Now that most every Nokia device to come fresh out the factory comes with free turn by turn navigation, Nokia is looking to spice things up even further by letting you replace the boring pre-recorded voice samples with something you yourself can create. The application, called “Own Voice“, runs you through 54 phrases you’re required…
TeliaSonera LTE Status Update: People love speed and 43% of our customers use an iPhone
TeliaSonera’s LTE network in Sweden and Norway is being looked at by many of the world’s operators simply due to the fact that they were the first to market. All this talk of LTE being something that’ll come by the end of this year, or 2011, or even further away, means nothing to people living…
It’s Official: Apple has sold 1 million iPads since launching it only 28 days ago
Apple just issued a press release saying that they’ve sold 1 million iPads, and it only took them 28 days. Not bad for a form factor that I’m still looking at and wondering where exactly it fits into my life. Apple also took the chance to say that there are now over 5,000 iPad applications,…
Nokia X2: 5 megapixel camera, quadband GSM/EDGE, no 3G, but it’s only $112
The Nokia X2 was announced today, and it once again proves that a company like Nokia, thanks to their scale, can introduce devices at price points that are simply unheard of. For 85 EUR, or $112, you get a fairly compact 111 mm x 47 mm x 13.3 mm phone that weighs only 81 grams.…
Leak: Is the Nokia C2 going to bring back split QWERTY?
Split QWERTY keyboards have a love it or hate it design, and I’m firmly entrenched in the latter camp. It took me nearly 2 decades to learn where all the keys are on a QWERTY keyboard, but I’ll admit that I’m still guilty of looking down every once in a while. With a split QWERTY…
State of the Mobile Web March 2010: 55.2 million Opera Mini users, iPhone usage explosive
Opera just published their latest issue of their State of the Mobile Web report. Users who run the Opera Mini application that enables faster web surfing on slow devices, or devices connected to slow networks, provide a rich set of data that Opera could parse through and produce such a report. Earlier this month Opera…
Video: First video sample out of the new Nokia N8 [720p out a mobile phone never looked so good]
The Nokia N8 that was announced yesterday, and sadly isn’t due to hit store shelves until September of this year, packs a camera sensor that Nokia claim to be larger than anything else on the market. Whether or not consumers know that a large image sensor is required for better photos is up to debate.…
54 year old man sexually assaults 15 year old boy he met via location based Grindr app
Grindr is an application that if you told a homosexual in the 1950s would one day exist, would probably fall over and die of a heart attack. Unlock your phone, click an icon, Grindr finds your location, and then shows you where other Grindr users around you. The purpose of the application? For gay, bi…
Brief: iSuppli: Mobile industry shipped 1.15 billion devices in 2009, the recession is over
iSuppli whipped out their calculators and pegged 2009 industry volumes at 1.15 billion units. That’s down less than 5% from the 1.2 billion of 2008. For an industry that has experienced nothing but growth since the first mobile phone came off the production line, last year was absolutely brutal. This year is looking slightly better,…
Brief: Microsoft and HTC sign a patent agreement for Android phones [Yes, you read that right]
Today Microsoft has announced that it has signed a patent agreement with HTC, whereby the underdog Taiwanese firm will be paying royalty fees to Redmond. Which particular patents were not mentioned in the press release (embedded below), but the Android operating system was given a nod, which makes us wonder … does Microsoft have patents…