Vietnam, a country I’m looking forward to visiting and possibly relocating to within the next 3 months, just got 3G courtesy of the third largest telecommunications provider in the region: Vinaphone. Limited availability is expected, with only 13 provinces and cities getting 3G coverage, but the whole population should be blanketed by the end of…
Archives for October 16, 2009
Project Dark: T-Mobile Even More and Even More Plus Unlimited Plans?
There have been a lot of rumours floating around the last couple of weeks regarding something from T-Mobile called Project Dark, but little proof to nail down a solid definition. Well, from the looks of this poster, Project Dark is two plans (Even More, and Even More Plus) that are the “most affordable unlimited rate…
Nokia Comes with Music only has 107,227 users after being operational for one year
Nokia’s Comes with Music, an idea I’ve been shitting on since the day it was announced, is a scheme thought up by executives in Finland to offer devices for around 110 EUR more than they should cost and in return you get one year of unlimited DRM infected downloads. The whole concept seemed as if…
Nokia’s Executive game of musical chairs: CFO Rick Simonson to head Devices Unit on November 1st
During Nokia’s Q3 conference call (see my live blog here) the company alluded to some changes in management. They didn’t exactly specify what was going to change, that is until this morning when they issued this press release: Nokia today announced some changes in the roles of its Group Executive Board members. Rick Simonson, currently…
Low-end messaging device Samsung SGH-T401G heading to TracFone
TracFone (and possibly Walmart?) will be adding a new low-end device specially tailored for heavy texters. It’s the Samsung SGH-T401G, which as you can see from the image above, boasts both a numeric keypad and a full slide-out QWERTY keyboard. Rest of the specs include a 1.3-megapixel camera, stereo Bluetooth (A2DP), music player and a…
Samsung TouchWiz F488i adds updated TouchWiz UI on top of the original F480
Samsung has launched a new version of its highly popular F480 all-touchscreen handset. The so called Samsung TouchWiz F488i comes with an upgraded “3x TouchWiz User Interface,” which includes Shortcut Pages and Extended Desktop, offering more widgets (MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, Picasa, Flickr), Feature Tab Page View and Photo Contacts. Rest of the specs seem unchanged…
Is this the Nokia N920?
We’ve no doubts Nokia plans to invest heavily in its Linux-based Maemo platform. Their N900 is certainly one of the best mobile phones on the market today and on that note we bring you this story/rumor, which involves the next generation of the company’s Internet Tablet devices. What you see above is apparently the Nokia…
TimeBridge iPhone-izes its meeting service
TimeBridge, the web service that helps folks run meetings more efficiently, is going iPhone. As a result, users of the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch, who at the same time rely on TimeBridge for their meetings will be able to do all the coordination work while on the go. Key features of the iPhone app…
3GVision brings its i-nigma 2D Barcode app to the AppStore
3GVision has launched its i-nigma 1D/2D Barcode app for the iPhone, which includes an easy to use point-and-scan feature enabling users to get instant access to information behind the barcode with zero clicks. I’m not sure I understand much about it, except that it is used for scanning barcodes, hence here’s an excerpt from the…
Give Work iPhone app is designed to provide Kenyan refugees with jobs
Again we have a great example of beneficial use of mobile technology. The application is called Give Work and it’s a joint effort of Samasource, an NGO working to provide Internet-based jobs for poor people around the world, and CrowdFlower, a San Francisco-based company that provides accessible outsourced labor as an online service. The two…