I enjoy reviews like this. Personally I’m a little bit jaded since I’ve played with WinMo, Palm, S40 and S60. A fresh perspective is sometimes needed. This guy, Steven Wittens, lays down the foundation of his piece by describing his mobile phone history: Two months ago I got a Nokia N73 hand-me-down from Roland thanks…
Archives for February 2007
Off Topic: eInk paper that connects to the cellular network = impressive
Sometimes, rarely, I post random things that I think are just plain awesome. This is one of them: Phillips spin-off Polymer Vision looks to be making fast work on its most recent promise to commercialize its foldable display this year, with the company set to officially unveil the first product to use the would-be paper…
Nokia invests $4 million in Summit Microelectronics
"Mobile phones no longer just make voice calls, but connect to the Internet and act as our mobile camera, music player, navigation device, and even our mobile television. This growing functionality raises the importance of power management. Nokia Growth Partners is pleased to lead this investment round. Summit has assembled a world-class team specializing on…
Mobile Burn reviews the Nokia 7373
WARNING: I have a strong bias against this form factor. I love candy bars, sliders are cool, flip phones don’t do anything for me, but the "flipping swivel" as I like to call it has no place in my heart and soul. None. Zero. Snippets: I would have preferred at least a navigational D-pad on…
dotMobi's announces "Go Mobile!" initiative
dotMobi today announced its “Go Mobile!” initiative, a program that is exclusively available to dotMobi’s registrars and resellers, and includes a range of tools for developing good quality mobile content as well as targeted marketing guides to dramatically improve companies’ mobile capabilities and business volumes. Other program elements include a substantial cooperative marketing program plus…
Next-gen gaming platform set for launch in September 2007
The recently announced N-Gage Future Watch website revealed the date of the platform launch – September 2007. From that point and until the end of the year, N-Gage fans can see many popular titles hitting the market. EA Mobile and Gameloft will be among the first to bring a number of its top-selling, award-winning titles…
Sony Ericsson completes acquisition of UIQ Technology
Following the full regulatory ratification, Sony Ericsson completed the acquisition of the Swedish UIQ Technology AB from Symbian Ltd. Sony Ericsson is already a UIQ licensee, and has been working closely with the company on UIQ version 3.0, which is included in Sony Ericsson smartphones. Under the arrangement, UIQ Technology will operate as a separate…
Nokia N95 all around the Web
Nokia has recently sent its flagship N95 “multimedia computer” to the top industry evangelists (why we’re not on the list?). 🙂
Some site changes, I could use your input
I want to make my page load quicker, in order to do that less content has to be on the front page. Before this blog post I had Typepad show all my posts up to 4 days back. There is a balance I must reach between content versus load time. I embed a lot…
Video: Fan made spin off Nokia N93 commercial
Here is the official Nokia commercial: Direct link to video Here is what this creative individual did: Direct link to video I love that he loves Nokia enough to make such a vid in his spare time. Way to go!