Nokia USA must be breaking out the champagne bottles because this is the second device they’ve brought to North American operators. The first, earlier today, was a pretty low end end clamshell for Verizon Wireless. The second device, the Nokia 6350 for AT&T, is slightly better, but not by much. For $30, after a mail…
Videos: Nokia: How will we be using our mobile devices in 2 to 4 years?
Nokia threw a lot of money at Kevin Cannon and Tobias Toft, both are taking a course at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design. Nokia asked him how the mobile phone will change in 2 to 4 years, and how today’s young tech savy people needs will change as they “grow older and their lives…
Nokia 2705 Shade: Verizon’s smallest device to date
Take note Verizon customers, if you’re looking for a small device, the new Nokia 2705 is the smallest device now offered on your operator’s network. Verizon isn’t releasing too many specifications, actually any specifications. Wish I could tell you the exact dimensions of the Shade, size of the battery, or anything really geeky, but all…
Four in ten British people feel lonely if they don’t get a text message every day
Right Mobile Phone, an online mobile phone retailer in the UK, recently conducted a survey of 3,138 British people to find out how their mobile phone impacted the emotions they feel over a given day. Here are some of the results: 71% say using their favorite song as their alarm clock, versus the system default…
Preview: Nokia N900 discussed using more words than an unabridged English dictionary
I’m not going to lie, I didn’t make it through Michal Jerz’s 4 page preview of the Nokia N900. It’s long. Very long. So long that you’ll probably only read it in its entirety if you’re either a deeply disturbed mobile phone freak or interested picking up the N900. I did what most sane people…
Upgrade: Nokia N86 new firmware is live, adds face detection
The ever so handsome Rafe Blandford from All About Symbian is posing in front of the Nokia N86 to demonstrate the new face detection feature inside the latest firmware for the Nokia N86. This is the first Nokia device to get face detection. A full change log of firmware 20.115 can be found on All…
Brief: Best Buy to get exclusive retail rights on the Nokia Booklet 3G in the USA
Best Buy will be the only place in the U.S, other than Nokia’s own web portal of course, where you can pick up the Nokia Booklet 3G, the companies first netbook. When will it hit Best Buy shelves and how much it will cost has still not been decided. Specifications for those who need a…
Rumor: To compete with Google Latitude, Apple purchased Placebase
Remember all the hub bub about Apple asking Google to make their Latitude service a web application versus a dedicated application for the iPhone? People thought the company was a bit off the wagon, but now it appears that there was a specific reason why Google Latitude for the iPhone was never released. Apple may…
Analyst: People who use cellphones to navigate find Google Maps to be most trustworthy
Strategy Analytics asked 625 automotive consumers in the US and Western Europe what they used to help them get to where the need to go, and the answer is Google Maps. Despite not having real time turn by turn navigation, or some stupid celebrity voice giving you instructions, Google Maps is what consumers trust and…
Becoming a better blogger, reader and helping me take out the trash: Trimming in Public: Episode 21
Trimming in Public is a series where I go through my list of 293 RSS feeds, 10 feeds at a time, give some detail as to why I subscribed to a particular feed, and then decide whether or not to keep on consuming that feed. In Episode 1, I explained what RSS is and how…