One of the features in Apple’s latest version of iOS, currently up to 4.1 with 4.2 due in November, is the ability to take high dynamic range photos. According to MacRumors this feature was added not because Steve Jobs told a few Apple employees to work on improving the camera application, but instead it was…
Must Watch Video: Newsday iPad application commercial [Less than 60 seconds]
Apple has sold millions of iPads, and some would call that a success, at least a business success, especially since the market is set to be flooded with a whole raft of clones running Android, Chrome OS, or who knows what else, but I’m still on the side of the fence that thinks the space…
Video: Concept ad for Nokia’s NFC payment service
My eyeballs nearly fell out of their sockets after watching a video posted by the boys and girls over at Engadget that shows a demonstation for “Nokia Swipe”, a mobile payments system that uses NFC based technology, but then I clicked through to where the video was hosted and was saddened to see that it’s…
First Kallasvuo, now Vanjoki, who is next? [Dear Elop: Please fire Savander and McDowell]
Heart wrenching news came out of Finland this morning when Anssi Vanjoki, my favorite executive of all time due to his bombastic comments and remarkable resemblance to a James Bond villain, announced that he’s leaving the company effective 6 months from now. He doesn’t exactly say why, or what he’s going to do next, but…
Nokia gets rid of underperforming CEO, but does the unthinkable by replacing him with a Canadian
Nokia has been in trouble for, oh I don’t know, about 3 or 4 years now. The Nokia N95, which was a beast of a device if the mobile phone industry ever saw one, came late to market, was plagued with bugs, and was poorly built, but irregardless it was much loved. That was back…
VLC for the iPad waiting for approval for Apple’s App Store; iPhone version coming soon after
So you got yourself a brand spanking new iPad and soon you quickly realized that none of the files you grabbed off those semi-illegal sites on the internet work. What is a movie aficionado such as yourself going to do? Luckily the folks at Applidium are trying to help out by porting the open source…
Three Dutch operators and three Dutch banks work together to deploy NFC all over the Netherlands
Three Dutch mobile operators (T-Mobile, Vodafone, KPN) are going to work together with three Dutch banks Rabobank, ABN Amro, ING) by forming a joint venture dedicated to launching NFC enabled services across the Netherlands in 2012 according to NFC World. This is the first time that a country in the European Union has seen such…
Rumor: Apple ordering baseband chips from Qualcomm [Next iPhone to be a world phone?]
Filed under “oh look, another bloody Apple rumor”, we’re hearing that Apple may be buying their baseband for the next generation iPhone from Qualcomm. The baseband is the part of a mobile phone that talks to mobile networks; think of it as a modem. Qualcomm has historically been the number one provider of baseband chipsets…
Videos: Official Nokia N8 unboxing and one more HD video sample
Nokia’s upcoming N8, the first 12 megapixel device and Symbian^3 device to come out of Finland, is due to come out in a matter of weeks after a long 5 month wait from when it was first announced back in April. In that span of almost half a year, Nokia has provided image samples and…
Nokia announces accessory that gives Symbian^3 devices DVB-H support for only 40 EUR
Mobile television failed to take off for numerous reasons, the primary one being a lack of support from studios, operators, and broadcasters to invest in the infrastructure needed to transmit the signals that are compatible with mobile phones. Qualcomm is notorious for peddling their MediaFLO technology to countries who don’t know any better, only to…