Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday February 01, @12:41PM
from the mr-johnson's-dog dept.

Rovaani writes "There is a video floating around of a Nokia N900 smartphone running the full desktop Mac OS X 10.3. From the author, Tomi Nikkanen: 'I believe this makes the N900 the first smartphone ever to run a full version of Mac OS X (at any speed, slow or otherwise). As you can see from the heavily edited video, it took almost 2 hours to reach the "About my Mac..." window. Keep your eye on the time display as that will give you an impression of just how uselessly slow it is.'"

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Something of a head turner

Give your pocket a break - the sleek BlackBerry Curve 8900 is the slimmest BlackBerry smartphone around - and one of the lightest too. So you'll want to admire it as much as you'll want to use it.

Complete communication

Stay in touch with who you want, how you want. The Curve 8900 smartphone handles your text messages, picture messages and voice calls with ease. And of course, your email comes directly to your phone. Plus, there are BlackBerry apps to make Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites come alive.

Made for Microsoft

Need to make changes to that Word document or Excel spreadsheet while you're away from your desk? No problem - your BlackBerry Curve 8900 mobile has all the tools you need to open, edit and save those essential Microsoft files

Keeping you in touch

Stay connected to everything that matters in your world. Experience BlackBerry’s legendary email – or enjoy enhanced webmail. Edit Microsoft documents anywhere. And never be out of the loop with apps for Facebook, Flickr and MySpace. All on the outstanding new BlackBerry Bold 9700.

Entertainment anywhere

On your way home – or on your way out to meet friends. You choose when to enjoy music and video on the Bold 9700’s superb built in media player. Want to make your own entertainment? Just fire up the 3.2 megapixel camera and shoot great quality pictures and videos.

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Hit all the right keys

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Smooth operator

It's easy to open applications and find documents. Just like a laptop, the Curve 8520 mobile phone has a trackpad - you simply glide your finger to scroll through the menus. And then tap when you're ready to make a selection.

The perfect fit

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Your social network - to go

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Entertainment on stream

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Multi-tasking - mastered

It's never been easier to do two things at once. Your BlackBerry Storm 2 smartphone sends and receives email from up to ten accounts, lets you edit documents and get directions using GPS. And it does it all without skipping a beat - even while you're on the phone.

The iPhone has finally reached China, or should I say, the iPhone has finally officially reached China. There were plenty of unlocked iPhones invading China's GSM Networks, but only Friday was it on the China Unicom network.

The first shipments manufactured for China Unicom, however, are missing wi-fi. It wasn't until May, after manufacturing of the device had begun, that Beijing lifted the existing wi-fi ban on devices.

This will create problems for China Unicom, which has reportedly contracted with Apple for 5 million iPhones. China Unicom hopes to have wi-fi in the next batch of iphones it receives from Apple, saying: "We are talking with Apple and expect the problem to be solved by the end of this year."

Until then, though, what? China Unicom also is at a price disadvantage: unlocked grey import iPhones (with wi-fi, no less) cost around 5,700 yuan ($835) in China’s street markets, while China Unicom charges from 4,999 yuan ($730) to 6,999 yuan ($1,025) for the high-end, 32 GB iPhone 3GS.

Hmmm. An unlocked iPhone for less money, or official iPhone, tied to one carrier, for more money. Which would you choose? To be honest, even with the wi-fi feature, the fact that the unlocked iPhone goes for less creates an issue for Apple, as well as China Unicom.

In other countries, unlocked iPhones go for more, and far more than a locked version. This backwards set-up in China may prove to be difficult to overcome.