Friend of a friend JP from Nokia’s former Multimedia Unit took this picture today inside Nokia Headquarters in Espoo, Finland. If you’re not familiar with Nokia’s reorganization plans then here is a brief summary: Before January 2008 there were three divisions inside Nokia making phones: Mobile Phones (the devices with model numbers that are 4…
Into Mobile Voicemail #1
I’m trying something new here. Using QiK technology I plan to make a quick and dirty, one shot, zero edit, video podcast recapping what has happened over the past 24 hours. Let me know what you think of episode 1, this one is less than 7 minutes, but blame that on me getting everything setup.
Quote of the day: The N810’s Wayfinder software insists that the only kind of shops in Finland are liquor stores
Krisse from All About Symbian is comparing the Nokia E90 to the Nokia N810 and she just earned herself quote of the day with this little nugget of gold: The N810’s Wayfinder software insists that the only kind of shops in Finland are Off-Licences (Liquor Stores). Does this perhaps say something about the people who…
5 megapixel Samsung F490 shipping now, in Russia at least
The iPhone form factor Samsung F490 is shipping in February in Russia according to Unwired View for around 412 euros. Along with a 5 megapixel camera the F490 has a standard 3.5 mm headphone jack, weighs 102 grams, is less than 12 mm thick and has 3.6 Mbps HSDPA. One to watch out for sure,…
Make your Japanese school girl fantasy come true with just an SMS
Last week several junior and senior high school girls were arrested in Tokyo and Saitama for running a prostitution ring. The girls would send ads out to prospective customers that looked something like this: IkebLURV1700Yukichi2JC1 Deciphering the message is quite simple: Ikeb = Ikebukuro. The neighborhood that the girl is in. LURV = “I will…
Must Listen: 1 hour of Niklas Savander at Capital Market Days
When Nokia published a press release talking about how they plan to purchase Trolltech and how doing so will strengthen both S60 and S40, it immediately dawned on me that I heard this somewhere before. I couldn’t quite put a finger on it, until now that is. During Nokia World there was an event called…
Official: Motorola considering getting rid of its mobile phones division
Motorola, which made the one hit wonder RAZR and has been in slump ever since, has admitted that they’re considering splitting the company up to separate the bleeding phones division from the rest of the company. According to Reuters Motorla is said to be considering: “structural and strategic realignment of its businesses to better equip…
Motorola co-creates EGPS forum to help GPS suck less
Motorola [mobile phone manufacture] and CSR [provider of GPS solutions to mobile phone manufactures] teamed up to create the EGPS forum to improve the speed of acquisition as well as the accuracy of GPS in mobile phones. Benchmarks for performance will be created by the end of the first half of this year and the…
MobiTubia is out, emTube still kicks ass
MobiTubia is emTube with a pretty UI, but it just doesn’t feel right. Call me minimalist, but I strongly prefer the work Sebastian Jedruszkiewicz has done compared to Sittiphol Phanvilai, in fact I feel emTube should have won the Open C competition instead. Try out both before and let me know which one you like.…
Live pictures of the Asus M930 surface
The Nokia E90 look a like, but not really, Asus M930 is out and about. TamsWMS got the scoop, check out all the images on their site. Will covered the product launch and official specifications two weeks ago.