Remember that announcement about Skype being preloaded on the Nokia N-series from Mobile World Congress? Well, Orange and O2 aren’t too happy about the VoIP operator taking a bite from their voice revenues. Rumors are floating around that both carriers might pull their N97 stock should the Skype deal go through,and even pull other Nokia…
Nokia to make laptops?
It seems Nokia is considering to enter the laptop business. In a recent interview to Finnish national broadcaster, the company’s CEO, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, said that they are looking “very actively” at this opportunity. He went on adding, “We don’t have to look even for five years what we know as a mobile phone and what…
Solid Spyker Phones Appear
The renders of handsets from Dutch car manufacturer Spyker before Mobile World Congress didn’t quite pan out for the show, but a bevvy of pics have surfaced, dispelling any vaporware fears. Two sliders, a touchscreener and a traditional candybar phone are a part of this batch, all unnamed. All but the second slider use high-grade…
Verizon-bound Motorola Q9 Napoleon spotted in the wild!
The Motorola Napoleon, she lives after all! For those of you waiting on Verizon Wireless to finally get real with their globe-trotting Motorola Q9 Napoleon, you’re wait may soon be drawing to a close. While we still have yet to hear any solid release dates, this latest set of in-the-wild shots of the Motorola Napoleon,…
BlackBerry Storm Getting New Selection Tool?
RIM was really rolling the dice with the BlackBerry Storm’s clicking touchscreen, and has steep resistance in SurePress adoption. Even though the hardware is locked in, there’s still a lot they can do to improve the experience from the software end, including this update which makes selecting text a little more visible than the single…
Kindle 2 breakdown reveals vestigial SIM card slot!
Like our appendix or tail-bone, the Kindle 2 apparently shows signs of a vestigial SIM card slot that might allow it to roam wireless networks when abroad. iFixit, known for their unabashed tear-downs of the hottest Apple products, like the iPhone 3G, has taken to disassembling a Kindle 2 to see just what makes it…
New Safari 4 paving the way to faster iPhone Javascript performance?
With the release of Safari 4, Apple’s latest desktop web browser based on the Webkit rendering engine, there’s been a lot of talk about some new technology that boosts Javascript rendering times four-fold over the previous version of Safari. NitroBoost, as Apple calls it, is a new Javascript renderer built into the new Safari 4…
Three New Motorola Phones Surface, Late to the Party
Press pictures of three new Motorola sliders have floated up, just a little too late for Mobile World Congress. From left to right, we have the QA4 Halo with a 2.8″, 240 x 400 TFT touchscreen, and running on EV-DO (i.e. Sprint or Verizon release in the possible future). Next up is a luxury upgrade…
Location logging coming to iPhone 3G?
The iPhone 3G may soon be updated to allow it to use its GPS receiver and cell-tower triangulation algorithms to log the location of the handset throughout the day. If true, the iPhone 3G would be able to store location data (geo-tags) throughout the day and transfer those geo-tags to pictures in iPhoto. The apparent…
Why is Apple buying up the world’s NAND flash memory supply?
Apple feasts on NAND memory modules like no other tech company out there. With over $1.2 billion in NAND flash memory purchases for 2007, Apple has cemented its position as the largest buyer of NAND memory chips on the planet. With that kind of volume, Apple’s variable demand for cheap flash memory (which Apple uses…