Emilio Vignapiano just shot me an email, welcoming me back to blogging. Tomorrow will officially mark the end of my first month back on the job! 🙂 Useless piece of information aside, his videos rock, even when they’re in Italian. Make sure you subscribe to his YouTube channel since he gets hands on time before…
5000 Indian mobile retailers close their doors to protest increased handset sales tax
When purchasing a mobile phone in India, you pay an additional tax. The tax rate used to be 4%, but now it is 12.5% according to Cellular-News, which is an increase of 312.5%. This has pissed a lot of Indians off, so much so that in the state of Maharashtra appropriately 5000 mobile phone shops…
Motorola laying off another 74 people from the mobile phones division
Nothing to really expand on, the headline is enough: Motorola will be letting go another 74 people from their mobile phone division. Much smaller than the 3,000 cuts they made to the mobile division earlier this year, but still, 74 more unemployed people in this shitty economy.
LG in talks with Nokia for AMOLED screens
Nokia currently uses two suppliers for their active matrix organic light emitting diode (AMOLED) screens: TPO and Samsung. Today it’s been discovered that they’re looking to add a third supplier: LG. An unnamed source told The Korea Times that “some technical issues still remain and actual shipping to Nokia will materialize in a year” and…
First Android device ships in Japan, the HT-03A (aka HTC Magic), and no one really notices
NTT docomo just launched the HT-03A in Japan, better known as the HTC Magic, and no one really even noticed according to Wireless Watch Japan. It’s shipping in the land of the rising sun for $300 on a 2 year contract, and it even comes with an extra battery since the locals are afraid it…
First open source bits of Symbian hit the tubes: OS Security package
Symbian is in the process of going open source, using the Eclipse Public License, in chunks known as packages. I have no idea how many packages make up the complete Symbian OS, but the first one to officially go open source is the OS Security package. You have to register, free account, on developer.symbian.org to…
British operator Orange dropping DRM from their music store
Over 700,000 of Orange’s 2 million tracks had their DRM turned off recently, with the rest of the tracks in Orange’s music store soon to follow says mocoNews. This is a welcome change for people who hate DRM, and for consumers who will now be able to freely move their music between whatever devices they…
Nokia 3720 Classic: 125 EUR, coming out this summer, nearly impossible to break
Less than 6 hours ago, I predicted the Nokia 3720 Classic would be announced within 2 months. Well it happened. For 125 Euros (110 British Pounds or 180 American Dollars) this summer you’ll be able to pick up what Nokia is calling their “most rugged mobile handset to date.” It’s fairly standard, feature wise, with…
Samsung patents mobile phone that has wings; seen flying south for winter
Just look at that. Do I really have to say anymore? This brilliant idea has been patented by Samsung. The keyboard is supposed to spring from both sides of the screen like a set of wings. If you’re interested in the flight paths of South Korean pigeons, read the patent. [Via: Gizmodo, Register Hardware]
Seidio battery for Palm Pre: Same physical size as the original, but with 200 extra mAh
Products like this annoy me to no end. Seidio, a manufacture who produces third party batteries, has made a battery that is the exact same size as the battery that ships with the Palm Pre, yet their battery an extra 200 mAh of capacity. The question that immediately comes to my mind is why didn’t…