When I think Windows Mobile, I think of an over worked corporate executive with an expense account, hunched over a small screen, tapping away a falsified expense report for an extra night at a hotel and an escort with his stylus, generally looking like a douche bag. Not as bad as the guy who has…
Research: Nielsen Norman Group: Mobile websites today suck about as much as desktop sites did 15 years ago
The Nielsen Norman Group, which is a usability consulting firm started by design-rockstar Donald Norman, Jakob Nielsen and Bruce Tognazzini in 1998, recently conducted a study to see just how bad mobile websites were. The size of the sample was not given, but the methodology involved was simply asking participants to complete common tasks such…
Rumor: Verizon roadmap leaks, filled with a whole bunch of boring, and a whole lot of Samsung
A source that the Boy Genius Report claims to be trustworthy has slipped him a roadmap of devices, 14 to be exact, that are due to launch over the next few months on Verizon’s network. This list is heavily slanted towards Samsung, which makes the wait for their Q2 2009 financial results, due out this…
Palm hiring people to make building 3D applications suck less
Say what you will about the Palm webOS, the one thing it was not meant to do was be a portable games machine. The iPhone excels in this regard, and Palm knows that. They’re looking at hiring a software engineer to build low level accelerated graphics drivers, and a games framework engineer to create a…
Vodafone selects Tele Atlas to power all future location based mobile services
Vodafone is the largest mobile operator in the world, spread out in 25 countries under the Vodafone brand, and partnering with operators in 42 other nations. When they make a decision, it ripples through out the entire industry. Nokia purchased NAVTEQ for over $8 billion with the intention of becoming the world’s best, and largest,…
Wanna get high? There’s an app for that!
Cannabis (iTunes link) is a $2.99 application recently approved by Apple for people living in states where marijuana is legal, to help them find distribution points free of drug dealers who can also supply you with all the other wonderful weekend recreational drugs. The application even works internationally, helping you find coffee shops in countries…
MediaTek to ship over 100 million mobile phone chips in Q3, over 350 million in 2009
MediaTek is the little semiconductor that could. They don’t have their own fab, instead relying on UMC, but their chipset designs are going into an ever increasing amount of handsets in the Asian (and international?) market. Key players such as TI, Qualcomm, and Infineon should be looking behind their shoulders as this little Taiwanese company…
HTC Leo: No pictures, but a partial spec sheet and a form factor to die for
Imagine a device with a 800 x 480 pixel screen that folds just like a laptop and has a QWERTY keyboard. Imagine that this device, in the closed position, has a 320 x 240 pixel display on the front. That mental image you now have, is what the HTC Leo may look like. The code…
Analyst: ABI Research: Ultra cheap phones will enjoy 24% annual growth for the next 5 years
Cheap mobile phones, the devices that get sold by the hundreds of millions, are going to sell even more hundreds of millions if what ABI Research just predicted happens to come true. ABI Research thinks that by 2014 a $15 mobile phone will be feasible and that ultra low cost handsets (ULCH) plus low cost…
Video: BlackBerry 9630 Tour being completely torn apart, and then put back together
I’ve never owned a BlackBerry since I never really cared for push email, and you can’t buy them in Finland anyway. That being said, I know when Simon sees this video he is going to have a joygasm. The BlackBerry Tour (9630) was announced by Canadian company Research in Motion on June 19th of this…