China Unicom, which announced that they’ve struck a deal with Apple last month to bring the iPhone to China, has now confirmed the launch date and pricing. For 5,000 yuan (733 US Dollars; 502 Euros; 464 British Pounds) you’ll be able to snatch up an iPhone, although it isn’t clear if that is the 3G…
Video: Taking a picture with the Nokia E72
The Nokia E71, the device I’ve been using for over a year now and you’ll have to kill me if you want to pry it out of my hands, has a terrible system for taking photographs. You have to push the letter “T” to focus, and then hit the center button of the d-pad to…
Terrible battery life and why we’re all going to have our own clouds in the future
Megapixels, multitouch, haptics, gestures, ease of use, and revolutionary user experiences mean nothing if your mobile device is off thanks to a dead battery. As we expect our mobile phones to do more and more, and keep us connected to every facet of our digital lives, how are we going to get through a whole…
Becoming a better blogger, reader and helping me take out the trash: Trimming in Public: Episode 18
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…
Video: Social Media Addicts Association
This video is brilliant. No other word to describe it, just brilliant. Deep inside every single group of friends, there is some ass flute tweeting, facebooking, and flickring every 30 seconds. This video is for you. Get. A. Life. [Hat tip to @HannaManna]
Vertu Constellation Ayxta: Clamshell, expensive and built like a German tank
A press photo of the Vertu Constellation Ayxta has leaked, but it has still not been announced on either Nokia’s site or Vertu’s site. If T3 is to be believed, then this thing has a microSD slot, 3 megapixel camera, microUSB port, ringtones recorded by Zero 7, the concierge service of course, all for 4,900…
Becoming a better blogger, reader and helping me take out the trash: Trimming in Public: Episode 17
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…
Becoming a better blogger, reader and helping me take out the trash: Trimming in Public: Episode 16
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…
Brief: Palm: There are now 20,000,000 new shares available, please buy some, we need cash
Palm has just issued a press release saying that there are now 20,000,000 new stock shares available for purchase at $16.25 per share. Once the sale is complete, they’re going to pocket around $313.1 million which they’ll no doubt be pumping into more products, further refinements of webOS, and a few more Apple employees. Good…
About freaking time: Mobilizy proposes an open standard for augmented reality data
Augmented reality applications like Layar or Wikitude are awesome, but they are inherently flawed since all the effort put forth at creating data for one particular application can’t be read in a different application. Mobilizy, creator of the first augmented reality application for mobile phones known as Wikitude, is proposing to the augmented reality consortium…