A blurry photo of what mobil.cz is claiming to be the Vertue Constellation F has just leaked on to the internet. This will be the first Vertu model to come in the clamshell form factor, and the first to have a GPS. No word on cost or release date, but expect it to cost a…
Brief: China Mobile: We have over half a billion customers
China Mobile, the world’s largest operator, has broken the half billion mark. They have 502 million customers. That is all. [Photo via Boston.com’s The Big Picture]
Huawei: We can totally sell you 56 megabit/sec HSPA+ equipment in 2010
Huawei, a Chinese network infrastructure vendor who also sells mobile phones on the sides, has successfully tested 56 megabit/sec HSPA+ in China during a wireless conference this week. They say they’ll be able to sell this type of technology in 2010, and it really makes you wonder, why bother switching to LTE right now? Operators…
Analyst: Motorola to release at least 10 Android devices in the next 6 to 10 months
Trip Chowdhry, analyst at Global Equities Research, issued a report, which was then picked up by Business Week, that claims within the next 6 to 10 months there will be 10 Android devices coming out from Motorola. Such speculation can fly in the face of reason because he claims he has “insider sources”, but you…
Sony Ericsson releases headphones that only work on Sony Ericsson phones; fantastic!
That whole “Put Your Ears in Control” thing we told you about last week was for the Sony Ericsson MH907 Motion Activated Headphones. They’re a bit special. Say you’re listening to music and a call comes in, simply remove one of the ear buds and boom, you’ve answered the call. Want to hang up? Just…
Becoming a better blogger, reader and helping me take out the trash: Trimming in Public: Episode 14
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…
An open letter to the FCC: Investigate how operators make money and what they actually spend it on
Dear Federal Communications Commission: I’m sure each and every one of you have a mobile phone, but have you ever thought about what you are actually paying for every month? It’s easy to say that you’re paying for minutes, text messages and a small portion of the subsidy your operator gave you for your device…
Video: Nokia Booklet 3G unboxing
My buddy Stefanos Kofopoulos from Pestaola.gr got himself a Nokia Booklet 3G some how and has gone ahead and unboxed it. Quick recap of the specs: 1.6 GHz processor, 1 GB of non-upgradeable RAM, 160 GB 1.8 inch 4200 RPM hard drive, and supposedly 12 hours of battery life. To bad this thing is 575…
Review: Opera Mini 5 beta: New UI, tabs, copy and paste, better font rending
Opera Mini is a free internet browser written in J2ME. It will run on practically any mobile device on the market, and where it really shines is on mid to low end devices. What makes Opera Mini special is the server side compression technology that takes a website and adds some special Norwegian sauce to make it…
Brief: Sony Ericsson to “change the way you listen to music forever” on September 21
Sony Ericsson is going to announce something on Monday, September 21 at 10:00 GMT. The URL for the webcast is http://www.sonyericsson.com/putyourearsincontrol/ so I’m assuming this is some new mobile phone that ships with a pair of Bluetooth headphones. I could be wrong, any guesses? [Hat tip to @eldarmurtazin]