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Watch That Tiny $74 1.5GHz Android-Powered Thumb-Puter In Action People got scared when, in his iPhone 3G review, Walt Mossberg said that a Microsoft Exchange sync can wipe out your personal calendar and contacts (though not your personal e-mail). This is true, but it is only half the truth. What we have learned is that MobileMe—mind you, a paid subscription service—can serve up your personal data alongside your company’s exchange data, so you don’t have to worry about one knocking the other out when your iPhone wirelessly syncs. Bottom Line: If you can’t or don’t want to keep personal contacts and cal on your company’s Exchange server, you can keep them separately on your Mac or PC, but only by paying for a MobileMe account. [MobileMe]
After dismissing the iPhone as “silly” last year (just to see it crushing Windows Mobile’s market share a few days ago,) The Other Steve spilled his thoughts on the iPhone announcement yesterday, all during the Mix’08 keynote with Guy Kawasaki. Ballmer touched on Adobe-Flash-wannabe Silverlight on the iPhone, Apple’s cut on iPhone’s application distribution and Apple’s ActiveSync license. All good, until he reprised his chimptastic “developers, developers, developers” screams, which got caught on (YES!) video:
“BlackBerry is dead. Microsoft is dead. Windows Mobile is dead. Amazon is dead. Kindle is dead. Nokia is dead. Motorola was already dead but now they are even more dead. Google’s Android is dead. Samsung is dead. LG is dead. Sony is dead. UTStarcom is dead.” [FSJ]
The Japanese electronics retailer Edion is deeply ashamed it sold its customers HD DVD gear. So ashamed they that they’re allowing buyers to swap in Toshiba HD DVD boxes for Blu-ray players. A little more investigation reveals that the trade must occur during March, and consumers only need pay the price difference.
9to5 Mac is reporting that Apple will have yet another event on February 26 in order to launch the iPhone and iPod Touch SDK, which will have native apps that reportedly offer Exchange and Lotus Notes support. And the best part is that updated MacBook Pros with Penryn and possibly the MacBook Air trackpad could also debut there.
Helio is announcing Activesync support for the Ocean. The phone will then be able to sync calendars, email, and contacts from an Exchange server. They’re also doing a file viewer app that will view PDF, Word, Powerpoint, Excel docs. $10 a month for Helions with All-In service plans.
