Abstract: Setting up secure associations between end-user devices is a challenging task when it needs to be done by ordinary users. The increasing popularity of powerful personal electronics with wireless communication abilities has made the problem more urgent than ever before. During the last few years, several solutions have appeared in the research literature. Several…
Archives for January 2007
More pics leak: Nokia E65 in Black/Brown is absolutely stunning
Enjoy! Source: eBay 3GSM is going to be wicked.
jkOnTheRun gets a Nokia N800 for review
Some background information: jkOnTheRun is owned and operated by Kevin C. Tofel and James Kendrick. They have some of the most informative video reviews I’ve ever seen on the net, period. The only people who seem to produce video reviews of the same, or even better quality, are the fine folks at GottaBeMobile. While reminds…
How smartphone platforms compare
Recently InformationWeek published an interesting business-technology buyer’s guide to the BlackBerry, Linux, Mac OS X, Palm, Symbian, and Windows Mobile platforms. Besides the solid perspective of all smartphone platforms, the article also brings an illustrative road map for smartphone operating systems. Back to Symbian. According to author of the article (and as we all know…
fMSX 3.1 for S60 3rd edition devices released
fMSX is a program that emulates MSX, MSX2, and MSX2+ 8bit home computers. The program will run MSX, MSX2, and MSX2+ cartridge files (.rom and .rom.gz). The new version also supports disk images (.dsk and .dsk.gz). Starting the games is easy – place your files into “E:\Others\fMSX”. If your phone has no keyboard, or its…
Nokia E65 video
Thanks to the SymbianGuru and Slashphone, we have a short video of the upcoming Nokia E65. Recently approved by the FCC, the E65 brings the element of style in the ESeries lineup. Enjoy the video. 🙂
S60 Annoyance: Hit 2 twice, see it once
Take an S40 phone. Leave it alone until it goes in to screen saver mode. Hit a number on the keypad. What happens? The screensaver turns off, and the number you hit on the keypad is now on your screen. Take my Nokia E61. It’s in screen saver moder. Hit a number on the keypad.…
34.1% of the mobile phones sold in 2006 were made by Nokia
Fact filled table all the way at the bottom of this IDC press release: Nokia ends the year much in the same way it began the year, as the undisputed worldwide leader in mobile phone shipments. Having reached a new shipment record—more than a million units on average each day during the quarter—Nokia experienced downward…
Nokia’s website has been hacked!
UPDATE: This isn’t fake at all. Open a standard browser, go to nokia.com, click north america, then click canada. Now select "compare phones." Seems he added a soundtrack to the site. Quite catchy if I do say so myself. Someone do something, stat! Proof: Nokia’s Compare Phones page Here is a screenshot (I resized it…
A little bit of information about me
When I was tagged a few weeks back I immediately felt … warm on the inside. To know that there are people who I’ve never met before in my life, who want to know a little bit of information about me, it’s just one of those things that make you feel good about yourself. The…