Every single smartphone on the planet, whether it be the Apple iPhone, Motorola or HTC Android devices, RIM’s BlackBerry, various Windows Mobile devices from HTC and Samsung, or Nokia’s Symbian powered Eseries and Nseries lineup, they all have a series of problems. Technology journalists, especially those who cover the telecommunications industry, often carry more than…
New enhanced version of Shazam launched on Nokia’s Ovi Store
Shazam has just launched an enhanced version of their application and service on Nokia’s Ovi Store. Shazam, if you haven’t heard of it before, is a service that allows you to identify songs that are playing over loud speakers. Simply hold your mobile phone up to a speaker, the application then records a short sample,…
Opera Mini 5 Beta 2 for J2ME and Opera Mobile 10 Beta 2 for Windows Mobile and Symbian released
Opera Mini 5 Beta 2 was just released and is available for just about ever single mobile phone on the planet. New features include the ability to download files using a brand spanking new download manager, Opera Link to synchronize your bookmarks and notes between Opera Mini and Opera for your desktop computer, progressive loading,…
Nokia’s 2010 Goals: Fix the Symbian UI, release Maemo 6, and make more money
Today Nokia is holding their Capital Markets Day event in Espoo, Finland. It’s similar to the Nokia World event that took place in September, but instead of an having an audience of press and people working in the industry, this is an event for shareholders and analysts. Everyone is looking at Nokia, and then looking…
Nokia releases Qt 4.6, works on Symbian, Windows 7, Mac OS X 10.6, Maemo 6
Nokia purchased Qt almost 2 years ago and since then have been working tirelessly to bring the native C++ runtime, with bits of C and Webkit mixed in, to both Symbian and Maemo platforms. In a world less cruel than the one today, Nokia would write an application in Qt and it would run on…
Nokia got in trouble with Nintendo for showing off SNES on the N900 [Maemo]
Earlier this year, in September, Urho Konttori, Project Manager at Nokia, showed off a Super Nintendo emulator called DrNokSnes on his Nokia N900. The first sentence of my article highlighting that demonstration was: “The amount of lawyers with dollar bills in their eyes right now is astronomically large.” It didn’t take long for Nintendo to…
ZiiLabs Trinity: A new start for Creative? [Android, OLED, 5 megapixel, 1080p video]
ZiiLabs, a company owned and operated by Creative, just announced Trinity. It isn’t a device that will be available to people like you and me, but instead something more akin to a kit car. Companies looking to get into the smartphone space get in touch with ZiiLabs, and then they’ll get delivery of all the…
Trimming in Public: It’s finally the last episode, and it has been an awesome 6 months
On June 12, 2009 I started a series called “Trimming in Public“. The goal was simple: get rid of RSS feeds that I don’t find useful anymore by going through my entire list of 293 feeds, 10 feeds at a time, per blog post. The tagline to the series was: “Becoming a better blogger, reader…
Brief: Rumour: Nokia to release only one device next year that runs Linux (Maemo)
“A source with direct knowledge of Nokia’s product roadmap told Reuters” that there will be only one new smartphone released in 2010 that runs on Maemo. Makes sense. Nokia 770 Internet Tablet = Announced May 25, 2005, Released November 03, 2005 13 months later … Nokia N800 Internet Tablet = Announced and made available in…
DoCoMo to start new Environmental Sensor Network Business, 2500 sensors planned for March 2011
Japanese operator DoCoMo, in an attempting at further monetizing their wireless network, have just announced that on December 21, 2009 they will begin trailing an Environmental Sensor Network. These sensors, 300 at the start of the trial, 2500 by March 2011, with an eventual goal of 9000 all over Japan, will provide data on pollen…