05:31 PM by Alexander Turcic in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

We weren't given a reason but according to a German source PalmSource has cancelled its Europe DevCon this year. The conference was held in the previous years during the Oktoberfest in Munich where attendees not only had the chance to talk about Palm OS, but also to go on booze cruises and watch naked people in the English Garten.

04:45 PM by Montalvo in Archive | Mobile Sites

Samuel sent this in today and I moved it to the frontpage for all our Mexican fans to notice.

Excelsior is one of the oldest mexican newspapers. It was funded in 1917, and since then it is one of the most representative media in Mexico.

Excelsior doesnt have a mobile version, but in TuPalMX I created one from the online version.

The URL is:
http://tupalmx.com/pruebasphp/excel_grab.php

You can use in AvantGo, iSilo, Plucker or any other similar app.

Hope you like it!

04:24 PM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Lounge

Mobile Design editor Brian Fling has posted ten reasons why he believes every Web publisher should be considering support for mobile devices.

With the mobile product lifecycle is moving twice as fast as computers at their peak ten years ago, mobile publishing will soon be a requirement of doing business. Hype aside, there are really good reasons why you should be looking at your mobile publishing strategy… now.

It shames me to say that Mobileread is still far from being mobile-friendly. Everyone who had his device already crash while trying to download our bloated frontpage knows what I am talking about. Take my word for it, either we'll solve this problem very soon, or we're going to fire our current Web admin (that would be I).

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03:57 PM by Alexander Turcic in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

update 2: Ok we take everything back. roc a fella is the man and he deserves all credits for this scoop! More over here.

update 1: As we've guessed, this is just another lame hoax. Thanks to Kent for pointing it out to us!

We're almost stifling a yawn this time around, but yet more supposedly leaked photos have popped up of the Treo 700. It all seems a little dubious, since the photos depict the new Treo with a similar form factor as the Treo 650, with one striking difference: it runs on Windows Mobile. Check out the two photos over at PalmAddicts.

Don't kiss Palm OS goodbye yet, as this is not the first Treo 700-related rumor that turned out to be false (like the rumor that Palm's smartphone would be powered with Palm Cobalt, only days before PalmSource officially announced that Palm Cobalt would be a shot in the dark).

03:50 PM by Mattoquai in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

This sure is one creative application for a Tablet PC!. Too bad his screen is not E-ink based, in which case you would be able to see the drawing in any angle

03:37 PM by Alexander Turcic in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

In the latest installment of the PalmAddicts podcast series Tyler Faux discusses Zodiac's vanishing act, Jeff's OfficeSuite 7 review, a new milestone for PA, and Alan's Clie 'cast.

Click here to delve into PA podcast #6.

02:22 PM by Alexander Turcic in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

The good folks over at PalmAddicts are celebrating their sixth anniversary with an upcoming series of weekend contests: The first will be this weekend and we will be giving away a LifeDrive to one lucky winner. I will be drawing the contest on Tuesday.

Congrats Sam! Six years is a l-o-n-g time and definitely worth the celebration. More over PalmAddicts.

02:15 PM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Lounge

Remember the PDA247 survey held last week? Well, it's now closed and Shaun came up with some interesting findings:

• Almost 80% of you read eBooks on your PDAs which was much more than I expected. Makes a mockery of all the doom predictions for this format.
• Music is also a popular past time at over 60% with movies catching up at almost 40% of the vote. For me movies are a killer PDA feature and would help their overall popularity if more people knew about the software out there.
• The devices owned questions threw up some unexpected results- under 20% of you own Smart Phones (suspect if I run this in a year it will be well over 50%), 85% own Palm devices and only 25% Windows Mobile devices. This is not shown in our visitor numbers so maybe WM owners have a fear of voting
• Almost 45% of you are as sad as me and have installed over 10 games with almost all of you classing yourselves as heavy PDA users.
• Under a quarter of you will be changing your device in the next 6 months and a fairly healthy 36% are members of the PDA247 club- so, what about the other 74%??? ( Neil says: That'll be "64%", Shaun - shame there wasn't a question about usage of calculators on PDA... )