After 2 days of meeting with tens of companies, probably over 100 by this point, I’ve finally found something that I’d personally call interesting. Funny thing is the company that made this device is from Finland, the country I’ve been living in for the past 2.5 years. I’ve never heard of them, but I’m certain…
Texas Instruments Blaze: OMAP 4, dual 3.7 inch screens, 3 cameras, single serving of insanity
The chipset space is the most exciting part of the mobile industry right now. That’s my personal opinion, and I’m sure I’ll be called a heretic by most of you since the theme these days is software, software, and more software. Thanks to consolidation, and heavy doses of competition, chances are that your next mobile…
You’ve got to be kidding me: Ericsson launches an App Store, calls it eStore
Ericsson, the company that makes infrastructure equipment, not Sony Ericsson, the company that makes phones, launched an app store at Mobile World Congress. It’s called eStore, has 30,000 applications inside already, and it isn’t a consumer facing app store, it’s for operators to use. The conversation goes something like this: “Hi, I’m an operator and…
Samsung’s Super OLED Display: The only OLED display that is usable outdoors
Mobile World Congress is taking place in Barcelona this year, as usual, and the weather has been absolutely terrible. All this rain and freezing temperatures. Will and I however, both owners of the Google Nexus One, couldn’t be any happier. OLED screens, as beautiful as they are, frankly don’t work that well outside. Before I…
HTC Desire: The Nexus One with a dash of Sense UI, finally official; hitting T-Mobile UK March 26th
We’ve been seeing leaked images of the HTC Desire/Bravo for several months now, and the latest leak late night pretty much hit the nail on the head, so we’re glad to see this thing finally become official. As expected, the Desire is nothing more than a Google Nexus One, but with the HTC Sense UI…
ST-Ericsson U8500: 45 nm, 1.2 GHz, dual core, ARM Cortex A9
Forget everything you know about how fast smartphones are right now, because once you buy something with the dual core ST-Ericsson U8500 inside, then you’re going to have your face blown off. You’re looking at a chip manufactured on a 45 nm process packing 2 ARM Cortex A9 processors, each humming along at 1.2 GHz.…
Ultrabrief: LiMo and Symbian join Adobe’s Open Screen Project
Adobe’s Open Screen Project, also known operation “we need to put flash on mobile phones before people start preferring to make mobile optimized websites”, just got two new members today: Symbian and LiMo. Consumers can look forward to “enjoying” the Flash enabled web on their mobile phone, namely videos and advertisements. Developers can look forward…
Quick Mobile World Congress 2010 Status Update
Dusan is on the left, Will is on the right.
Wholesale Applications Community: Yet another App Store, but this one is supported by 24 big companies
Apple has a nack for not inventing anything new, but taking what is already out on the market and polishing the living hell out of it, calling it innovative, then making a lot of money on overpriced hardware locked into an easy to use, almost addictive, software ecosystem. It’s a formula that everyone would like…
BREAKING: Nokia merges Maemo with Intel’s Moblin, calling it Meego
Sitting at the press conference, it’s about to start, we all got USB keys with the press releases, here is a ZIP file with everything we were given. I’ll be updating this post. They’re still seating everyone, we’re already 11 minutes late. It’s a packed house. There was a super long queue, but of course…