Now this is just awesome. I can only dream of getting a tour inside the Salo factory. [Via: Telecomwereld] Update: Embedding isn’t working, just go straight to the link above.
Lazy Weekend: S60 Themes
I rarely, if ever, install themes. Most of the vile creations floating around on the internet make me sick to my stomach and a large percentage of those bastard child abominations provide poor contrast with text. When I stumbled across this theme on Zach’s Symbian In Motion blog, I knew I had to make it…
Brief: Garmin decides not to buy Tele Atlas, renews contract with Nokia
Garmin wanted to buy Tele Atlas, but then it looked at how small their wallet was and decided it just wasn’t a smart deal. Instead the decided to sign a 6 year contract with Navteq, who is essentially Nokia. [Via: Gizmodo]
Confirmed: Cheaper castrated Nokia N82 without WLAN and 3G to be released
Here is a screenshot of my current Nokia N82 thanks to Device Status: Notice how it is RM-313. On the FCC we have something called RM-314, hat tip to Howard Forums. With a little bit of investigation it became clearly obvious via Forum Nokia that their would be a second Nokia N82: The Nokia N82…
Video: ClearTXT, every University should have this
How many of you are University students or recently graduated? Isn’t getting notified by your teacher a pain in the ass or getting your grades a tedious process? I desperately wish my University had this. Every University should have this. Update: Podtech’s embedded player isn’t working right, just watch the video here. Grrr. [Via: Robert…
Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon processors do everything, literally
Qualcomm has unveiled 2 new processors in their Snapdragon family, the QSD8250 which supports up to 7.2 Mbps download and 5.76 Mbps upload via HSDPA and the QSD8650 which does all that plus has support for EV-DO Rev. B. Both processors are dual core, have a 1 GHz ARM based processor and a seperate 600…
Video: Nokia N82 unboxing, soundtrack of the year
Catching up on my RSS feeds, been reading since 5 AM and I’m still at 1000+ I noticed that Engadget found this N82 unboxing video by a Greek man who I must attempt to locate and party with. I’m not even going to do an unboxing video now, seriously, I can’t top this. What I…
Video: Python for S60 makes phones have feelings
Less than 40 lines of code and quite a humorous way to advertise the Mobile Python Book. Check it out: The Nokia 5500 has an accelerometer and pretty soon it will be standard on all mobile devices. While the applications created using this technology are useless now and mere tech demos, they do demonstrate that…
Breaking: S60 becomes fully LAMP compatible
LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL and the P can be either Perl, PHP or Python. Everything you need to run a full web server can now be installed and run on your S60 device! What does this mean in the future? How about having a computer that is nothing more than a display, keyboard,…
The agony and the sheer ecstasy that was the Nokia N82 product launch
There is a fine line between happiness and pure unadulterated ecstasy. Nokia helped 5 bloggers from all over the world cross that chasm, with style, at the N82 product launch event in Finland. From left to right we have Devin, Mark, myself, Jeremiah and Jay. We’re standing in front of Nokia Headquarters in Espoo about…