Yesterday I published an article saying that the HTC Leo was going to be a clamshell qwerty device with a 5 megapixel camera and Qualcomm chipset. Apparently that was 66% right. It’s going to be a regular monoblock (aka iPhone form factor) device; the full specification sheet was leaked via ai.rs and it confirms the…
RIM wanted to buy Nortel’s wireless assets for $1.1 billion, but have been blocked instead
I know what you’re thinking: why would RIM want to buy Nortel’s Wireless Unit? In today’s world, when a company invents something, they patent the hell out of it and charge other companies who want to use their technology a small fee. Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola, Qualcomm, they all have a lot of intellectual property (IP)…
Nokia Surge coming to the rest of the world, will be called the Nokia 6760 Slide, better camera, €200
The Nokia Surge, which I’ve been insulting left and right due to it’s appearance, is coming to Europe and Asia during Q3 of this year for 200 EUR ($285) under a new name: 6760 Slide. The spec sheet is practically the same, the only key difference is that the 6760 Slide has a 3.2 megapixel…
China: ZTE to ship mobile phone with Chinese flavor of Android supporting Chinese 3G
Handset maker ZTE is going to ship a smartphone by the end of this year based on China Mobile’s modified version of Android known as Open Mobile System. It is going to support 3G, but the Chinese version known as TD-SCDMA, not the world wide versions we know today as WCDMA and HSPA. It’s also…
Brief: Nokia Siemens Networks scores contract to build 3G network in Vietnam
I’m only mentioning this story because I’ve been reading a lot about Vietnam recently since I’m considering relocating there, along with several other places in Asia and Europe. Nokia Siemens Networks won a contract to build a 3G network for Viettel, the largest operator in that country. Delivery of equipment begins this month and the…
Barnes & Noble releases iPhone, iPod Touch and BlackBerry eBook reader and announces eBook store
Barnes & Noble, a chain of retail bookstores in America that I greatly miss, announced yesterday that they’ve opened an eBook store with 700,00 titles, which includes roughly 500,000 books that are in the public domain, and that readers will be able to enjoy their books on the iPhone, iPod Touch and BlackBerry. This move…
900,000 volt stun gun disguised as mobile phone found in Melbourne; owner is drunk and 16 years old
You have an iPhone 3GS, I have an iPhone 3GS, but my S stands for stun, not speed. Don’t fuck with me, or I’ll deliver 900,000 volts through your body faster than you can get a “yo mamma” joke out of your mouth. Police in Melbourne found some drunk 16 year old kid with this…
Sun Danyong, 25 year old Foxconn employee, commits suicide after misplacing an iPhone prototype
With Apple’s Q3 results coming out today at 17:00 New York time, the company is under extreme pressure to deliver some fantastic numbers in what is best described as a horrific economic situation. You think that’s pressure? What about 25 year old Sun Danyong? An employee of Foxconn in the Shenzhen part of China, he…
Becoming a better blogger, reader and helping me take out the trash: Trimming in Public: Episode 13
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…
It finally happened: market share is dead and it has been replaced by value share!
I’m sick and tired of seeing Nokia fanbois flapping their arms in the air, quoting press release statistics about 39% market share, and connecting the next billion people. The only number that a corporation, and stock holders, honestly care about is profit. Whatever market share Sony Ericsson and Motorola have is irrelevant, because they do…