Not really the sexiest of devices. User interface hurts my face. [Via: TechEBlog]
Archives for June 2007
NBA Phone looks like a pancake made out of ground up basketballs
Something tells me the Chinese are not paying royalty fees to the NBA for the NBA N111 phone. One of these days I need to stroll the streets of Beijing and see the true bitch place of piracy. [Via: The Unwired View]
Nokia is Captain Planet of the electronics world
According to the fourth edition of the Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics, Nokia is the cleanest company in the world! Apple went from last place to 10th place, Lenovo and Dell are tied for second. No I’m not a hippy, I greatly enjoy my over consumption of pork and excessive speeding in an inefficient vehicle.…
By June 2008 Nokia plans to enter the Chinese TD-SCDMA market
Nokia has been working with China in creating the TD-SCDMA standard and now they are finally going to launch the technology and deploy handsets around it. China is huge, along with the Middle East, in terms of volume. The emerging markets are where the money is, but it is quickly becoming a competitive field. Samsung…
Nokia wants to bring the physical world into the age of the hyperlink
If you see a word in blue in your web browser you can click on it and it will usually bring you to a location with more detail. Be careful however, Wikipedia is up there with cocaine in terms of addiction. Nokia wants to bring that same experience to the real world with Point&Find. In…
Washington Post comic writer’s take on the iPhone
Now you know why some people call it the Jesus Phone. 🙂 In the meantime, make sure you bookmark our iPhone-dedicated subsite – Into iPhone, where we bring you all the latest news surrounding Apple’s handset. [Via: Washington Post Comic]
Ancient scroll mobile phone concept
Check this out – a mobile phone concept that mimics the motion of an ancient scroll. The idea of the designer, Yun Liang, is to roll this device out only when you need to check the text message or watch a video — otherwise keep it rolled up. Numeric keypad is all around the scroll…
Samsung creates chip that can tune into any mobile tv channel
The PR writer at Samsung is good. You don’t have to read past the first sentence to know what the hell is being announced: Samsung Electronics, a leader in advanced semiconductor technology, announced the industry’s first 65 nanometer multi-standard channel decoder (S3C4F31) and multi-band radio frequency (RF) tuner (S5M8602) chipset which supports multi digital mobile…
Sprint drops “Nextel” from its name; Set to launch a new brand campaign
Just in case some of you folks ever called Sprint – “Sprint Nextel”, you don’t have to do that any more. Starting from July 1st, the carrier will launch a new brand campaign with the tagline “Sprint Ahead” along with the slogan “Experience life at SprintSpeed” across all the media – including TV, print, outdoor…
Skype on the Nokia N800, it lives!
The one application that was supposed to make the N800 amazing when it launched at CES nearly 7 months ago is finally coming out of the closet! Ladies and gentlemen, Skype on the Nokia N800. [Via: Gizmodo] Update: More info from jkOnTheRun states this application will be available next month!