Yesterday I told you Germany wanted $6.24 billion from Nokia, apparently CNN confused billions for millions, the real number is $6.24 million. [Correction: CNN Money]
Today is my first day as a Nokia employee
Today is the first day in what will hopefully be a long and prosperous career at Nokia. My job title will be “Communications Specialist” and I’ll be working with Daniel Shugrue in the “Tech Leader Engagement Team.” The job description is here. One of the unexpected side effects that blogging has pleasantly surprised me with…
S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 and Nokia N78 Review
Mobile-Review has just published the English versions of their S60 3.2 and Nokia N78 reviews, versus the Russian versions I shared with you earlier. One thing to note in 3.2 is the “Network Drive” feature which will let you connect a storage unit to your Feature Pack 2 device over the internet. Makes the Avvenu…
Microsoft’s Windows Mobile to get PDF and Flash Lite support
Microsoft has officially licensed Adobe’s PDF and Flash Lite technology and will include it in future versions of the Windows Mobile Operating System. Flash Lite will be used to enhance the web experience inside Internet Explorer, if there was even an experiance to begin with, and having PDF is just plain damn handy. Microsoft has…
Germany wants a whopping $6.24 million from Nokia
Germany dislikes Nokia’s decision to close their factory in Bochum so much that they’re demanding the 4 billion Euros ($6.24 billion) that was given to the Finnish company for conducting 4 research projects around new antenna and wireless transmission technology. This is on top of the $92 million they asked for last week. [Via: CNN…
What if your next laptop had 0 MHz, 0 MB of RAM and 0 GB of storage space?
That Nokia noBounds video produced by the researchers at the Bochum facility really got my thinking about the huge possible range of devices that can come to market if this technology becomes a standard anyone can implement. Imagine a device that looks like a laptop, but in reality is just a screen with a keyboard.…
Adam Greenfield to be Nokia’s new Head of Design Direction
Adam Greenfield, author of Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing, will be moving to Helsinki in August and begin his new role as “Head of Design Direction with Nokia’s design staff, with a remit for the service and user interface domain.” I’ve been reading Adam’s blog since Charlie Schick pointed me to this particular…
noBounds: Nokia’s full 1080p30 video over the USB or WiFi inside your mobile device technology
noBounds! – blast Smartphones display bounds! from Bernd Steinke on Vimeo. Little information is given about how noBounds actually works, but we do know all that is required for it to work is a software update. The noBounds technology will let you connect a 1080p display via USB or WiFi to a mobile device, such…
Japan’s iPhone look alike has a sliding keypad
Say hello to iPhone-san, the Softbank 921SH also known as FullFace2. It looks like an iPhone, but it has a standard 9 button keypad, 3.2 megapixel camera and … well I can’t say much more than that, the entire Softbank website is in Japanese, go figure. One more picture after the jump. [Via: Jean Snow]
January 2008: The month when not one 2G phone was sold in Japan
While operators in Europe and America are struggling to get customers to switch over to 3G devices to make better use of the infrastructure, Japan comes out and says that for the first time in history they’ve sold absolutely 0 second generation devices. [Via: AFP]