Filed under “Things I didn’t know,” up until now if you lived in South Korea you could only buy South Korean made mobile devices. As early as this year the big three mobile operators, SK Telecom, KTF and LG Telecom, are looking to start selling devices made by Apple, Nokia and Sony Ericsson. South Korea…
Sling updating SlingPlayer Mobile for Windows Mobile, Nokia N95 8GB, UIQ; iPhone possible
Place-shifting TV programs never had it so good. Sling has announced that they’ll be releasing an updated version of their SlingPlayer for Windows Mobile devices this Spring. WinMo fans rocking a SlingBox at home and SlingPlayer Mobile on their handset can look forward to optimization for newer Windows Mobile devices (both touchscreen and non-touchscreen). Sling…
Nokia Xpress Music 5610 headed to T-Mobile
Well, look what the cat dragged in. A member of our favorite mobile phone forum that recently avoided getting shutdown has spotted the Nokia Xpress Music 5610 with T-Mobile branding. The branding is a good omen for fans of the 9.5mm thick Nokia musicphone on T-Mobile’s network. Launch and pricing information is not available, but…
Correction: Germany asks Nokia for $6.24 million NOT billion for research subsidies
Yesterday I told you Germany wanted $6.24 billion from Nokia, apparently CNN confused billions for millions, the real number is $6.24 million. [Correction: CNN Money]
S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 and Nokia N78 Review
Mobile-Review has just published the English versions of their S60 3.2 and Nokia N78 reviews, versus the Russian versions I shared with you earlier. One thing to note in 3.2 is the “Network Drive” feature which will let you connect a storage unit to your Feature Pack 2 device over the internet. Makes the Avvenu…
Germany wants a whopping $6.24 million from Nokia
Germany dislikes Nokia’s decision to close their factory in Bochum so much that they’re demanding the 4 billion Euros ($6.24 billion) that was given to the Finnish company for conducting 4 research projects around new antenna and wireless transmission technology. This is on top of the $92 million they asked for last week. [Via: CNN…
New Nokia N95 firmware coming; Flash Lite 3 and Widget support in the mix
Nokia hasn’t forgot the N95 owners and is preparing a major firmware update for the device. Aside from the standard stability and performance improvements, the new firmware also brings Flash Lite 3 and S60 Widgets (Web Runtime) support to the N95. And I thought N95’s lack of RAM was an obstacle? Kudos to Nokia. Once…
What if your next laptop had 0 MHz, 0 MB of RAM and 0 GB of storage space?
That Nokia noBounds video produced by the researchers at the Bochum facility really got my thinking about the huge possible range of devices that can come to market if this technology becomes a standard anyone can implement. Imagine a device that looks like a laptop, but in reality is just a screen with a keyboard.…
Adam Greenfield to be Nokia’s new Head of Design Direction
Adam Greenfield, author of Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing, will be moving to Helsinki in August and begin his new role as “Head of Design Direction with Nokia’s design staff, with a remit for the service and user interface domain.” I’ve been reading Adam’s blog since Charlie Schick pointed me to this particular…
noBounds: Nokia’s full 1080p30 video over the USB or WiFi inside your mobile device technology
noBounds! – blast Smartphones display bounds! from Bernd Steinke on Vimeo. Little information is given about how noBounds actually works, but we do know all that is required for it to work is a software update. The noBounds technology will let you connect a 1080p display via USB or WiFi to a mobile device, such…