At the recently held Mobilgalan show organized by the Swedish magazine Mobil, Sony Ericsson’s Symbian UIQ 3 based P1i was awarded by the prestigious award Guldmobilen in the “Smartphone of the Year” category. Now I don’t want to sound sarcastic, but their last year’s winner was Sony Ericsson P990i, which we know is far from…
Archives for 2007
Symbian strenghtens its R&D center in China; Acquires leading smartphone app maker Beijing Genesis Interactive Technology
We all know how China is important to all mobile industry players, hence virtually every single major mobile tech company is present there in one form or another. Now we have Symbian Limited, developer and licensor of the market-leading smartphone operating system – Symbian OS, acquiring the personnel and technology the China-based smartphone application developer…
Asus prepping M930, Windows Mobile Communicator?
Apparently, Taiwan-based Asustek will be launching the Windows Mobile 6 powered Communicator device, M930, somewhere in Q1 2007. According to French site Mobinaute, the upcoming device will have a shape similar to the one of the Nokia Communicator series, sporting two screens – external for basic phone functionality and the bigger internal alongside the full…
Emoze gets into Nokia NSeries’ Download! folder
We’ve already covered emoze‘s service in the several posts before. I’ll only recap that by using their service you’ll get the free push-email functionality as well as over-the-air syncing of your calendar and contacts information. And now they’ve managed to get into Nokia NSeries’ Download! folder, enabling millions of “multimedia computer” owners to seamlessly download…
Video: 23 minute Q&A session with the Nokia N82 product manager
Mark Guim was recording the half hour Q&A session we had with the product manager of the Nokia N82, Tomo. He did a remarkable editing job and I definitely want to share this video with you guys: Click To Play Notice: I edited Tomo’s ID badge to remove his employee ID number and all that…
Brief: Picture sample: Nokia N95 vs N82
It is 04:15 in Finland and I’m absolutely shot after such a long day and a fantastic dinner with Mark, Devin and Jeremiah. I couldn’t go to sleep without giving you guys something to talk about so I took 2 pictures of the stuffed animal my mom mailed me a few months ago. I encourage…
IOGEAR’s Bluetooth Audio Transport with SRS WOW enhanced sound
SRS Labs’ is known for their sound enhancing SRS WOW technology found in many portable music players. So, what are they doing in the mobile space? Well, it seems that SRS Labs’ SRS WOW HD sound enhancing technology has piqued the interest of electronic gear-maker IOGEAR. The pair has teamed up to bring SRS WOW…
WidSets goes out of beta
So far we’ve mentioned Nokia’s Java ME-based mobile widget platform, WidSets, at least a dozen times. In case you haven’t figured all this time it was in the beta stage. That’s about to change, as Nokia has announced that it’s ready for the prime time. Initially WidSets users may not notice any difference — except…
Verizon may have Samsung i760 world phone in the works
We heard it on the grapevine. It seems that Verizon Wireless may be prepping a world-phone edition of their newly released Samsung i760 smartphone to pull duty as the jet-setting complement to the CDMA handset in the states. Word has it that the Samsung i760 world phone may rock EVDO for US-based phoning and GSM…
Snap.Send.Get from SnapTell – get product information from advertisements with your camera phone
Ever passed by a billboard and wondered what’s up with that product? SnapTell wants to help you find out with their new service – the appropriately-named Snap.Send.Get marketing service. All you have to do is “snap” a pic (with your camera phone) of any advertisement, “send” the picture to SnapTell’s image recognition servers, and you’ll…