Motorola’s Dr. John Barr was the previous Chairman of the Board of the Bluetooth SIG, but effective immediately he has now been replaced by Nokia’s Ian Macnamara. “For years, Ian and Nokia have been deeply involved in the development of Bluetooth technology. The Bluetooth SIG is especially pleased to have Ian in this position as…
Video: Clearest demo of S60 3.2 transitions I’ve seen yet
S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 has transitions built in to compete with the likes of Sony Ericsson, Samsung and LG who have been making their user interfaces prettier by adding eye candy. The device demonstrated below is the Nokia 6220 Classic and while it will not be shipping for another few months, meaning the…
2 pictures: Black Nokia E90
We’re all recovering from Mobile World Congress here at Into Mobile; I just started dumping my memory cards onto my laptop and was delighted that I remembered to take 2 pictures of the black Nokia E90 on display at the Nokia booth. Get your fix after the jump.
Renesas became the world’s number 2 supplier of application processors practically overnight
Texas Instruments is a well known chipset supplier, Nokia uses them for most of their S60 based products and I’m sure you’ve heard the term OMAP at least once or twice with other handset makers. Renesas is a Japenese company that in the course of one year managed to increase revenues to $655 million for…
Intel throwing $2 billion at Sprint’s WiMAX network to make it work
Sprint and Clearwire were supposed to launch a WiMAX network in the United States, but talks fell short and then the rumors started cropping up that it wouldn’t be launched unless another partner or more funding was found. Low and behold Intel, who has a lot of money riding on the technology seeing as how…
3,000 Vodafone branded Nokia 6110 Navigators recalled in the UK
If you have a Vodafone branded Nokia 6110 Navigator (why?) and your device is experiancing problems when using the GPS application then please contact Vodafone who may be able to help. A Vodafone technician revealed: “We received lots of calls about this complaint. Customers are telling us once a map of the UK and Ireland…
TV enabled mobile phones reach the 20 million mark in Japan
In Europe we have DVB-H, in America they have MediaFLO and in Asia they have several standards, but the one that has reached penetration levels of 20 million devices is OneSeg. It took nearly 2 years to do it, but now the 416 kbps 320×240 resolution format has now become the defacto standard to have…
Motorola and RIM battling it out in court over patent dispute
Motorola is claiming that RIM is violating some of their patents with the 8800 class of devices and the BlackBerry Enterprise Server Software, RIM is claiming that Motorola charges way too much to license their patents and that they have infringed on some of their patents as well. Legal battles are never fun and I…
Samsung to release a “high end” Android powered phone in September?
Robert X. Cringely is claiming that he has information on two upcoming Android powered devices. Both of them are made by Samsung, but are actually Google branded. The “high end” model is supposed to come out in September with a sub $100 (with or without contract?) model expected after Christmas. He goes on to say…
Video: Nokia Remade: Prototype 100% recycled phone concept
Green is in and Nokia knows this. They’ve released a short, somewhat uninspiring video, showcasing something that their designers have been working on. This device made from materials already on this planet, nothing new was manufactured. Not really digging it, but you might. [Via: Nokia Press Bulletin Board]