The ZiiLabs Trinity that was announced earlier this week has ended up in front of a video camera, courtesy of C|Net Asia. According to Creative it can take a manufacture only 3 months to get the Trinity to market, assuming they don’t do any customization work at all. For those who forgot the key specs:…
Brief: Nokia to close London Flagship Store on Regent Street
After being open for barely 2 years, Nokia is going to shut down their Flagship Store in London because it has “not been as efficient or as profitable as we’d have liked it to” said a Nokia spokeswoman. The decision was a tough one and has “not been taken lightly” she added, saying that the…
Google and Microsoft join an organization made for finding out which camera phones suck
Google and Microsoft have joined the I3A (International Imaging Industry Association) and more importantly the CPIQ (Camera Phone Image Quality) Initiative. What does this mean to you? A 3rd party organization is going to give star ratings to camera phones and then slap them on retail boxes in the hopes that consumers actually pay attention…
Audio: The most painful question and answer session Nokia has ever had to go through [Ovi Store]
Listen to this MP3 file [9 minutes 53 seconds; 3.5 MB] to get a taste of one of the most brutal questions asked at Nokia’s Capital Markets Day event on Wednesday. I’ve highlighted a few quotes below: “We’ve done major architectural overhauls.” “The uptake [of the Ovi Store] took a bit longer than we expected.”…
Brief: Nokia’s Jo Harlow, Head of Mobile Phones: In 2010 our smartphone porfolio will be half as large
Nokia’s Jo Harlow, the new Head of Mobile Phones, revealed yesterday that the company’s 2010 portfolio of smartphones will be half of what it was in 2009. This year Nokia released around 20 smartphones, so half that would mean they’re going to release around 10 smartphones next year. “In fact we’ve cut the size of…
MTV survey says boys think sexting is hot, girls think it’s slutty, and a third of you have done it
MTV and the Associated Press surveyed 1,247 people between the ages of 14 and 24 in September to find out what they thought about sexting. For those unfamiliar with the term, sexting refers to people sending naughty photos to other people. Of the people who admitted to sexting, half of them didn’t see sexting as…
Video: HTC Touch.B (Rome) uses Qualcomm’s BREW to make dumb phones look elegant
HTC has historically been a manufacture of smartphones. They were exclusively producing Windows Mobile devices until last year when they launched the first Android powered handset, and since then have released subsequent models. The problems that all smartphones have however is that they don’t scale down in cost. The cheapest smartphones are still too costly…
Announcing my new mobile payment startup: Circle, because Square is for squares
When looking at how people use money in today’s world, we thought to ourselves, how can we make it better? Circle was started because one day, on the mean streets of New York City, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder Stefan Constantinescu could not sell a teenager a dime bag of marijuana because the poor bastard…
The stars align: Google Maps 3.3 for Symbian and Windows Mobile allow you to sync saved locations
Google Maps, probably one of the best mobile applications ever created, and one I use multiple times a day since my navigation skills have totally atrophied since getting a Nokia N95 in 2007, has just been upgraded to version 3.3. What’s new? The ability to sync stared places! Google Maps has the ability to favorite…
Square: A nice idea on paper, but a nightmare to implement and a small market to attract
One of Twitter’s founders, Jack Dorsey, just launched Square. It’s yet another company that attempts to tackle the issue of making mobile payments work, but instead of trying to become a completely new payment processor, they are depending on the existing infrastructure of plastic credit cards built by Visa, MasterCard and American Express. People who…