The new iPhone 4 was just announced. It’s not 4G or HD – just 4. I have to give it to Steve this time – not calling it 4G means he isn’t jumping the LTE wagon just yet. And not calling it HD means he really knows what HD is, and while the display of the new iPhone is impressive, HD it ain’t. The worst part of it all? It has a front facing camera. And as someone who predicted
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | June 9th, 2010 | Filed under Clients
The Nexus One, just like the iPhone and the rest of the “smart” pack, comes today with some impressive hardware: a large multi-touch display; WiFi, 3G and Bluetooth connectivity; a 5 Megapixel camera; GPS, accelerometer and a few other toys that I probably missed. Whenever an iPhone is about to be launched (the latest iPhone OS 4.0 is a good example), a slew of blogs spew out posts about what they believe is coming out in the new version. Martin
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | April 21st, 2010 | Filed under Clients, Technology
I’ve been doodling around with a shiny new Google Nexus One in the past couple of weeks – an “upgrade” from my corporate Nokia N85, which was a BIG “upgrade” from my old Nokia 6210, which was an “upgrade” from another Nokia phone. I’ve placed “upgrade” for a good reason here on the list – it’s simply because with each new phone came a better “experience”, but with a huge compromise. And the Nexus One is me saying that I’m
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | April 8th, 2010 | Filed under Clients, Technology
[Antoine RJ Wright is a smart person I have never met, but one who I met through this blog. I've ended up reading his writings and also his comments on this blog once in a while. In my search for a Skype killer post, Antoine left an interesting idea that I just had to have clarified a bit. I ended up asking Antoine to write a guest post on his idea of the open address book, which he did. I
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By guest | January 18th, 2010 | Filed under Technology
The iPhone has been around for a while now. And while it has been a game changer to the mobile handset industry, it was also a game changer of almost EVERY other industry in town. I came to this conclusion reading Om Malik’s post about the wireless bandwidth boom, which has (of course) been driven by the iPhone: But the popularity of new 3G devices such as the iPhone and BlackBerry 3G has increased the use of data, putting the
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | October 29th, 2009 | Filed under Technology
Last month I’ve mused about Mobile VoIP, first suggesting IMS will kill it and then stating it is not going to happen any time soon. I think it’s time I stand behind my big words and explain why. Here are my 5 cents reasons: 1. Mobile VoIP is (Still) Downloadable Mobile VoIP is yet to be embedded as part of the natural user experience of a mobile phone. There are some handsets that support mobile VoIP, but finding it, configuring
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | October 5th, 2009 | Filed under Clients, Technology
Eric Krapf shares a presentation of John Giese from Avaya, which practically kills the idea of the PC as a phone – it’s a bit too harsh for my taste, but rather in-line with my own thoughts about desktops and IP phones. Still on NoJitter, DaveMichels sees things a bit differently, stating that IP Phones have peaked, and will be replaced by desktop and mobile phones. Stacey Higginbotham GigaOM reports on an increase in upstream bandwidth use – if this trend continues, it will be another step towards visual communications for consumers at home. Andy Abramson from VoIP Watch indicates what aspects of the App Store phenomena worries Google – his analysis is sound, though I don’t see App Stores catching over web browsing in the long run.
By Tsahi Levent-Levi | July 30th, 2009 | Filed under Around the net
I already made a point or two regarding my obsession with the software vs. hardware debate (and I probably have a few more about the subject somewhere). This time around I’d like to talk about modu, a new phone that was just been launched in Israel (by an Israeli start-up) and its stark counterpart, the one that no mobile post can live without, the iPhone. modu is a new mobile handset manufacturer based in Israel, founded by Dov Moran, the
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | July 29th, 2009 | Filed under Clients
Last month, two new “products” have been introduced to the market: Google Wave and Opera Unite. They have nothing in common, other than that that they look at the web, communications and collaboration in two totally opposite ways. Google Riding The Wave Google Wave is everything we ever wanted in our communications with others. It’s email, forums, wikis, documents, image galleries, you name it – anything you might think of, besides voice and video calling. It’s a Unified Communication infrastructure
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | July 13th, 2009 | Filed under Technology
Just in time for my weekly post, Gartner came out with a brand new report. To make a long story short, they expect mobile VoIP to reach 50% of all end-to-end mobile traffic by 2019. No mistake there – want mobile VoIP? You will have to wait another decade. Who would have guessed… Gartner agrees with me. No VoIP for you (or me), at least not now, and not as soon as we would have liked. If you want to
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | May 7th, 2009 | Filed under Technology
