Even more of a reason to hate locked devices: some guy took an iPhone to the UK for 2 weeks, roaming of course, rang up a $3,000 phone bill and shit his pants. Who is to blame here? The guy for not knowing about roaming? The operators for not providing lube at the signing of…
Helio Ocean hacked to Opera Mini, hopefully more applications soon
European readers are probably shaking their head in shame, but here in America we actually have to hack our devices in order to get Java support. Verizon is even worse, they don’t let you use Bluetooth. The creative people over at HelioCity got Opera Mini to run on their Ocean and provided the instructions here.…
Confucius: Microsoft to take 2D barcodes mainstream?
Mary Jo Foley sheds a hint of light on Microsoft Code Name Confucius: A Windows Live service that is an offshoot of Windows Live Barcode. Confucius allows cell-phone users to send two-dimensional barcode information between cell phones or between cell phones and Web sites, allowing users to save keystrokes. The service is live and you…
Pictures: Poky, an open source mobile phone operating system
I’m probably going to offend some folks with the following statement, but it has to be said: The majority of open source work out there is not innovative and is merely a free, usually inferior, version of what has already been done on either Windows or Mac. Binky is the code name for version 3…
Memories of PSION’s beginnings
While browsing the forums on Michael Jerz’s My-Symbian website I stumbled across this thread which happened to lead me to a document written by Richard Harrison about the beginnings of PSION. It really is an eye opener when you read things like: The Organiser II followed in 1986, with a 2-line by 16-character display. Over…
Nokia N81 viral ad has a countdown timer for August 29th at 09:00 in the UK
This is all we know about the N81 so far (the picture above is the best we have): S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1 8 GB of memory built in 16 million color 320×240 resolution screen 2 megapixel camera 3.5 mm headphone jack WiFi and Bluetooth with A2DP support 2100 MHz 3G and Quadband GSM/EDGE…
Another Nokia device found, will the 5610 be announced on August 29th?
An XML file for the Nokia 5610 was just discovered, specifications include 320 x 240 display running S40 5th Edition with support for A2DP. This is one more device to add to our growing list of products that have yet to be announced by Nokia. The N81 is supposed to be a 8 GB MP3…
Nokia Q2 results are out: Enterprise turns a profit, market share increases and over 100 million units shipped!
Nokia Q2 results are out and the conference call is set to begin in less than 90 minutes, but here is what we know so far: 100.8 million units shipped, almost 30% more than this time last year Europe: 27.1 million, 13.4% increase compared to last quarter and 28.4% compared to Q2 2006 Middle East…
More Nokia 5310 XpressMusic information leaks out
We brought you the XML file almost a month ago. We knew it was going to have S40 5th Edition, A2DP support and a 320 x 240 screen; today we are finding out that it will be ultra thin (it was compared to the Sony Ericsson W880 which is 9.5 mm thin) and black with…
Nokia LD-4W Bluetooth GPS reciever leaked by the FCC
No details, but boy is it pretty. [Via: Mobile Whack]