Modu, a firm based out of Israel who is (was?) trying to build super small mobile phones that you could plug into larger shells that add more functionality, in other words they made a giant SIM card with a built in antenna, screen, and battery, has failed to garner enough interest in their company to…
Rumor: Apple and News Corp to launch iPad only newspaper called the “Daily” this month
Apple, looking to do the same thing to the newsroom that they’ve done to the music industry, is teaming up with Rupert Murdoch and his company News Corp with the goal of delivering a new iPad only newspaper called the Daily. According to the Guardian this announcement will take place by the end of this…
Palm previews their Enyo webOS developer platform, Mojo to take a back seat in 2011
Palm’s webOS may or may not take off now that the once prestigious company is under HP’s wing, but one thing is certain: applications make or break a platform these days. The technology press love citing large numbers, whether it be the total number of apps available, apps downloaded, devices activated, whatever. Big numbers make…
Users around the world reporting that their Nokia N8 has mysteriously died [Update]
People all over the world are reporting that their Nokia N8 has randomly just stopped working, and that it no longer powers on or even charges according to The Next Web. It started with technology site Hexus, who while in the process of reviewing the N8 said that: “At the start of this week we…
Deal Alert: Nokia N8 in vomit green available at Dell for only $450
Nokia’s N8, regardless of what you think about the Symbian^3 operating system, is hands down the best camera phone money can buy. With a 12 megapixel sensor that’s larger than many of the sensors found in today’s point and shoot cameras, plus the ability to capture 720p video, if you’re an avid mobile photographer then…
GSMA looking at making future SIM cards embedded into devices [No more swapping for you!]
The GSMA, the boys and girls who invented the standard that delivers mobile communications to practically every single human being on the planet, has formed a task force that is set to investigate what the future of mobile devices might be like if SIM cards were embedded with new products and they could then be…
Qualcomm unveils first chip in new Snapdragon family: 28 nm, dual core, 5x performance bump
Qualcomm, manufacturer of a line of mobile processors known as Snapdragon that makes up the guts of almost every Android phone that ships and is also in 100% of Windows Phone 7 devices, has taken the lid off their future plans. Today’s Snapdragon chips are built using 65 nm and 45 nm transistors. That’s set…
TeliaSonera: Smartphone users do 375 MB/month, 3G modem users do 5 GB/month, LTE users do 15 GB/month
TeliaSonera, the first operator in the world to launch a commercial LTE network, has released some startling numbers that really make you think about the future of broadband and how it’ll be delivered. They say that the average smartphone user consumes upward of 375 MB of data per month. That’s in line with what we’ve…
Clearwire now blanketing 1.2 million people in Sacramento, California with WiMAX coverage
Clearwire, the operator we love to tease, has just formally launched their WiMAX service in the city of Sacramento, California, giving the roughly 1.2 million people living there access to the internet over what is falsely labeled a 4G network. Users who signup using the clear.com/sacramento website can get 50% off their bill for the…
Palm’s Jon Rubinstein: “This time next year, you’ll see us in a very different position”
While Palm didn’t announce anything at the Web 2.0 Summit that’s taking place this week in San Francisco, Jon Rubinstein, the head of the new organization that is now a part of HP, had some choice words to share: “Palm created the PDA (personal digital assistant) space with the Pilot and the smartphone space after…