When Microsoft demoed Project Natal exactly 8 months ago today, it was heralded as being the most advanced way to interact wih video games. Just move your body, and a camera picks up all your movements. Simple. Shrink that down a little and you have “BurgerFace”, a game for Nokia’s Maemo 5 powered N900 that…
State of the Mobile Web January 2010: 50 million active monthly users
It’s that time of the month again. Opera has just published their “State of the Mobile Web” report, and in this issue they focus on the Middle East, and mobile search, but before we dive in on country specifics, here are some crucial data points: In January 2010, Opera Mini had about 50 million users,…
Brief: Nokia N97 Mini Gold Edition unveiled by Nokia Poland, comes out in Q2, only 625 EUR ($850)
Nokia Poland has unveiled the Nokia N97 Mini Gold Edition today, saying that it will come out in Q2 of this year for 2499 Polish z?oty, or roughly 625 Euros, or $850. Not a lot considering the entire device is coated in 18k gold. It’s nasty to most, but in some parts of the world…
Mobile phone data can be used to predict your location with 93% accuracy
Your mobile operator has some pretty valuable data. They know who you call, who you text, what websites you visit, but most important they know where you are. You don’t need some fancy high end smartphone with GPS to figure out your location either, they know which cell tower your device is connected to at…
Global Foundries to start pumping out 28 nm ARM Cortex A9 processors in 2H 2010
Once upon a time there was a company called Advanced Micro Devices. Their largest competitor was Intel. Both companies competed not only on who made the fastest processor, but who made the best processor manufacturing plants that the world has ever seen. These massive, expensive, difficult to build factories are called fabs. AMD was losing…
Next iPad to have front facing video camera, next iPhone to have flash? (flash LED, not Adobe Flash)
Earlier this week Apple accidentally posted beta 3 of their iPhone OS 3.2 SDK. They took it off the site after just a few hours, but that didn’t stop hundreds, maybe even thousands, of developers from grabbing it. Inside this beta SDK are some files that reveal a few API calls into Apple’s private framework,…
NFC is dead, long live N-Mark! [Trademarks and Copyright make the world go round]
NFC, the technology, is doing great, but NFC, the name, isn’t. It can’t be trademarked, and no one really owns it, so the NFC-Forum has decided to invent N-Mark. The new N-Mark logo will become standard icon you’ll see at cash points, in shops, and anywhere else NFC technology can be used. Similar to how…
Nokia C6 hits the FCC: WiFi, quadband GSM/EDGE, triband 3G [non American 3G]
The Nokia C6 has just hit the FCC and while we don’t have a concrete specification list, or a set of pictures, we do have an outline of a device, plus we know what radios are going to be inside. As you can see below, it’s nothing more than a rectangle. Boring. Sorry. Then again…
Video: Nokia “Explore and Share” concept based on new “wireless technology”
Nokia Research Center videos usually have a bit more technical detail that what you’re about to watch below. In the following demo, a device is placed on a slab of plastic connected to a monitor, then someone selects what sort of content they want to add to their device at the point of sale. The…
Video: Anssi Vanjoki: Yes, the Nokia N97 was horrible, and no, we’ll never screw up like that again
In what’s probably the most honest video I’ve seen with a Nokia employee in front of the camera, Anssi Vanjoki, Executive Vice President of Markets, talks about the N97 and how it was a success in terms of sales, but it has failed in many other categories such as user experience and hardware quality. He…