Samsung’s U470 is an interesting little sucker. It’s definitely one of the smallest swivel-phones that we’ve seen and now we have some more details on the svelte musicphone. The Samsung U470 will be coming to Verizon’s network as the Samsung “Juke.” Thanks to an Engadget Mobile tipster, we’ve got the deets on the external controls…
Archives for 2007
USA Nokia N95 available in Chicago and New York, $700 and support for American 3G
Quick lowdown for people asking what the differences are between the Euro and USA N95. The American N95 has more RAM, double the European model, a larger (much needed) battery, support for American 3G frequencies and the only negative is that there is no longer protection for the Carl Zeiss optics. Don’t be jealous my…
Alyssa Milano rocks the iPhone
We love Alyssa Milano, she’s hot. And she’s rockin’ an iPhone in this picture – that makes us love her even more. That’s all we got, enjoy. [Via: Macenstein]
Does anyone use AOL anymore?
Seriously. Remember when AOL was “the way” to get on the new-fangled “internet?” Aside from AOL Instant Messenger, we can’t think of anyone in our huge group of friends that still actually uses the AOL web portal. They’ve been losing ground to, well, just about everyone that offers web access. So, what can AOL do…
Nokia to publish 29 minute movie about music to advertise their new store
Using Firefox? Then no music recommenders website for you! Reuters is saying that instead of Nokia dropping some serious cash on a world wide marketing blitz, they are going to post a 29 minute video, as well as bite sized portions of it, on video sharing sites such as youtube in the hope that people…
Nokia orders WiMAX chips from Intel, new Internet Tablet in 1H 2008 confirmed
I’m still skeptical about WiMAX, the world is moving towards UMTS based LTE, hell even Verizon dropped CDMA. This is not stopping Nokia from wanting to test how effective WiMAX will be in the future. A spokesperson for Nokia told Reuters that “Nokia will roll out the first WiMax-enabled Internet tablets using Intel chips in…
Required reading for all phone manufactures: Microsoft 2.0, the book
I know what you’re thinking, what does a book about Microsoft have to do with building a phone? On the surface absolutely nothing, but metaphorically it screams rather than speaks softly about the transformation many companies will be making in the near future. Some background on the author, Mary Jo Foley is to Microsoft what…
Video: Motorola RAZR 2 commercial that will give you nightmares
Creativity oozes out of this Motorola commercial, they emphasize things such as internet capability, email access and a music playing feature. Whether or not this will make people who were burned by the original RAZR’s user interface want to upgrade is beyond me, but I have to tip my hat to the marketing department who…
Australian mobile users getting blocked from MySpace Mobile – down with MySpace
As if MySpace wasn’t having enough trouble keeping up with the looming threat that is Facebook, the social-networking uber-site is blocking Australian mobile users from accessing the MySpace Mobile site. Apparently, MySpace has an exclusive deal with Australian wireless carrier Optus and is blocking mobile access to any user not logging in through the Optus…
VoIP coming to the iPhone – TruPhone brings SIP to iPhone
Getting SIP-compatible VoIP to work seamlessly on the iPhone is about to become a reality. Blognation got a chance to play with a barely-alpha release of TruPhone’s VoIP application for the iPhone, and it looks quite promising. TruPhone envisions a world where mobile phone users will be able to seamlessly switch between VoIP and SIM-based…