A new trend in mobile phone user interfaces, possibly started by Apple, but you never really know, is to have multiple home screens. Instead of being forced to pick the most important 3 or 4 shortcuts to put on a small, pixel constrained display, one can opt to have multiple virtual screens that a user…
Does AT&T’s network suck because the company didn’t configure it properly?
Brough Turner, who has been working in the telecommunications industry since 1983, has a hypothesis: AT&T’s wireless network has configuration problems. He believes that the size of the buffer in “the last router between the high capacity core network and the actual over-the-air data path to a subscriber” is configured improperly, and that it is…
Brief: Nokia can’t make the Booklet 3G fast enough, demand is huge; new model planned for 2010
According to a report from Economic Daily News in China, Compal, the company that manufactures the Booklet 3G for Nokia by making people work in hellish conditions while earning terrible wages just so you can enjoy your third laptop purchase in 18 months, can’t keep up with the pace of demand for the device. They’re…
Photos of the SIM card tray from the 4th generation iPhone out in the wild
The iPhone is the only mobile device I know of that has a SIM card tray. Insert a paper clip into a small hole, out pops a piece of plastic designed to hold your SIM card, lay your SIM inside, shove the tray back in, and boom, start dialing AT&T customer service and ask them…
Marketing FAIL: Nokia tries to get bloggers excited about the N97 Mini, but forgets to ship the device
Remember the marketing campaign I mentioned last week, the one that Nokia was planning in London? It was supposed to be for the Nokia N97 Mini, but apparently Nokia could not finish the devices in time according to “Phat^Trance” from Daily Mobile: Some of you guys may already know that I got back from Nokia’s…
Read in full Nokia’s 30 page complaint about Apple’s patent violations
In case you’re into role-playing and like to pretend to be a lawyer in your spare time, the best kind of lawyer too, the kind who sleeps with their secretary that’s half their age and tells the wife that they ended up staying late at work battling a pro bono case defending an inner city…
Tip: Mini DV cases are fantastic stands for your iPhone or iPod Touch
Weekend tweet courtesy of @danlane, who we at IntoMobile know from The Really Mobile Project: And the picture in the twitpic:
Video: Symbian CEO Lee Williams has balls the size of planet Mars
SEE 2009 is coming up, Symbian’s yearly exposition. I went to the previous two, but I’m not going to attend the one this year. It’s more of a business to business event, and while it would be awesome to see my UK friends, I’m in bootstrapping mode for a project you’ll hear about in Q1…
People in Kenya can now buy flights and bus tickets with their mobile phone; I wish I was joking
While Japan has been using NFC technology to enable mobile payments for years now, the rest of the world has been lagging in terms of mobile payments. Europe, the continent that was the first to launch GSM technology on a massive scale, still hasn’t figured out mobile payments. Premium SMS doesn’t count since it is…
Nokia no longer the most favoured employer in Finland
Stop the presses! The Finnish dream used to be getting a job at Nokia. They maintained the number 1 position in terms of most desirable employers for years. This year however, they didn’t even make it into the top three. For economists getting out of University, Nokia is now the 4th most popular choice. For…