I’ll let you in on a little secret. Nokia sent me a 6700 Classic to test. I’m not going to tell you what I think of it just yet, I plan on writing a review some time next weekend, but using it has made me fall in love with the T9 monoblock form factor all…
Nokia trademarks reveal new Xseries lineup, possible Eseries devices, and new “Nokia Money” service
Yesterday I told you guys about Nokia’s new Cseries lineup that was revealed via a Finnish trademark registration site. Aleksi Moisio from Finnish news site Digitoday discovered a new lineup of devices called Xseries on OAMI’s (The Office of Harmonization for the Internal Market) website. I could stop here and that alone would be enough…
Nokia to introduce a new Cseries lineup of devices?
We’re all familiar with Nokia’s Nseries, which arguably are the best devices on the market if you’re into recording video or taking pictures, and Nokia’s Eseries, which sadly run S60, but they make up for that fact by being sexy and built like a German Panzer tank, so is the Finnish company planning on introducing…
Video: ARhrrrr, a mobile augmented reality zombie shooter
ARhrrrr is a mobile augmented reality game created by students at Georgia Tech that utilizes the camera on the back of a mobile device, in this case an nVidia Tegra, and a special print out that acts as a template to guide the look and feel of a particular level. You pilot a helicopter that…
Symbian Horizon: Making a developer’s life easier by eliminating the need to go to multiple App Stores
After Apple released the App Store, many followed in their footsteps. From Samsung, to LG, to Nokia, to mobile operators, to Microsoft, everywhere you turned it looked as if another App Store was being released. If you’re a developer, how do you maximize your potential earnings? If you’re a Symbian developer, how much of a…
Videos: HTC Hero viral ads are full of parkour brilliance, and minimal HTC product placement
Parkour, for the uninitiated, is the art of running around a city, jumping off roof tops, ledges, and other acts of incredible acrobatics, while wearing no safety equipment. It’s been used to make commercials before, but not like this. In “Street Hero” you see two videos: one with a guy who has an HTC Hero…
First non-Nokia device to ship with Maemo hits the market: Optima OP5-E
Maemo is Nokia’s open source operating system built on top of the Linux kernel. There have been only three Maemo devices thus far: the 770, N800 and N810. Today the fourth one has been announced by a little known Chinese company called Optima. The OP5-E has a 4.3 inch 800 x 480 resolution screen, 806…
Sony Ericsson Q2 2009 financial results: 213 million EUR in the hole, only 13.8 million units shipped
Sony Ericsson just reported their Q2 2009 results and they’re not pretty. The company shipped 13.8 million units, with an average selling price of 122 EUR. Compare that to last quarter, which saw Sony Ericsson selling 14.5 million units with an ASP of 120 EUR. Even worse is when you compare these results to this…
Rumor: Retail store employees at Carphone Warehouse, 3 and Vodafone say N97 experiencing high level of returns
I’m labeling this story as a rumor because I’ve never heard of Mobile Today. They’ve just published a story saying “staff in Carphone Warehouse, 3 and Vodafone said there had been a high level of returns” of the Nokia N97 due to software bugs. Can anyone working at these stores, or people in the UK…
Live Blog: Nokia Q2 2009 financial results
Nokia just published their Q2 2009 financial results. Profit has increased drastically, up 676.4% from last quarter, hitting 427 million EUR, which is still 71% less than the 1.47 billion EUR they made a year ago in Q2 2008. Nokia shipped 103.2 million devices, down 15% from the same time last year, but up 11%…