Talous Sanomat reporter Aleksi Moisio has discovered that Nokia plans on cutting 60 more positions. The cuts impact the Accessory Unit, which currently employees 200 people, and is spread out over Finland, Germany and China. Of those 60 cuts, 50 are to take place in Finland, and 10 in Germany, and assuming this figure of…
Quick Statistic: Cher Wang, Co-Founder of HTC: 40% of handsets shipped in 2013 will be smartphones
Just a quick little factoid for those of you who are interested in forward looking projections, and numbers in general: Cher Wang, Chairperson of HTC and Co-Founder, recently said that by 2013 40% of handsets sold will be smartphones. That sounds about right. As much as Nokia wants to get rid of S30 and S40…
Nuance copy and pastes Swype’s new touch screen input method, they’re calling it “T9 Trace”
Swype showed the world a new way to input text on touch screen devices. Rather than pushing buttons on a soft keyboard, one simply had to touch the screen once, on the first letter of a word, and then drag their finger across the screen to the other letters in said word. Once you lift…
Shazam hits 1 million downloads in Nokia’s Ovi Store after 7 months; 1.5 million in 2 months on App Store
Shazam, the music service that allows users to identify what song they’re currently listening to by way of recording a short sample and then sending it to a remote server for processing, has just announced that they’ve hit 1 million downloads via Nokia’s Ovi Store since making their application avilable in store in August 2009.…
Clearwire: We’ll cover 120 million people by the end of 2010, speeds will increase 20% to 30% too
Clearwire, one of the world’s few WiMAX network operators, has announced that by the end of 2010 their service will be able to reach 120 million people. That’s actually quite meaningful since Verizon, with LTE, has publicly stated that they’ll “only” reach 100 million people by the end of this year. Cock fight? You bet!…
Ultrabrief: Video: Samsung uses Swype to break the world record for texting
“The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human.” That’s the phrase you have to type via a mobile phone to set a Guiness World Record. Samsung, together with Swype, have set the new fastest speed: 35.54 seconds. They…
Video: Opera officially demos Opera Mini on the iPhone, say they submitted their app for approval
Opera is playing the public sympathy card and showing the world what browsing on EDGE is like on Opera Mini versus Apple’s native Safari browser. The demo is impressive, it’s exactly what I’ve already seen at Mobile World Congress, but more importantly it’s the political equivalent of Opera going “now what motherfucker?” to Apple. The…
Can’t get signal in San Francisco? Move to Afghanistan! USA building a network there to fight Taliban
Try to wrap your mind around this story. America, the country with the most advanced military human civilization has ever seen, noticed that the Taliban is strongest in parts of Afghanistan that have no mobile phone coverage. No access to outside information = terrorist propaganda running wild. The solution? Build a mobile network. That’s right.…
Photos: Leak: Nokia N8-00 packs a 3.5 inch capacitive screen, 12 megapixel camera, has HDMI out
Nokia devices in the past have usually leaked months in advance of their release date. That’s changed during the past 1 to 2 years, mainly due to a new policy that meant you were not allowed to put images of hardware inside your PowerPoint slides. Forget about press shots, or renders, what you’re looking at…
Brief: Nokia N900 SDK version 1.2 available, screenshots show new soft keyboard
The SDK for version 1.2 of Nokia’s Maemo powered N900 has just been uploaded, along with several screenshots showing off new features. Most notable is a new soft keyboard that finally places the third row of a QWERTY keyboard at a bit of an offset. Also in place is the ability to turn on/off screen…