The Register hypothesizes why Motorola looks like they’ve been tied to the back of a chariot and dragged around an island 10 times and blames it on the death of Geoffrey Frost, the man responsible for the Hello Moto campaign. More than that, the former Nike marketeer pushed the engineers in the company to create…
Mozilla Firefox codename Fennec is 600% faster than the built in browser on Nokia’s Maemo platform
Ars.technia is testing the latest nightly of the new Firefox browser for mobile devices, codename Feenec, and it appears that it is significantly faster than the one in the latest public version of Nokia’s Maemo operating system which runs on the N810 and N800 internet tablets. How much faster? How about a 6x increase in…
Nokia to pay $314 million to make the closure of the Bochum plant less painful
Nokia is planning to close their plant in Bochum on June 30 of this year. The reason? Cost of labor is too high. The solution? Move to Romania. This upset the Germans greatly (queue videos of man breaking phones with a hammer) to the point that people in goverment positions demanded Nokia pay back the…
Palm wasn’t $31.5 million in the hole last month, more like $57 million
It just never ends for Palm, the company announced that instead of having a $31.5 million loss for their third fiscal quarter it is instead $57 million due to the collapse of the debt market. Just a reminder, one year ago they were $11.8 million in the green. I’m hoping Palm pulls through, the fact…
Teenagers are putting Sony Ericsson and Samsung ahead of Nokia
Over 58,000 teenagers (ages 11-18) in 31 countries were surveyed about their mobile phone manufacture of choice by Sulake of Finland, operator of the Habbo social networking site for teenagers. In 15 out of the 31 countries polled Nokia is number uno, but in places like UK, Germany, Denmark and Switzerland Nokia loses to Sony…
Photo Gallery: Android running on a Qualcomm MSM7201 chipset
Now I know what you’re thinking, that looks like something that came out of 1998, but this is just a mock housing. The real power is in the 400+ MHz Qualcomm MSM7201 chipset inside. PC Magazine was at CTIA and managed to take 12 images of the latest Android. New icons were shown, the browser…
Japanese phones are so kick ass they get signal from South Korea
People living at the most southern point in Japan are being charged for international roaming because their mobile phones are getting signal from the cell phone towers in South Korea, 53 km (33 miles) away. If that isn’t amazing, I don’t know what is. NTT DoCoMo says 38 models exhibit this problems and the only…
Fuel Cells in your pocket as early as 2009, double the capacity of regular Li-ion batteries
CEO of MTI Micro Peng Lim is confident that by 2009 we’re going to see the first products based on fuel cell technology hitting the market. Expect capacities to be double that of similar size lithium ion batteries, with the most notable advantage being a recharge is as simply as squirting a liquid into a…
Spreading the Word: Join the S60 Ambassador Program
A few of you might remember that I’ve recently joined Nokia. I’ve been toiling away in front of my laptop getting all the little things just right, finding the perfect work flow and now I’m ready to spread the word about the S60 Ambassador Program. What is it? Simple. Chances are you already talk about…
Data Matrix sighting in Tampere, Finland: Real Estate shopping
On one of my daily trips to the super market I passed by the usual string of small buildings occupied by obscure little shops with names roughly 20 characters long, never gave them that much thought, until one day I noticed something a little out of the ordinary: QR codes! They’ve escaped Japan and have…