Less than an hour ago the official Symbian Twitter account (@Symbian) tweeted: “#symbiancountdown 108” No units were given so we don’t know if this is 108 minutes, hours, days, weeks, fortnights, or months. Say it’s 108 hours, and Symbian announces that they’ve finalized one of the 4 simultaneous software releases they’re working on, why do…
Nokia makes the 16GB X6 official, fails to mention price, available this quarter
Less than 24 hours after I posted a rumour that Eldar Murtazin blurted out on Twitter about the Nokia X6 16GB model, Nokia makes the device official. How quaint. The announcement was not made on Nokia’s press site, but instead on the company’s official blog. The first paragraph reads like music to everyone’s ears: Today…
Brief: Video: How becoming a Japanese porn seller and the iPhone made me rich
A Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) employee by the name of Eugene Lin wanted to get in on the iPhone hype. With over 100,000 applications in the App Store and over 3 billion applications downloaded, surely it can’t be that difficult to penetrate a market full of fart noise makers. This video tells his story of how…
Apple sells 8.7 million iPhones during fiscal Q1 2010, 100% more than last year
Apple just posted their Q1 2010 numbers and while we’re digesting them have a look at the press release yourself after the jump. Total iPhone sales are now 33,745,000 + 8,700,000 from the press release today = 42,445,000. That 8.7 million figure is also over 1 million more than Apple’s best iPhone selling quarter, fiscal…
Ericsson to cut 1,500 more jobs; Q4 profits down 94%, 09 profits down 67%
Ericsson, the company that makes the network equipment that powers AT&T’s network, and who accidentally sent the installation instructions in Swedish rather than English thereby explaining why their network sucks so much, reported their Q4 2009 numbers yesterday and as expected they were brutal. Operators in Western Europe and North America are not buying network…
Ultrabrief: China adds 8.86 million mobile subscribes in December 2009
China Mobile added 4.2 million subscribers in December 2009, brining their total to 522.3 million. China Unicom added 1.56 million subscribers during the same month, their total is now 147.54 million. China Telecom added 3.1 million subscribers, their total is now roughly 56.1 million. Good job at deciding to pull out of China, Google, why…
Video: Dutch commercial for donating to Haiti is amusing
Haiti, it’s all over television, death toll is over 150,000, people are starving, supplies can’t be routed correctly because the roads are demolished, worst natural disaster in human history, but be honest, you care more about the mythical Apple Tablet than anything else. It’s OK, I’m not going to judge you. Your friends might, so…
Microsoft not paying developers who’ve sold their applications via Marketplace Mobile
Microsoft’s app store, or as they like to call it “Windows Marketplace for Mobile”, isn’t the prettiest girl on the block, to be honest she’s the girl that sits on the corner of the intersection next to a construction site and a meat packing factory. Aesthetics aside, it did what it was intended to do…
Nokia X6 16 GB coming soon, around 350 EUR, 3 colors: black, pink, blue
Eldar Murtazin, the man, the rock star, the legend, has some inside information regarding the 16 GB Nokia X6. For those unfamiliar with the current X6, it’s Nokia’s first and only capacitive touch screen device. It runs Symbian, it has 32 GB of onboard storage, and you can only buy it with Nokia’s “Comes with…
Brief: Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.5 SDK posted, and then pulled [Blame underwear elves]
Microsoft posted the Windows Mobile 6.5 SDK on January 22 and then it was pulled a few days later. It’s being speculated that Microsoft mistakingly included Windows Mobile 6.5.3 software in the SDK and thus was the reason it was pulled. Very unprofessional, but shit happens. What’s so secret about 6.5.3? It’s more touch friendly,…