Jay Sullivan, Vice President of Mobile at Mozilla, makers of the Firefox internet browser, has said that the the company is aiming to have a release candidate version of their first mobile browser out next week and that a final version is due to hit the market in the next few weeks. Firefox Mobile will…
Ericsson: In Sweden the phrase “Merry Christmas” translates to “You’re fired”; 946 people axed
Ericsson, the number one manufacturer of mobile infrastructure equipment, has announced that they’re planning to cut 946 people in their home country of Sweden with the closure of operations in Gävle and a reduction of employees in Borås. Gävle was responsible for designing and producing 3G base stations. “This is news that no one expected.…
Ultrabrief: Orange launches an App Store and a social network for mobile developers [r u serios?]
In Paris right now there is a conference going on called “Le Web” and Orange has taken this event as an opportunity to announce the world’s 1,437th mobile application store. It will launch soon to over 1 million people in the UK and France as an over the air update, and then beginning in 2010…
Nokia: Don’t mind the current economic situation, pick up a 6700 Classic Gold Edition [$545]
The Nokia 6700 Classic is a lovely feature phone that has a 5 megapixel camera, GPS, and it is meant to be the successor of the hugely successful 6300. When it was announced back in January of this year it was offered for 235 EUR [$345] and that was a fairly reasonable price. Today Nokia…
DataViz Documents To Go Viewer available for Maemo now, 30 day free trial, $10 after that
The Nokia N900, which started shipping recently, doesn’t come with built in support to view office documents. DataViz, makers of the awesome Documents To Go software, has just announced that you’ll be able to download a free 30 day trial of their viewer software, or purchase the program outright for $10. The introductory offer will…
Nokia 5800 Navigation Edition: Please sign up for Ovi, we’ll give you $50 if you do!
Nokia has just announced a new version of the 13 month old 5800, the new Navigation Edition, and it will go on sale in the USA immediately for $299 at nokiausa.com and various other online shops. Way down, at the very bottom of the press release, they sneak in this nugget of gold: “Through December…
Samsung Bada: Based on TouchWiz, $2.7 million in prizes for developers, more information soon
Samsung has just announced more information about their custom operating system called “Bada“. It will be based on Samsung’s TouchWiz user interface that we see today deployed across their wide portfolio of feature phones, Windows Mobile devices, and the Symbian powered i8910 HD. Samsung is also announcing a $2.7 million prize fund that will shell…
3M creates a mobile division dedicated to putting a projector in your next mobile phone
3M has just announced that they’re creating a “Mobile Interactive Solutions Division” to focus on tiny projectors for mobile devices. Today they ship battery powered projectors that are a little larger than a smartphone, but in the future your next mobile device may very well have a projector built in. The Nikon S1000pj, which was…
Brief: Better photo of HTC’s Android flagship device for 1H 2010 leaks [Bravo]
The massive HTC roadmap leak that occurred over the weekend was nice, but the pictures could have been a bit less grainy. A new photo of the HTC Bravo, posted below, has just managed to find itself on the internet. The specifications, in case you need to drool again at this lovely piece of smartphone…
LG has just sold their 10 millionth Cookie in a litle over a year
The LG Cookie, which first started shipping during in November 2008, is a low end touch screen device created for the masses. In July Dusan reported that it took LG just 9 months to sell 5 million, well here we are in December, a little over a year since the Cookie first hit the shelves,…