Blogger, and long time friend Jonathan Greene, is at a Nokia press event in New York City right now and is live tweeting. So far here is what has been announced: Nokia Booklet 3G should have 12 hours of battery life with Windows 7 (which I believe to be bullshit, and I can’t wait to…
Nokia N97 mini RAOUL limited edition available for pre-ordering in Singapore
There’s a special edition of the Nokia N97 mini, which looks even more like the Samsung Giorgio Armani Windows Mobile 6.5 phone. It’s the RAOUL-branded device and it’s available in just 1000 units in Singapore. The price is S$1138 (about $815) and that money buys you the brown-ish N97 mini emblazoned with RAOUL’s signature stripes…
Video: Browsing on the Nokia N900 rocks!
Nokia has prepared a video to demonstrate just how powerful their Maemo-powered N900 is powerful for web browsing. First we have Mikko Mikko “>Korpelainen (Senior Product Manager) explaining why the N900’s browser “brings full Internet to your pocket.” There are five components, according to Mikko: latest web technologies (Mozilla based browser), full Flash support, performance…
Video: Nokia N900 unboxing
Mandatory unboxing videos for the few of you who get off on this type of gadget pornography. Call me when someone takes a screwdriver to the N900 and does a tear down. Reminder: the N900 is shipping soon, either by the end of this month or the beginning of the next, depending on territory. Price…
Weekend Videos: Palm Pre in beer, N900 can autofocus for recording video, Samsung Giorgio Armani
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but this is the start of week 42 of 2009, meaning that there are only 10 weeks left until the start of a new decade. Pretty exciting stuff. I can vividly remember when the ball dropped in NYC and it turned 2000. I was there. Something that wasn’t so…
Nokia Working on Augmented Reality Language Translation via OCR Character Recognition
After getting a demo of some of the cool vector map capabilities on the N900 at CTIA, I prodded a Nokia rep about what they’ve been working on with augmented reality (since zooming down to street level on the map to check out the 3D rendering of a stadium was awfully close). He mentioned that…
Hands-on the Nokia N900 at CTIA Fall 2009
CTIA Fall 2009 isn’t the biggest show we’ve ever been to. In fact, this particular conference might be the smallest CTIA we’ve ever attended. But, that doesn’t mean there’s a lack of cool hardware to ogle on the showfloor. Take the Nokia N900 for example. It’s Nokia’s latest Nseries smartphone, and the first of the…
Brief: Confirmed: Maemo 6 to bring support for multi touch and capacitive screens
When the Nokia N900 was announced, mobile phone geeks were split right down the middle. The EU and Asian media were excited that Nokia has finally done something different with the UI, while the USA was a bit pissed the device had a resistive touch screen and lacked multi touch. There were exceptions on both…
Video: Qt 4.6 running on Nokia’s N900; this is what Nokia is betting on
Nokia currently has three operating systems: S40, Symbian and Maemo. I know S30 still exists for ultra low end fones, but forget about that for a second. If you’re a developer looking at creating a native application, you’re going to have to write three different applications. Nokia wants to make your life easier, and the…
Nokia’s Indian giving: Everyone at the Maemo Summit gets a Nokia N900, has to return it in 6 months
The Maemo Summit is currently taking place in Amsterdam right now and I’m watch the live coverage pouring out of the recently launched All About Maemo website. One thing that strikes me as odd is that Nokia is giving everyone at the show a pre production Nokia N900, but then they’re expected to return it…