Category Archives: Digital Lifestyle

Searching for the Mobile Killer App

Posted on September 26, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Apple App Store and Android App Market are bringing more spotlight than ever to the applications for mobile handsets. Though a vast number of applications already exist for Windows Mobile, Blackberry or Symbian, developers are working hard to write the … Continue reading →

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Is the G1 Googly?

Posted on September 24, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Yesterday was a great day for America as T-Mobile launched the awaited first Android phone. Plenty of coverage for the announcement in NYC, but is the G1 up to the expectations? On the good side: the anticipated powerful processor with … Continue reading →

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What could make SlotMusic Succeed?

Posted on September 22, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

The news of the day is that SanDisk has just launched SlotMusic. The memory chip maker will distribute music from the four major labels on microSD cards. Music tracks will be  encoded in MP3 at 320Kbps, DRM-free and pre-loaded on … Continue reading →

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Who is the new Smartphone King?

Posted on September 15, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Gartner published a few days ago their assessment of the Smartphone market in Q2 2008. These are the highlights by handset maker: Smartphone market grew 15.7% compared to last year. Nokia remains the number one vendor, but it is losing … Continue reading →

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Symbian Vs iPhone: Is the Glass Half Full or Half Empty?

Posted on September 4, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

TechCruch and GigaOm both commented the Symbian quarterly results. Both blogs compared Nokia’s OS to iPhone and reached two opposite conclusions. Facts by GigaOm: Symbian shipped 19.5 Million units in Q2, 5% year-on-year growth. iPhone shipped 0.77 Million units of its 2G … Continue reading →

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Back from Holidays

Posted on August 29, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

After a long summer break, welcome to the new season of tech-talk.biz It has been two months with big sport events as the UEFA EURO Cup and the Beijing Olympics, covered for the first time not only on TV but … Continue reading →

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Nokia to Get Full Control of Symbian

Posted on June 24, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Nokia announced today a bid to acquire 100% of Symbian. Nokia already owns 48% of the shares, and would purchase the remaining shares for 264 million euro, from their current Symbian partners Sony Ericsson, Telefonaktiebolaget, LM Ericsson, Panasonic Mobile Communications, … Continue reading →

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Nokia Still Don’t Get it

Posted on June 23, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

 ”It is the usability, stupid.” In essence, Nokia keeps developing mobile phones, when younger generations do not care about a phone but about communications in an ample sense (IM, Facebook, web, etc) and multimedia (music, music , music, clips and … Continue reading →

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iPhone 3G, the Revolution Goes On

Posted on June 10, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

The iPhone Revolution goes on, only faster. No more “wait for 3G” effect. Half the price. Going truly global to 70 countries. Built-in Wifi and GPS. Do not be surprised when Apple double their forecast and sell 20 million units … Continue reading →

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iPhone 3G at $199!

Posted on June 10, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Rumors confirmed. Apple announced the iPhone 3G. It will be available in 22 countries on 11 July and more than 70 countries by the end of the year. In US, the 8GB version will cost $199 and the 16GB only … Continue reading →

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