Last month, after the new iPod Shuffle came out, I wrote a column about how Apple might be considering a shift to a voice interface for iPods and iPhones. Well, now Ars Technica is reporting that there’s “evidence of new voice control features coming to iPhone OS 3.0,” which will be released sometime this summer.
Ars’ [...]

High Tech Computer (HTC), the largest maker of handsets that run Microsoft Windows Mobile software, unveiled updates to two of its most popular smartphones ever on Monday, the HTC Touch Diamond2 and HTC Touch Pro2 handsets.

ProcessorQualcomm® MSM7200A™, 528 MHz
Operating SystemWindows Mobile® 6.1 Professional
MemoryROM: 512 MBRAM: 288 [...]

The Google-backed Open Handset Alliance adds Vodafone and Sony Ericsson, along with 12 others to boost the Google Android mobile and wireless and operating system. The move points to the momentum Android is gaining with both the T-Mobile G1, and promises of future phones in 2009 from Sprint, Motorola and others.
The Open [...]

The BlackBerry Storm, Verizon (VZ) and RIM’s (RIMM) answer to Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone, opens like a Broadway show on Friday. So naturally, Thursday’s papers and blogs are full of reviews. A sampling of the big ones:

Walt Mossberg. The Wall Street Journal. BlackBerry’s Storm Presses Into the Touch-Phone Fray: Mixed positive. He likes the high-res [...]

GPS navigation producer Navigon on Monday unveiled the 8100T, a device that incorporates panoramic, 3D views into its 4.8-inch screen.
The device’s Panorama View 3D will use NASA terrain height data and a built-in accelerator to display hills and digital elevations on the screen.
The 8100T will be available this month from online retailers for $599. [...]

AT&T Mobility chief Ralph de la Vega confirmed on Thursday that iPhone 3G users will be able to use their phones as wireless modems at some point next year.
De la Vega made the comments during a conversation with TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington at the Web 2.0 Summit on Thursday. “Tethering” an iPhone to a [...]

Motorola used to be one of the biggest companies in the mobile phone
  market thanks to its Razr handset. When the popularity of the Razr waned so did Motorola’s market share. Today Motorola is one of the firms fighting for the dollars of mobile phone shoppers everywhere.
Motorola and T-Mobile have announced [...]

October 28, 2008 (Computerworld) Hours before Microsoft Corp. executives trotted out Windows 7 at the company’s developer conference, officials leaked some details about the impending alpha edition on Microsoft’s own Web site.
In an extensive privacy statement devoted to Windows 7, the successor to the problem-plagued Windows Vista that Microsoft will tout today at [...]

 
Color me impressed: Google has released a custom Google Earth application for the iPhone/iPod Touch, and it’s stunning.
The Google Earth geographical software has been altered to make maximum use of the iPhone’s screen and functionality. You’re able to tilt the device to adjust your view when browsing mountainous terrain, use the ‘My Location’ [...]

When the Dell Inspiron Mini 9 launched a couple of months ago, it did little to differentiate itself from the sea of netbooks that were already out there. Evidently, the Mini 9 was only the first of two acts. On Sunday, the Dell Inspiron Mini 12, a larger version of the Mini 9, makes its [...]