Later this year, Sony Ericsson is set to announce Rachael according to Mobile.nu. If this rumor is true, look forward to code name Rachael packing a Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8250 capable of hitting 1 GHz, 8.1 megapixel camera, 3.5 mm headphone jack, all running on top of Android. I’m going to go out on a limb…
Former Intel CEO Craig Barrett: Will be a few years before you see anything useful from Nokia deal
Way to crush people’s dreams Craig. Just over a week ago I live blogged the Intel-Nokia conference call where they announced they’ll be working together to create a new class of devices and usher in an era of unprecedented connectivity. Former Intel CEO Craig Barrett was in Helsinki yesterday and he told Retuers that “we…
ZTE Coral 200FM hits the FCC: First solar phone to come to America?
ZTE, the Chinese handset maker who makes devices for operators world wide and has a nice chunk of market share in China, has submitted the Coral 200FM to the FCC for approval. It’s a budget device, specs are unknown, but the thing that stands out is the solar panel on the back. We heard about…
Video: Unboxing of the limited edition red Nokia E75
The Nokia E75 is the first Nokia to feature a slide out QWERTY keyboard, it is also the first Eseries device to run S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 and feature a 3.5 mm headphone jack. It has WiFi, GPS, a 2.4 inch 320 x 240 resolution screen, 3.2 megapixel camera and if you want…
TracFone launches new sub brand: StraightTalk w/ no contract unlimited voice+sms for $45/month
TracFone, a prepaid mobile virtual network operator in the United States who peddles to drug dealers and illegal immigrants, just launched a new sub brand called “StraightTalk.” Prepaid never really was big in America, while in Europe and Asia it is the way a majority of users consume, but with the economy in a nose…
Becoming a better blogger, reader and helping me take out the trash: Trimming in Public: Episode 12
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…
EU kills a plan that would have raised taxes on mobile phones by up to 14%
Recently proposed legislation in the EU that would have seen mobile phones reclassified as “multi-functional devices” and would have raised taxes by as much as 14% has been killed. Mobile phones shipping with TV receivers, would have received an increased tax of 14%, and mobile with GPS functionality would have become 3% more expensive. A…
Nokia’s Ovi Maps 3.0 goes live, you need a PC (can’t use a Mac) to install it on your mobile
Nokia’s Ovi Maps 3.0 just launched, and I’d love to tell you what it’s like, but I’m such a huge fan of Google Maps that I see no compelling reason to switch. For those of you living in nations that have expensive data plans, Nokia Maps is for you since you can preload maps. For…
Leaked AT&T Memo: iPhone 3GS launch = best sales day, ever; MJ death caused 65k texts/sec to be used
A memo has just leaked from AT&T saying that the day the iPhone 3GS launched, it broke almost every record AT&T has ever had. Along with that, the day Micahel Jackson died, AT&T’s network was processing around 65,000 text messages a second. Crazy stuff: 1. Fact of the Week: On June 25, the day Michael…
Gazelle is Microsoft’s research project that shares some similarities with Palm’s webOS
Palm, with webOS, has shown the market that making a platform based on standard HTML, CSS, and web hooks that tie into system level components, was possible and could be done elegantly. Ian Hickson, the man writing the HTML5 specification, who now works for Google, would like the browser to be the platform of choice…