At the Growing Together 2008 Conference in South Africa today Nokia released 4 devices. Is that a Prism? For the entry market?! Find out after the jump along with the other 3 devices.
Nokia’s CTIA Press Conference to be held in a box dangling 180 feet off the ground
Filed under I just can’t make this stuff up; Nokia will be holding a press conference at CTIA in Las Vegas at 13:15 in what appears to be a box hanging from a crane, 180 feet off the ground. Hope no one gets motion sickness. [Via: Phone Mag]
Pink Nokia 6630 being given away for free with every issue of Girl Talk
You can’t make this stuff up people. Buy an issue of Girl Talk and get a free pink Nokia 6630 running the 2nd Edition of the S60 operating system. I’m speechless. This device was announced in June of 2004 with an estimated retail price of “less than €500.” It took 4 years to become free…
Palm has sold 1 million Centro’s since launching in September 2007
Full congratulations are due for Palm who has certainly surprised me with their latest figure of shipping 1 million Centro smartphones! [Via: Business Wire]
The Chumby: Biggest waste of VC funding I’ve ever seen
I’ve often held back my thoughts on the Chumby because I thought people would soon come to their senses and realize that it was the biggest waste of invention ever to be created. Sadly via Read Write Web, one of my favorite blogs on the net, I find out that the people behind this decrepit…
Nokia Siemens Networks: Hey 700 MHz auction winners, want some LTE?
Nokia Siemens Networks just announced that they’ll be supporting WCDMA/HSPA and LTE in the 700 MHz, 1.7 GHz and 2.1 GHz frequencies with their Flexi Multimode Base Station solution. “License winners from auctions in the U.S. and Canada will be eager to deploy new networks and services as quickly as possible,” said Sue Spradley, President,…
Symbian OS just got an advanced SQL, LBS and Dobly Digital upgrade
CTIA is kick starting tomorrow and Into Mobile’s own Will Park will be at the show, in the mean time Symbian just popped out 2 press releases worthy of your attention. First PR discusses Symbian’s SQLite implementation, which directly correlates to their announcement back in December of last year that they [Symbian] joined the SQL…
KDDI going with LTE for their next generation network
Japanese CDMA operator KDDI has decided that they’re going to go with LTE for their next generation network, just like their competitors NTT DoCoMo and Softbank. Expect the new network to be up and atom sometime in 2010. [Via: Cellular News]
Glu Mobile to release Virtua Fighter in June
Virtua Fighter. Do I have to say anything more? Virtua Fighter will be coming to mobile phones in June courtesy of Glu Mobile in June. It might be a Java application, but that isn’t certain. [Via: Pocket Gamer]
Interview: Dave Stewart, Reuters and Dr. Tero Ojanpera discuss the music business and mobile
The struggle currently taking place in the mobile industry between hardware manufactures and operators is being mirrored in the music business. Artists want more control of how their music is distributed, they want to engage their fans using today’s newly available social mediums and they’ve recognized that this silly concept of a record label oligopoly…