Well folks the first tangible product of the LiMo Foundation is almost ready, as Azingo announced Azingo Mobile, a “comprehensive suite of open mobile software and services designed to help companies deliver web 2.0 applications, music, video, vivid graphics and more to a wide range of mobile phones.” Azingo’s “out of the box” solution is…
Archives for February 2008
Robert Redford coming to Mobile World Congress
Robert the man will be attending the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. He will headline at Mobile Backstage, a special one day Mobile Entertainment conference on Wednesday, February 13th, and will also appear at the GSMA’s Global Mobile Awards night later in the day. There he will be introducing the GSMA’s Mobile Entertainment…
Sony Ericsson K530i available in Fiery Red
Nokia may have fetish with naming their smartphones as “multimedia computers” or “enterprise terminals,” but Sony Ericsson has the thing with colors. Instead of calling them simply silver and black, they refer to them as “Warm Silver” and “Thunder Black.” Yeah, there are multiple shades of each color, but do they really think anyone will…
HTC ships 2 million HTC Touch handsets
Back in November, we reported that HTC announced its millionth HTC Touch shipped. Now, only 3 months later, the Taiwan-based smartphone maker is saying they’ve doubled that number. There’s no doubt HTC has a winner with the Touch. It’s not that expensive and looks very appealing, hence it’s very attractive to the current feature phone…
Quote of the day: The N810’s Wayfinder software insists that the only kind of shops in Finland are liquor stores
Krisse from All About Symbian is comparing the Nokia E90 to the Nokia N810 and she just earned herself quote of the day with this little nugget of gold: The N810’s Wayfinder software insists that the only kind of shops in Finland are Off-Licences (Liquor Stores). Does this perhaps say something about the people who…
HTC TouchFLO 2.0 aka Manila user interface leaked?
We’re still not confident whether the image above is real or not, but it certainly looks legit enough. According to the HTC Insider, this is how the next version of HTC’s TouchFLO user interface will look like. No more information was given about the project code-named “Manila”, but something tells us until Windows Mobile 7…
5 megapixel Samsung F490 shipping now, in Russia at least
The iPhone form factor Samsung F490 is shipping in February in Russia according to Unwired View for around 412 euros. Along with a 5 megapixel camera the F490 has a standard 3.5 mm headphone jack, weighs 102 grams, is less than 12 mm thick and has 3.6 Mbps HSDPA. One to watch out for sure,…
Make your Japanese school girl fantasy come true with just an SMS
Last week several junior and senior high school girls were arrested in Tokyo and Saitama for running a prostitution ring. The girls would send ads out to prospective customers that looked something like this: IkebLURV1700Yukichi2JC1 Deciphering the message is quite simple: Ikeb = Ikebukuro. The neighborhood that the girl is in. LURV = “I will…