Nokia Q2 results are out and the conference call is set to begin in less than 90 minutes, but here is what we know so far: 100.8 million units shipped, almost 30% more than this time last year Europe: 27.1 million, 13.4% increase compared to last quarter and 28.4% compared to Q2 2006 Middle East…
Archives for 2007
Bluetooth 2.1+EDR approved and ready
Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) announced the adoption of Core Specification Version 2.1+EDR (Enhanced Data Rate) by unanimous approval. Improvements of the new Bluetooth specification include advances in security, simplified pairing, and enhanced power optimization — all in all Bluetooth SIG promises improved Bluetooth experience for the consumers. What about the new generation of Bluetooth…
Manage real estate leads on your iPhone
Here’s another vertical market that is now supported on the iPhone. Real estate technology company “a la mode” optimized its Agent XSites software for the iPhone, allowing real estate agents to manage website leads directly on their shiny new handset. To put it in other words, the real estate agents equipped with an iPhone will…
AC/DC’s music now available exclusively through Verizon V CAST
Verizon has done it again! What I want to say is they’ve provided its users with one more reason to jump into their V CAST service. The latest addition to their catalog are the albums of the classic rock legends AC/DC. It’s important to note that this is the first time AC/DC’s music is available…
Open Interface North America introduces lossless Bluetooth audio codec – SOUNDabout Lossless from OINA
Some people are never satisfied – and that’s a good thing. The less-than-high-fidelity audio that we get from our A2DP Bluetooth Stereo headphones apparently irked Open Interface North America enough to develop a higher-quality solution – a lossless audio codec (that piece of code that encodes and decodes a data stream) for Bluetooth headphones. OINA’s…
France gets the HTC Touch on Orange
With the HTC Touch already having graced T-mobile’s German network as the T-mobile MDA Touch, it was just a matter of time before the TouchFLO toting iPhone-fighter hit French shores. Orange is picking up the HTC Touch as the, well, HTC Touch. It’s nice to see a carrier not only keeping with the device manufacturer’s…
Apple iPhone web-apps run on Nokia phones too!
In an interesting twist of mobile phone irony, it seems that Nokia phones are able to run the iPhone-only web-apps that are designed to work only on the iPhone’s Safari browser. You see, the Nokia Series 60 browser uses the same base code as the Mobile Safari browser. So, where’s the twist of irony? Well,…
FCC approves Nokia’s 3500 Classic
The sleek low-ender in Nokia’s lineup, the 3500 Classic, has gotten that much closer to hitting US shores. FCC approvals tend to indicate as much. As we noted before, the Nokia 3500 Classic will come packin’ the goods – the 2 megapixel camera, FM radio, microSD slot, and Bluetooth goods. The lower-end of the Nokia…
Singapore gets full-fledged HSPA network- Starhub brings 7.2Mbps downlink to Singapore
We’re sure we don’t get many readers from Singapore, but we thought it might be a bit of a reality check to the Yankees out there to know that Singapore’s Starhub is launching their full-fledged 3.5G HSPA network. That’s high-speed packet access on both the downlink (HSDPA) and uplink (HSUPA) streams! They get to play…
Nokia opens mobile phone design studio in Bangalore, India
With established wireless markets saturated to the point of making lesser handset manufacturers want to jump ship, it makes sense to try to get an advantage in emerging markets. It looks like Nokia is all about that particular strategy, they’re getting their foot in the emerging-market-doors of places like India. The market-leading Finnish handset manufacturer…