I’m sure you’ve already read the quotes (here and here), but it is a completely different experiance watching their facial expressions. Steve looked relaxed, calm and unnerved. Nigel on the other hand looked a little bit tense. Now admittingly it could have been an upset stomach, jetlag, a multitude of things, but a mans face…
HTC plans to release 2 to 3 Android based devices in 2008
Digitimes is reporting that HTC is expecting their revenues to grow 20% and that they plan on shipping 2 to 3 Android powered devices. Android being the operating system developed by the Open Handset Alliance being championed by Google. The SDK is supposed to come out today, but nothing as of yet. Stay tuned to…
Brief: Rumor: Google to buy Sprint
I smell bullshit from a mile away. What in god’s name would Google do with a CDMA operator? Are you kidding me? Duncan Riley has the lies details on Tech Crunch.
Review: Shazam iD, TrackID is no longer just a Sony Ericsson thing
If you have a Sony Ericsson device released in the past 2 years or so then you have a most awesome application on your device called TrackID. If you never used it before, here is what you’re missing out on: Once you open the TrackID application you can hold your phone up to a speaker…
Nokia is trying hard, really hard, to become an internet company
When CEO Olli Pekka Kallasvuo decided to call Nokia an internet company people around the world thought he was stark mad. With 1 in 3 mobile phones consistently being purchased quarter after quarter by consumers around the world, healthy margins even on low end devices and over 4 billion Euros in the bank, why would…
Video: The force comes to Finland, Nokia Lightsaber
Someone named Graham Oldfield used the accelerometer API inside the Nokia N95 to create a lightsaber application which you can find here. Symbian Guru, Jedi Cadden, made a little video demoing this for us: As useless as the application is, you can’t talk smack about Star Ware, especially you LoTR people.
Brief: Confirmed: Countdown timer on Nseries is for the Nokia N82
Someone on Mobile Review (smart Russian hackers absolutely rock) decompiled the flash file which housed the countdown timer. The one line of code that gave it away: flash.external.ExternalInterface.call(“_hbPageview “, “n82_virtual_event”, “/Microsites/n82/virtual_event/”); That pretty much confirms that we’re only expecting one device, no surprises. Less than 90 hours to go!
The best music centric mobile phone is currently made by Samsung?
In what will probably be the most debated quote for cell phone audiophiles online, Eldar from Mobile Review said that the Samsung i450 is superior to the Nokia N91 in terms of sound quality; the N91 being the flagship music centric Nseries device. Shame the team who designed it had the last chapter of 2001:…
Video: Verizon Voyager Rap
Props to the guys that made this, you got me to laugh, but seriously, Verizon? [Via: Mobility Site]
America gets a new Nokia N95-3 color: Bronze
Got an email asking me why the Nokia N95-3 Bronze is $80 more than the Black version. I never even knew a Bronze color existed, but here it is: As for Eric, the answer is you pay more for the new color. People like exclusivity. Nokia, and every other maker of consumer goods, will often…