…and I’m not hearing very good things from Dan on WoiP. He’s reporting some pretty spotty call quality and says it pales in comparison to Truphone. I will admit that  Skype’s PC client drove me insane (losing contacts, reporting people as offline when they were quite obviously on) and so I’m not that surprised with the trouble. I’m not saying the app is bad, though, as it could simply be suffering from the enormous Skype crowd downloading the app and using the service all at the same time – and hey, every app was 1.0 at some time or another. In any case, if you’re up for some VOIPing, give the app a shot – it’s free

I intend to give it a whirl when it comes out on the Canuck App Store.

[news from WoiP, pic from PCWorld]

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This pretty much sums up my side of the argument about the quality of the laptop she was buying from the prior post on the topic. Oh… and she’s an actress. Shocker. /sarcasm.

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As you may recall the blog-o-sphere was all in a tizzy last week (myself included) about Microsoft taking what could have been their easiest money maker yet – the Microsoft version of the App Store – and screwing it and the developers royally by trying to charge $99 per update per application.

Well it appears that someone at Microsoft is paying attention to the shoe phone (works better than a WinMo smartphone rumour has it) and has decided that maybe ripping off the developers wasn’t such a good idea. According to cnet (via wmexperts) Microsoft has changed the policy to be quite a bit more friendly:

Now all updates or version upgrades for applications that have already been submitted to the store will be accepted free of charge, a Microsoft representative confirmed. This applies to minor bug fixes as well as second-generation releases that add new features or capabilities.

Microsoft still plans to charge developers $99 a year, plus $99 per application, to submit applications to Windows Marketplace for Mobile, though this year, developers are being allowed to submit up to five applications free of charge for that $99 yearly fee.

So, while I think the extra $99 per application is still a bit pricy I have to applaud Microsoft for the swift decision making. They’re going to have a better store because of it. The $99 will help curb some of the dumb crap Apple has in their store (hopefully) but unfortunately its going to prohibit some first timers from taking their shot… Oh well.

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Astute readers may have noticed a whole bunch of new ads around the site.  we are very lucky here at JAMM to have some fantastic sponsors.  Our sponsors make it possible for us to bring you a lot of the great contests you see here on the site, and even help us finance some of the devices and hardware which you see reviewed at JAMM.  simply put, we love our sponsors, and I wanted to take a minute to mention them here and thank them for their fantastic support.

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When you think about it, most mobile users don’t think about what’s under the hood of their device. Let me amend that phone. More than likely 90% of mobile users, no matter what the OS, under utilise their devices, and probably have no idea what sort of powerhouse they have in the palm [well Palm devices excluded, we are waiting for the Pre] of their hands. Me, I’m always looking at specifications, mainly Processor speed and Ram.

So thinking about the evolution of the mobile phone, the truly detached from a vehicle mobile phone, [not a car phone], we have gone from hernia inducing, over the shoulder, communicators, trending down to phones that, you would lose if you blinked, and finally found a form factor that is a compromise with a simple human condition that goes by the name of "usability".

With what seems to be the best form factor for a mobile device comes the miniaturisation and enlargement of the power we expect to be included in a mobile device now.

The Qualcomm Snapdragon platform, is really the next step as far as I can see, handheld devices with a 1Ghz processor, this looks like the future of mobile computing, and gaming, and well , whack this in a WinMo phone and I’ll be happy!

Via ExperienceMobility

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