Samsung’s announcement of the Omnia Pro was a straight “declaration of war” at this extremely lucrative market – and the boys at AreaMobile’s have performed a little pictorial shoot-out. One of the images is below:

The full gallery can be accessed here – just click the arrow labeled “Weiter” to proceed:
http://www.areamobile.de/

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The list below hits us via xda-developers; a user dubbed shadowline claims that it’s the “change log” for the upcoming version 2.5 of the UI:

Home screen:
New look
new shortcut icons on up swipe, along with 3 on the main screen.
Tapping on an appointment brings up a new appointment info screen.
Tapping on date lets you change the date.
Tapping on the alarm info lets you change alarms.
Tapping on time lets you view the world clock.

People Tab:
New layout, grid style like Manila 2D.
New Messaging screen (see messaging below)
– All people:
Nothing new in the main screen, but under “Updates and Events” tapping on “me” brings you to a list of your facebook notifications.

Messaging Tab:
Nothing new on the main screen
– All Messages:
Brand new all messages screen. Listed by conversation/contact, and includes contact icons.
– In a conversation:
Brand new screen, scrolling has changed, icons included in each message along with the contact icon at the top.

Mail Tab:
Nothing new.

Internet tab:
New bookmarks view, includes thumbnails of your favorite sites (can be used on home screen too)

Calendar tab:
Nothing new

Stocks tab:
Nothing new

Photos and videos tab:
Nothing new

Music Tab:
Totally new page
Album thumbnails now “flow” in from the top
new controls
– Menu:
Update album art from the web on selected track, or on all of now playing.

Weather Tab:
Nothing new
– Add City:
New search by typing name.

Footprints Tab:
Brand new tab, works much like its Manila 2D cousin.
Not able to test more on this as it is not currently working for me.

Settings tab:
So much to list!
All of the windows mobile settings menu has been placed into this tab.
If you could get to it from start > settings, then it is now here too.

None of this is final, and there are a LOT of features that at either not working, temporarily broken (requiring a restart), or tf3d itself crashes a lot.

As of now, no further information is available – stay tuned!

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Our first size comparison candidate is the Palm Treo 680:

The device can in fact be considered similar to the extremely small hp ipaq rx4240:

Nokia’s N96 is a bit smaller, but a lot thicker:

The E75 is larger, but thinner:

Sony Ericsson’s XPERIA X1 is a bit bigger:

Apple’s first-generation iPod touch is a completely different cattle of fish:

RIM’s BlackBerries tend to have similar sizes:

Finally, a comparison shot against another classic handset:

In the end, I have to openly admit that I am in love with the form factor of the Touch 3G. It fits snugly into the user’s hands and is a total pleasure to use; and furthermore appears much smaller than it is.

Can build quality stack up? Tune in soon for further info…

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As of now, there is no further info available – stay tuned!

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Unfortunately, the carrier has refused to state prices as of this writing – I dare to bet that the device will debut in the 300E price range in a fashion similar to thew XPERIA X1…

In case you don’t trust us – the German release is below:
http://www.microsoft.com/austria/presse/pressemeldung1825.mspx?ID=4afbb4b9-9bb2-4c03-9726-c4ef569ef6e5

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RIM fell out, Palm didn’t get in (no wonder due to European focus)….and Sony Ericsson has gone amiss too:

1. (3) Nokia 6300
2. (-) Apple iPhone 3G
3. (-) HTC Touch Diamond 2
4. (2) Nokia 3109
5. (-) Nokia E51
6. (1) Nokia 5800
7. (5) Nokia E71
8. (6) HTC Touch HD
9. (-) HTC Magic
10. (-)HTC Touch Pro2

11. (4) Samsung SGH-i900/i910 Omnia

() = Last month’s position.

Last month Nokia took a Grand Slam by taking all Top 3 positions at Krusell’s best seller list for May. The list in June also gives an impression something is happening in the market. Nokia takes 5 out of 10 positions, HTC takes 4 and Apple one. Samsung, LG and Sony Ericsson are all out of the list.

To me it is surprising even the previous best seller Omnia had to leave the list this month, says Ulf Sandberg MD at Krusell. Yet another surprise is that everybody in the industry always talks about how short the lifecycles of mobile phones have become. This month’s No 1, Nokia 6300, was introduced in February 2007 in Krusell’s assortment and is now back on the No 1 position 28 months later, he ends.

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doneSearchingDlg doneSearching;
newResultDumbDlg newResultDumb;


In case anybody is new to C#: a delegate is a function pointer which can accumulate multiple functions, which are then all called at once with a single call. But this is not the reason for this little rant – instead, I am pissed about why the declarations cannot look like this:

//DELEGATES - CAN NOT COMPILE AS OF VS2005
public delegate void doneSearchingDlg() doneSearching;
public delegate void newResultDumbDlg() newResultDumb;


In plain-old vanilla C, almost every language primitive can be animated while it is being declared – why this feature was omitted from Delegates is a mystery to me.

Ideas, anyone?

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This is not only annoying (extra weight), but also bad for the environment. As such things tend to attract EU regulators attention, manufacturers had to act – Yahoo Tech reports the following:

…

The agreement by Nokia, Sony Ericsson and other industry majors will mean phones compatible with standard charging devices are available in Europe from next year, said the EU executive, which has pushed for such a deal.

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The Commission said the agreement would involve the creation of an EU norm, and that the new generation of mobile phones would use a standard micro-USB socket to ensure compatibility.

…

According to them, the situation will go even further: chargers and handsets will be unbundled one day (which would lead to even lower handset prices).

Even though I personally prefer MiniUSB as I feel it handles better, MicroUSB nevertheless seems to be a pretty robust solution. My Nokia XPressMusic 5800 is still alive and kicking, and Nokia’s large-scale roll-out has started with the Nokia N85 (review here)…

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They claim the following specs:

* CPU: Qualcomm MSM 7201A Turbo (528MHz)
* Memory: 256/512MB RAM/ROM
* Display: 3.61″ WVGA
* Network: GPRS/EDGE + WCDMA/HSPA
* Camera: 5MP AF + secondary VGA
* Battery: 1500mAh minimum
* OS: WM 6.5
* MicroSD, GPS, AGPS, BT 2.0, USB 2.0, M sensor, G sensor
* Noise Cancellation
* FM Transmitter

As of now, no official information is available – stay tuned!

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The following things have been added or changed:

New for Alpa 2:

* Improved panning performance
* Newly designed theme
* JavaScript error console is now built in
* Improved add-on support
* Numerous bug fixes
* Improved UI polish

As of now, the Mozilla Foundation has stated nothing about hardware requirements – all they state is that Windows Mobile 6 is required. This means that the program will likely work on all supported screen resolutions – further information can be had here:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/fennec/1.0a2-wm/releasenotes/

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