Keeping up with all the new firmware updates and software fixes for your Palm can get to be a trying experience. Wouldn’t it be nice if all the latest troubleshooting tips, firmware updates, and software downloads were in one, easy to use, web portal? Well, Palm understands your plight. The company has launched a new…
Archives for May 2007
Asus debuts the J502 PDA Smartphone
Asus is on a roll with their PDA phone releases recently. The company has launched their new J502 smartphone. The Asus J502 is touted as a PDA phone (although, without Windows Mobile, it can’t really lay claim to being a Smartphone) and packs a 2.4 inch QVGA display, 3 megapixel camera, Bluetooth 2.0, TV-out, Skype,…
HTW S116 – Solar Powered Mobile Phone
Yea, we know Motorola already patented the solar-panel LCD screen. That doesn’t mean that a solar-powered mobile phone is off-limits. HTW released their HTW S116 handset at the Chinese tradeshow, CHITEC 2007. The S116 was actually debuted at CeBIT this year, and we finally see this thing being sold in China – from HTW for…
Sprint plans Launch of commerical WiMAX service in Q2 2008
Sprint has confirmed more details on the rollout of their WiMAX service. A Q2 2008 goal has been set for the commercial rollout of its mobile broadband service, upon successful completion of Sprint’s WiMAX trials in Baltimore, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. Sprint says that they plan “to invest up to $800M in 2007 and between…
I’m no longer in trouble!
Huge thanks to Lucy Nichols, Director of Brand Protection in the Intellectual Property Rights Department at Nokia! Lucy took the time to give me a call from her hotel room in Beijing and apologize for the letter that Darby & Darby sent me. The person handling the complaint was new and apparently unaware of the…
Facebook Rolls out new Mobile Video Uploading Service
Facebook users will now be able to upload videos right from their mobile phones. Thanks to the new Facebook Platform allows third-party development for applications that work with Facebook. The first Facebook Platform application, Video, “allows for the simple sharing of personal videos between friends within Facebook, as well as the creation and sending of…
Apple iPhone spotted in the Wild!
GeekNuz spotted this guy playing with his iPhone at a local eatery in Silicon Valley (of course), over the weekend! That’s right, he was playing with his very own iPhone – in the open! The guy in the picture was confirmed as an Apple employee and was talking it up with his dining companion as…
Quanta Clinches Second Apple iPhone Contract – 5 Million iPhones Slated for September
The Apple iPhone is imminent, and so are the massive shipments of iPhones that Apple will need to cover the demand. Foxconn (Han Hai Precision Industry) has already locked down the Apple iPhone manufacturing contract for the initial launch window, but it’s hard to imagine that a single component integrator can handle the global iPhone…
Nokia launches WidSets, Mobiledu in China
Nokia introduced two mobile Internet services serving Chinese consumers: WidSets – mobile widgets service that recently got its millionth user registered, and Mobiledu – China’s first interactive mobile learning service. While we’ve already wrote about WidSets, we’ll focus our attention on Mobiledu. Nokia’s new mobile learning service integrates teaching material from a variety of educational…
Put on a sombrero because the bright minds at Nokia are shining
Ever since "Nokia, the computer company?" was published I’ve received at least one email a day asking me to link to it. I’ve been holding back because I wanted to spend a fairly large portion of my time discussing, analyzing and building on it. Michael Mace did a fantastic job at putting into perspective where…