As we near the end of the month, it is time to read the latest “State of the Mobile Web” from Opera. Thanks to Opera Mini’s server-client architecture, the Opera folks in Norway have the ability to provide detailed analytics and insight as to what is popular in various parts of the world. This month’s…
Brief: Telecom Italia LTE trial in Turin with 14 cell towers yeilds 140 megabits/second
Telecom Italia has joined the race to become the first operator in Europe to sell LTE data services. In a recent test run performed in Turin, 14 LTE enabled cell towers built by Huawei were setup around town and the results were downright amazing. Each device connected to the network was able to get 140…
iPhone message to competitors: F*CK YOUR SMARTPHONE
Well said. Very well said. [Via: oneplusinfinity]
Ashok Kumar strikes again! Google is making a phone, twice as fast as iPhone 3GS, runs Android Flan
Ashok Kumar, an analyst with Northeast Securities, is now the butt of all my “people who work in this industry who have no clue what they’re talking about” jokes. This time last month he told The Street that Google will be releasing their own Android device, only to be burned a few days later by…
Brief: Nokia getting rid of 220 employees in Japan working on R&D, brings total to 550
Just last week we reported that Nokia will be cutting 330 jobs in Finland and Denmark, jobs in the company’s R&D department. Today Nokia has announced that they’re letting go of 220 more R&D employees, this time in Japan: Nokia reduces R&D operations in Japan Tokyo, Japan – As part of its global efforts to…
Text to Piss: SMS enabled public toilets in Copenhagen, Denmark
Denmark. Beautiful country, filled with beautiful people, and one of the leaders in green thinking. Like many countries in Europe, Denmark’s public toilets are not free. This explains why no one goes out for a nice walk on Sunday morning, those are not rain puddles if you catch my drift. The capital of Denmark, Copenhagen,…
Finland’s 2600 MHz auction is over, total cost: 3.8 million EUR
Finland has just finished their auction for the 2600 MHz frequency spectrum that will be used in deploying future high speed LTE networks. Earlier this year Finland held an auction for the 1800 MHz frequency band to be used for LTE, since a lower frequency would do a better job at penetrating walls and give…
Nokia 7230: $150, 3G, 3.2 megapixel camera, 3.5 mm headphone jack
Along with the Nokia 6700 Slide that was announced today, Nokia also unveiled the 7230. This 100 EUR ($150) dumb phone has a 2.4 inch screen with 240 x 320 pixels of resolution and 262,000 colours, a 3.2 megapixel camera, 860 mAh battery, quadband GSM/EDGE, and triband WCDMA. There will be a WCDMA 850/1900/2100 MHz…
Nokia 6700 Slide: Aluminum, 5 megapixel camera, looks like a Microsoft Zune, Symbian, $240
Nokia has just announced the 6700 Slide, a Symbian powered smartphone coming to market in the first quarter of 2010 for 160 EUR ($240) before taxes and subsidies. For that amount of money you get a 5 megapixel camera, 2.2 inch screen with 240 x 320 pixels of resolution, 860 mAh (tiny!) battery, quadband GSM/EDGE…
Taptu releases an Android application, makes mobile search touch friendly [Verdict: Who cares?]
Taptu has grown up quite a lot since I last played with their service. In my September 2007 review I said: “If you’re adapt at Google (NSDQ: GOOG) than Taptu may or may not be useful to you. Simply adding words such as “wiki” or “lyrics” after a search query usually makes Google get an…