One of the many reasons Twitter is as popular as it is today is the ability to use whatever third party client you prefer to interact with the service. Tweetdeck is one of those clients, and while I’m not personally a fan, hardcore Twitter are highly likely to be using it to dump their random…
ZTE Light: 7 inch Android 2.1 tablet, weighs 403 grams, unknown price and release date
ZTE, a Chinese original design manufacturer who creates gadgets that they then sell to other companies who do nothing more than slap their name on it, some may go so far as tweak the colors, has launched a tablet called the “Light” in Beijing. Information is scarce at this point, or is horribly mangled thanks…
Apple given trademark for “There’s An App For That”
In Apple’s world, more specifically in iOS, every little think you can think of doing, from playing an imaginary flute, to auto-tuning your voice, can be done with an application. It goes without saying that the App Store, combined with Apple’s catchy commercials, have engrained the idea that applications are the ultimate way to tap…
Rumor: Nokia C7 ships with NFC capabilities built in, will be turned on later via software update
There’s an unsubstantiated rumor floating around that the Nokia C7, Finland’s second Symbian^3 device to start shipping, the first being the N8, has NFC capabilities built in, but due to being rushed to market the software written to support said internal hardware wasn’t included. In the future however Nokia will issue a software upgrade that…
INQ to make Spotify and Facebook smartphones, coming to AT&T summer 2011
INQ, a company that’s a small division of the huge global operator Hutchison, builds feature phones with smartphone features deeply integrated. Last year they launched several devices in the UK that had Facebook, Twitter, MSN and even Skype built in. They were cheap, but the user interface was playful and indeed easy to use. Now…
Sprint pre-owned device program gives handsets a second life
Sprint is trying something that car manufacturers have figured out a long time ago. Let people trade in their old model and upgrade to something new. Then take those old models, fix them up, and sell them with a stamp of approval saying that they’re good to go for another round of use. With their…
Vertu Constellation Quest: Nokia’s finest QWERTY smartphone, built with the best materials
Nokia’s got a premium lineup of devices, and I’m not talking Nseries here, but instead Vertu. With devices that range in price from 2,500 EUR all the way up to 100,000+ EUR, they’ve historically been nothing more than feature phones, but instead of being built by an Indian or Chinese employee earning minimum wage, they…
Less than 6% of Ovi users use Ovi Music [Should Nokia even bother with music?]
Last Friday on Nokia’s official corporate blog, the results of a poll asking “What Ovi services do you use the most?” showed that only 5.56% of Ovi users actually use Ovi Music. This begs the question, when will one of Europe’s largest companies return to their core talents, instead of trying to do everything, for…
Video: Android Application: Instant Heart Rate measures your pulse using your device’s camera
In a demonstration of pure ingenuity and creativeness, a new application has hit both the Android Market and Apple App Store that can measure your heart rate simply by you just placing a finger over your camera’s sensor for around 10 seconds. It’s called “Instant Heart Rate“. How exactly does it work? Your blood changes…
Nokia Siemens Networks restricting their business activities with Iran over human rights violations
Nokia Siemens Networks has been getting a lot of heat for selling Iran hardware and software that enables the monitoring of people’s conversations. This type of technology is mandatory in many countries, including the United States and the United Kingdom, but many don’t know that, so when they heard what NSN was doing … they…