a small fraction of our customers who have excessive or disproportionate usage that interferes with our network performance or our ability to provide quality service to all of our customers.Post by terryjohnson16 To discuss this topic, speak your mind here on the Reaper PC/PDA Forum: Click Here September 23 Google Android G1 officially announced
The long awaited first Android phone has officially been announced.
Today T-Mobile had a launch event in New York for the T-Mobile G1. Along with the press conference a website dedicated to the phone went live at: www.t-mobileg1.com This site not only shows off some of the phone's features it also displays an option for preordering the device. To preorder the device you must be an existing T-Mobile customer and willing to spend 179.99 + tax as well as sign a 2 year contract. The devices will start arriving to preorder customers starting on October 22nd.
Press announcement available here: G1 announcement To discuss this topic, speak your mind here on the Reaper PC/PDA Forum: Click Here September 20 T-Mobile set to launch the Blackberry Pearl Flip
This will be Research In Motion aka RIM's first flip phone. And of
course, T-Mobile will be the one to market it exclusively in October
until the end of 2008. This of this device as the Blackberry Pearl but
with a newer OS, and in a flip form factor. It will have Wi-Fi, and
support T-Mobile's HotSpot @Home UMA service. It will come in two
colors. A red version and a black version. Phonescoop got the scoop recently at CTIA IT Wireless: http://www.phonescoop.com/articles/article.php?a=219&p=1523 Along with that in Oct, T-Mobile will be offering a few more color options for their Pearl 2 8120 lineup. Post by terryjohnson16 To discuss this topic, speak your mind here on the Reaper PC/PDA Forum: Click Here September 12 HTC shows off what looks to be a winnerHTC announced the HTC Touch HD. This baby looks sweet. Well they got the idea unofficially from RIM and borrowed the Blackberry Storm's design. A member named mobiman2008, posted about the HTC Touch HD over at Modoco.com ![[image]](http://content.modaco.net/imagewell/TouchHD1.jpg) Here are some known specs (whether they be finalized or not, these are has been listed at the moment):
http://www.modaco.com/content/pocket-pc-....e-htc-touch-hd/ It does look to be a finger-print magnet. To discuss this topic, speak your mind here on the Reaper PC/PDA Forum: Click Here |
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