Ouch. All this bickering is troubling me. I understand the arguments coming from both sides and I’m going to have to side with Qualcomm on this one. They created a technology, which means investing R&D dollars, and now they want to be compensated for it. As much as I hate companies stifling innovation by patenting…
Archives for 2007
Purchased you N95 from an operator? Flash it!
When you’ve got someone like Andy Abramson telling you that it’s your right to use the VoIP stack in your N95, you simply have to stand up and applaud. Lesson learned: Do not buy branded phones. I can’t stress this enough. In a perfect world operators would sell access to their network and people would…
Will Sun be a competitor in the future?
I just finished reading this article over at Device Forge and it got me thinking: Can Sun really pull it off? I use 3 applications everyday, none of them are written for S60. Opera Mini = Java Gmail = Java Google Maps = Java Technically I could switch to S40 and still be a happy…
Dell ends its PDA line; Will it buy Palm?
With the rise of the smartphones, PDA market has been declining for years. Finally, one of the companies that found ways to make money on the sluggish market stopped selling them. Namely, Dell removed Axim X51 off its website, and the rumors cycle started… People are speculating whether Dell will enter the cell phone market.…
Nokia Video Manager released
Nokia has just released Nokia Video Manager, the free applications that allows users to manage and transfer their video clips from their phone to the PC and the other way around. The new application supports all Symbian S60 3rd edition devices and is very easy to use, even boasting the transparent on-the-fly transcoding — you…
Marvell announces 88W8689 Bluetooth single-chip solution
Marvell — one of the leading manufacturers of storage, communications, and consumer silicon solutions — recently announced its 88W8689 Bluetooth single-chip solution that boasts a Bluetooth Core Specification Version 2.0 (with support for Version 2.1) + Enhanced Data Rate (EDR)-compliant baseband, a radio frequency (RF) transceiver, and a worldwide FM radio receiver. The highly integrated…
Windows Mobile 6 Product Reference Guide released
Microsoft has finally released Windows Mobile 6 Product Reference Guide, providing core information about the features of the new version of its popular mobile OS. According to Microsoft, the guide can be used in two ways: first, to provide a full understanding of both the positioning and messaging as well as the features of the…
iPhone to cause Leopard delay
It’s not an easy task to make a mobile phone, and Apple seems to have some problems with it. Don’t get me wrong, I can’t wait to get my hands on the iPhone. But not my iPhone, as I’ll wait for the iPhone 2. In order to start shipping it ’till June, Apple is reportedly…
Amp’d Mobile Creeping Up On 200,000 Subscribers
Well, that sure was quick. Amp’d Mobile ended 2006 with 100,000 wireless subscribers and now, at the close of Q1 2007, they are reporting an additional 87,000 users. That’s quite an increase in subscriber-base for a company that was recently outed for not fully protecting it’s customers’ private info. Apparently, when your rakin’ in the…
How To: Assemble and Disassemble a Nokia E65
Engadget Mobile found two threads on Howard Forums that have detailed pictures on how to take apart and construct a Nokia E65. I shamelessly ripped the images in case they get taken down and uploaded them to Flickr. Nokia E65 Disassembly gallery Nokia E65 Assembly gallery Motherboards just make me feel warm and fuzzy: