Apple’s got a pretty big appetite for NAND flash memory modules. Now that the iPhone 3GS boasts 32GB of onboard storage, and is headed to China Unicom’s massive subscriber-base, Apple is gobbling up flash memory chips faster than suppliers can punch them out. DigiTimes is reporting that the world’s main NAND manufacturers are prioritizing Apple’s…
Buzzirk and Global Verge marketing “campaign” at Mobilize09
With GigaOm’s Mobilize09 completely sold out (thanks to Motorola’s CLIQ and MOTOBLUR unveiling), the Mission Bay Conference Center was packed with mobile geeks the likes of, well, us. What better place is there to promote your vague telecom business opportunity? Buzzirk and Global Verge, of Zer01 fame, were thinking the same thing. They (or at…
Opera: What’s next? A whole bunch of ‘shiny’
Opera Software, makers of the popular Opera Mini 4.2 mobile web browser, are cooking up something really big in their R&D kitchens. Opera’s browser technology is already good enough to get bundled on new smartphones like the HTC Touch Diamond2, but things are about to get even better. Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner just treated…
Video: We take the Motorola CLIQ and MOTOBLUR for a spin
Motorola today announced its first Android phone at Mobilize 2009 as the interestingly named Motorola CLIQ. The unveiling finally brought the Motorola Morrison out of the shadows and into the mainstream. Thankfully, the CLIQ looks more impressive in person than it ever did in the leaked Morrison images we’ve been seeing for the past couple…
Motorola CLIQ brings its A-game to Android!
Motorola’s co-CEO of mobile devices, Dr. Sanjay Jha, took the stage at Mobilize 2009 to unveil Motorola’s first Android device. After some talk about the need to mobilize the internet, Motorola unveiled the previously leaked Motorola Morrison as the all-new Motorola CLIQ. And, because custom homescreen UIs are what’s hot right now, Motorola skinned the…
AppStore Recap: 1.8B downloads, 75k apps, industry spark
Apple today released the iPhone 3.1 OS, giving iPhone users yet more features to play with. Granted, some of those features were things that should have been included in the iPhone OS a long time ago – that’s just how Apple rolls. The iPhone maker also took the opportunity to recap its success with the…
BlackBerry Internet Service outage?
Mashable points out that many a Twitter user has been complaining of BlackBerry outages today. As usual for this kind of outage, BlackBerry users have been running into problems when accessing their email. There’s no official word from any official sources, so all we have to go on is anecdotal evidence. This isn’t the first…
T-Mobile myTouch3G for $99!
What’s that? T-Mobile latest Android smartphone is going for just $99? We’ll take two! T-Mobile is apparently wooing new customers the old-fashioned way. With super-low prices on amazing mobile hardware. The T-Mobile myTouch3G, also known as the HTC Magic, is T-Mobile’s second Android handset and features the latest Android OS build, a 3.2-megapixel camera, GPS,…
How-to: Bring auto-complete back to your HTC Touch Pro2
In-line auto-completion can be a godsend when you’re tapping out a long-winded email. Unfortunately for all you HTC Touch Pro2 owners, HTC decided to disable the feature in favor of you using the trick slide-and-tilt QWERTY keyboard. Auto-completion is still available through the Touch Pro2’s Windows Mobile Professional OS, but it takes a little fiddling…
Nokia’s 3D mobile phone doesn’t need special glasses
Not sure how this one slipped through the cracks, but Nokia apparently showed off a new 3D stereoscopic display at Nokia World 2009 that it doesn’t require any special 3D glasses! The new tech can display simple 3D perspectives on a handheld-sized device, paving they way for truly 3D mobile phones in the future. Nokia…