The Nokia C7 is now shipping to customers according to an official press release. This comes less than 2 weeks after the news that the N8 started to ship, meeting the planned deadline of “Q3 2010” by the narrowest of margins. Unlike the N8 however, the C7 was announced less than a month ago, on…
HTC Desire Z and Desire HD delayed until end of October or beginning of November
The much anticipated HTC Desire Z and Desire HD, announced last month, are due to hit the market a little later than originally anticipated. According to several online retailers, the pair of HTC devices failed to receive a badge of approval from Google for unspecified reasons. Android is open and all that jazz, but if…
Guinness World Record awarded to modu T, the world’s lightest touch screen mobile phone
The Guinness World Record for world’s lightest touch screen phone has just been awarded to the modu T. How much does it weigh exactly? You’d think modu would put that information in their press release, but let me in on a little secret: they’ll never, ever, ship a retail device. Period. The whole concept of…
Gadget Porn: Nokia N8 torn apart [Huge camera module, super easy to replace battery]
The boys and girls over at iFixit have taken their skills at disassembling nearly everything on the face of this planet and applied it to Nokia’s latest device, what many are calling the new flagship, the N8. What they found doesn’t really come as a surprise to anyone with a pair of eyeballs. The camera…
Yahoo! Messenger with video chat capabilities coming to the Apple iPhone and Android devices
When I think Yahoo! Messanger, I think old people who can’t be bothered with keeping up with the times, or Asians. Anyway, it doesn’t matter if you’re a senior citizen or that your most prized possession is a rice cooker to enjoy the fact that Yahoo! is going to introduce their Messanger client for both…
comScore: Japanese people use the mobile web the most, Europeans are SMS addicts
In a survey done by comScore, sample size unknown, some startling results were found between the differences of how the Japanese, Europeans, and Americans use their mobile devices. You’d think that because mobile phones are so limited in what they can do that everyone, everywhere, would be doing the exact same thing, but you’d be…
Mozilla releases Firefox 4 Mobile Beta 1 for Android and Maemo [Still not fast enough]
Mozilla is in weird position. Two years ago everyone loved them and their browser and if you didn’t use Firefox then people looked at you like you were a 40 year old man dressing up as 13 year girl eating an ice cream cone in the middle of a winter snow storm. But then Google…
Nokia Panorama made available for the N8; grab it from the Ovi Store right now!
Panoramic photos, love them or hate them, are a pain in the ass to make yourself. What with all the stitching work you need to do in Photoshop, it’s a real drag. Nokia has made this easy now with their “Panorama” application, which was built in to devices like the Nokia N86 8 MP and…
Microsoft licenses 74 patents created by Palm [Please stop suing us!]
In today’s world of everyone suing everyone else, sometimes you just have to bit your lip and pay your dues. That’s exactly what Microsoft is doing by licensing 74 patents from Acacia Research and Access, the latter being the company that purchased Palm’s pre-webOS operating system in 2005. Some of the patents licensed were used…
ST-Ericsson M5730 modem enables 21 Mbps HSPA+ for smartphones; shipping in products early 2011
ST-Ericsson’s newest modem, the M5730, may not sound sexy, nor will manufacturers who use it bother even mentioning it’s inside their hardware, but we’re mobile geeks, so we care when we hear things like “up to fifty per cent lower power consumption than competing HSPA+ 21Mbps modems available on the market”. Let’s back track a…