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... )

06:40 AM by Bob Russell in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

Over at PDA24/7 today is a nice exclusive article about the next version of Trip Boss, which is a leading travel planner software. Worth checking out if you have a palm and travel often.

02:26 PM by Alexander Turcic in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

Palm CFO Andrew J. Brown held yesterday the first presentation of PalmOne being Palm again and talked about the future of his company. He shared his views on the company's solid financials, previous supply constraints, increase in carrier relationships, partnership with MS' Exchange 2003, and of course the recent name change.

Andy, who joined the company only in December 2004, seemed overall confident that in future mobile broadband devices will taking advantage of faster networks, leaving enough room for multiple players to create new value. He is certain that Palm holds the innovative leadership in the smartphone industry with the Treo 650, which continues to get rave reviews.

He acknowledged that the handheld market is in decline, partly because of the cannibalizing effect of the Treo. Regarding the all-in-one LifeDrive device, while it was initially targeted for the business and consumer market (Powerpoint presentation vs. playing MP3s), Palm now finds it to be more a consumer gadget.

In future, Palm will invest more in R&D to increase the velocity and quality of products coming out, and it will build on the "extraordinary opportunities" of the smartphone business.

You can listen to the full 25mins webcast by clicking here (Windows Media).