Qualcomm doesn’t seem to be hurting all that much from all their in-court shenanigans. The US-based chip-making giant has just launched another high-speed wireless broadband (you know, that 3G stuff we’re always talking about) solution for notebooks. The new chip, dubbed “Gobi,” brings a new level of portability and flexibility to the mobile warrior’s toolbox…
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What is Nokia doing in Palo Alto next Thursday? Mobile Mash-Up 2007?
Seems like Nokia is holding an event called “Mobile Mashup 2007” where people like the founder of LinkedIn and employees from Flickr, YouTube, BluePulse, Bebo, Yahoo, Intel, HP and Oracle are going to attend. The conference agenda can be found here and surprisingly it is taking place just one day before the “Next Episode” event…
Pictures: N95 8GB Spiderman Unboxing
I don’t know if you can call this an official unboxing since it was done by the folks at Nokia on their Nseries Arena blog, but we like the pictures either way. Full resolution versions on my Flickr account as usual, here is a small sample:
Off Topic and Personal: Congratulations Eyal! Hypersonic PC sold to OCZ
Before getting into the nitty gritty world of mobile telecommunications I was a PC gamer. A very very hard core PC gamer. My lust and passion lead me to an AMD event in NY where I met the CEO of Hypersonic PC, Eyal Akler. We had dinner that night and talked endlessly about the market,…
Apple patent filed for tactile touchscreen – raised, indented keys
Apple’s been on a touchscreen kick recently. Following on their previous pressure-sensitive touchscreen patent application filings with the USPTO, Apple has again filed for another patent regarding a touchscreen interface. The newest patent filing, titled “Keystroke tacility arrangement on a smooth touch surface,” reveals Apple’s interest in haptic touchscreen feedback – by which some physical…
Distracted driving contest reveals the obvious: texting while driving is dangerous
Who woulda thunk it? Apparently, there’s some rhyme to the reason behind the recent outlawing of typing SMS text messages while driving. Nuance, makers of speech recognition technology for mobile phones held a contest in Florida to see just how dangerous a distracted, SMS texting driver was, compared to a driver using Nuance’s speech recognition…
Palm’s next generation OS now delayed to mid 2009
In an interview yesterday with Jon Rubinstein, Executive Chairman and Head of Product Development at Palm, he stated that it will take 18 months for new products to come out. That would put the new operating system on target for April 2009. It is becoming harder and harder to love Palm these days and articles…
Chavs and brand whores rejoice: Live pictures of the Adidas phone are out
Is this an abomination? You bet! Samsung won the contract to make this thing and we hope whoever buys it uses a Bluetooth headset as pulling this thing out of your pocket would be too embarrassing to witness. Specs include QVGA screen, FM tuner, MP3 playback and … wait why are you thinking of buything…
Video: Unboxing of a QWERTY slider by Samsung
Imagine the new fatty iPod nano in your head for a minute. Now imagine said fatty nano sliding up to reveal a keyboard. Can’t quite wrap your head around that concept? Neither can we, but this device sure as hell is interesting for that sole reason of being an innovative form factor. It’s called the…
Video: Sony Ericsson K770i Review
Phone Arena says that the K770i isn’t that impressive compared to the T650 or even the older generation K800/K810. Personally if I had to go with either of those 4 models I would go for the K810i. That phone looks ultra Japanese, in the kick ass going to transform and destroy Tokyo kind of way.…