Techcrunch is reporting that a $150M venture fund aimed at Blackberry developers, will be launched on Monday (update: it’s now launched). It’s a clear response to the $100M iPhone fund that was recently launched by Apple and Kleiner-Perkins. Taken together, that means that there’s a quarter of a billion dollars of venture capital available for […]
One of my favourite sayings is a quote from Sun’s CEO, Jonathan Schwartz - different isn’t always better, but better’s always different. So, I’m a fan of a lot of the super-innovative work that Apple does. However, their thinking is sometimes different to the point of not making any commercial sense. The iPhone is […]
Reports suggest that Apple will announce a 3G version of iPhone in June. Whether there will be any new hardware beyond 3G support (presumably the latest version of HSDPA - ‘cos it needs to be) is unclear. My guess is not. That’s not the big question, though. The big question is whether this new version […]
I’ve just ordered a new business mobile phone. I needed this to be really great for e-mail on the move and there were only two choices on my short-list: an iPhone; and a Blackberry. I chose a Blackberry, but it wasn’t a clear-cut decision between the two. The iPhone has lots going for it: […]
Well, Apple’s iPhone software roadmap meeting is over. Did they deliver? In a word - YES! All the commercial and techincal details look great. By using the iPhone SDK, it will be possible to develop truly amazing, magical software applications for iPhone, and it will be easy to distribute these apps too. Importantly, along […]
Whether you believe the statistics in detail or not, there’s no doubt that the iPhone (and iPod Touch) web browser is doing amazingly well. That is, iPhone owners are making regular and substantial use of their browsers. This high level of mobile browser usage has never happened before. For sure, then, the browsing experience […]
The technical details of Android, the new Google mobile phone OS platform, are now out. There are many articles on the Web discussing the new platform, many of which seem to get things horribly wrong. So, I thought I’d try to put some perspective on Android here…
First, the web browser. At the Android […]
At 6pm today, the iPhone launches in the United Kingdom. Remember the massive overnight queues and the unrestrained joy in Palo Alto and New York when the iPhone was originally launched? Well, here’s the scene of the UK launch in London today…
On the weekend of the US launch, there was talk […]
With all the news coverage surrounding Google’s new Android platform, I wondered what the state of play was with Sun’s new JavaFX Mobile platform was. It seems that the current state of play is this: software emulators, and actual developer handsets (built by openmoko, at a guess), will be made available near the […]
It’s been a while now since Google’s Android announcement, and as people digest what details there are, it’s clear that we’re short of more than a few important facts. Of course, the way Android’s communications are handled is entirely up to Google and the rest of the “open” handset alliance. However, for every […]