T Bryce Yehl: Bryce's Wireless WeblogWiFi and Bluetooth and GPRS, oh my!SmartPhone attacks Brittons- October 23, 2002 Microsoft's SmartPhone platform is finally becoming reality, thanks to the Orange SPV (aka HTC Canary). Forbes reports a US$260 selling price. infoSync has a thorough pre-release evaluation. InfoWorld says that AT&T will offer SmartPhones in the US by mid-2003. According to Microsoft's specs, the SPV is tri-band. Probably won't be long before someone starts importing them...http://radio.ntwizards.net/categories/wireless/2002/10/22.html#a1305 Wireless Data Price War- October 19, 2002 Sprint fires the first shot in the upcoming price war by offering unlimited PCS Vision on all Free & Clear plans for just $10month, with the first three months free. Coverage: Press release, CNET. I would be on the phone with Sprint right now, but the $100 trade-up offer on the Treo 300 has expired and they don't have any Bluetooth handsets...http://radio.ntwizards.net/categories/wireless/2002/10/18.html#a1298 Lack of PDA Innovation- October 11, 2002 Steve has a rant on the lack of innovation in the PDA market, spurred by my earlier entry. I had actually started that post as a long rant, and started restating my arguments again just now, but I don't think we really need another long rant. I'll keep this relatively short and sweet. All of the innovation is happening with non-PPC devices. The primary reason for this is that PPC vendors depend on contract manufacturers for just about everything, following the PC model. Palm OS licensees mostly.http://radio.ntwizards.net/categories/wireless/2002/10/10.html#a1290 Danger Follow-up- October 10, 2002 I realized sometime on Monday that it was gonna happen. Too many people reading it, the Network Effect had been triggered, and I was expecting an email any minute. Sure enough, I got an email from a web app engineer at Danger, in response to my rantings the other day. Anil After reading Anil's original rant and posting about Danger's lack of developer information, I sent an email to developerdanger.com asking if they had any "guidelines for creating web content that renders well" on the HipTop.http://radio.ntwizards.net/categories/wireless/2002/10/10.html#a1289 CDMA, Cell Phone Standards And Who "Wins"- October 7, 2002 Fubar writes "Former Qualcomm engineer Steven Den Beste, Captain of the USS Clueless outlines why he thinks the US is primed to overtake Europe and Japan as the technological leader in cell phone technology. He argues it stems from open competition and the use of CDMA." Superior technology is irrelevant. The EU's problem is that they legislated the adoption of a certain technology before it was ready. America's problem is that it takes forever for the market to select a plurality of winners....http://radio.ntwizards.net/categories/wireless/2002/10/07.html#a1274 Toshiba shrinks Bluetooth SDIO Card- October 7, 2002 A new Bluetooth SDIO Card from Toshiba cranks things down a notch - 9 millimeters in length, and power consumption by 50%, according to Toshiba. Also, it's Bluetooth 1.1 compliant. infoSync Perfect timing from infoSync. I'd seen something about this a week or two ago, but when I had wanted to post about it the other day I could not locate the original source. Given current trends in the Pocket PC market (few wireless models, many foregoing Compact Flash due to size), why hasn't anyone come out.http://radio.ntwizards.net/categories/wireless/2002/10/07.html#a1271 Frank has some goodies...- October 5, 2002 Today on Pocket PC How2 Log: Commentary on outliners for Pocket PCs. Link to some juicy information on Dell's PPC, with pictures. Word that Jabra's FreeSpeak Bluetooth headset is finally available. Jabra's FreeSpeak headset has been vapor for a long time, when it was first announced it had the distinction of being the first BT headset that could be worn all day without making you look like a dork. The regular BT version is $100, a version with an adapter for non-Bluetooth phones is $180.http://radio.ntwizards.net/categories/wireless/2002/10/05.html#a1264 GPS and Mobile Devices- October 4, 2002 allNetDevices: e911 Pros and Cons. infoSync: Motorola touts new GPS chip. Single-chip GPS in a 7x7mm package, supposedly sensitive enough to work "under dense trees, in a parking garage, or even a chop shop." infoSync: 1xRTT and GPS from Verizon, Samsung. The a310 features GPS-based e911 functionality and is available now from Verizon. I've been wondering for a while now if GPS-enabled cell phones will work with PDAs. The carriers are likely to drag their feet in rolling out location-based...http://radio.ntwizards.net/categories/wireless/2002/10/04.html#a1255 Anti-Danger- October 3, 2002 I was planning to write a little missive against Danger and the HipTop Sidekick device, but Anil beat me to it via Mark Pilgrim. Anil's site apparantly doesn't render well on the Sidekick: So I decided I was going to modify my page to conform to your browser's idiocy. I went looking for technical docs on what you do to mangle web pages. None. I went looking for a desktop emulator that I could run to simulate your device on my computer. None. I went looking to see an acknowledgement of...http://radio.ntwizards.net/categories/wireless/2002/10/03.html#a1253 More Sidekick links- October 2, 2002 Media: Infosync, CNET, Slashdot, SF Gate, The Register, allNetDevicesWeblogs: MetaFilter, Megnut, Boing Boing Blog, The Shifted Librarianhttp://radio.ntwizards.net/categories/wireless/2002/10/02.html#a1248 |