Opera Mini, a 3rd party browser that uses remote servers to compress websites before delivering them to your phone, started out as a Java application. It actually still is, but that’s slowly starting to change as of today. Opera has just launched Opera Mini 5 Beta [read my review here] as a native Windows Mobile…
QiK Premium and Skype come to Nokia’s Ovi Store, which is getting 1.5 million downloads a day by the way
When it rains, it pours. Three big pieces of news relating to Nokia’s Ovi Store his the net over the past 24 hours: QiK Premium was released. It’s $5/year. What does that money get you? Higher quality video playback. What do I think about live streaming video services? Waste of time. Nothing you do, NOTHING,…
Nokia 5230 hits American shores, called the Nuron [UPDATE: $70 w/ 2 year contract]
The Nokia 5230, which was announced over 6 months ago, has finally made it across the Atlantic ocean via a steam boat operated by an alcoholic one legged sailor. The only thing new in the American version of the device is preloaded Ovi Maps, and support for T-Mobile’s wacky 1700 MHz 3G band. The guy…
Photo of the Day: Mobile phones charging in Chile
Boston.com has a fantastic weekly series called “The Big Picture” that features between 30 and 40 images depicting scenes from current events. This week’s edition was focused on Chile, and how it looks like 3 days after their massive earthquake. As expected, they’re devastating, but this image below of people charging their mobile phones makes…
Apple sues HTC for violating 20 patents relating to UI, architecture and hardware
This press release just hit the wire: Apple today filed a lawsuit against HTC for infringing on 20 Apple patents related to the iPhone’s user interface, underlying architecture and hardware. The lawsuit was filed concurrently with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) and in U.S. District Court in Delaware. “We can sit by and watch…
Android developers can make money too; Car Locator makes $13,000/month
Developer success stories are dangerous. Someone hears something about some application making a one man development shop a lot of money and suddenly there are conferences dedicated to creating mobile applications, universities creating courses to develop mobile applications, and analysts projecting that applications will become a multi billion dollar industry in a few short years.…
Nokia C5: $185 will get you 3.2 megapixels, GPS, HSPA, and Symbian [UPDATE: Video!]
Like clockwork, Nokia announced the C5 today. It says a lot that the company used their press bulletin site, and not their official press site, to make the announcement. When that usually happens, the device is seen as something not too important to the company’s portfolio. Maybe there are more Cseries devices lined up, more…
Brief: Panasonic claims to have increased the capacity of Li-ion batteries by 30%
Processors get faster and cheaper over time, storage gets denser, screens get bigger, you’ve heard it all before, but you also know that batteries have progressed at a far slower pace of innovation compared to the pieces of silicon they power. Panasonic plans on changing that by introducing a silicon alloy anode into the battery,…
Nokia to announce new Cseries devices tomorrow at CeBIT
CeBIT is the European version of CES, and I don’t mean that in a good way. It’s huge, it’s noisy, and everyone I know who went there said that they’ll never, ever go again. That being said, Nokia is dropping some hints, via their first Nokia Conversations newsletter, that there will be a new Cseries…
Apple iPad has a single core ARM Cortex A8 processor [Yet another reason to wait for v2]
Image via C|Net When the iPad was announced, geeks like me were absolutely fixated on this new Apple A4 processor. Was it built by P.A. Semi? Is it an ARM Cortex A8, A9, single or dual core? Who makes the GPU? Which fab makes it? Is it made on a 45 nm process? All these…