The Black Nokia N82, which we’ve seen several times, is finally official according to Nokia’s latest press release. The ability to geotag and upload straight to youtube is new and will most likely appear in a firmware update for all current N82 users. Price will be 400 Euros before taxes or subsidies and it will…
Handango to attempt selling mobile software in the retail channel
In a move that makes me choke on my morning Müsli, Handango has decided to sell software for mobile phones in actual stores, like the kind you have to leave your house and stand in line to buy things kind of store. Carphone Warehouse will be working directly with Handango to sell applications for the…
EU tells everyone to use DVB-H, again
Last year the EU said they would support DVB-H as the preferred standard for television on mobile phones, well today they did it again. Governments are now instructed to tell operators that they have to use DVB-H or else … well who knows what happens if you break the rules! Some may argue that governments…
MySpace mobile launches, too little too late
If you’re not on FaceBook then you’re not cool. If you use FaceBook application then please go back to MySpace. In news that only 14 year olds care about: MySpace mobile launches. How foolish were they to partner with operators and try to get people to pay and extra $5/month to access their services? Very…
QR codes to take off in the USA due to rapid airline boarding?
QR codes, that most awesome technology that has swept across Japan, but faced little to no success anywhere else, will be put to use by Continental airlines, an American airline, to speed up flight check in and boarding. Instead of having to print out a boarding pass you simply show a picture of a QR…
Multimedia enabled mobile phones set to outsell televisions in 2008
Research and Markets, Dublin based institution, predicts that 300 million multimedia enabled mobile phones will ship in 2008, a number that will surpass the number of television sets. A multimedia enabled mobile is defined as one that can play video and audio, that in it of itself is pretty vague considering some handsets can do…
Half a billion Flash Lite equipped mobile phones have shipped
500 million Flash Lite equipped mobile devices have shipped, to which I ask all of you Into Mobile readers: Are there any Flash Lite applications you use? I’m stumped, I can only name one. [Via: Adobe PR]
South Korea now allows the sale of foreign made mobile phones
Filed under “Things I didn’t know,” up until now if you lived in South Korea you could only buy South Korean made mobile devices. As early as this year the big three mobile operators, SK Telecom, KTF and LG Telecom, are looking to start selling devices made by Apple, Nokia and Sony Ericsson. South Korea…
Concept Motorola mobile phone has dual cameras
Parisian designer Lysandre Follet drew a prototype Motorola device that has dual cameras, one can assume this is to add some sort of 3D effect, but I’m questioning the usefulness. Hopefully we’ll see the much talked about 5 megapixel camera phone that Motorola is said to have cooperated with Kodak on at next months CTIA.…
Pick and choose: WiMAX or satellites, you can’t have both
During some WiMAX field trials it was discovered that significant degradation to satellite signals was occurring. Will this impact roll out in nations like the United States where there are a large number of consumers who get their television from a satellite provider? What about other satellite based services like GPS? [Via: Broadcast Engineering]