Wendong’s Smart Phone Weblog

This video is hilarious: “When Bluetooth, Car Phone and BlackBerry team up, iPhone gets what he deserves.”

Thank you Dave for sending me the link!

I did not notice Qualcomm’s new BREW Mobile Platform developer site until today. It is quite a surprise to me that everyone jumps to big version number (Java from 1.5 to 5.0 for instance), Qualcomm decided to move the number backwards from BREW 4.x to BREW MP 1.0. It seems to start all over again.

One very positive move is that Qualcomm now provides Eclipse based plugin in addition to Visual Studio based tools. GNU Compiler tool (MinGW) is officially supported. Before you had to have some hassle to use the GNU tool chain. In the early days I tried GNUDE, then WinARM. It was quite a pain, especially I am not an expert in C/C++ cross compiler settings.

This news seemed to be buried in other hot news in mobile industry such as Android related. Maybe it is because the close platform nature of Qualcomm BREW, there are only very few blogs cover BREW programming topics.

I got my T-Mobile G1 last week. I took this picture and then found this collection happens to cover a good range of different mobile OSes: Google Android, Windows Mobile Standard Edition, Symbian S60, an old Pocket PC Phone (now Windows Mobile Professional Edition) and Maemo. The last one is not a phone. It is a Garmin Nuvi 350. Gaimin actually is working on a mobile phone - Nuvifone. It seems to be delayed till some time next year.

There are a lot reviews about T-Mobile G1 and I do not want to repeat again here. The GMail push email works very well. Most of the time I receive emails from my phone first, then it appears on the desktop GMail web site. There are decent amount of applications available from Android Market to play with. The only complaint I have at this moment is the battery life. It is significantly shorter than the Nokia E61. I have to charge it everyday for sure.

I stopped by a local T-Mobile store this Saturday. I pretty much made the decision to buy one T-Mobile G1 if it is available. Just as I suspected, there in no G1 in stock in my local area, although T-Mobile started to sell G1 “nation wide” from 10/22. The G1 poster was right in front of store entry, but the sales guy was not sure when they will have them. It looks like I will have to go to a store in Boston to get one. Or I just need to order one online and wait it shipped to me.

In the mean time, I am also eyeing on the Nokia 5800. It is first touch screen phone from Nokia running S60 5th Edition. As a long time S60 user, this phone seems to be perfect to replace my two-year old E61. And ~$390 is about the right price tag. But I am not sure when it is going to be available for US market. Most likely it is going to be early next year. It is going to hit Asian market first, maybe I can get one this year from China? That will be perfect.

It seems to me that BBC is always ahead of mobile technology usage. In 2006, BBC offered Headlines application based on Java ME and Flash Lite. Java ME was not new, but Flash Lite was pretty new at that time. Now BBC has a streaming media application which uses Web Runtime.

To bad I do not have a Web Runtime capable phone to play with it.

Via AllAboutSymbian