No doubt you’ve read about Apple’s SDK Announcement, summary: iPhone 2.0 firmware will add a new icon called “App Store” which will be the only way a developer will get to sell their application and keep 70% of the profits. Now we’re finding out that only one application will be allowed to run at once,…
Video: Interview with Brad Becker talking about Silverlight for Nokia’s lineup, demo included!
Ewan Spece from All About Symbian is in the states for MIX 08 and he had an opportunity to sit down for 10 minutes with Brad Becker, Group Product Manager for the User Experience Platform and Tools Marketing Group at Microsoft to discuss Silverlight for Nokia’s S40, S60 and Maemo platforms. Questions asked include: What…
Video: Black Nokia N82 makes an appearance
Ever since the Nokia N82 was announced everyone has been thinking: How awesome it would look like in black? When WOM World sent a few bloggers, including myself, to Nokia World we echoed our hope and dreams to the Nokia N82 product manager. Then, as luck would have it, it appeared on Nokia’s USA website…
The million dollar question: Will Apple license Mac OS X mobile and let others make an iPhone?
Why does Apple have less than 3% market share? They refuse to license the “most advanced operating system” to other vendors. Their ecosystem is profitable, but that is because they enjoy a monopoly whereby they can charge whatever they want for hardware since you need their machines to run their software. I was close, really…
Chinese distributor purchases $2 Billion worth of Nokia phones for 2008
China Postel has committed to purchasing around $2 Billion worth of Nokia products for the year 2008. Assuming an N95 is around $600 that is around 3.33 million units. Not bad. Last year however that number was $2.5 Billion, so … what gives? [Nokia PR]
Honest thoughts about the iPhone SDK announcement from a Nokiaholic
I hate the iPhone. It is an MP3 player with a web browser and every time I see someone with it in their hand I can’t help but think they’re trying way too hard to be cool. Today, that changed. If you haven’t watched the SDK announcement I recommend you do because maybe, just maybe,…
Carl Icahn now owns 6.3% of Motorola, versus 5% yesterday and 1.4% last year
Carl Icahn, the guy who has been pressing Motorola to spin off their handset division since the beginning of time, now owns 6.3% of Motorola versus 1.4% in March of last year. With that kind of power comes great amounts of influence when discussing the company’s future. Here is hoping the RAZR III isn’t on…
Pictures: Nokia 6650 in real life and more specifications come out
Engadget is in Germany right now covering CeBIT and took the time to take some pictures of the newly announced 6650 for T-Mobile, a device I’m hoping we will see unlocked. The picture of the devices above is on top of a piece of paper that has some information about the specifications, which Nokia still…
Review: Handy Weather for S60
As Steve Litchfield always likes to say “filed under articles I wanted to write,” he reviews Handy Weather for S60. One of my favorite S60 applications, I only discovered it at this years Mobile World Congress while sitting next to Jonathan Greene from atmaspheric|endevors and looking at that awesome screensaver pictured above. One thing Steve…
Sony Ericsson T303: Attractive and cheap feature phone
Sony Ericsson just announced their T303, a low end phone that surprisingly looks quite pretty. The specs are hardly impressive: 1.3 megapixel camera, 128×160 pixel screen with only 65k colors and triband EDGE, but weighing 93 grams and being only 83 x 47 x 15 mm will get this sucker attention. No word on pricing,…