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Category Archives: Mobile Phones

ACCESS Linux Platform hits ver. 1.0

I mentioned earlier that Access was showing off it’s Linux platform. It looks like ALP is at version 1.0 and Access is showing it off. The platform supports QVGA (240 x 320), HVGA (320 x 480) and WVGA (800 x 480) resolution displays from 65k up to 246k colors. At a minimum ALP requires a [...]

Gizmodo’s First Look at the Open-Source Phone

It’s been known for a while that Open Moko planned on releasing a mobile phone built out with open-source software. Of course, there are a few proprietary bits driving the radio but everything else should be available. Looks like Gizmodo finally got a first look. Unfortunately the phone was not powered up. An interesting tid-bit, [...]

Flash Coming to Mobile Phones

If I asked you, what computer technology has the greatest market share, you’d probably answer with something like WIndows, or Unix, maybe Intel, or even Java. What if I told you it’s Adobe’s Flash? Flash is huge, Adobe claims that Flash reaches 97.3% of desktop Internet users. Flash is probably the reason Adobe bought Macromedia. [...]

Ericsson offers GSM via Broadband

We’ve seen Cellular to WiFi routers before, now Ericsson is offering GSM via WiFi. Your cell phone GSM signal is picked up by the router and rebroadcast over a broadband connection via Ericsson’s Femto Cell Solution. Read more here