Software and Services for mobile devices and platforms has always been something that the mobile telecommunications industry championed, but the drum beat for change grows louder and louder as the units of time that pass between innovations and fads shrinks year after year. Consumers typically relied on operators to offer them new capabilities and functionalities…
Video: Denmark’s Sonofon, a mobile operator, is epic
Just watch:
Sprint and Clearwire tie the knot on WiMAX, new company to launch end of year
Sprint and Clearwire are combining their WiMAX businesses and plan to create a new company that will go live by the end of the year which will retain the Clearwire name. Intel, Google, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks will be investing $3.2 Billion into this new company and will split 22% of…
Carl Icahn now owns 7.6% of Motorola
Just a brief update, Carl Icahn, who has been the only man with the money who can actually do something about the leaking Motorola ship, has increased his stake in the company from 6.4% to 7.6%. [Via: Reuters]
Roundup: Press photos (and videos) of new HTC Touch Diamond shows off new UI
I’m following the HTC press event live on Crunch Gear and Phone Mag, but this photo was just uploaded by Mobile Review. [Full resolution uncropped photo at Mobile Review] Update: According to Vincent Nguyen the device will be available in Europe and Asia in June! UK = immediately? And rest of the world “later in…
Nokia to offer “a lot” of new phones in the coming months for the US market
“In the next few months (U.S.) operators will carry a lot of new products from us.” said Alastair Curtis, Nokia chief designer, told Helsingin Sanomat, a Finnish newspaper. Something to look forward to if you’re a Nokia fan in America tired of importing your mobile phone from another part of the globe. [Via: Reuters]
Thinking from a different perspective: What do people less well off fancy in a mobile?
Coverage from Nokia’s Design Studio event in London is finally starting to flow out. Thanks to Nokia Conversations for a link to Raphael Grignani’s write up, which linked to The Near Future Laboratory’s writeup,which drove me to do a few Google searches in an attempt to discover more information about the designers presenting at the…
The most convincing, and rather lengthy, argument why Motorola needs to hire a foreigner to lead the company into the future
Tomi Ahonen writes what is quite possibly the most detailed argument that discusses the United States’ Mobile Telecommunications industry and why the new CEO for the handset division to be spun off should be someone from a different country who has yet to be “poisoned” with the old ideals the system in the states still…
For Sale in Spain: White Nokia N78
For those of you interested in the Nokia N78, the 3.2 megapixel, WiFi, GPS, 3.5 mm headphone jack, HSDPA device packing the latest version of S60, here is an image of a white model found on Nokia’s Spanish website:
Nokia 6124 Classic is the first Nokia to support NTT DoCoMo’s i-mode
In case you’re living in Japan, at which point this blog is meaningless to you since it is already the year 2012 in terms of mobile telecommunications, you’ll be happy to know that the Nokia 6124 Classic will be coming to your island nation with support for i-mode. QVGA resolution and a 2 megapixel camera…