Handset on SWiK

iPhone to get NFS Undercover

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:59:59 -0700

NFS Undercover will come to iPhone

iPhone 3G Hacks - How to Build a Bluetooth Handgun Handset for your iPhone!

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:53:13 -0700

Here’s a really pointless but fun DIY for building a bluetooth handgun that will answer your calls at the pull of the trigger. Great, all that for answering a phone? Isn’t it a little too much reverse-engineering?

How to turn an airsoft handgun and a bluetooth headset into a fun, fully functional handset for your iPhone. Pull the trigger to receive calls and to, um, end them. Listen through the barrel, and talk into the grip.

I think everyone has made the thumb and forefinger gun-to-the-head sign when someone unpleasant shows up on their caller ID. Eli and I thought it would be fun to make an actual gun handset, and it turned out to be surprisingly straightforward. No glue or powertools were required.

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iPhone 3G Hacks - How to Build a Bluetooth Handgun Handset for your iPhone!

Will software set the mobile phone free?: News - Software - ZDNet Australia

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:03:44 -0700

Android

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:24:40 -0800

openmoko.com: Openmoko about

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 08:32:04 -0800

Doug Daniels Dev Journal " Android, Monkeys and $10 million dollars

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:29:39 -0800

Google recently announced the release of Android - An Open Handset Alliance Project SDK. The Android SDK is an all-encompassing Java platform for mobile development. The Android API provides many basic features as well as providing a bunch of really inter

4 Steps to Create a Developer Frenzy Around Android

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:24:37 -0800

I was reading Marguerite Reardon’s piece on CNET just now, which made me think about what it will take for Google to win.

1) Permission to believe on distribution. The list of early partners was obviously newsworthy, but Google is going to have to show continuing momentum here. They don’t have to deliver the entire universe of operators, or even the US, as some have said. But continuing drumbeats of momentum will create permission to believe and free up capital to build new apps.

2) Killer app(s). Every new platform needs at least one user experience that was not available before elsewhere, a reason for customers to buy something. For DOS is was Lotus 1-2-3. For RIM it was email anywhere. This customer desire for an application is what forces customer-owning gatekeepers (in this case the carriers) to forego their natural greed and appropriate desire to maintain proprietary differentiation. Developers, developers, and more developers (i.e. having a range of different offerings for the long tail of humanity) are important, but a very small number of killer apps makes the platform. If you want to know if something has, or is, a killer app, ask yourself whether you would buy it for someone as a present.

3) No friction, developer-friendly distribution and deployment. (i.e. use the Web). Why are there so many more brains writing code for the web than for mobile devices, when the mobile world is potentially so much bigger? Working through carriers to get a mobile app in front of users is a nightmare. If Google can use its leverage and capital to make this simpler (maybe a hosted virtual service exchange? Google’s long awaited answer to EC2?) Android wins, big time.

4) The Right Stack. If the alien stuff supports web/mashup development and ties into Google’s impressive collection of gadgetry this will appeal to the larger webdev audience, if it is also Java based, it will suck in the current mobile app code base which is significantly smaller but more leveraged. Thierry Brethes of Unyverse does a good job of laying out the run time options in his comment to the CNET story. I think it’s likely Google gets this right, and Ajax and Java are both supported, to bring in both the new world and the old.

The CNET piece comes coincident with the “leak” of screenshots of “What’s Open” this morning. I am even more impressed by Andy Rubin’s slow reveal. Again all this for an SDK…it’s really masterful. SteveB declaring Microsoft the incumbent is an appeal to calculated reason, but note that you don’t see Apple (the perceived thought leader in mobile platforms) even acknowledging Google’s efforts at the moment.

Maybe Apple gets that it’s not about facts, but about hearts, minds, permission to believe, and most of all hope. And as most hetero males know so well, few things stoke the fires of hope like a slow reveal.

cNet.com - Sun's worried that Google Android could fracture Java - Google Android Platform - The Android Log - Blog Archive

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:24:53 -0800

Inside The GPhone: What To Expect From Google's Android Alliance - Google Android Platform - The Android Log - Blog Archive

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:26:29 -0800

Open Handset Alliance

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:47:13 -0800

Open Handset Alliance

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:57:02 -0800

What Will My Google Phone Do? We've Got a Few Ideas | Compiler from Wired.com

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:44:37 -0800

SIP and IMS handsets

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 08:51:52 -0700

Trolltech Announces GPL Version of Qtopia Phone Edition

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:13:09 -0700

Trolltech announced that Qtopia Phone Edition has been ported to the Neo1973 mobile phone from FIC and open-source software provider OpenMoko and has been GPL'ed.

W3C Mobile Web Initiative

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:41:51 -0700

Nokia's 1100 handset: over 200 million served - Engadget

Sun, 08 Jul 2007 23:44:02 -0700

Dean Bubley's Disruptive Wireless: Handsets, Naked SIP, openness, VoIP, N95s and operator intervention

Sun, 24 Jun 2007 14:36:30 -0700

Linksys WIP330 WIFI IP Phone 802.11 b/g and SIP Compliant

Sat, 02 Jun 2007 11:17:52 -0700

Computer Phone Store - Skype Handsets & Headphones

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 01:23:57 -0700

VoIP Phone USB - : Skype products to the UK, stocking the latest Skype Phones from Ipevo plus Skype Headsets and Adapters.

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 01:23:57 -0700

Computer Phone Store - Skype Handsets & Headphones

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 01:13:34 -0700

VoIP Phone USB - : Skype products to the UK, stocking the latest Skype Phones from Ipevo plus Skype Headsets and Adapters.

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 01:13:33 -0700

Earnings: Motorola Handset Sales Down 15 Percent Year-On-Year

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:42:35 -0700

"And the second thing is putting a stake in the ground around when we’re going to get Linux/Java out.”

The Steady Migration of Smartphones to Linux

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 18:33:21 -0700

Fragmentation, power and memory issues continue to hold it bacl

Dean Bubley's Disruptive Wireless: What's an IMS handset? And who cares? I've already got one with "Naked SIP"

Sun, 08 Apr 2007 09:02:01 -0700

Let Dual-Mode Phreedom Ring

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 22:14:35 -0800

The design will supposedly cost less, boot up faster (in five seconds, using Linux as the operating system), work with any SIP-based VoIP provider, and provide up to five hours of talk time.

OpenMoko

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 16:58:27 -0800

SIP-based VoW-Fi Debuts on Nokia N80 Internet Edition

Tue, 05 Dec 2006 16:36:55 -0800

Second open Linux handset unveiled | CNET News.com

Fri, 10 Nov 2006 17:23:23 -0800

Broadbandstuff.co.uk | UTStarcom UTS F1000 WiFi IP Phone

Mon, 31 Jul 2006 14:12:37 -0700