Every executive, at some point or another in their lives, says something that goes viral for all the wrong reasons. With Steve Ballmer you have the sweaty “Developers! Developers! Developers!” triad, with Steve Jobs you have “BOOM!” and “one more thing”. During an event in 2007 that took place in London, the one where Nokia…
Video: Nokia X6 unboxed by a man and his bird [you’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll never forget]
The Nokia X6 announcement earlier this year has come and gone, shrouded by mystery as to why none of the marketing material spoke of the capacitive touch screen. The main selling point instead was “Comes with Music”, which is nothing more than a 150 EUR tax you pay for your device in order to get…
Nokia’s Ovi Contacts gets an update
Nokia has released an updated version of Ovi Contacts for Symbian S60 3rd Edition FP2 and S60 5th Edition devices. Among the new features/bug fixes included in this version, we highlight: Send file now works from the friend list, too (not only from chat view) Issues with Cyrilic and Scandinavian letters were fixed E-mail field…
Video: Home Run Baseball for the Nokia N900 [it’s choppy, it’s baseball, but at least it’s something]
Baseball, a sport that never really took off to the same degree that say football (soccer) or basketball have, is coming to the Nokia N900 courtesy of India Games in a title called “Home Run Baseball”. Tap the screen to hit the ball, get your ego inflated a bit by hearing the computer generated sounds…
New Year 2010 resolutions from our fave mobile phone makers
A new year is a time to reflect on our achievements in the past dozen months and to set goals for the coming 12 months. That goes for regular folks and multi-national corporations alike. In the spirit of fixing what’s wrong with their mobile phone businesses this year, our favorite cellphone manufacturers have submitted to…
Firefox Mobile Release Candidate 1 Available on Maemo
As expected, the first public release of Firefox Mobile (a.k.a Fennec) is available today for the Nokia N900. I haven’t seen a lot of big changes in this particular version, but you can check out the changelog for highlights. Obviously the big feature is support for plug-ins, but the iconic Awesome Bar, tabbed browsing,…
Video: Duke Nukem 3D running on the Nokia N900
If iPhone can do it, so can the Nokia N900. Yap, the good ol’ Duke Nukem 3D is running nicely on the Finnish giant’s Maemo device. You use a combination of a touchscreen and keyboard to control Duke as he finds his way around hallways, killing every ugly creature along the way… Enough said, check…
N900 Rigged As PlayStation 3 Controller
An alpha application for Nokia’s N900 allows the handset to operate as a mouse, keyboard, gamepad, media remote, or PlayStation 3 controller via Bluetooth. As you can see, after a relatively painless pairing process, BlueMaemo enables the N900 to operate as a directional pad. While I’m not sure how comfortable playing a proper game on…
Maemo, Symbian and Qt are facing internal strife; what was supposed to bind them is tearing them apart
When Nokia acquired Trolltech in January 2008 they outlined a clear strategy that they would build a Qt layer on top of both Maemo and Symbian so that developers could create applications that would be cross platform compatible: The acquisition of Trolltech will enable Nokia to accelerate its cross-platform software strategy for mobile devices and…
Nokia complains to the United States International Trade Commission about 7 patents Apple violated
Here we go, first it was Nokia suing Apple over violating 10 patents, then Apple countersuing Nokia for 13 patents, and now here we are, days before 2010, and Nokia not only countersues Apple for 7 additional patents, but they file a complaint to the United States International Trade Commission. Read the press release yourself:…