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Swype, the quirky way to input text whereby you draw a line from letter to letter when composing a word versus hunting and pecking for a particular key, is now available for Symbian^3 devices. There are only 2 right now, the Nokia N8 and C7, both started shipping recently, and both have identical specifications except…
Vodafone has this brilliant concept in the UK known as a “Chargebox“. It’s essentially a tiny locker you can put your mobile phone in, shove some spare change in a slot on the side, and boom, your mobile phone starts charging while you go about your daily needs around the city. Every Vodafone store has…
Nokia has just announced the C5-03, yet another member of the C5 family, and one more way to confuse consumers with product names that feature hyphens. What’s so special about it? Nothing. Really. It’s got a 3.2 inch resistive, yes, resistive, touch screen with a resolution of 640 x 360 pixels, 5 megapixel with no…
Those crazy Norwegians at Opera Software are at it again, announcing that within a month they’re going to bring their browser to Android and it’s not only going to be fast and ultra compatible with web standards, but also comes with hardware acceleration and pinch to zoom. Hardware acceleration is a killer feature, normally only…
Nokia’s N900 is starting to feel a bit long in the tooth. Sure, it’s powerful, but with all these new versions of Android and iOS popping out almost every few months now, Maemo 5 is beginning to show some signs of aging. We’ve seen the Nokia N9 already, and Eldar Murtazin from Mobile-Review has called…
For all the doom and gloom Nokia is facing from the press and analysts about their failure to compete in the high end smartphone space, you’d think that the only part of the market where Nokia was doing alright, the low and mid end, would surely be keeping the company afloat and on good terms…
When it comes to naming all the various flavors of 3G technology, and knowing what they’re all capable of, you really need a pocket guide otherwise you’d go a little nuts. For the sake of shortness, let’s just say that the fastest speeds achievable by 3G today hovers around 42 Mbps. This uses a technology…
Clearwire is in a bit of a bind. Creating the nation’s, probably the world’s, largest WiMAX network wasn’t cheap. The airwaves needed to broadcast the signal, the towers to put up antennas, and the funds used to advertise that “4G is here” when that’s truly not the case, have put the company in a situation…
If you ever plan on selling your mobile phone on eBay, do yourself a big favor and make sure you give it a good old factory reset. Wipe the memory card too while you’re at it. This advice comes from from the mobile and forensics experts Disklabs who purchased 50 handsets from eBay, admittedly a…
Analyst firm iSuppli has taken apart the Nokia N8, but unlike the people at iFixit who supplied photos of the complete disassembly procedure, they published a rough bill of materials. The BOM, as it’s known in the industry, is the cost of the raw components that make up a device. The screen, the memory, the…