Tim Belfall
Articles by Tim Belfall
iPhone 3GS : Don’t Bother, Just Pick Up The Original On The Cheap
On purely a spec comparison the recently launched Samsung HD surpasses Apple’s 3GS on all counts. From screen, camera, data speeds, versatility...
Palm Pre gets mostly positive reviews
With its launch on US network Sprint on Saturday, the Palm Pre has been doing the rounds with US reviewers. For a detailed review go to precentral.net or...
Fixed Broadband Essential, Mobile Broadband Next?
According to the BBC 73% of us now regard fixed broadband, or should that be the internet, as essential as water or electricity. Now the internet won’t...
Skyfire mobile browser out of Beta, but what does it offer?
Just a few years ago if you wanted to surf the web on your Pocket PC mobile you had only the really poor Pocket Internet Explorer bundled into the device....
Don’t forget Samsung's Omnia HD!
We all know that Apple will announce their iPhone refresh real soon, Palm have their Pre hitting US buyers in June, and Nokia will finally ship much twiddled...
Apple Has Much To Crow About At The Moment
From a disappointing start in Europe, the iPhone has metamorphosed into the most spectacularly successful and design icon. More than just a mobile...
Is The Future Of (iPhone) App Development In The Office Or In The Kitchen?
The Beeb’s Rory Cellan-Jones reported on the iPhone application phenomena yesterday showing how developers with an idea, mixed with a dash of ingenuity...
Wall Street Journal Launches On The iPhone
Whilst I may berate the US networks for the less than scintillating range of handsets being flogged out on 24 months contracts (ball and chain?) they are...
Will you need a TV licence to buy a mobile in future?
The BBC it appears is not content with the billions received from its usual sources, it is now threatening mobile phone users with significant fines if they...
Campus Research shows US are getting mobile
Until the iPhone hit the streets of America two years ago, mobile in the US seemed to be all about voice calls and a lot of BlackBerry email. SMS and internet...
Twitter falls under the weight of Gravity
Widgets and web based Twitter clients for Symbian’s S60 platform have been used for a while. Whilst they ‘do a job’ they do have...
Have an iPhone 3G? Don’t expect multitasking, ever
So now we know how Apple will keep us buying iPhones. Bring out a handset, support it for a single major update and then only partial support in the...
Comment : Did the iPhone OS 3.0 Deliver On Features?
In December, I wrote a short wish list of features that I wanted from the next upgrade to the iPhone software. Did Apple deliver? Well to...
iPhone 3.0 keeps Apple in the mobile game
Apple’s iPhone 3G was starting to look quite lame in comparison with the Nokia 5800 and the launch of Samsung’s Omnia HD, Toshiba’s TG01,...
A Nokia Puzzle - Buy Business or Buy Consumer
Nokia is well known for finely segmenting their customer base, which is consequently why they have so many types of handsets available at any one time....














