There is a text review to accompany the video below. Likes: Small and light Call quality Extremely loud and clear speaker phone GPS. Once it finds the satellite, it rocks Gaming almost matched the PSP experience Dislikes: Dual slide mechanism felt loose When closing the slider it would sometimes slide too far down and reveal…
Archives for 2007
AAS reviews ThreadedSMS
I rarely cover applications on this blog, but this is a big one. I’m amazed it took someone so long to create this application and am left in sheer awe wondering why the company that practically invented SMS hasn’t adopted this style of visualizing data while competitors have had it for several years. Maybe in…
Flyer: Python S60 framework for Flash Lite
Biskero brings us good tidings about this new framework called Flyer. I’m not a developer, but all I had to read was "take photos" and "access GPS coordinates" to get excited. Why do I feel this is important? Microsoft worked their butt off trying to finish Expression. A development tool that would make the creation…
Finland: What people don’t like
Remember my previous post when I said I was browsing youtube for "Finnish music?" This is the 6th most viewed video for that search term. Apparently some Finn’s got together and made a song about what they dislike about Helsinki. Fast forward to about 2 minutes 10 seconds. I guarantee you will giggle a little…
Deeda Pi Phone – Not To Be Confused With Apple iPhone
Obscure (these kinds of operations always are) cell phone manufacturer, Deeda, has announced their new Pi Phone. Deeda claims that their iPhone clone “is the next generation of portable consumer multimedia devices,” and has been in development since 2005. Right, we’re sure Apple’s legal team will be fine with that and leave Deeda on its…
Hulger Introduces Two New “Museum” Piece Handsets – Astor And Sophia
Hulger will bust out with two new super-limited edition “museum” phones at the Milan Salone del Mobile 2007 . The Astor (pictured above) and Sophia (after the break) are Bluetooth enabled phones custom designed for Spazio Rossana Orlandi – one of Milan’s premier design showrooms – and will be showcased there prior to the Milan…
Finland: I want to love you tender
When you are as obsessed with Nokia as I am, you tend to learn a lot about and fall in love with: Finland. Did you know that Santa Claus is from Finland? Did you also know that Finnish people eat reindeer aka the animals that help Santa make his once a year flight around the…
Chantal Kreviazuk, Rogers and Nokia Partner to Shoot the First Canadian Major Label Video with Handsets
Don’t even bother reading the whole press release. The first sentence is enough: Multiple award-winning singer/songwriter Chantal Kreviazuk has partnered with Rogers and Nokia, to film her new video for the smash single "Wonderful," entirely on two Nokia Nseries mobile phones. If you like the song below then make sure to check out Chantal’s website:…
Smartphones Show 29: Editing video on your S60 device
About 12 minutes long split up into news from the past few weeks, a review of a Window Mobile 6 based GPS enabled E61i look alike and finally: editing video in S60. I highly recommend you subscribe to Steve’s show and that all you N95 junkies watch episode 28, which was dedicated to that device.
Mobile Burn reviews the Nokia E65
Their conclusion: The E65 is brilliantly built and has specifications that blow most other slider phones away. It is unfortunate that the keypad sometimes fails to register key presses. Otherwise, the E65 would have been perfect. Now let us get into the details. What they liked: Best looking E Series device Ambient light sensor that…