“Nokia Instant Community” is a prototype piece of software running on the Maemo 5 powered Nokia N900 that has me genuinely excited about the future. Social networks, for all they’re worth, are keeping us in small circles with people we already know. Sure, there may be some of us who have internet friends, that’s still…
Nokia N900 firmware 1.2 coming this week: video calling, Facebook IM, portrait web browsing
Nokia’s N900 has a spotty reputation. It was the device many people were looking to redeem the Nokia N97, which caused many headaches among the enthusiast crowd. Problem was the N900 wasn’t really meant for consumers, it was still viewed as an unpolished product meant for the die hards who wouldn’t mind playing with their…
Dell Streak official; 5 inches of Android goodness coming to the UK in June, EU + USA in summer
Dell’s Streak is finally official. We’ve seen leaks, official press pictures, specifications, pretty much everything there was to know about this device … except for an authentic press release from Dell announcing that this thing exists. Today we got said press release, and it’s got very few details: “Early this June the Dell Streak will…
Photos: iPhone 4G (HD) showing White front face
Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference is officially 2 weeks away as of today, and that means between now and then we’re going to get exponentially more leaks, rumours, and unconfirmed “facts” from “sources”. We’ve already seen the next generation iPhone show up in Vietnam, twice, show up in California, cause 1 blogger to have his house…
Nokia and Yahoo!: Ovi Mail to be dumped, switched to Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! maps to be Ovi powered
Today’s the day, the day when Nokia and Yahoo! were supposed to announce their big alliance to take over the world … and what exactly did they give us? Not much. Yahoo!’s mapping service will now exclusively use Nokia’s Ovi Maps. Raise your hands if you use either Yahoo! Maps or Ovi Maps. Another seemingly…
Video: Android 2.2 (Froyo) web browser’s increased speed negated by Adobe’s Flash 10.1 Beta
Last week at Google I/O Android 2.2 was launched, and one feature we really can’t wait to get our hands on is the improved web browser. There’s nothing wrong with the current web browser in Android 2.1, but with Google promising double, even triple, the speeds of what we’re already used to … we’re not…
Nokia to ditch their Ovi effort and just preinstall Yahoo!’s services? [Project Nike]
Yahoo! sent the press an invitation to join them at an event scheduled for Monday, May 24th at 10:00. The invite simply says “Please join Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz for an exciting announcement about providing global consumers with rich online and mobile experiences, and bringing forward a new era in keeping consumers connected.” What could…
Visa launches iPhone case that enables wireless payments, NFC style [Japan is laughing at us]
Visa, the company that probably gave you a few debt issues as a young college student, is releasing an iPhone case that enables wireless payments. Here’s how it works: The case is a glorified microSD card reader. The microSD card is what holds all the NFC circuitry required to make payments. It’s built by DeviceFidelity.…
Ultrabrief: Amazon announced that Kindle for Android coming “this summer”
Amazon has just announced that they’re going to launch a Kindle application for Google’s Android operating system this summer. You’re going to need a device running Android 1.6 or higher, and an SD card inside your device. Like the Kindle application for the iPhone and iPod Touch, you’ll have access to Amazon’s library of more…
Brief: Shazam has over 75 million users, and they’ve just tagged their 1 billionth song
Shazam, a service we love at IntoMobile, is a simply application that runs on most major smartphone platforms, including RIM’s BlackBerry and Nokia’s Symbian operating system, feature phones too, that records a brief snippet of a song you’re currently listening to and then sends said recording to a server in a country far far away,…