The 8600 Luna, 6500 Classic and 6500 Slide were announced today. The marketing department probably didn’t think this one thru since consumers now have to remember a 4 digit string and a suffix. The Enterprise and Multimedia Division (E and N Series) have better naming conventions, but enough bad mouthing for now. Let us dive…
A message to Forum Nokia and Nokia Public Relations
When publishing a press release announcing a new device, could you please publish the spec sheet on Forum Nokia for us enthusiasts who care about things like weight, Bluetooth profiles, dimensions, which version of which OS it runs, etc? There seems to be a disconnect between your two groups. I’m sure it could be easily…
Google working with Adobe on their new offline API “Gears”
Is that a Silverlight I see in the horizon? Nope, I just hit google.com at 03:00 and my retinas pupils shrunk to the size of a single atom.
Palm has just raised the bar
I hope their European competitors are watching closely. I can’t wait to come home from work and watch the archived webcast. Edit: I find it funny this device reflects, word for word, the usage model I proposed here, here and here.
Video: IntoMobile contract, locked and loaded
Click To Play Excuse the noise, I was inside a mall.
Palm press release leaked early
In a few hours we can expect to see pictures and video, but for now we know what Palm is going to announce: The Foleo. I’m going to make a huge prediction here that might make me sound like a total fanboy, but I think Nokia already has something like this in their pipeline. It…
Video: Nokia 8600 hands on!
This T3 video confirms the 1GB internal memory rumour. I’ve never been this excited over a mobile phone before. I always wanted a 8800, but hated the poor screen resolution. I came incredibly close to purchasing a 6300 with its magnificent QVGA display, but when the 8600 images leaked I immediately fell in love. This…
I’m no longer in trouble!
Huge thanks to Lucy Nichols, Director of Brand Protection in the Intellectual Property Rights Department at Nokia! Lucy took the time to give me a call from her hotel room in Beijing and apologize for the letter that Darby & Darby sent me. The person handling the complaint was new and apparently unaware of the…
Put on a sombrero because the bright minds at Nokia are shining
Ever since "Nokia, the computer company?" was published I’ve received at least one email a day asking me to link to it. I’ve been holding back because I wanted to spend a fairly large portion of my time discussing, analyzing and building on it. Michael Mace did a fantastic job at putting into perspective where…
Video: Nokia Researcher Younghee Jung tells us her vision of where mobile will be in 2012
She spends the first half of the video describing how important mobile phones have become to us and that they have become so ubiquitous that a third of the global population owns one. The second half is spent on the challenges facing cellphones today and how new usage models will solve social problems that we…