Google recently released a calendar for gmail users to use instead of good old Outlook. Now a company called CompanionLink Software have launched an application which allows PDA and Smartphone users to synchronise their appointments they have stored on Google calendar with their Palm Desktop and Microsoft Outlook on their handheld.
Wayland Burns told the […]

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Akihabara News has posted pictures of a PDA from the Korean company Tinnos that features a massive 30GB hardrive. My question would be - why on earth would you need that?! On top of the huge memory there is a 4.3″ widescreen TFT, a camera, MP3 player and Windows Mobile 5.0 OS. […]

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This GPS system from Polaroid (the MGX-0550 Portable GPS) is currently only available in the US and you have to wonder if it’ll ever be legal in the UK. The average in-car GPS device is combined with a DVD player, audio CD player, FM radio and Picture viewer to make one wholly distractable system. […]

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Dear Mr. i-mate Marketing man, please help out your customers and industry friends by naming your products more distinctively!
The i-mate Jas Jam (I tripled checked, but the name may not be final) is a convergance of the JasJar and the Kjam/Jam lines of i-mate devices. It is a version of the HTC Hermes, and has […]

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Navman have launched the iCN 530, successor to the popular iCN 520. I told you about the 530 along with the other new products from Navman, but now more details have been released, I’m wondering, apart from the obvious face-lift, is there really any difference between it and the 520? The pretty fella […]

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After years of major growth, the PDA industry has started to even out, with some of the biggest names even shipping less products than this time last year. Mio, on the other hand has shown an increase in the number of units shipped compared to the same time in 2005. Despite being a […]

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Another ridiculously practical use for GPS…
The Royal Mail have announced a same-day delivery service which will allow customers to track their items in real-time using GPS. Customers can track deliveries online and see the exact location of the post van and the speed it’s travelling at, and are then send an email receipt within […]

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Palm say they are “Demonstrating [their] commitment to providing mobile professionals with a choice of smartphone operating systems“. I say “they are demonstrating their commitment to the endangered Palm OS“. But then I’m a born cynic. Anyway, since November there have been rumours about a Palm OS based Treo being launched after […]

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Nokia have teamed up with Google to produce an updated version of the 770 internet tablet. Using the Google Talk VoIP system, the device won’t have traditional mobile phone capabilities but be a PDA or handheld computer with Wi-Fi for fast internet access and voice data transfer. Not only will it have these […]

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Alpine, better known in the US for their inbuilt auto-navigation systems, have finally taken a stand against their competitors and produced their first portable GPS system – the “Blackbird”. Launched last Thursday, the product will only be available in Canada and the US for the time being but if it takes off, it will […]

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