Mark Guim was recording the half hour Q&A session we had with the product manager of the Nokia N82, Tomo. He did a remarkable editing job and I definitely want to share this video with you guys: Click To Play Notice: I edited Tomo’s ID badge to remove his employee ID number and all that…
Brief: Picture sample: Nokia N95 vs N82
It is 04:15 in Finland and I’m absolutely shot after such a long day and a fantastic dinner with Mark, Devin and Jeremiah. I couldn’t go to sleep without giving you guys something to talk about so I took 2 pictures of the stuffed animal my mom mailed me a few months ago. I encourage…
ZXing, Google’s open source QR code reader
Google will include an application called ZXing (zebra crossing) in an upcoming release of their Android SDK and will also create a separate J2ME verison. If any company can make QR codes popular in America, then this is it. QR codes are little boxes that can store URL’s, text, phone numbers and can be accessed…
Nokia N82 press photos leak
Disclosure: I’m currently writing this from a hotel room at the Crowne Plaza in Helsinki, provided for me by Nokia, because tomorrow a few bloggers are invited to an event. You can only guess what we’re going to be playing with. Update: More picture here on Nokia’s Official Press site. Update Again: In case Nokia…
Microsoft getting into the mobile content business by acquiring Musiwave
Nokia has a music store, albeit only in the UK right now. Sony Ericsson will be launching Play Now Arena in the first half of next year. Now Microsoft has just purchased Musiwave for an undisclosed sum, giving them a foot in the content delivery business. Musiwave wasn’t a very profitable company, but they did…
ACCESS releasing Palm OS Garnet emulator for Nokia’s Internet Tablets
ACCESS, the people who purchased the spin off of the software division of a once healthy company known as Palm, are announcing the release of a beta virtual machine that will allow people who own a Nokia 770, N800 and N810 to run Garnet applications. The VM will be out by the end of the…
Android is out and I feel let down, almost embarrassed I hyped it so much
When rumors started coming out that November 5th would be the day, the day on which Google would revolutionize the mobile phone space and reveal their operating system to the world, I started drinking the Mountain View Kool-Aid by the keg. That day came and all we got was the announcement of an alliance of…
I am the owner of that horn
Reading Fake Steve Jobs and I came across a blog post where he says, and I quote: “I mean, Holy friggin mother of Jesus, what the fuck is that? Is it a horn sprouting out of his skull? Is he some kind of man-unicorn hybrid? If you rub his bump will it bring you good…
Did anyone notice that Android doesn’t support multitasking?
Watching video 2 of “Androidology” called “Application Lifecycle” and this guy is basically saying you can’t multitask. Applications run similar to what the Palm OS had going for it a decade ago. There is no task switcher because that isn’t how Android works. I’m a bit disappointed and I hope I’m proved wrong.
Brief: Android is up! Videos galore and full blown SDK!
I’ve just began consuming all this content, here are links you should know about: youtube videos and developer homepage. Thoughts and conclusions in an hour or two.