Prepared to be wowed and left in wonder as to why the top tie mobile phone manufactures have yet to implement this solution into handsets shipping today: The company doing this is called YAPPA and according to their spec sheet [PDF link] the footprint for the complete implementation is only 825k! [Via: Wireless Watch Japan]
S60 not backing away from WebKit
The bandwagon of people saying that Nokia was going to stop using WebKit for future implementations of the S60 browser: Electronista Symbian-Freak The Boy Genius Report Sideshow Barker Atmaspheric | Endeavors And today from the official S60 Browser Blog: “… one of our developers did some housekeeping on the Tiger branch of the webkit project,…
Video: 1000 people play snake in real life, as in they become the snake!
Nokia’s eMarketing team is at it again and they’ve created what is probably the most kick ass campaign I’ve seen called Get Out And Play. Snake, you know it? You love it? 1000 people, no CGI, was used to make this movie. Download it in HD (960×540 resolution 37 MB file) Download the making of…
200 limited edition Nokia N82 covers created for the people who created the device
The Nokia N82, my favorite and current phone, was created by a team mainly based in Tokyo and to reward their efforts Nokia has produced 200 limited edition covers, each with their own serial number on the back. Kevin Korpi has number 164 and you can view his complete photo gallery here. [Via: Jaiku]
Opera CEO Jon Tetzchner: The internet is the platform of the future, we need open standards
I just got off a 20 minute phone call with Opera CEO Jon Tetzchner, thank you for setting that up Julie Sajnani, and it was refreshing to hear the vision of a company who is battling it out in both the desktop and mobile space, yet realizes that at the end of the day the…
Video: iPhone like browsing, now on your Windows Mobile device
Touch screen Windows Mobile users, may I have your attention please! I’m sure you’ve seen plenty of videos of the web browser on the iPhone and iPod touch and grimaced at the fact that Pocket IE was written by Emo children who have successfully killed themselves and are now residing in the 7th layer of…
Video: Most disturbing Nokia commercial to watch on a Monday morning
If anyone knows what is going on in this commercial for the Nokia 6500 then please leave a comment. For now I’m going to continue fighting the weekly struggle known as surviving Monday. No clue how to embed this, hit the link below. [Via: I Believe in Advertising]
Brief: Largest Black Nokia N82 versus Silver Nokia N82 gallery online
The Black Nokia N82 is out and it’s hard keeping my wallet in my pocket, check out this site for a massive photo gallery, click to enlarge thumbnail of course.
STMicroelectronics and NXP combining their wireless businesses
STMicroelectronics, the people responsible for the Nomadik chipset inside the Nokia N96 that has yet to ship and the 5th largest player in the semiconductor, and NXP, the people who built the PNX4903 chipset that enables ridiculopusly cheap mobile phones with multimedia capabilites to be created and the 9th largest semiconductor company, are merging their…
Opera Mini ported to Google’s Android
Opera Mini, probably the best piece of mobile software even written in the past few years, I strongly encourage you to check out Beta 4.1, has been ported to Google’s Android operating system. The processes was fairly simple, they took the original Opera Mini code base and used a wrapper that would translate J2ME API…