We’ve seen it on Apple’s iPhone, and it looked kind a cool. I wanted to have that chat-style SMS experience on my Nokia smartphone. Luckily, things are moving fast and now we have an application that will do just that. ThreadSMS 1.0 is a neat little app that brings MSN chat style UI to the…
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Is there an employee Nokia store?
I’m just curious. I would love a hooded sweat shirt with the company logo.
Motorola’s Smell-O-Phone – Stinky Patent
Motorola filed for a patent back in 2005. Nothing out of the ordinary, until you find out that the patent was for a scent-emitting phone. Now the great news! The “smell-o-phone” patent was recently approved for Motorola (are we the only ones excited?)! Now that the fashion forward mobile phone manufacturer has the green light…
Sun Acquires SavaJe’s Intellectual Property – Open Source Java-based OS To Follow?
SavaJe Technologies Inc., rushed onto the scene about three years ago with bold statements about its Java-based mobile operating system. Sun Microsystems just bought the rights to all of SavaJe’s intellectual property, including the rights to SavaJe’s java-based mobile OS. We don’t really know what Sun plans to do with their SavaJe IP acquisition, but…
India Looks To Triple Wireless Users By 2011 – Among Fastest Growing Wireless Telecom Markets
Last year, 2006, India reported a wireless subscriber base of 149.5 million users. That’s a huge increase from the 85 million users India had in 2005. The most densely populated nation picked up upwards of 6 million wireless users every month, in 2006. Dr Jagdish Rebello, principal of iSuppli Corp., projects a wireless user base…
Broadcom Sues Qualcomm Over Patent And Licensing Mis-steps
Qualcomm sure is getting cozy with the US legal system these days. Broadcom filed suit against Qualcomm in an Orange County Superior Court on April 12. Broadcom is crying foul on Qualcomm for not playing fair in front of an international standards commission. It seems that Qualcomm may have “hidden” some of its patent holdings…
Use High-Capacity SDHC Memory Cards On Your Palm Treo 680!
These new-fangled SDHC cards pick up where the older SD cards left off. Where SD cards hit a maximum capacity of 2GB, SDHC cards hustle to take expansion to 8GB – and beyond! Great, but you gotta have a compatible expansion slot. Apparently, Palm’s Treo 680 has a “secret” talent – it knows how to…
Dusan: That’s it, let’s discuss the stability!
Hey Will, you’re getting hilarious. I like that. But now let’s switch gears and talk about yet another selling point for the Symbian-powered devices – stability. But first let me shortly discuss this rich freak that broke his N95. Yeah I’ve heard people have some problems with GPS. Still, nothing worth crashing the device. As…
Treo Fans In Italy Finally Get Palm Treo 750 – Released On 3 Italia’s Network
Those of you in the land of spaghetti and meatballs finally get a chance to lay your marinera-covered mitts on the Palm Treo 750. Italy’s 3 Italia 3G provider will be offering the Windows Mobile 5.0 smartphone to the Italian masses. Those lucky canolli’s get some righteous HSDPA action with their Treo 750, molto bene.…
Mobile Social Network Peekamo Brings Free SMS-Text To Your Cell Phone
Bebo, where you at? Free SMS text from your desktop is a great feature, but free texts from your mobile phone is even better! Peekamo is the newest mobile phone-based social network to bust onto the scene, and it’s looking to grab a good chunk of the market with a platform that allows free SMS…