It took 3 months, but Nokia and STMicroelectronics finally sealed the deal they announced earlier in August to transfer 185 employees from Finland to the UK. Nokia is no longer making their own chips but instead outsourcing their effort. We all know this press release will fall on deaf ears with less than 10 hours…
The man behind the Google Phone: Andy Rubin
The New York Times has a piece on the man who is building Google’s Mobile OS behind closed doors, Andy Rubin. If I wasn’t drooling already over the concept of a Google Phone, this article just makes me want to run up to this guy and hug him. He is a 10 year old in…
On Monday Google will announce Android, their mobile phone platform *UPDATE*
If this blog post over at C|Net is to be believed then on Monday Google will announce to the public their plans for creating a mobile phone operating system platform. Partners in what Google is calling the “Open Handset Alliance” include KDDI and NTT DoCoMo and 30 others. The platform will supposedly be open source…
Video: BlackBerry OS 4.3.1 Beta preview
BlackBerry devices are starting to get more and more multimedia capabilities and with this 4.3.1 Beta video recording has become enabled. The CEO of Nokia was correct when he said RIM and Apple make him paranoid. Other features include documents to go for viewing and editing attachments, voice recorder and the web browser got just…
Official: N-Gage launch delayed by one month, December 2007 due date
Straight from Kari Tuutti: “N-gage is coming in December. Software testing is taking a bit more time than what we had expected, we are talking about a couple of weeks.” That is why the Go Play page was down last night. Shame, we were all waiting for the N82. Maybe the new release date will…
Nokia’s MOSH scares Warner Music, refuses to cooperate with the Nokia Music Store
Nokia has a service called MOSH that is essentially a P2P service in your pocket. People can upload applications, pictures, videos and even music to share with everyone. This scares the pants off Warner Music because piracy is what prevents these guys from sleeping at night. They are not going to cooperate with Nokia’s Music…
Nokia N95 8 GB, the best smartphone ever made?
Two people are essentially saying the same thing. First off is Matt, relatively new to the blogging scene, he runs Nokia Geek. After pointing out a few of the minor hickups of the device in his review he still can’t help but come to the conclusion that the N95 8 GB is the best device…
Nokia Music Store Review Roudup (Verdict: Good, but not great)
Today the Nokia Music Store launched. People in the UK, who use Windows and Internet Explorer will be able to use it. This angered Carlo Longino who thought that Nokia said they are now an Internet Company. Last time I checked companies like Google didn’t stop working because of the weird operating system or browser…
Video: Nokia Music Store Demo (Verdict: iTunes what?)
The Nokia Music Store went up for less than an hour, it is down now, then again it shouldn’t have even been launched for another 9 hours. All that aside, James Burland at Nokia Creative got access to the store and he made a demonstration video: James why do you act as if Microsoft’s DRM…
Video Demo: Nokia N95 has a built in accelerometer
To many people’s surprise, myself included, the Nokia N95 has a built in accelerometer. Not only has it not gone used, but the thing is incredibly accurate. Have a Nokia N95? Grab this sisx file and give it a try for yourself. Mark from The Nokia Blog shot a video demoing the application: How many…