When Google Goggles came out, it brought with it a lot of promises, a lot of hype, but failed to deliver an amazing experience. Letting you search via typing, speaking, and snapping photos is all well and good for people who want choice, but in most cases you type in what you want faster than…
Vodafone manages to make a $15 phone [and a $20 fone too]
When it comes to making low end handsets, Nokia usually comes to mind. They make a lot of money off the low end market, even when those devices cost only 20 EUR ($27.45). Now they have some competition. Vodafone today announced the 150 and the 250, both cheaper than Nokia’s cheapest. The 150 will cost…
Ultrabrief: Samsung adding NFC to S5230 for use in trials [will not become a commercial product]
Samsung is going to be making a special NFC equipped version of their highly popular, over 10 million units sold, S5230, more commonly referred to as the Toco Lite. It’s going to be used in trials located in Spain, France, Dubai, and most likely other places, starting soon. This device will not be mass produced…
Brief: Nokia Siemens Networks: Data usage to increase 10,000% by 2015
Nokia Siemens Networks is predicting that by 2015, only 5 years from now, mobile data usage will hit 23 exabytes (24,696,061,952 gigabytes) per year. That’s a 10,000% increase from today. Whether or not that number is even remotely accurate is irrelevant, we all know data usage is skyrocketing and doubling every few months. Nokia Siemens…
Qualcomm: “There will be a Nokia Symbian phone this year with Snapdragon”
Petri Sajari, Helsingin Sanomat, interviewed Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs and was told that by the end of this year there will be a Nokia device with a Snapdragon processor inside running the Symbian mobile operating system. This is huge for a number reasons. First, Nokia and Qualcomm have been fighting each other over wireless patents…
Ultrabrief: Nokia X6 16 GB to launch February 24th, new “Come Get Entertained” marketing campaign
Nokia is going to release the 16GB version of the X6, the version without “Comes with Music”, on February 24th in the United Kingdom. They’re going to be advertising it under a new campaign called “Come Get Entertained”. No word on price, but we’ll find out soon enough. For those unfamiliar with the Nokia X6,…
GSMA names Steve Jobs “mobile personality of the year”; HTC Hero wins “best mobile handset”
The GSMA gave Steve Jobs the “Mobile Personality of the Year” award, but he wasn’t there to accept it. Even non iPhone users can appreciate what that device has done to the market. It’s made device manufactures concentrate on making their devices easier to use, it’s made the touch screen device the preferred form factor…
China Telecom, KDDI and Verizon Wireless join the GSMA since they’re all switching to LTE; CDMA is dead
China Telecom, KDDI and Verizon Wireless all use CDMA today because when they deployed their networks, CDMA offered superior voice quality and data speeds. Earlier this century UMTS came, then a few years later HSPA became the golden standard in Europe and Asia. America is getting there, but it’s taking some time; blame AT&T. But…
Quick Mobile World Congress Status Update #2
Dusan Will Simon (left), Yoeau (right) We’re tired, we’re crunching video, we’re writing until our fingers are falling off. All for you.
Verizon Wireless to make dedicate Skype mobile application available in March
The first few minutes of the joint Verizon Wireless and Skype press conference was loaded with jokes from the two guys pictures above, John Stratton, Chief Marketing Officer of Verizon on the left, Josh Silverman, CEO Skype on the right. They’ve said that this news has leaked multiple times over the past 12 months, but…