Qualcomm is trying hard, really hard, to rid themselves of the reputation they have as a patent whore. When they reached an agreement with Nokia at the start of this year, and then patched things up with Samsung earlier this month to the tune of $1.3 billion, people began to notice that the tides are…
Video: 9 minutes of the Nokia N97 Mini vs. the first Nokia N97
Wondering whether you should pick up the Nokia N97 Mini or the regular N97? Matthew Miller from Nokia Experts made a ~ 9 minute video demoing and comparing both devices; a must watch if you’re considering purchasing either of these puppies. The N97 Mini has a 3.2 inch screen versus the old brother who has…
Japan: NTT DoCoMo to kill their 2G network in March 2011, Softbank to do the same in March 2010
While the United States is still struggling to roll out 3G, Japan’s number one mobile operator NTT DoCoMo has said that they’re accelerating their plans to turn off their 2G network. What was supposed to take place during December 2012 has now been pushed forward to March 2011. For those of you counting, that’s only…
Video: HTC HD2 has multi touch enabled Remote Desktop
If you’re a network administrator then brace yourself for this video. What you’re about to see is the HTC HD2 running a modified version of the Remote Desktop application for Windows Mobile. This tweaked version takes advantage of the capacitive touch screen that the HD2 has to enable multi touch zooming. On the 4.3 inch,…
Video: 6.5 minute Nokia Money demonstration
Nokia Money, which was announced in August, and is expected to launch in Q1 2010, is being shown off in the video below by Waltteri Karhusari at the Nokia “Way We Live Next” conference in Finland. The UI is fairly basic, but that’s do to the demo being done on a fairly low end device.…
Brief: Spotify for Symbian launched
Spotify, the Swedish music service that many in Western and Northern Europe have been enjoying for a little over a year now, has finally released a Symbian application! Complementing their iPhone and Android application, this new Symbian application makes the Spotify service available to over half the smartphones recently sold in Europe. I’d give you…
The unthinkable has happened: Qualcomm and MediaTek enter into a patent agreement
MediaTek makes chips for various devices including DVD players and televisions, but they’re most known for their mobile phone chips that go into the millions of Chinese made handsets that never leave the country. The Nokla clones we make fun of all the time, those are made with MediaTek chips inside. Those dual SIM, triple…
Nokia to cut 2% of their R&D staff, that’s 330 people
Nokia just issued a press release announcing a 2% reduction in research and development staff located in Oulu, Finland and Copenhagen, Denmark: Nokia continues to streamline its R&D operations Espoo, Finland — Nokia plans to align its research and development (R&D) operations in Finland and Denmark to be in line with the company’s focused portfolio…
Video: What’s Visa working on for mobile payments?
This week in Paris at the Cartes exhibition, Visa was showing off what they’re working on for mobile payments. They demos a native iPhone application, along with a Visa application that is embedded on a SIM card. The most exciting stuff, NFC, is shown off on a shipping Nokia device. Payments under 20 EUR are…
Google goes on the record, says they’re creating reference hardware for Chrome OS; what about Android?
I just finished watching Google’s live webcast announcement of Google Chrome OS and besides being let down that we, as in general consumers, are not going to be able to play with it for a year, I was stunned to hear Google admit that they’re going to be creating reference hardware. Google will not only…