Hope you’re all having an awesome weekend, for those Nokia E90 fans out there I just stumbled across some Black E90 photos I wanted to share with you all. Check out the link below for full gallery. They even made the hinges black! [Via: Mobile-Review] Looks just as hot as it did when I first…
Video: Japanese mobile phone marketing campaign for spicy junk food
Japanese junk food maker Tohato hired Tokyo ad agency Hakuhodo to help them promote their two latest products: Burning Hell Hot and Satan Bazooka Deadly Hot. What follows is a story that can only happen in Japan: Both of these products have 2D barcodes on the back, a feature that 83% of the Japanese have…
Videos from The Mobile Future: Technology Revolutionizing our Lives are up!
Videos from The Mobile Future: Technology Revolutionizing our Lives, an event hosted by Carnegie Mellon have been uploaded and are now available for everyone to watch. The talk given by Nokia’s new CTO Bob Iannucci, the one I really wanted to see, was not recorded and only his slides are available, but don’t despair, I…
Top 7 applications I can’t live without on my mobile phone
Mark Guim from the Nokia Blog is curious to know what other Nokia users install on their devices and is encouraging everyone who owns a blog to get the word out. With Nokia seeding mobile phones to bloggers whose field of expertise is something other than mobile these sort of top 10 lists do a…
Nokia N78 unboxing photos and a peak at the new Nokia ringtone
I picked up a Nokia N78 today from Nokia’s Tampere office to review thinking it would be final hardware with final shipping firmware preloaded, unfortunately it doesn’t have the final shipping firmware which is why I’m going to hold back on publishing my comprehensive thoughts on this device. The hardware however is final and I…
America and Indonesia love to network, the Ukraine loves entertainment and the Germans shop all day according to Opera
Opera just released their first ever “State of the Mobile Web” for Q1 2008. They collect aggregate data, anonymously of course, about all of their Opera Mini users and are now sharing some interesting statistics: There are 44 million people using Opera Mini (chart above) and the number of users in Q108 vs Q407 alone…
Video: Opera Mobile 9.5 for Windows Mobile review
Now this is a prereleased version of Opera Mobile 9.5, but it’s still looking tip top and just as drooltastic as it was when I played with it at this year’s Mobile World Congress. This browser will come on the HTC Touch Diamond and be available for other Windows Mobile devices in general. Matt loves…
World’s first software radio has just been launched by ASOCS, the MP100
Some background on this to provide some sort of context as to why this announcement is huge. The mobile phone you own right now has a lot of chips inside, this isn’t a new revelation, but think about what really happens behind that hard plastic shell. You have a base band processor that controls the…
Announcing a new website: The Thumb Report
My team and I (well mostly them really, huge props to Tom, Marc and Yoeau) have been slaving under a hot stove to bring you a new delicious treat. It’s called the Thumb Report and it’s a site I’ve been planning in my head for a while and now I’m happy to finally see it…
Microsoft takes huge bong rip, declares goal of 40% global smartphone market share by 2012
Microsoft’s Managing Director of ODM Embedded Devices for the Asian market, Eddie Wu, has said that by the summer of 2012 the company hopes to have 40% of the global smartphone market. In 2007 Microsoft only managed to reach 13% of the market according to Canalys. Unless they start giving away Windows Mobile I don’t…