In the latest episode of Nokia’s Technology Podcast “The way we live next” Nokia’s new CTO Bob Iannucci talks about where we are today in terms of mobile and how the next few years will look absolutly nothing like the decade prior. He likens today’s mobile industry to the PC world of 1982 and gives…
Nokia to release 6 to 12+ devices in the USA during 2008, even more in 2009
Mark Louison, president of Nokia’s North American business recently said that the EU and APAC dominating company plans to throw even more crumbs to the colonies in 2008 and 2009 than it has in previous years. How many devices actually do come out are dependent on the facist like American operators, but Mark was quoted…
Gizmodo with 10 reasons why CES was horrible
Or as I like to call it: 10 reasons why I’m skipping CES 2009. In less than a month I’ll be in Spain for Mobile World Congress and I hope, really hope, that it will make up for the next to meaningless trip to Vegas. Have any of you been to 3GSM? What did you…
Brief: Must read article about the American wireless space and the iPhone
Wired posted an epic piece about the development of the iPhone in the context of the things Apple had to do to break the mold of preventing phone manufactures from making a name for themselves in the colonies (America). If you ever wanted to know why Europeans laugh at the states and their mobile phones…
Motorola joins Nokia in investing towards NFC company INSIDE Contactless
NFC, which stands for near field communications, will be all the rage before this decade is out. Being able to pay for things by simply hovering your mobile phone over a sensor, get more detailed information about an object by just waving your phone in front of it and exchanging contact information by just touching…
The 2008 CES summed up in one picture
In less than 12 hours I’ll be on an excruciatingly long plane ride back to Finland where it will take the weekend to recover from the good times that were had in Las Vegas. What about CES? After coming to about 4 or 5 of these things I can honestly say this one was the…
Brief: Meizu MiniOne not coming to CES, vaporware++
The Chinese iPhone has been delayed, yet again. We’re not surprised, you shouldn’t be either. Engadget has the news.
Sprint gets the red BlackBerry 8130 while Verizon gets the pink version
I rarely, if ever, write about news concerning operators because frankly they don’t matter anymore. Like you could care less which company maintains your electricity or which company is responsible for your water, I could care less who is giving me service. I choose the cheapest with the best coverage and let that be that.…
Sony Ericsson W350i, Z555i, W760i to be announced at CES *UPDATE*
Sony Ericsson announcing devices at CES? Sounds weird, you would think they would wait a month for 3GSM. Word on the street is their going to announce 3 handsets. The 350i brings back the old school flip form factor that is sure to win some nostalgic hearts. Next up is the Z555i which is supposed…
Rumor: Windows Mobile 7 information leaked
Someone on the internets claims to have received a detailed document from Microsoft detailing the next version of the Windows Mobile operating system. The blog post is long and it took me quite a few page refreshes to even get the damn thing up. In order to save you the agony I downloaded the site,…