I first met Carol via her VOX. She took me on a tour of Nokia HQ and we have been friends ever since. We even went to a Black Sabbath and Megadeth concert recently! I knew about Kevin’s blog for a while now, I just knew him by his alias instead of his real identity.…
Archives for 2007
Bidding for iPhone rights in the UK; Orange vs Vodafone
Bringing iPhone in Britain will add more profits and publicity to any carrier which wins the right to carry the device in the country. Earlier this year, we’ve heard that Vodafone will most likely get the rights to sell Apple’s handset in Europe. Now, we have another contender – Orange. Apparently, executives from both carriers…
AT&T’s Nokia N75 training documents leaked
AT&T’s training materials seem everything but hard to find around the Web these days. Following the iPhone, we now have the Nokia N75 training documents leaked. According to BoyGenius, AT&T is planning to market Nokia’s “multimedia computer” to males and females aged between 25 and 45. Guess the younger crowd will get their N75 via…
Turning Sony Ericsson M600 to W950?
Tired of using Sony Ericsson M600? Business oriented UIQ 3 smartphone can’t match some of the W950’s features — especially the W950’s ultra-cool music player. I guess that was the reason someone tried (and apparently succeeded) to flash its M600 and make it look/work like the W950. It always seemed kind a strange that Sony…
An Evening with S60 coming to Chicago
An “Evening with S60” is hitting Chicago this summer. S60 enthusiasts in and around the city are invited to join Nokia at its Flagship Store on Thursday June 7, 2007 from 6pm to 8pm — the store will be closed earlier for the event. If you’re into Nokia smartphones and live nearby, this is the…
A monk to launch an SMS fundraising campaign
You’ve probably familiar with various SMS fundraising campaigns. But which one of them was launched by a monk? Not a single one, as far as I know. A monk in Bulgaria, former financial stock broker on Wall Street, is planning to launch an SMS fundraising campaign to renovate a Monastery. “Father Nikanor from the village…
Global Mobile Technologies to deliver interactive multimedia ads to mobile phones
Mobile advertising is set for explosive growth and there’s nothing new about it. So it doesn’t surprises that many companies work hard to get their piece of the pie. One such company is Global Mobile Technologies (GMT), which filed a patent for real-time delivery of rich, user-requested content with interactive advertising to mobile phones. The…
KDDI to offer Hitachi phone with fingerprint sensor
Japanese carrier KDDI is about to introduce a great new phone to its users. The Hitachi-made W51H is a part of the company’s “win” series and integrates AuthenTec’s AES1510 fingerprint sensor as a standard feature. Interesting thing is that the sensor is located bellow the large screen — meaning there is no separate fingerprint space…
How do regular S60 applications behave on the massive screen of the Nokia E90?
Steve over at All About Symbian has the details. One interesting quote about the PIM: In ‘the early verdict’, I mentioned that users of the older Psion palmtops and Nokia Communicators will have some adjusting to do in terms of the core applications in the E90 – the ride from EPOC to Nokia Series 80…
In case you forgot: Nokia still does a horrible job at honoring warranties
Ricky is quite upset and I would be too. I’ve ranted about this before, but it doesn’t hurt to bring it up again and again until something is done about it. On the flip side of the coin: People rarely post their positive experiences when having to return something, if anyone has a pleasant story…