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Apple seems to be getting a lot of negative press on its recent SDK announcement. Much of the criticism seems to focus around two issues: That not all functionality of the phone is accessable via the SDK, and that Apple controls the distribution method to the phone. I’ll adress the second point first. Some perspective on the history of apps on cell phones will do a lot to put this in perspective, and see why these decisions were made as tradeoffs, and actually strengthen the position of the iPhone as a leader in custom applications.

Chrome Walker has a post on some of the new phones coming out in Europe for 2008. One of the trends that seems to be emerging is the “real web.” This was kicked off by Apple with the iPhone, and its the idea that you can view the Internet on your cell phone with a reasonable interface. In other words, its formatted the same way as it would be on your computer.

Is this the future of cell phone applications? Read on …

The press seems to be infatuated lately that the keyboard on the iPhone isn’t as good as other smart phones like, say, a BlackBerry. This obsession comes mainly from the fact that the press is desperately looking for something negative to say about the iPhone, and really this is the only thing they can come up with.

Cingular has been going through a lot of effort to rename itself AT&T. The corporate bigwigs have come to the conclusion that “AT&T” is a much better name, and most people associate it with terrible customer service and monopolistic anti-competitive behavior, which is the direction they would like to be taking Cingular.

Click for the details on how AT&T wants their image to come across.

There are lots of people out there who have been collecting music for some time. Personally, for example, I have had a collection of LP’s (There’s nothing like The Who in vinyl!), cassette tapes, and probably hundreds of CD’s. In the past few years, I’ve also built up a respectable amount of MP3’s and AAC music.

While having plenty of music is great, the problem starts to become that I can only listen to CD’s on my cdplayer, LP’s on my record player, and MP3’s on my IPod. If this sounds familiar, then Roxio’s “Record Now Music Lab” is targeted just for you.