Nokia has just announced the 5235, which is nothing more than a 5230, except without GPS. You lose the ability to see where you are on a map, but you gain “Comes with Music”, which is Nokia’s way of giving you 1 year of unlimited legal downloading. Yes the files are laced with DRM, yes…
Skype beta for Symbian non touch screen devices launched
Skype has just launched a beta application for Symbian S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1 and Feature Pack 2 devices. The hefty 4.2 MB installation file takes up 6 MB of your phone’s internal memory, making it one of the largest Symbian application I’ve come across, and the number of clicks required to install the…
Brief: Twitter Rumour: Foxconn has been given the order to start producing the next generation iPhone
Eldar Murtazin, Editor in Chief of Mobile Review, one of the internet’s best sources of mobile news, especially when it comes to leaks, recently revealed in a tweet that: “Foxconn received order for next generation iphone” When asked by @ShethK what he thought of the iPhone, Eldar responded: “dont see specs or device itself, know…
Video: Hitler is royally pissed off that LTE doesn’t support voice and SMS
I feel kind of dirty posting this video. Not because it stars Hilter, I have no problem poking fun at the Nazis, but because this whole remixing of Downfall business is old and tired. What started out several years ago as an original and brilliant concept in the world of online humour, has now transformed…
Spotify for Android updated: New home screen widget, Android 2.0 and URI support
Spotify for Android has just hit version 0.3.24 and with it comes: URI support – Open/Share Spotify URI’s to or from SMS, email, Facebook or Twitter apps, etc. An udated player with cover art swipe support (similar to the iPhone version). Android 2.0/Eclair support – Spotify can now run on the Motorola Droid phone, which…
Brief: Nokia to close two more flagship stores: New York and Chicago, you’re out!
It’s been less than a week since I reported about Nokia closing their London Flagship Store and Matthew Miller from Nokia Experts has just become the bearer of even more bad news with a report saying that the New York and Chicago Flagship stores will be shut down as well. I’ve been to all 3…
QotD: Marissa Mayer about Google Mobile search as a % of total searches: “Roughly doubled in a year”
QotD (Quote of the Day) as we say in Twitter slang comes from Google’s VP of Search Product and User Experience, Marissa Mayer, during an interview with Michael Arrington from TechCrunch that took place today in Paris at the Le Web conference: Michael: Let’s talk mobile search. How important is that to Google, I mean,…
Mission Impossible: Creating the perfect smartphone: Episode 02: Far East form factors
Ask any mobile technology journalist with half a brain about which market today is considered the most advanced and I guarantee you that the answer is always Japan. We look at operators like DoCoMo and Softbank who offer mobile payment services, health monitors, concierge service, mobile television, and more, and wonder why similar technology isn’t…
Brief: Nokia creating joint venture with New Alliance to break into the Chinese mobile services market
Nokia has formed a joint venture with some company you never heard of so that they can tap the Chinese market, which they’ve admitted in the press release below to be the largest mobile and internet market. Nokia joins forces with New Alliance to establish mobile services joint venture in China Beijing, China – Nokia…
Deutsche Telekom (T-Mobile) successfully demos a voice call over LTE using VoLGA
German operator Deutsche Telekom, more affectionately known around the world as T-Mobile, has announced that they’ve successfully completed the world’s first voice call over LTE using the VoLGA standard. What does this mean for you? LTE, known as Long Term Evolution, will be the next step after the 3.5G networks of today. We’re talking about…