My impression is that SmartDevices, the company made SmartQ 5/7, developed an experimental hardware platform with an OS just could working. If you just want an ebook reader or a toy to play with, SmartQ 5/7 seems to be a good offer. But if you want a MID to handling more heavy tasks, you’d better wait for a while.
LowCaller is a small program, which can be installed on Blackberry, Windows Mobile or Symbian mobile phones, to make calls via VoIP services from BetaMax
Here are some photos of Cube H800, another Linux based MID from China. It is just a sign that more and more similar products will be introduced by Chinese vendors, most of which are MP4 manufacturers.
BetaMax is considered as one of the VoIP providers with lowest calling rate. But is it really cheap or a trap to fool customer? Let’s a look on some calculations based on my usage of Nonoh.
as a free mobile Java GPS software, amAze provides voice navigation and other necessary features. It can be a good supplement with the Google Maps mobile version.
If you are interesting in switching from you expensive traditional landline or getting VoIP phone service then you might want to check out the new magicJack. The magicJack is a new VoIP phone service that runs solely through a USB device that is sold by the company.
Fring, as one of the best mobile IM software, provides many powerful features such as VoIP, chatting with different IM networks and son on. Most of these features are provided as add-ons. One of the latest add-ons is twitter 2.0, which is far better than the previous one. Though the twitter 2.0 add-on of Fring is still not as good as Gravity as a mobile twitter client, the advantage is that users only need one program to go across different IM/social networks.
Let’s make a comparison between Windows Mobile phones made by Motorola (A3100) and HTC (Touch Pro 2) to have a feeling about how products from these two company differ.
For people who are interested in mobile video chat, here are demos of making video call on Symbian S60 phones
Video call feature of OctroTalk and TiviPhone makes them outstanding among so many mobile IM software. However, there is another mobile IM software from China called imichat making a step further. It not only provides the video call feature but also the video chat room.