The ‘Curse of Silence’. You read it right… No, not the ‘Cone of Silence‘… The ‘Curse of Silence’! My pal John over at MobileSyrup shot this over to me in my email this morning, and I was quite intrigued. What a great way to ring in the New Year I thought… With news of such…
BlackBerry 8900 Coming to T-Mobile February 18th
More news regarding the wickedly awesome BlackBerry 8900. Seems as though a snapshot taken of a T-Mobile roadmap seems to confirm what Simon reported way back on Christmas Day! Word has it that the next generation BlackBerry Curve recently landed on Rogers will also make its way to the U.S. via T-Mobile for February 18th.…
Stalin-themed Nokia handsets spark controversy
Sales of Nokia handsets bearing images of of Russia’s Stalin have stirred up controversy in the Nokia camp. Granted, the mobile space is used to seeing mobile phone manufacturers and wireless carriers pushing out handset variants aimed at specific demographics. But, it’s not everyday that you see cellphones being sold through retail channels with a…
Goldstriker’s Nokia 8800 Princess Edition is wonderful, costs 12,000 GBP
Goldstriker announced a new member of its luxury family. It’s the beautiful Nokia 8800 Princess Edition which will go on sale in the Colette store in Paris in January 2009. There is, however, some reasoning beyond the price. The custom-made Nokia 8800 will boast 8.2 carats of diamonds on the front and rear, solid platinum…
Nokia RM-412 aka Victoria spotted at the FCC
A new Nokia handset has been spotted at the FCC’s website. Apparently, the device codenamed Victoria (product code “RM-412”) will be a smartphone a la Nokia E66. We don’t have the full specs at the moment, but we know few bits. Among other things, we see the 1000 mAh BL-4U battery, Bluetooth and WiFi connectivity,…
Video: Nokia 5800 XpressMusic will survive!
Those crazy Russians and their crazy crash tests. Like it’s not enough to test “accidental” drops and raining condition, they had to put the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic in the washing machine, beer and vacuum cleaner. The good thing, though, is that the Tube survived all the testing, proving Nokia knows its thing when it comes…
Nokia 6208c – the first Series 40 touchscreen device
A new Nokia feature phone has been spotted at the company’s Chinese website – Nokia 6208c. What’s significant about it is that this is the first Nokia touchscreen-equipped feature phone, running Series 40 user interface. Somehow, we’re not surprised as touch input is preferred for Chinese (and some other language) characters, but we did expect…
Latest Nokia patent suggests we may see a four-way folding Communicator
Nokia may be onto something or at least their latest patent filling suggests so. What we have here is a weird looking phone, which sports kinda bizarre four-way folding mechanism, as you can see from the image above. Scrap that, the patent says there are “at least four device parts,” hinting us we could see…
Rogers ’09 Lineup Leaked, Featuring Wi-Fi BlackBerry Storm, Sony Ericsson XPERIA
Hooah, that’s a spicy Q1 ’09 lineup for Canadian carrier Rogers, boasting new goodies like a Wi-Fi BlackBerry Storm and 3G Pearl Flip, but a few things you might have heard about before are also on the way for 2009, including the Sony Ericsson X1 EXPERIA. Here’s the full list. BlackBerry 8200 Pearl Flip –…
Crash Bandicoot: Nitro Kart 3D, Boom Blox now available on N-Gage
Two additional games have been added to the N-Gage platform – Crash Bandicoot: Nitro Kart 3D and Boom Blox. Let’s briefly go through each on of them. First comes Crash Bandicoot: Nitro Kart 3D, which brings console driving experience to compatible Nokia smartphones. There are 12 tracks to race in as well as 8 devastating…