If you’re in America you probably have no clue what Jaiku or Widsets actually are. Jaiku is the Finnish version of Twitter. Main differences are the fact that it has some location based services embedded and it is an application that sits on your phone as opposed to SMS powered. Widsets is what happens when…
What does Nokia mean by “entirely new type” of mobile phone?
The Nokia E90 just launched in Finland, limited quantities of course, and during a press interview Antti Vasara, General Manager of the Mobile Devices Business Unit said a few interesting things: Nokia is not too enthusiastic about touchscreens, since all their tests had shown that users prefer keyboard and joystick for an input device. But…
Linux Phone Standards Forum to publish their 1.0 spec soon
Linux on mobile phones is a touchy subject. The only reason there is an effort to port the penguin on your cell phone is to reduce licensing costs. Sure Linux advocates will talk about openness and freedom, but at the end of the day you have to collect your receipts and see where you’re leaking…
Review: Nokia Media Transfer (Verdict: Beta, but a nice start)
According to the latest numbers from Steve Jobs there are 22 million active OS X users. These poor souls have been ignored by Nokia for the longest time, until now. Alex Wrege takes an in-depth look at what exactly the “Nokia Media Transfer†application does and initial reactions so far indicates that this program gladly…
A formal introduction, I’m the newest member of the IntoMobile team
I’m not good at hellos or goodbyes. I usually start conversations and relationships in media res. Let me get the basics out and the rest I can answer as time goes on: My name is Stefan Constantinescu and I’m a 20 year old living in Texas. I grew up in NYC and was born in…
Nearly $6 million dollars worth of Vertu phones stolen
BBC News: Masked men in a black Subaru forced a van from mobile phone firm Vertu off a link road near junction 4a of the M3 in Farnborough, Hampshire, on Wednesday. Four men from the car stole the phones. Police chased a Subaru which crashed and was abandoned in Slough, Berks. Two Hertfordshire men, aged…
Can’t we all just get along?
Never! Fight to the death!
Hey Nokia Irving, could you host or sponsor BarCampDallas?
BarCamp is a meeting of the minds. Recently Nokia showed off Project Sombrero at BarCampNYC/MobileCamp and I was just wondering if anything special could be planned for the Dallas event in August. I’ll volunteer, I can evangelize the pants off the Mobile Web Server! I already have the proper attire:
Video: 13 minutes with the 8600 Luna, in French!
You don’t want to miss this if you’re crazy enough to shell out 700 euros for a S40 device:
Official S60 blog post actually recommends you install Opera Mini!
From the S60 Browser Blog: Open http://www.operamini.com/ to get our main competitor: Opera Mini! I wouldn’t call Opera Mini a competitor at all. It is more of a complimentary browser for people who are still paying for data by the KB or for people like me in America who have 3G, but on the wrong…