There are a lot of “he said, she said” rumours flying around about Nokia making dual SIM card equipped devices next year. After Dusan’s post a few minutes ago I was determined find the sound bite confirming Nokia’s commitment to bringing dual SIM devices to market. Here is a quote from a speech Kai Öistämö,…
Ultrabrief: Qualcomm COO Len Lauer resigns
Qualcomm’s Chief Operating Office Len Lauer has resigned so that he can become Chief Executive Officer of another company. Len Lauer replaced Sanjay Jha last year, if that name sounds familiar to you then you win a prize because Sanjay is CEO of Motorola. Lauer was responsible for the business divisions that handled mobile content,…
Pew Research: Americans view cell phones, email and the internet as the best thing about the 00s
Pew Research conducted a survey on 1504 Americans earlier this month, asking them what they thought about the current decade that is coming to a close, previous decades, and their expectations of the 2010s. Most viewed the 90s and the 80s as the best decades America has ever experienced, and the 00s as the worst.…
16 year old Honors Student, meaning she is supposed to be bright, in trouble over sexting
When I was in High School, from the bits I remember when I wasn’t busy smoking pot or having sex in the back seat of my Jeep Cherokee, being an Honors Student meant that you were bright enough to show up to class everyday, studied hard enough to score 90% on your tests, and respectful…
Video: Oh snap! HTC developed “Documents” app better at managing office files than MSFT Office
HTC isn’t afraid to rip out everything that Microsoft has built, and subsequently left to die, in Windows Mobile and then replace it with their own solution. You’ve seen their “Sense UI” replace the calendar user interface, photo gallery, email viewer, and even the application launcher, but now they’re stepping up their game by working…
Brief: Rumour: Apple to ship 5 megapixel iPhone, and move 40 to 45 million iPhones total, during 2010
Taiwanese site Digitimes, whose track record regarding rumours is actually quite good, is reporting that OmniVision, the company who makes the CMOS image sensors that go inside the iPhone 3G and 3GS, is expecting to supply with 40 to 45 million cameras for iPhones during 2010. An unknown percentage of those will be 5 megapixel…
Mission Impossible: Creating the perfect smartphone: Episode 04: Is that a server in your pocket?
If you’re reading this blog post then chances are you’re a male between 20 and 40 and at some point during the past 12 months you’ve typed 192.168.0.1 into your address bar. That string of 8 digits is typically used to access a web based user interface for your wireless router. It would be considered…
Opera: State of the Mobile Web November 2009: 41.7 million users viewed 18.8 billion pages
Opera, the browser vendor based in Norway, has released their latest “State of the Mobile Web” report, based on Opera Mini usage. The top 10 countries using Opera Mini are: Russia, Indonesia, India, China, Ukraine, South Africa, United States, United Kingdom, Vietnam and Poland. In November 2009 Opera Mini had 41.7 million users who viewed…
5 predictions for 2010: The year without a flagship, but the year when we all get smart
I can’t wrap my head over what has happened, both in the industry and in my personal life, over the past 12 months. I spent the first four months of 2009 in Helsinki, working for Nokia, but then I lost my job so I packed my bags and spent the next four months up north…
Nokia: We’re going to be at Mobile World Congress, kind of; we have free booze so please come!
Earlier this year Nokia said that they weren’t going to bother attending Mobile World Congress 2010, citing that they would rather spend their marketing budget on their own event, Nokia World. Looks like Finland partially changed their mind; Nokia is going to be in Barcelona during Mobile World Congress, but they’re not going to have…