A list of old mobile news
In the past month or so there are a few mobile news interested me but I did not get the chance to write about it. So I just listed them here just in case one day I want to find the links.
1. Nokia’s free remote device access service
Nokia offered a free remote device access service. For now it focuses on S60 3rd Edition devices. Matt Croydon has a nice review with screenshots.
2. Nokia’s S60 Widget
Powered by Web Run-Time, you can write widgets for S60 devices using standards-based Web technologies such as HTML, CSS, AJAX (JavaScript). Here is an audiocast on this topic.
Microsoft is working on similar stuff - Windows Gadgets on Windows Mobile handsets.
3. Microsoft Deepfish
Microsoft Deepfish offers you full desktop browser experience on your Windows Mobile phone. I did not get the chance to download it and try it myself. MobilityToday has a video review.
Is iPhone the first one offers this kind of full mobile browser experience? No. It is the S60 Browser. The best feature of S60 Browser is not only full web experience, but also a paragraph of text will always perfectly fit in full screen width when you zoom in to it. So you do not have to pan it left and right to read it. From the MobilityToday video, it seems that it is not the case for Deepfish. But I did use it myself so I am not 100% sure.
The Adobe PDF Reader is painful to use on my E61 because it is almost impossible to fit a block of text to the screen width. This tiny little thing ruins the entire user experience.
4. Palm goes Linux
No. It is not the PalmSource - ACCESS Linux Platform. It is the Palm hardware company, which was saved by Treo handsets from HandSpring. The Palm - HandSpring - PalmOne - PalmSource - Palm story is much simpler than AT&T - … - AT&T Wireless - Cingular - at&t one. 
Anyway, Palm officially announced that it will deliver a new mobile Linux platform combined with Palm OS Garnet technology on new products later this year.
