Check out the latest salvo fired by Sprint in the Palm Pre vs. iPhone battle.  I have to admit, I think this is a clever ad, especially the Palm Pre leaning against a apple core.  Now, I have no idea whether any of the claims in this ad are accurate or even effective (though the math on that $1200 over two years seems pretty close).  But it is nice to see that both Sprint and Palm are not dead yet.

[via Mobilitysite]

Seems like the last week or so has been pretty much dominated by the iPhone 3GS.  Everyone loves their iPhone.  And there have been probably millions of words written which complete the sentence, “The iPhone is better than my old [phone/device/cheese grater] because…”

Well, I was pretty excited this morning when I stumbled upon an article from The Nokia Blog talking about why the new Nokia flagship N97 is better than the iPhone.  Now, I have not used the N97 or the iPhone 3GS, so I am not stating an opinion here.  Just saying it was refreshing to hear an alternate point of view.

Check out the article, here.

Patrick Jordan over at Just Another iPhone Blog picked this one up a few days ago, and I never had a chance to comment.  Have you ever been so mad at your computer that you just want to throw it out the window?  Well, this poor guy’s computer is fighting back.  The video is in French, but you really do not need to hear what they are saying.  All you need to know is: computer apparently does not like what is being done, computer transforms into a spaceship, computer flies out the window.  More Than Meets The Eye, indeed…

I have heard of personalizing your iPhone or other devices to meet your needs, but this may be a little ridiculous.  Still, really funny.  I especially love the weather icon.  Have you all done anything creative to personalize your device?  Let us know in the comments.

[Via Gizmodo]

Well not exactly for all, but Mozilla are edging towards a beta release of Fennec/FireFox Mobile. Why I say not exactly free, The cab install file is 9.6 Mb and ram and processor consumption is off the wall. I actually backed up twice before I installed the Alpha, and I installed it to device, something I rarely do with trial software.

The problem here is the size of the file and the specs of your device. If you are still using an older WinMo device like me, there’s not a lot of hope for you with this Alpha. It just hangs and doesn’t offer any options. If Fennec is going to be a viable option, it will have to be a lot less resource hungry. Just the start up/load time of the app was an indication that this wasn’t going to work for me.
Even though it graphically looks good, at this stage, this load screen appeared for about eight minutes. Not a good omen in anyone’s books. Basically, it would load the start page, and then do very little else. So I’ve uninstalled it. Even though I’ve posted optimistically about this before, we are looking at an app that will need a device with specs to boot.
Remember that film where they say “ if you build it, they will come!”. Windows Mobile devices are probably evolving at a rate that will accommodate this application, but for now, it’s a wee bit sketchy.
How ever you want to take it, it’s still nice to see the development progressing.Check out the  latest change logs for the current alpha here, and give it a try if you want! I’m a bit uninspired, and disappointed that this update didn’t take this browser up a level, that makes it useable on windows mobile. Try it out for sure!