Sep 4
Mobile News, Reviews David
android, htc, maemo, motorola, qwerty, samsung, smartphones
Front view: Nexus One, Milestone 2, Nexus S
Last time, I reviewed the Motorola Milestone 2 and published a gallery of close up photos for your viewing pleasure. This time the Milestone 2 is back shown up against some other milestone devices. Sorry, I couldn’t resist the pun!
To compare the Milestone 2 in its opened QWERTY mode, I paired it up against the much loved Nokia N900, Nokia’s last Maemo device. It’s easy to call the Milestone 2 chunky, but when you put it up against the N900, you realised that things were a lot fatter just a few years ago.
For portrait touch slab mode, I put the Milestone two up against the two de facto Android reference devices, the Nexus One and Nexus S. The Nexus One and Milestone 2 both have 3.7″ screens, while the Nexus S is the biggest at 4″. You also get to see the difference in the type of screen materials used. Both the Nexus One and Milestone 2 have somewhat silvered backings, while the Nexus S has a real obsidian look going on.
So read on if you want to see the Milestone 2 (literally) stacked up against the Nokia N900, HTC Google Nexus One and the Samsung Nexus S!
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Aug 31
Mobile News, Reviews David
android, motoblur, motorola, smartphone
The Milestone 2 QWERTY membrane keyboard
Thanks to Steve Litchfield, I recently had a chance to try out the Motorola Milestone 2. This is a slide-out QWERTY Android 2.2 device. I was interested in trying this one because of its physical QWERTY form factor. Most Android devices are rather generic touch slabs these days.
The Milestone 2 has a 3.7″ TFT screen. Compared to the AMOLED equipped Nexus and Nokia smartphones, TFT looks decidedly lifeless these days. Given the technology you’d also expect TFT screens to be more power hungry than their AMOLED cousins. This is because TFT has an always-on backlight, whereas AMOLED display don’t because each pixel makes its own light. However, I would anecdotally say that the Milestone 2′s battery life seemed marginally better than both my Nexus One and Nexus S.
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Jun 14
Mobile News David
app, bug, fix, nokia, ovi, qt, store
Ovi's fragile app store
A quick Google search demonstrates that there are a lot of Symbian users out there having problems with their Ovi Store app. The most likely causes can be traced back to testing beta software, that inadvertently interferes with Qt libraries. I’ve already written on All About Symbian about one way to remedy such problems in “When beta testing goes bad”. Once again though, I have just had to repair my Nokia C7 again, after it developed a bug where the Ovi Store would get stuck on the loading screen. Read on to find out how I fixed it.
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Jun 5
Mobile News David
android, dell, phone, smartphone, Streak, tablet
Rather fittingly, the biggest mobile phone you’re likely to come across, needs little introduction. The Dell Streak is a rather unique piece of mobile technology, having one foot in the smartphone world, and the other in the tablet space.
Given that it’s been out for around a year, there are plenty of other reviews on the Web. So, I won’t make this an exhaustive review of a device you’ve probably already read about. However, I was fortunate enough to have a two week loan of Tim Salmon’s Dell Streak, see the photos I took of the device along side other smartphones. Therefore, these are just my thoughts about the device, while my memories are still fresh.
The Dell Streak, a 5 inch Android phone, or is it a tablet?
So off we go, here’s my thoughts on Dell’s generously proportioned slate-come-smartphone, running Android 2.2 Froyo …
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May 22
Mobile News David
7, ht7, htc, mango, metro, microsoft, nodo, phone, series, windows
Windows Phone 7
Thanks to Steve Litchfield, I’ve been able to test the HTC HD7, one of the earliest Windows Phone 7, erm, phones. I’ve already posted a photo gallery of HD7. Now, I want to talk about Microsoft’s new mobile operating system which will be adopted by Nokia as its primary platform, eventually replacing Symbian.
Read on for my opinions and first impressions of Windows Phone 7, with the “NoDo” 7.07 update
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