Scott Weiss, the User Interface Technology Manager at the Symbian Foundation who I interviewed before back in July of 2009, has just posted the user interface proposal Nokia has given to the Symbian Foundation for Symbian^4. When Nokia purchased Symbian in the summer of 2008 and made then proceeded to make operating system open source…
Verizon’s new rate plans: $70/month unlimited calling, $90/month unlimited calling and texting
Verizon has just issued a press release announcing their new rate plans, and they’re making it ridiculously easy to pick the right package. For $70/month you get unlimited calling, great for the 13 year old girl who can’t stop gossiping about the new boy in school. For $90/month you get unlimited calling, texting, and picture…
Google.com, now location optimized for Android and the Apple iPhone
Efficiency is Google’s mantra and today they’re making proving that point by making Google easier to use on Android and the iPhone thanks to the location data inside your phone. In the example Natalia Marmasse and Scott Huffman use on the Official Google Mobile Blog, they demonstrate how typing “muse” brings up a different list…
Is AT&T down for you?
I’m staying with the folks due to a lot of reasons I’m not going to discuss on this blog, but they just walked into my temporary office and said “we can’t make phone calls, there is no signal” and asked me if I knew what was up. I just searched Twitter for “AT&T” and there…
Zagat now reviews wireless networks too: Verizon is the best, followed by T-Mobile, AT&T and Sprint
Zagat, a name many New Yorkers immediately associate with restaurant reviews, has stretched their field of expertise to cover the North American mobile operator space. In their first ever survey on wireless companies, 2,319 customers to asked to rate their operators based on several criteria such as voice quality, coverage, and the range of devices…
Video: Nokia N900 Tip: Get access to contacts by typing their name at the home screen
My mobile phone of choice, the Nokia E71, has a handy feature where you can start typing someone’s name when at the home screen and it will give you the option to select a contact, and then multiple ways of contacting them. This feature is also built into Windows Mobile devices, and on the iPhone…
Qualcomm’s BREW platform is now free to operators and OEMs, is this the biggest news out of CES?
CES turned out to be a huge waste of time, and while I am slightly upset that I didn’t get to spend time with our very own Will Park and Simon Sage, I am pleased that I saved myself a flight half way around the world to look at 3D televisions and have fat balding…
Video: Google’s Near Me Now working in the Android and iPhone web browsers
Google has now enabled “Near Me Now” on the iPhone and Android web browsers, whereas before it only worked in the Google Maps application. The usage model is simple enough, just type in google.com, click on “Near Me Now” and then look at what’s around you. This is yet another step Google is taking to…
Qualcomm 8X50A: 1.3 GHz, 45 nm and Qualcomm 8X72: Dual core 1.5 GHz out before the end of 2010
Scott Bicheno from Hexus just spoke to Luis Pineda, SVP of product management for Qualcomm CDMA Technologies, who unveiled that Qualcomm is going to be adding 2 processors to the Qualcomm Snapdragon family during 2010. First up is the 8X50A, a 45 nanometer version of the current Snapdragon, but running at 1.3 GHz instead of…
nVidia Tegra 250: Dual core ARM Cortex A9 running up to 1 GHz, full 1080p encode/decode
nVidia has just unveiled their brand spanking new Tegra 250 processor. It’s the first commercial Cortex A9 processor to be announced. What does that mean for you? Megahertz for megahertz the A9 should be at least twice as fast as the A8, add the fact that it’s dual core, and you’re looking at something that…