The price is unknown, the deal should close by the end of this year, but what you need to know is that Nokia is serious about offering services to consumers. They want to be to mobile ads what Google is to adsense online. Will they pull it off? Hard to tell, Nokia apparently has morals…
Sprint Nextel launches Airave, femtocells to stop making you pray to the gods of reception
We all have a friend who lives in the dead zone. A place where you have to stand with your head out the window to get one bar and a place you know you will never hear a 50 Cent ringtone go off. Sprint wants to change all that, they are launching a new service…
Mobile data revenue to hit $1 Billion by 2012, number of users to increase by a factor of 6.5x
Internets in my pantaloons, I’ve been an addict for a while now and Juniper Research reckons that a lot of people will want to become one too. In 2007 there are only 40 million people out there using mobile data, that number is expected to his 260 million in just 5 years, 60 million in…
Nokia Siemens Networks working with Airvana on 3G femtocell technology
A femtocell is basically a repeater that people who have poor reception in their house can use to get more of those magically delicious bars. According to research by ABI this market is expected to grow 95% year after year and reach $4 Billion by 2012. “Delivering operators a complete, standards-based femto cell solution will…
Exclusive: Autographed Nokia N81
… music CD by the boys behind the infamous N81 music video, Pop4Real: You know you’re jealous of the Ferrari pillow case in the uncropped picture, it makes the ladies go vroom vroom if you know what I mean and now with this CD playing in the background I’m sure to get some love tonight.…
Barron’s: Nokia has yet to peak, strong growth expected
This week’s front page cover article of Barron’s is focused on Nokia with the title saying “A better bet than Apple.” Now of course this is a magazine for people in the financial markets who aren’t necessarily technophiles, but they know a solid company when they see it. Cited for the ability to make 1…
Live pictures of the Nokia 8900 dummy phone, get your barf bag ready
The 8800 was art and could be described as perfect, but then the 8600 came out and redefined what a beautiful mobile phone could be. Here is the 8900, they call it 8900 because that is how many steps backward they took when trying to come up with an appealing design. [More pictures from Nokia…
Video: Palm Treo 500v user interface, easiest smartphone to use, ever?
Jason Langridge is the Mobility Business Manager for Microsoft in the EMEA region and a total geek. He hooked up his Treo 500v to his PC via a program called Pocket Controller to show us what the user interface of the 500v and I think you’re going to be as amazed as I am: Granted,…
Nokia Nseries PC Suite 2.0 Beta: Kill it with fire and fly the ashes to the moon
If you want to jump straight to the screenshots then check out this gallery on Flickr. Nokia Beta Labs is where Nokia applications that are rough around the edges or present an experimental concept can be tried out by the enthusiastic S60 community around the world and where you can give your feedback to the…
Video: Bill Maher agrees, stop whining about the iPhone price drop
I seriously can’t stand you people. Nice to see Bill agrees: