Symbian Goes Web App Crazy with PhoneGap
There’s no question in the mobile market that Symbian has lost major ground in the ecosystem in the last 3 years. Since Symbian was top dog (probably at the height of the N95′s success), the mobile web has sprung up and the top market share but mindshare losing mobile OS has failed to embrace it. That is, until recently. Earlier this week, Symbian announced that it will embrace the open-source PhoneGap tool in the new Symbian^3 version of the mobile operating system. This will mean that developers can code on Symbian^3 utilizing standard tools such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. This will make Symbian a more friendly choice to mobile web developers who are looking to make the leap to writing mobile apps. Now, they’ll have the luxury of utilizing native functions such as geolocation, accelerometer data, camera, contacts, and network availability, all in an application framework that web developers are familiar with.
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Rare limited edition BlackBerry on eBay
If you remember a particular Blackberry’s set, the unlocked Bold 9700 , you will recall that it only came as a limited edition set dedicated to team Canada. It was a rarity to even get to see this phone with your own eyes let alone buying one for yourself, for it is more than just a luxury.
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How to use UIAutomation to create iPhone UI tests – What’s new in O’Reilly Answers: iPhone UI tests, beautiful code, Objective-c, cloud computing,…
One of the more useful (from a developer standpoint) features coming in iOS 4 (formerly iPhone OS 4) is the UIAutomation tool. This lets you run an automated set of tests against an application, and test to see if they had the expected results.
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Motorola and Droid shown the door
In this highly mobile world, trends that have just kicked in are gotten rid off immediately and a much newer trend is then adopted. With the Unlocked Droid ( X) from Motorola and Incredible from HTC covering the elite section of Verizon’s smartphones, the older ones such as Droid, which hits its eight month, and Devour, which hits five, are taking the back seats. Although Verizon will still continue selling both their products, Motorola will be pulling back their any further supplies.
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AVForums review the EL9500 – Our first OLED!
OLED has been a buzzword for a few years now, heralded as THE technology that will revolutionize home entertainment. Aside from Sony’s 11inch offering that was launched 2 years ago (and is subsequently no longer in production) there has been little in the way of OLED available for the consumer market.
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MSI Wind12 U230 Light netbook
The released of updated version of MSI Wind12 U230 notebook that has smaller screen than original model, the MSI Wind12 U230 Light has been announced recently. It is pre-loaded with Window 7 OS and just 3.3 pounds lightweight (with battery). It is powered by a 1.6GHz AMD Athlon Neo MV-40 processor, 2GB of memory, ATI Radeon HD3200 graphics, and 250GB HDD
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Churches around Bangalore
Check out the amazing pictures of the churches around Bangalore on Samaresh ’s blog: On my quest of knowing a little more about the place that I call home I went in search of old historical Church which are part of this bustling settlement .As it is home to a number of historic and extremely impressive cathedrals, basilicas, chapels and churches, which are important architectural symbols and landmarks of the city& these churches belong to diverse Christian communities, such as the Roman Catholic Church, the ancient Syrian Church , the Mar Thomas Church, Protestants from the Church of South India (which includes Anglicans, Lutherans etc…I visited 15 of the old churches. Hat tip: Nisha
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trixbox CE Training at ITEXPO
Kerry Garrison, formerly with Fonality, but now with 888VoipStore, is going to be part of the trixbox CE training that is happening at the next ITEXPO in Los Angeles. It’s a great opportunity to roll up your sleeves and learn the ins and outs of trixbox CE, an Asterisk-based distro. ITEXPO has been doing trixbox training for some time now, and it’s always well attended.
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HTC Desire on TELUS soon
TELUS has announced recently that they will be coming out with the Unlocked HTC (Desire) on their network which will bring 3G and many other features along with it. In terms of pricing, this phone will be comparable with the Nexus one but does not have that high a quality as compared to the Unlocked Motorola Droid (X.) For the customers there will be an added plus of the Sense UI which will allow the customization of the home page
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Four short links: 20 July 2010 – Hardware Hacking, BI Reporting Tool, Book Recommendations, and Winning the Futurist Lottery
Dangerous Prototypes — “a new open source hardware project every month”.
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