And we thought AT&T was the evil carrier. As much as we like to poke at AT&T for being the darkside of wireless carriers, we have to give it to them for their innovative offerings and liberal stance on consumer interests. The leading wireless carrier was recently noted as supporting FCC Chairman Kevin Martin’s successful…
Archives for 2007
US ITC ban on Qualcomm 3G chips put on hold by appeals court
Well, well, well. Look who’s finally getting some good luck. Qualcomm’s recent legal tussles with the likes of Nokia and Broadcom left us feeling tad bit sorry for the San Diego, CA.-based chip-making giant. Now it seems Qualcomm is finally getting a break. Judge Haldane Mayer on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal…
12 new OpenMoko screenshots, prepare for disappointment
If the iPhone taught the industry anything it is that features don’t count. You can make something technically inferior, but with a superior experience and move a lot of product. The OpenMoko guys are trying something new, they want to make a device that is open in every sense of the word. Opensource kernel, drivers,…
Nokia’s message to the Apple iPhone: Eat me
Ok not really, but in order to celebrate the 3 millenia old Mid-Autumn Festival in China Nokia has commissioned the creation of officially Finnish branded mooncakes. We can’t make this stuff up folks: [More images at Spluch]
Video: 17 minute HTC TyTN II review (Verdict: Wicked)
Dave at Mobility Today is definitely awesome on video, hell I’m tempted to go to the dark side, but I need to convince myself to wait for Photon. All that aside, his textual review is brief and to the point, but you should just skip it and watch this. Awesome site Dave, subscribed:
Live pictures of the Sony Ericsson T650 in black
The announcement was made last week that the Sony Ericsson T650 would be avilable in black and here she is courtesy of (irony?) Planete Nokia: [Use your browsers find feature to search for “Update du 06.09.2007” and you shall find many more images in even higher quality; Planete Nokia]
Universal Flash Storage: Another flash card format, do we really need it?
Standards are great when people choose to use them. Thing is every company has their own set of technologies they want to push to become “standard.” Sony has their Memory Stick Micro nonsense, Nokia’s devices have begun settling down on microSD but there was a time when half the models supported miniSD, way back in…
Samsung G800 packs a 5 megapixel camera with 3x optical zoom and Xenon flash
When one thinks about leading camera phone manufactures Nokia and Sony Ericsson come to mind, yet it is Samsung who has come to market with the first device having this many megapixels, with optical zoom and a real flash. Dusan brought you the first pictures of this device a few days ago and today we’re…
Motorola Z10 leaked, 3.2 megapixel banana phone to come out next month
The Z8 barely had enough time to spread its wings and it is being replaced by the Z10 this October. All About Symbian was poking around O2’s coming soon section (probably to find an iPhone, Steve is a traitor) and just happened to find this image which has since been taken down: I’m hoping the…
Video: Nokia’s 4th screen, the end of something and the begining of everything
Just a little video Nokia showed at the Go Play event. It explains why cellphones multimedia computers kick ass, I found it moving: