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Competition: Windows 7 Phone
At CeBIT, I had my second hands on with Windows Phone 7, which is—while not Linux based—definitely a competing platform to Linux based smartphone platforms like Android or the upcoming (MeeGo?, the new Samsung one, as LiMo, let's not forget that, isn't a mobile OS, just a middleware/IP pool) or less successful other Linux based smartphone platforms (webOS) out there.
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LiMo R4 announced, devices to come?
When LiMo 3 was released, nobody was really excited - it was last year in February, and at that time Intel and Nokia got all the attention for their MeeGo announcement, and besides that, Android was becoming huge at that time. Now, with MeeGo being pretty much dead in the handheld / smartphone form factor, this may change. While there wasn't much reaction on the announcement of LiMo 4 during MWC this might change as soon as devices will be out (there is not a single LiMo 3 device available in Europe, BTW).
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CeBIT 2011: Hands on with Hanvon A116 7" Android tablet
The device I played with for the longest time at CeBIT 2011 without being bothered by booth people was the 7 inch tablet Hanvon A116. Despite its specs sheet says that this device has some decent hardware inside (1GHz ARM Cortex A8 (Samsung Hummingbird according to ARMdevices.net) + 512MB DDR2 Ram) this thing ran Android 2.2 in a horribly slow way—this maybe due to Hanvons customizations or bad drivers.
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A day at CeBIT. Again.
I am starting this very subjective write up sitting on a chair in the Webciety’s Bloggers Lounge and I feel pretty tired and exhausted - it's just as it has been the years before. You walk around all day and spend time out there, go hands on with the few devices you are interested here, talk to booth people… There are great moments and less great - this time there were few less great ones, even the sun was shining all the time, which I never experienced in CeBIT seasons Hannover.
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Honeycomb on G1
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CeBIT: Day 0,1 and more than the first half of the 2nd day - Round Up
As usually (at least I believe that it has been like that the past years) CeBIT isn't the place were the great, new revolutionary platforms are being announced. CeBIT is a business centric trade show with tons of non business visitors, that come in because there are tons of tickets available for free. Still CeBIT is interesting, because of its size—there are always some new devices from smaller manufacturers, or new iterations of products that were announced at CES. Before I will head to Hanover tomorrow, I want to share a link list of the most interesting products of CeBIT spotted by fellow tech bloggers so far.
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The Nokia WP7 announcement: A late comment.