BrightBytes™: RIM, PocketMac, Smartphone

By Ed Hardy | 11/7/2002

Palm licenses RIMS's keyboard technology, new version of PocketMac, Sendo dumps Microsoft's Smartphone 2002, and more.

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Microsoft Smartphone Released

By Andrew | 10/23/2002

Microsoft will be powering the new Smartphone released in England yesterday titled the SPV (Sound, Pictures, Video). This smartphone will run Microsoft's Smartphone 2002 OS and come equipped with a digital camera. Microsoft hopes to beat out the Symbian OS and be the software manufacturer behind the next hottest selling handheld devices to be released in Europe this year and U.S. 2003 Device specs.

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Symbian Rules the Roost in Europe

By Ed Hardy | 10/21/2002

Symbian OS, with Nokia as its champion, dominates the market for handhelds and smartphones in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa

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BrightBytes™: Themes, NS Basic, Visual CE, and more

By Ed Hardy | 10/21/2002

Updated New version of Microsoft's Theme Generator now available; NS Basic/Palm 3.0 now available, as is Visual CE 7; DataViz buys ThinkDB; First Smartphone 2002 handset due tomorrow

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Handspring Still Struggling Towards Profitability

By Ed Hardy | 10/17/2002

Handspring says it sold more Treo smartphones last quarter than ever before but it had to push back its estimate of when it will first be profitable to the middle of next year.

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FCC Approves Sony Ericsson P800 for U.S. (Pics)

By Andrew | 10/15/2002

Sony Ericsson will now be able to go forward with it's release of the P800 smartphone in the U.S. As first reported by Smartphonecentral.com today. The FCC has posted pictures and user manuals to its site at this location FCC approval documents. View this article to see pics taken by the FCC.

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Mobius 2002

By Ed Hardy | 10/14/2002

Microsoft's annual get-together with the people who run mobile websites covered topics ranging from the company's new operating system for smartphones to Tablet PC.

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HandEra to Help Others Make Smartphones

By Ed Hardy | 10/4/2002

HandEra is offering to help companies design Palm OS smartphones and wireless handhelds running Texas Instruments' processors. Does this mean it will release one of its own?

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Handspring Focuses Marketing Efforts on Smartphones

By Ed Hardy | 9/26/2002

In the future, Handspring will concentrate on getting wireless carriers to market and sell its Treo smartphones, rather than marketing them itself and selling them through retail.

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RUMOR: Apple to enter Smartphone Market

By Andrew | 8/22/2002

In a New York Times article this week Apple CEO Steve Jobs was quoted as saying "We decided that between now and next year, the PDA is going to be subsumed by the telephone. We think the PDA. is going away." And when asked if Apple would make a Smartphone, he simply implied he thought Apple could do a great job of such a thing. Click here to read the NY Times article and get the scoop on the potential iPhone! 

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New Samsung SCH-I600 Details (Pictures) update!

By Andrew | 8/21/2002

No release dates on this device yet, but Samsung has decided to produce a PDA / Cell phone combo that runs on a Microsoft OS instead of their usual Palm based smartphones. The Samsung SCH-I600 leans more toward being a phone than PDA. Check out the pictures of the upcoming device in this article. Samsung will also release the SPH-i500, a Palm based 3G enabled smartphone, in conjunction with the SPH-i600 release.

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RUMOR: Handspring Treo 300 This Week?

By Andrew | 8/6/2002

We are expecting to hear more about the Handspring Treo 300 smartphone as the week progresses. The Treo 300 will be the same as the colored Treo 270, but will be able to run on Sprint's 3G network to be rolled out this Thursday in the United States.

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