While everyone on their mother went on queue today to buy the iPhone 3G, there were a handful of Palm fanatics who snatched the new Treo 800w from their local Sprint store. Check out the full gallery of images here. Spec sheet for those of you who forgot: Windows Mobile 6.1, GPS, WiFi, EVDO Rev.…
Video: Howard from Howard Forums on Canadian TV talking about the iPhone, key surprise at the end
Howard from Howard Forums, the largest mobile phone forum for North American audiences, is on TV giving the pros and cons of the iPhone and compares it to the Samsung Instinct and BlackBerry Bold. The ending is classic: [Via: a link sent to me via email from Ricky Cadden]
Nokia + NAVTEQ acquisition finally complete
$8.1 billion was the number given to us on the first day of October 2007, the amount Nokia would spend to acquire NAVTEQ. Today, June 10 2008, that acquisition is complete.
Nokia Chat: Location based micro blogging with chat built in, I think
Nokia just launched Chat in their Beta Labs, it’s buggy, but the concept is totally cool. You can watch the video above with my buddy Phil and get ridiculously confused, or you can read my attempt at breaking this down below: Know what Twitter is? The microblogging service that limits you to 140 characters and…
Symbian Foundation getting a little larger today, 9 more companies joining
The Symbian Foundation, you’ve heard of it, you’re probably still confused by the announcement, well good news is a few more members joined today, 9 in fact: mobile operators 3, América Móvil and TIM, semiconductor manufacturer Marvell plus services and software providers Aplix, EB, EMCC Software, Sasken and TietoEnator. This is adding to the 11…
Nokia N96, Limited Edition, buy it for $1,193.22 and then write it off
The limited edition Nokia N96 will look like the regular Nokia N96, but it’s going to come to your door in a sleek wooden box. You can get the details here, which I found via Mark Guim’s (writer/owner at The Nokia Blog) Jaiku post. I really wasn’t going to bother posting this since the site…
Video: Founder of Plazes talks about the Nokia acquisition
Plazes&Nokia from Tiburon-TV – Viktoria Trosien on Vimeo. On June 23 we found out Nokia was going to buy Plazes, well here is a video with the founder, Felix Petersen, sharing his thoughts about the whole thing and location based services in general. [Via: ruk]
Video: Tag Heuer’s Meridiist assumes you know the T9 alphabet
Here it is, the Tag Heuer Meridiist. You’ve seen it before, the price tag of close to 4000 EUR probably turned you off, but what do you think about after watching this video? Still not a Vertu, then again if you have that much money to blow on a phone … do the world a…
South Korea wants to ship $70 billion worth of mobile phones in 2012, did $29 billion in 2007
The South Korean Ministry of Knowledge (that sounds like a totally bad ass department for a country to have) has said that by 2012 they want to export $70 billion worth of mobile phones versus $29 billion in 2007. When I say South Korea I really mean LG and Samsung. This isn’t the first time…
More pictures of the touch screen BlackBerry 9500 leak
Here are some new images of the BlackBerry 9500, known as Thunder, running version 4.7 of the BlackBerry OS. This will be the first touch screen enabled BlackBerry and from the looks of it RIM is trying to further increase their reach into the consumer space by appealing to the multimedia crowd. You can’t really…