Anssi Vanjoki has a pair of testicles that twinkle in the night, oh so bright, that Santa always finds his way back home to Finland. In an open invitation to Steve Jobs, he asks that iTunes come to Ovi, because after all Ovi is Finnish for door and Nokia was not joking when they said…
Pictures: What happens when you take a shotgun to a Nokia E90?
This is what happens when someone who knows and loves S80 was greeted with the surprise that S60 was the OS in Nokia’s latest Communicator: [Via: eBay; more pictures at the auction]
Video: Quake on the Nokia N95 on a TV being controlled by an accelerometer
Quake. The game that has been ported to nearly every platform has been available on the Nokia’s S60 OS for a while now, but what takes the cake this time is that Symbian Freak connected his handset to his television and is using the built in accelerometer inside the N95 to control his character. Will…
Brief: Swiss break record, 62 million text messages in 48 hours
From December 24 to the end of Christmas day the people of Switzerland sent over 62 million text messages, breaking the world record, which they set last year with “only” 57 million texts. [Via: Textually]
Brief: College students have no morals, nothing new
David Pogue was shocked to discover that when interacting with an audience of 500 college students only 2 thought downloading music and video is illegal. Why is he surprised? The faster the west realizes it will be just like the east, the better. What does this have to do with mobile? The next evolution of…
Video: It was the night before Christmas, not a mobile phone was on silent
Ewan is difficult to explain with words. The first time I met him I loved that he boldly walked around with a Palm book bag strapped to his back at a Nokia event. The second time I met him I wanted to punch him in the face since he was the only one at our…
Nokia’s silent, but deadly competitor: RIM
People think that the iPhone made a dent in Nokia’s revenues, but no one realizes that in 2007 Nokia came out with over 30 mobile phones versus Apple’s single SKU. Apple aside, the real threat isn’t the fruit from the west coast, but the businessman from Canada. Research in Motion is estimated to own 10%…
Brief: Looks like N-Gage isn’t going live until 2008, for anyone
Nokia’s N-Gage software platform was unveiled in August of this year with a promised launch date of November. It has since then been pushed back to December with only owners of the N81 being privileged to trial it. Now the official Nokia N-Gage blog is saying no one will get it until 2008 because of…
7 pictures of the Nokia N96 leak! This isn’t a render folks, this is real hardware *UPDATE*
All 7 images can be found on my Flickr account below, the images came from Mobile Review. Immediate thoughts are it looks like an N81, but even larger. No specifications are known, but people say it is an N95 in a new shell. That would be a sad shame. Update: Upon closer examination it looks…
I3A created to make it easier for consumers to know which cameras are awesome
Ars.Technica writes that a group of 22 companies called the I3A has been formed to create a set of benchmarks and give consumers simple to understand scores that differentiate cameras by something other than their megapixel count. Included in the 22 companies are Motorla, Nokia and Sony Ericsson. This could not have come at a…