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Japanese common courtesy dictates that while you’re on a train you shouldn’t use your mobile phone. They take it very seriously over there, and people get highly offended if you don’t respect the rules. There’s a story coming out of Japan Today that says two office workers on the Sobu line were chatting away on…
While students in North American schools are using their mobile phones to ignore what the teacher standing at the front of the class is saying, that and trying to successfully score enough alcohol for the party on Saturday, something different is happening in South Africa. The government asked Nokia in 2008 if they could help…
Nortel, once upon a time a telecommunications giant, but due to an unfortunate series of events was split up and is now seeing their formerly vast empire being sold off chunk by chunk, has around 4,000 patents that are estimated to be worth over $1 billion. Earlier this year we saw Nokia Siemens Networks successfully…
Two Nokia devices recently got firmware updates: the long in the tooth, but what some consider to be the last great handset out of Finland, the E71 (pictured above), and the first capacitive touch screen device out of Espoo, the X6. The X6 is now running version 30.0.003 and All About Symbian say that several…
Devices with dual SIM card slots are nothing new, and in fact they’ve been rising in popularity in many of the emerging markets around the world thanks to the brutal price wars that operators are waging, but what is novel and unique is the dual SIM smartphone. These specimens are so rare that whenever we…
Marko Ahtisaari, Senior Vice President of Design and User Experience at Nokia, recently gave a talk at LeWeb where he revealed that the Finnish firm is going to build an entirely new user experience on top of MeeGo and that it will ship at some point in 2011. Decoding Nokia language, that’s probably going to…
Google has just released a new version of their YouTube client for Android devices. Sadly it only runs on hardware that sports version 2.2 of Google’s mobile operating system, but according to data released last week over 43% of Android devices on the market have 2.2 on board. So what’s new in version 2.1? Easily…
Andy Rubin, creator of the Android startup that got bought up by Google and was then transformed into a success story faster than anyone could have predicted, has just tweeted that there are now over 300,000 Android devices being activated on a daily basis. To give that number some context, in a typical 90 day…
TI (Texas Instruments) has just announced their latest creation, the OMAP4440. Expected to start sampling during the first quarter of 2011, and begin mass production during the second half of the same year, the OMAP4440 has enough differences compared to the older OMAP4430, due to be in products shipping during the first half of 2011,…