Tomorrow (Wednesday August 12, 2009) at 11:00 in New York City (18:00 Helsinki time for my mates in Finland), Nokia and Microsoft are going to hold a press conference headed by Stephen Elop, President of Microsoft Business Division, and Kai Öistämö, Executive Vice President for Nokia Devices. When the press release with whatever new shiny…
Dell’s first smartphone gets a name: Mini 3i; will be powered by China’s Android based oPhone OS
Looks like TechCrunch’s source was right, Dell will be launching a smartphone some time this week, or by the end of this month at the latest, and it will be called the Mini 3i. It will have a 16:9 aspect ratio screen with a 640 x 360 resolution, run only on GSM (sorry 3G fans),…
Ovi Mail hits 1 million users; top countries are India, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia and South Africa
Ovi Mail, an email service built by Nokia, has just acquired their 1 millionth user since going live a little over 6 months ago. What makes Ovi Mail special is that in comes bundled on the entry level devices Nokia ships to countries with low PC penetration such as India, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia and South…
Brief: Rumor: Sony Ericsson working on a smartbook
Semantics: A netbook is a notebook powered by Intel’s Atom processor. A smartbook is supposed to be a notebook powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon, but many, including myself, have expanded the definition to include other ARM based processors. Now that we have that out of the way, Sascha Pallenberg of netbooknews says: “a reliable Taiwanese…
OECD: Finns, Swedes and the Dutch have the lowest phone bills; Americans pay up to 484% more
According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), people in Finland, Sweden and the Netherlands have the lowest phone bills, while people in Canada, America and Spain have the highest. The metric they used to collect their data was to identify three different usage patterns and to calculate what the total expenses over…
YELLIX: See your friend’s Facebook photo and last status update when they call you
YELLIX is a pretty awesome idea, in theory. The application, which works with Android, RIM BlackBerry, Symbian or Windows Mobile, goes online when someone calls you, pairs the phone number of the person calling you to the phone number your friend has in their Facebook profile, and then displays their photo and last status update.…
Video: Nokia N97 hacked in order to add useless bling
Transitions, or pretty shit to watch while you wait for a device to do something as I like to call them, are a fast and easy way to make an outdated user interface seem new and modern. The Nokia N97 has the ability to display transitions, but the feature just happened to be turned off…
Google’s Android 2.0 to support OMAP 3430? Motorola Sholes to be first OMAP 3430 Android device?
In an interview with Reuters last week, Andy Rubin, the main man at Google behind Android, said the company is going to release two versions of Android this year. Code name Donut will be version 1.6 and code name Eclair will be version 2.0. Code name Flan is expected to land in 2010 and a…
HD Video: Windows Mobile 6.5 build 23022 has some new features that make it more finger friendly
This video of Windows Mobile 6.5 build 23022 highlights some features that have not yet been seen on other Windows Mobile 6.5 demonstrations. From a new scrollable notification bar, to a new location for soft keys, to a magnifier that simulates what’s in the iPhone, could this video provide some hints as to what we…
Video: Toshiba TG01 commercial violates Daft Punk copyrights and hurts your eyes
The Toshiba TG01, which was announced at Mobile World Congress in February (see Will’s hands on), and then launched in the UK last month, has quite a few number of features that make it one of the more attractive Windows Mobile devices on the market today. At the top of the list of new hardware…