Smartphone Experts–Smartphone Fan

Acer took MWC rather seriously this year with no fewer than five phone intros to its name spanning the range from Android to Windows Mobile 6.5.3 , so we went ahead and put our hands on all of them today. Starting at the bottom of the range, the lowly beTouch E110 is obviously designed to compete head-to-head with the likes of the HTC Tattoo — in fact, it apes the Tattoo’s design pretty closely in some respects

Google CEO Eric Schmidt delivered a keynote speech at Mobile World Congress 2010 that, while not really unveiling any new products or services, positioned the company as a mobile powerhouse whom are looking out for the interests of consumers: A device that is not connected is not interesting, it is literally lonely. An application that does not leverage the cloud isn’t going to wow anybody,” he said. “It’s like magic.

If you thought the (admittedly weak) Liquid e was all Acer had in store for Mobile World Congress, you’d be badly mistaken. We’ve got a foursome of other smartphones on tap, so we won’t waste any time breaking ‘em down

Acer’s announcement of the Liquid E was pretty disappointing so we’re happy that’s not ALL they had planned.

Motorola has over and over claimed that they need to put all their efforts and energy into one clear vision and that vision has been Android and MOTOBLUR. Doing so has pretty much saved the company (or their division) from extinction – they can thank Android. But rather than continue down the path that saved them, Motorola is exploring other options based on diversifying their portfolio and just wait until you hear what those options are: But it’s still curious to hear him openly step away from Android, the software that arguably saved Motorola, telling the WSJ, “If I had more money for R&D, I’d be developing an operating platform.” And talking more specifically about phones and Windows Phone 7, Jha says, “I’m open to it…I think I need diversity in our portfolio.” — (quotes found at Gizmodo ) You can’t blame Motorola for wanting to diversify.

MediaTek Technology and Microsoft yesterday said the two sides have established strategic alliances, MediaTek will sell to its customers running Microsoft’s Windows operating system, smart mobile phone chips.MediaTek is the world’s second-largest mobile phone chip design company, second only to Qualcomm (Qualcomm Inc.). MediaTek said that the multimedia smart phone chips will be targeted at [...]

The Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain is still nearly a month away, but impatience has triggered a feeding frenzy of hope and supposition when it comes to what Microsoft will be announcing at the show. Depending on who you believe, the Redmond, WA software giant will either display its upcoming Windows Phone 7 [...]

It hasn’t been the criticism that is most damning for the new Windows Mobile 6.5, but the rather the fact that WinMo licensees will continue to cover up the newly, supposedly finger-friendly UI, with their own custom front-ends, and vastly more functional ones at that. If they don’t have any faith in it, when why [...]

News June 15, in order to cut expenses, Microsoft in 2010 will reduce the 5000 staff, and also for the retention of a reduction in employee benefits. For example, Microsoft announced that it would no longer reimburse employees for the use of iPhone mobile phone charges (mainly data charges), even if work is no exception. [...]