A little over a month today, Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs told Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat that by the end of this year there will be a Nokia product out on the market using the company’s well known Snapdragon processor, and that it would run Symbian. When Business Week asked Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kalasvuo about the…
Video: Google Maps 4.1 for Android [Maps Live wallpaper, Latitude widget]
Google has just released Google Maps 4.1 for Android devices running 1.6 or higher, and it’s a pretty minor update. New features include: New search results page that shows everything you need all in one place. You can also go through the different search results by swiping left to right versus having to go back…
HTC flat out says “Apple, you’re wrong” and presents their history as a company as proof of innocence
When Apple sued HTC earlier this month, you could hear mobile phone geeks around the world going “that’s not right.” HTC’s software innovations, mainly Sense UI, bear almost no resemblance at all to Apple’s iPhone user interface. Does their hardware look a bit like the iPhone? Maybe, but then again just look at what’s out…
Dear Opera: Why are you showing doctored screenshots of your product?
Opera is one of my favorite companies, ever. Because of their Opera Mini product I decided to purchase a smartphone, the Nokia E61, not because it ran Symbian, but because it had a 320 x 240 pixel resolution screen, had WiFi, and it let me see more of the internet. This was back in 2006…
Nexus One sales after 74 days: 135,000 vs 1 million for the iPhone and 1.05 million for the Droid
Remember when Apple sent out that press release saying they sold 1 million of their highly anticipated iPhone? Where were you when it hit the newswire? It took 74 days for Apple to do it, and that’s the benchmark that most new phones will be measured against. Flurry, an application analytics firm that claim at…
StarHub becomes first South East Asian operator to roll out 42.2 Mbps HSPA+ [Hey AT&T, learn!]
Singaporean operator StarHub, using equipment from Chinese vendor Huawei, has successfully completed trials using dual carrier HSPA technology to achieve peak download speeds of 42.2 Mbps. Now forget about the fact that this sort of technology isn’t yet available in mobile phones, much less USB sticks, but the sheer fact that they switched to dual…
Windows Phone 7 Series build 7.0.0.6077 extracted, will only run on x86, but let’s see where this goes
XDA-Developers, the wild children of our day who have all the free time in the world to poke and prod at mobile operating systems at a level that mere mortals such as you and I can’t even begin to fathom, have dumped build 7.0.0.6077 of Windows Phone Series 7 from the emulator that was given…
Ultrabrief: Opera Mini 5 and Opera Mobile 10 are no longer beta
Opera Mini 5 and Opera Mobile 10 are finally final, but not for all platforms. Here’s the snippet from the press release you care about: Opera Mini 5 is available on all Java-based and BlackBerry phones, as well as Android and Windows Mobile (both in beta only) phones. Opera Mobile 10 is available on Windows…
Google: Searches via mobile up 5x over 2 years; ad rates on fones expected to surpass those of PC
In a recent analyst call, Google Engineering Vice President Vic Gundotra said that Google searches via mobile have gone up 5x over the past 2 years, and that the company really believes that one day ad rates for mobile will surpass those of ad rates on PC. Vic’s right, of course, since mobile ads will…
So who’s going to make applications for Windows Phone 7 Series? Answer: About 33 companies
These days the media, and investors, care about “apps”. Thanks to Apple, your platform, no matter how innovative, no matter how awesome, no matter how promising it appears to be, will be called out by douche bags around the world for not having over 100,000 applications, or whatever the official number is right now. It’s…