I believe Palm and Windows Mobile devices have had the ability to install applications over bluetooth for at least 10 years, probably longer. My history with S60 is shorter, but there has never been a time when I was unable to install something over basic bluetooth or USB. Apple has severly limited (as [...]
When are iTunes and the iPhone going to grow up?
June 25th, 2009 · View Comments · apple, iPhone
Tags: apple·iPhone·itunes·Nokia·Palm·s60·sync
Yes We Know it’s tooootally lame
February 24th, 2009 · View Comments · Gmail
During Gmail’s outage today your inbox was probably still receiving mail even if you were enable to send new messages. I was trying to mail a picture to twitpic while on the train and saw this:
Apparently when using the offline feature you can’t queue any new attachments … yet.
Tags: gears·Gmail·offline·sync
Palm’s Synergy could be game changing
January 25th, 2009 · View Comments · gadgets and technology, mobile
While they clearly still actually have to deliver on the vision here, the intent and initial demo of Palm’s Synergy concept are amazing when you consider what’s happening. Instead of having to sync, the device is seemingly aware of your various accounts across work and personal services and just able to present the relevant [...]
Tags: mobile·Palm·PalmPre·sync·Synergy·WebOS
Windows 7 Opens New Ways of Interacting with Devices
January 15th, 2009 · View Comments · gadgets and technology, software
A friendly tipster shared a particularly cool feature in Windows 7, the Device Stage …
“Windows 7 introduces a new way to interact with your phone, camera, printer, or portable media player from the Windows desktop. Device Stage is new visual interface that makes it easy to find the things you want to do with [...]
Tags: Device Stage·Firmware·MTP·sync·Windows 7·WinHEC
Ovi Suite – Syncing Smoothly in Windows 7
January 13th, 2009 · View Comments · Nokia, software
One issue I’ve had running Windows 7 was Nokia’s PC Suite refuses to install due to some privilege issues. I’ve tried a few tricks and it seems it’s just going to fail. The good news is that Ovi Suite installs just fine (except for Nokia Music which I will have to try separately in compatibility [...]
Tags: DUN·E71·Joikuspot·N79·netbook·Nokia·Ovi·Ovi Suite·Samsung NC10·sync·Walking Hotspot
Nokia extends Exchange Sync across the S60 Range
September 10th, 2008 · View Comments · Nokia
Nokia has just announced that the free Mail For Exchange (MFE) client is now available across the full range of S60 3rd Edition devices. This brings enterprise sync to over 80 Million active handsets across 43 different models considerably enhancing the potential scale for enterprise communications. Mail for Exchange runs over Microsoft’s Active Sync protocol [...]
Tags: CTIA·enterprise·mail for exchange·Nokia·s60·sync