Comstar UTS, a Russian operator, has said that by the end of this year they plan to cover 75% of the country of Armenia in WiMAX. No word as yet as to which services will be offered. [Via: Mobile Crunch]
North Koreans finally get to use mobile phones
In November 2002 mobile telephony was switched on in North Korea, within 18 months it was banned and all mobile phones were confiscated. It took half a decade, but Orascom Telecom has been selected to blow through close to half a billion dollars over 3 years to try and get the communist regime back in…
Nokia being sued for $17.7 billion by German company IP-Com
German company IP-Com is suing Finnish mobile telecommunications giant Nokia for $17.7 billion over 6 families of patents that were originally filed by Bosch. Fortress Investment Group which owns 50% of IP-Com is paying for the court case. Could this be out of spite for the recent decision to close the Bochum plant? [Via: Cellular…
Brief: Three new Nokia model unveiled in service document
The Nokia 6300i (might be the 6301 actually), 6650 (Nokia’s first 3G phone, but knowing Nokia they might recycle the name) and 7070 (no Nokia has ever had this model number) have been unearthed by the German site NokiaPort.de They also mention the 7070b, that is just the same device as the 7070 but for…
Why does Japan have the ultimate form factor, yet Europe sticks to the classics?
When the Nokia N82 came out I heard a lot of people, N95 owners in particular, say that even though the shiny monoblock offers no significant new features, the sole fact that it is a candy bar was enough reason to pick it up. As someone who was given a Nokia N95 as a present,…
Video: ShakeSMS, a feature I want to see in every mobile device
Symbian Freak brings us a video demonstration of ShakeSMS, a new application that utilizes the accelerometer inside Nokia’s Nseries lineup to bring up your text messages in one easy motion. Scenario: You get an sms. Take your phone out of your pocket (remember it is still locked), shake it, it brings up the text message…
Nokia to purchase Trolltech for $150 million
Trolltech, a Norweign company that specializes in cross platform frameworks, is in talks to be bough out by Nokia for around $150 million. Nokia plans to use the newly acquired talent to reduce development cycles and redundancy. Take the contact list for example, currently the S40 and S60 guys have to write separate versions of…
MocoSpace cons VCs for $4 million more, $7 million total
Last year MocoSpace raised $3 million in VC funding for a mobile only social network. Recently they just received another $4 million. With over 2 million members generating over a billion pageviews a month my main beef with this company is that the experience is online only. While the big social networks have both a…
Should Sony Ericsson buy Motorola’s bleeding Mobile Devices division?
Late last year the world, by that I mean enthusiastic Symbian users, were stunned to find out that Motorola decided to buy a 50% stake in UIQ, the platform that until very recently has powered only Sony Ericsson smartphones. Was this negotiation the beginning of an even stronger relationship to come? Motorola isn’t known for…
S60 is holding a party in Miami, February 28, be there or be square
My friends over at S60, the Symbian based operating system that powers Nokia’s Eseries and Nseries line, are having a party in Miami and are inviting all of the fans in the area to stop by and have a drink. Details can be found here.