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Matthew Miller provides you with news, commentary and in-depth reviews of the latest in mobile phones sporting iOS, Android, and Windows.

Matthew Miller

Matthew Miller started using mobile devices in 1997 and has been writing news, reviews, and opinion pieces ever since. Matthew started using mobile devices with a US Robotics Pilot 1000 and has owned hundreds of devices running Palm, Linux, Symbian, Newton, BlackBerry, iOS, Android, webOS, Windows Mobile, and Windows Phone operating systems. His current collection includes the latest and greatest foldables, wearables, and more, along with classic devices like the Apple Newton MessagePad 2100 and Sony CLIE UX50. Matthew can be found on various social networks under the user name of "palmsolo."

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Welcome Palm Web OS, now what happens with Palm OS 5 applications?

As I keep thinking about the Palm Pre and Palm Web OS announcement and looking at the stunning image gallery I can't help but think about all of those millions of Palm OS fans and developers wondering about the future of the current Palm OS. Palm is definitely moving fully into the cloud with the Palm Pre as they focused on their Web OS and never showed any desktop syncing capability. This means we have pretty much seen the end of any non-phone mobile devices from Palm, and pretty much everyone else now as well. What about all the money people have sunk into Palm OS 5 applications? Does the Palm Pre and Web OS support legacy Palm applications?

January 8, 2009 by Matthew Miller in Mobility

Image Gallery: Palm Pre device revealed in all its beautiful glory

Palm needed to blow us away with something today at CES 2009 and I think they did just that with the Palm Pre and Palm Web OS announcements. Palm just posted several device photos and screenshots that we have available for you to view in our image gallery.

January 8, 2009 by Matthew Miller in Mobility

CES 2009: Palm announces the Palm Web OS and the Palm Pre device

With Microsoft's rather anemic keynote at CES 2009, the show was up in the air for another company to step up to the plate and garner all the attention from the press. Thus, Palm was in a perfect position to steal the show and after following the various live feeds (Scoble's live video kyte feed was the best) I would have to say that Palm did just that. Palm should have had a live feed themselves since most people's live coverage kept dying out. I was quite nervous for Palm and was hoping they weren't going to come out and show a different color Treo Pro. They really needed to show something big or I think we would see Palm fade away into the history books of PDAs. As I watched the coverage I would have to say that Palm did a nice job with their announcements.

January 8, 2009 by Matthew Miller in Mobility

CES 2009: Slacker Mobile for BlackBerry and FlyCast for Google Android, PC, & Mac announced

Streaming internet radio is very popular today with mobile clients and desktop clients like Pandora and Last.fm. At CES today, two more services announced expanded coverage, improved features, and availability. Slacker, Inc. announced Slacker Mobile for the BlackBerry so you no longer need to have a dedicated Slacker player to enjoy music on the go. FlyCast announced a client for the Android/T-Mobile G1 and desktop players for Windows PCs and Mac.

January 8, 2009 by Matthew Miller in Apple

CES 2009: Nokia announces E63 QWERTY device for the US for only $279 unlocked

The Nokia E71 is a fantastic device (see my review) and I keep on going back to using it because it has a killer form factor and is solid as a rock. Nokia announced the E63 back in November for Europe and other countries. Today at CES 2009, Nokia announced that the E63 will be coming to the USA with support for 3G (on AT&T) for a low MSRP of US$279 as a SIM-unlocked device.

January 7, 2009 by Matthew Miller in Mobility

CES 2009: HTC and T-Mobile announce new Shadow with UMA support

While I think the T-Mobile Shadow appealed to a number of people moving from a feature phone (at least that is the type of demographic I saw every time I went into the T-Mobile stores) I don't think it struck a strong chord with mobile phone enthusiasts. I personally found the T-Mobile Shadow to be one of my favorite non-touch screen smartphones (see my review and follow up thoughts). Today, HTC and T-Mobile announced the next generation Shadow that will be available in January or February.

January 7, 2009 by Matthew Miller in Hardware

How to: Add Gmail label/subfolder access to your Nokia Email accounts

Now that I have Nokia Email back up and running on my Nokia N85 I was looking at some of the new features, including subfolder support. I use Gmail as my primary email account(s) and was disappointed to see I apparently could not use IMAP subfolders with my Gmail labels. I just received an email from a member of the Nokia Email team that showed me how I could actually use Gmail labels as subfolders with Nokia Email.

January 6, 2009 by Matthew Miller in Microsoft

BlackBerry Curve 8900 is coming to T-Mobile USA in February

Rogers was the first to get the RIM BlackBerry Curve 8900 (aka Javelin) and it looks like T-Mobile USA may be the first carrier in the U.S. to get this updated device. According to a flyer/ad posted on TmoNews the BlackBerry Curve 8900 will be launching on 11 February. This latest generation Curve is smaller than the Bold, but has many of the same specifications.

