Jun 29, 2006 | blog
Ed Hardy over at Brighthand.com is reporting that Intel is planning to sell it’s XScale line of processors. The XScale line has long been used in mobile devices, from Pocket PCs & Smartphones, to Palm and BlackBerry devices.
Marvell Technology Group, Ltd. is the company that will be purchasing the devision, along with about 1,400 employees that will make the transition to the new company.
The immediate impact on the XScale line & its direction is unknown, but it is my opinion that Intel just wasn’t focusing a lot of attention on expanding the capabilities of the line of processors. Maybe Marvell will be able to take the chip to another level of integration and features that could leverage more functionality for all of us in the end.
Jun 26, 2006 | blog
Slashdot is reporting that WinFS Gets the Axe. The full discussion is actuall over at the WinFS Team Blog. According to what I can gleen from the post is that a number of important advances the WinFS team has made will be integrated into the next release of SQL Server. Also, as client components become ready for “prime time” they will be integrated into the Windows client:
Windows will continue to adopt work as it’s ready
The way I read this is that Microsoft simply can’t make this technology work as a file-system replacement at this time and are choosing to “productize” the current advances that the team has made and will not answer all the questions we all have regarding the promised “Windows Future Storage” feature for Windows Vista.
Jun 23, 2006 | blog
So Engadget Mobile is reporting that the HP iPaq hw6915 Windows Mobile based Pocket PC Phone is set to be launched on July 4th, 2006.
So what!?!
The device is way overdue, brings nothing new to the table, and is ridiculously overpriced. It just shows that HP had long ago lost the edge on Pocket PC design.
Priced at $890 (US), this low-resolution thumb cramper is probably going to be an easy pass by most smartphone shoppers this summer. Even with a processor upgrade over previous models and having WM5’s AKU2 incorporated in the device, there are more compelling designs available.
With smartphones like the Moto Q, Samsung’s SGH-i320, or the HTC Wizard based devices like the T-Mobile MDA or Cingular 8125, and their CDMA brother, the XV6700 available on both Sprint and Verizon.
You could compare the 6915 to the Palm Treo 700w in a number of ways, but even as a previous HP PPC owner, I’d throw down on the 700w. Or even the Treo 700p which has a stunning 360×360 screen, though it is a Palm OS device.
Anyway, I think there are many, many better choices than this overpriced device.
Jun 22, 2006 | blog
It must be the week of upgrades for Windows Mobile devices. Kevin Tofel over at jkOnTheRun has posted on the new firmware, and is pondering upgrading tonight.
If you are looking for links, jkOnTheRun also has them for you. Now I can’t wait for T-Mobile USA to release their ROM upgrade for the MDA – though I already have flashed my device to the Qtek ROM with MSFP (it rocks).
Have fun everyone!
Jun 9, 2006 | blog
Daniel Berininger has a comparison piece over on Om Malik’s blog on the similarities of Vonage and MCI. Its an interesting piece, with interesting comments as well.
Though I would love to cheer for the underdog, I still think Vonage will not end up being a powerful competitor in the voice market. There are simply too many other options for voice solutions which I’ve talked about before.
Most people will end up using mobile phones only, others will switch to their cable company offerings, many more will simply stick with whatever former RBOC they already have, and finally others will simply use some type of free voice offering from the likes of Skype, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and others.
Sorry folks, VOIP is where its at for landlines, its just that Vonage isn’t the heir appearent.
Via: GigaOM
