I can’t confirm if this guy was drunk or not, but honestly … you have to be pretty damn wasted to create something like this. [Via: Darla Mack]
Nokia sued in China for making typos
More than 30 Chinese characters appear to be drawn incorrectly on some Nokia devices. This has upset Zhang, previously a teacher and he is now asking for a little under $42 in compensation. Why so little? I have no clue. Why did Nokia mess up in the first place? You try reproducing what looks like…
Iran tries to turn off protests by turning off text messages
Always destroy your enemies ability to communicate and they will crumble. Who knows whether or not this will stop the protests in Iran, what we can establish is that SMS is very powerful and not just 160 characters of gibberish, unlike Twitter’s 140 characters of sheer nonsense. [Via: Textually]
EDGE finally doesn’t suck, thank you Steve Jobs?
Apparently network speeds have increased for AT&T customers. Perhaps they read the early iPhone reviews that seemed to praise everything except the browsing experience over cellular. We’re looking at upwards of 200 kbps here, I’ve never been able to break 180 kbps as a T-Mobile customer. [Via: Engadget]
Video: Apple iPhone vs Nokia N95; Episode 5
You can’t replace the battery … great engineering my ass:
A mobile phone case that you can use as a weapon
Protection is important, but this is just bat shit. For $25 I would rather you spend the money on the shoe shine I’m going to have to buy after removing my Puma from your ass crack. [Via: Geeklogie]
Video: Sony Ericsson S500 prototype preview
Not really the sexiest of devices. User interface hurts my face. [Via: TechEBlog]
NBA Phone looks like a pancake made out of ground up basketballs
Something tells me the Chinese are not paying royalty fees to the NBA for the NBA N111 phone. One of these days I need to stroll the streets of Beijing and see the true bitch place of piracy. [Via: The Unwired View]
Nokia is Captain Planet of the electronics world
According to the fourth edition of the Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics, Nokia is the cleanest company in the world! Apple went from last place to 10th place, Lenovo and Dell are tied for second. No I’m not a hippy, I greatly enjoy my over consumption of pork and excessive speeding in an inefficient vehicle.…
By June 2008 Nokia plans to enter the Chinese TD-SCDMA market
Nokia has been working with China in creating the TD-SCDMA standard and now they are finally going to launch the technology and deploy handsets around it. China is huge, along with the Middle East, in terms of volume. The emerging markets are where the money is, but it is quickly becoming a competitive field. Samsung…