Tag: operating system

The CrunchPad will be remembered as a signpost to new computing

And so the CrunchPad is placed by it’s spiritual father, Michael Arrington, into the Dead Pool. I doubt it’s the last we’ll see of the device, but it’s certainly the last we’ll see of it with the CrunchPad moniker. The legalese may be in motion but some warehouse is going to churn these out within six months. All the real world stuff aside, I’m sad that the CrunchPad isn’t going to be available. Looking at that picture of the circuit board there’s a juicy 1850mah battery, an express PCMCIA 3G card, Intel Atom 1.6 CPU (perhaps a Z or N

Mobile Phones Will Always Be Buggy

Over on All About Symbian, I’ve posted some thoughts about mobile phone firmware. Spurred on by the problems around the Blackberry Storm and its ‘buggy’ software in the first wave of hardware releases, the company CEO said that this was the wave of the future – all phones released will have bugs. The knee jerk reaction that this is bad was always going to happen, but I think that he has a point here: It’s to do with complexity. The modern mobile Operating System is huge, and measured in tens of Megabytes. That’s a far cry from ten years ago