January 6, 2009 by Matthew Miller in Mobility

SlingPlayer Mobile and Laridian PocketBible coming soon to the iPhone

There are a couple of applications that I particularly enjoy using on my Windows Mobile devices that have actually been so compelling that they have kept me using Windows Mobile over other devices. Two of these applications are now being demoed for the iPhone and will be coming in the near future. Sling Media is showing off SlingPlayer Mobile for the iPhone at Macworld 2009 and Laridian posted a video of PocketBible for iPhone.

January 5, 2009 by Matthew Miller in Hardware

MWSF09: Truphone brings improved Skype and IM experience to the iPhone and iPod touch

I believe fring was the first to bring Skype calling capability to the iPhone back in October 2008. Today, Truphone announced the upgraded version of Truphone that will support Skype calling and instant messaging functions. With Truphone you can also place Skype calls without a WiFi connection and be billed just for your cellular plan minutes thanks to Truphone Anywhere.

January 5, 2009 by Matthew Miller in iPhone

CES2009: HTC announces S743/Rose with U.S. 3G support

When I posted my HTC Rose/S740 review last month I had no idea that a US version of the device would be coming and was quite excited to get a press release announcing the HTC S743 with 850/1900 MHz HSDPA support. The HTC S743 is a slick non-touchscreen device with a 12-key keypad and full QWERTY keyboard.

January 5, 2009 by Matthew Miller in Mobile Carriers

Soonr and Evernote sync documents to the cloud for iPhone access

The big news today regarding the Apple iPhone seems to be the launch of Soonr (PDF news release). Soonr is an iPhone application that lets you access and view documents stored in the cloud. You cannot edit or create documents on the iPhone since that functionality is not yet available, but you can share them with others and print to a remote printer from your iPhone. Evernote also recently launched their file syncing capability. Is one better than the other or are both services valuable for iPhone users?

January 5, 2009 by Matthew Miller in iPhone

Review: BodyGuardz T-Mobile G1 Google Android skin

I am pretty happy with my T-Mobile G1 Google Android device and something I have been doing lately with my touch screen only devices like the original iPhone is using the plastic film skins. I like using these types of cases because they give you full functionality, excellent protection, and don't take away from the sleek design of the device. I tried the BodyGuardz transparent skin on my T-Mobile G1 and after several weeks of usage the skin is performing flawlessly. You can find several images of the skin on my G1 in the image gallery.

January 5, 2009 by Matthew Miller in Mobility

Nokia was the world's largest computer maker in 2008

The tech community is gearing up for CES and Macworld Expo 2009 events this week and it is expected there will be new from the large computer makers, Apple, HP, Dell, Lenovo, etc. However, did you know that Nokia is now the world's largest computer maker with 13.8% of market share? HP, Dell, Apple, Acer, Lenovo, RIM, and Toshiba follow in the stats. These numbers only include the Nokia smartphones and not all of the Nokia mobile phones (Series 40 phones are quite powerful too, but not included) or devices (Nokia Internet Tablets are not included), which would increase their numbers even more.

January 4, 2009 by Matthew Miller in Microsoft

Quick iPhone app review: craigsphone craigslist application lets you create and view posts

As I have written many times, I am a huge 3rd party application fan and can't help loading up my original iPhone with applications to try out. One of the latest applications that I find very useful for the iPhone is craigsphone. craigsphone brings craigslist to your iPhone and unlike the other craigslist applications on the iPhone App Store you can actually create and post an ad right from your iPhone on the go. You can take a photo with your iPhone and include it in your ad so there is no reason to create another post without a photo.

January 4, 2009 by Matthew Miller in iPhone

Smartphones and Cell Phones

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Latest Posts

Welcome Palm Web OS, now what happens with Palm OS 5 applications?

Image Gallery: Palm Pre device revealed in all its beautiful glory

CES 2009: Palm announces the Palm Web OS and the Palm Pre device

CES 2009: Slacker Mobile for BlackBerry and FlyCast for Google Android, PC, & Mac announced

CES 2009: Nokia announces E63 QWERTY device for the US for only $279 unlocked

CES 2009: HTC and T-Mobile announce new Shadow with UMA support

How to: Add Gmail label/subfolder access to your Nokia Email accounts

BlackBerry Curve 8900 is coming to T-Mobile USA in February

SlingPlayer Mobile and Laridian PocketBible coming soon to the iPhone

MWSF09: Truphone brings improved Skype and IM experience to the iPhone and iPod touch

CES2009: HTC announces S743/Rose with U.S. 3G support

Soonr and Evernote sync documents to the cloud for iPhone access

Review: BodyGuardz T-Mobile G1 Google Android skin

Nokia was the world's largest computer maker in 2008

Quick iPhone app review: craigsphone craigslist application lets you create and view posts

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