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Dear ,
As you know, in January of this year we introduced several changes to your IT-Wireless publication, including a fresh new editor, a new publication date and a new name. In changing the name of IT-Wireless to FierceMobileEnterprise, we wanted to better reflect this newsletter's affiliation with the FierceMarkets family of 21 online publications and to update the name to correspond to our evolving editorial focus--mobile devices and services that power the enterprise.
Unfortunately, in our effort to be "fierce," we were also a bit too fast. It has been brought to our attention that the FierceMobileEnterprise name may have caused confusion for some readers and advertisers with another publication in the marketplace. At the request of that publication, we have decided to rebrand FierceMobileEnterprise as FierceMobileIT to avoid any potential confusion.
We recognize the inconvenience of this name change for you and thank you for your understanding. Please rest assured that we'll continue to bring you the same coverage you expect from us, led by your editor Mehan Jayasuriya, under our the new FierceMobileIT brand. To ensure that you continue to receive the publication, please add "editors@FierceMobileIT.com" to your safe senders list.
Best regards,
Maurice Bakley
Publisher, FierceMobileIT
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Just about the most hyped handset to come out of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona earlier this year, the mysterious Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 has been lusted after by geeks ever since its initial showing. So we couldn't resist the urge to get hands-on with it at CTIA last week. Our thoughts? The phone is slick, shiny and feels awfully solid--not surprising given that it's manufactured by HTC. The hiptop-style slideout keypad is a pleasure to use and has a nice gliding motion to it. On the OS tip, it runs Windows Mobile 6.1 but manages to cover up WinMo with a number of user-selectable custom skins--there's one for Google users and one for world travelers, for example. Overall, the UI is fairly slick and looks good on the 800x400 resolution touchscreen, but during our hands-on was fairly laggy. That's somewhat understandable, however, when you consider that Sony has yet to announce a release date for this bad boy, outside of "late 2008." All-in-all, the Xperia looks like it could be a solid contender for Windows Mobile users with a case of hiptop envy.
For more on the Xperia X1:
- see this photo slideshow
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It's been pretty quiet on the Sprint push-to-talk front for a while now, at least as far as new devices are concerned. But if Sprint CEO Dan Hesse's comments during his CTIA keynote are to be believed, the company will be reviving its push-to-talk line shortly with a slew of new devices. Unlike the previous Nextel network, the new push-to-talk service will run over Sprint's EV-DO Rev. A network and will only require one number, which can be used for both mobile calls and PTT. New devices from Motorola, Samsung, Sanyo and LG will support this new service and will launch later this year. While that's all well and good, enterprise folks will be most excited to hear that the company also plans to launch a new WiFi-equipped BlackBerry device that will support PTT, though this device will run on Nextel's iDEN network, not Sprint's EV-DO network.
For more on the announcement:
- see this CTIA Live story
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We knew that we couldn't leave the CTIA show floor without saying hi to everyone's favorite OEM turned smartphone powerhouse: HTC. On display at their booth were a number of relatively new devices, many of which were running the newly-announced Windows Mobile 6.1 firmware. The Touch Dual--which is coming to the States later this year--was pretty much exactly as we expected, a Touch with a slide-out keypad. It does, however, seem a bit thinner and lighter than the original Touch. It was nice to see a device as powerful as the TyTn II (aka the AT&T Tilt) finally freed from the clutches of the cluttered Windows Mobile 6.0 home screen, though the device seemed to experience the same delay in switching from portrait to landscape that users of the AT&T firmware have complained about. Finally, the Shift was as interesting of a device you could expect to find on the show floor--with its dual operating systems (Windows Mobile 6.1 and Windows Vista), massive touchscreen and bolted-on leather case (which was necessary, apparently, in order to meet an FCC requirement regarding the distance of an antenna from the outside of a device's case). Cool? You bet. Worth $1,500? Not when the highest-end Mini-Note can be had for half the price.
For more on Windows Mobile 6.1 and HTC's newest devices:
- see this photo slideshow
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Silly HP, you should have known that you couldn't hide anything from us. Right on schedule and exactly as described, here comes the Mini-Note 2133, HP's entry into the low-cost ultraportable laptop war. As for the specs, well, here's a refresher: the little guy clocks in at 2.6 pounds with a 1280x768 resolution, 8.9" screen, sports a Via C7-M processor (with speeds ranging from 1.0Ghz to 1.6Ghz), 512MB of RAM, between 4GB and 120GB of storage and either SuSE Linux or Vista Business. The Mini-Note is available now, at price points ranging from $499 to $749, depending on how decked out you want to get. "The Mini-Note is about as well made as the HTC Shift but costs only half as much," PC Magazine says in their review.
For more on the Mini-Note 2133:
- see this PC Magazine review
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Walt Mossberg, the Wall Street Journal's guru of tech, is a giant among gadget columnists. He's also one of the chosen few who receives review units of Apple products ahead of their launch. So when he says something about an Apple product, we tend to listen. Which is why, when Walt let slip at at an executive summit held by Beet.tv that we would be seeing a 3G iPhone "in 60 days," it made headlines. That would place the announcement squarely within WWDC Stevenote territory and also would seem to back up AT&T CEO Ralph de la Vega's comments at CTIA. Too bad, then, that Mossy quickly redacted his statement, telling the Silicon Alley Insider, "If I knew when this date was, why would I announce it in the middle of a sentence at the Finnish embassy, rather than report it in the Wall Street Journal?" Did Apple put pressure on Mossberg to take back his comment? Or does he really not know? Regardless of which is true, a June iPhone announcement still seems like a no-brainer.
For more on Mossy's slip-of-the-tongue:
- see this article in the Silicon Alley Insider
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