On Nokia’s Q1 2010 conference call. This was the first slide. Shit.
Citizen i:Virt M: A wrist watch that lets you read your text messages and reject calls
Young people don’t wear wrist watches anymore. They’d rather have a mobile phone. It’s connected to the cell tower after all so you never have to make sure your clock is set properly. Watch makers are not just going to watch their revenues slip away however, they have to innovate, and in Japan Citizen is…
Nokia Q1 2010: Profits up 60% compared to Q1 2009, down 44% compared to Q4 2009
Nokia’s Q1 2010 financial results just came out. Let’s run through them together shall we: The company had 9.5 billion EUR of revenue, which is up 3% compared to last year, but down 21% compared to Q4 2009 The Devices and Services units had 6.7 billion EUR of revenue, up 8% year on year, down…
Ultrabrief: Google Maps 4.1 comes to Windows Mobile and Symbian S60, adds voice search
Google Maps 4.1 has just come out for Microsoft’s Windows Mobile platform, and the Symbian S60 platform, and with it the ability to search for something via voice. BlackBerry and Android users have had this capability for a while now, and iPhone users … well Steve Jobs controls your version of Google Maps so you’re…
Samsung’s ARM processor roadmap leaks; 2011 = year of the Cortex A9 chips
A leaked PDF document [2.4 MB file] from November 2009, which is nearly half a year ago, has just surfaced and it shows Samsung’s roadmap for ARM processors destined for netbooks. The South Korean firm points to the current netbook computing landscape as Windows + Intel, which has been that way since as long as…
AT&T Q1 2010: 2.7 million iPhone activations, ARPU up 3.9%
AT&T just posted their Q1 2010 financial results, and they’re looking quite good. Roughly 45% of the $30.6 billion in revenue AT&T made during the first 3 months of this year was due to their wireless division. That’s up from 42% a year prior. That may have something to do with the average revenue per…
iPhone 4 taken apart, motherboard found to be incredibly tiny
By now you know that Gizmodo spent $5,000 to get a prototype, non-functioning, next generation iPhone. Whether you think this was a good or bad thing is something you should keep to yourself. What we have today are detailed photographs of said iPhone’s insides, and it certainly tells an interesting story. The entire logic board,…
Video of the Day: Vodafone Italy Rube Goldberg machine using nothing but smartphones
Ever since Honda made that Rude Goldberg commercial called “Cog” in 2003, every single company has done something similar. Why? People like to watch these things because it only takes a few minutes to enjoy the labors of many hours of work, plus you subconsciously want the carefully crafter choreography of moving objects to fail.…
Google turns on turn by turn navigation for UK Android 2.1 and 1.6 users
Google Navigation is a brilliant little application, and during my 45 day stay in the United States I used it extensively, but then I came back to Europe and sadly it didn’t work anymore. This seemed unfair. Google has cars driving around, with cameras attached to the roof, all the time. Why should the Americans…
Nokia: In the near future camera phones will be better than a DSLR; HD recording in 12 months
Nokia’s Anssi Vanjoki, while delivering a speech in Helsinki, told an audience that camera phones will soon rival professional cameras. Nokia will “revolutionise the market”, and heavy lenses will no longer be needed. All this is expected to happen in the “very near future”. Not very concrete, and loaded with marketing speak if you ask…