New Palm Nova OS to be unveiled at CES 2009
Palm, as a company, seems like it’s in the verge of a meltdown. While other smartphone platforms are flourishing, and subsequently raking in the big bucks (or if not, then at least surviving), Palm has experienced significant losses. There hasn’t been one innovation on Palm’s front in years, and many suspect there may be no [...]
Mobile Firefox for Symbian in the works, planned completion in 2009
How long do you think you’ll have to wait until you finally see a version of Mobile Firefox (or Fennec) running on your beloved Symbian device? 1 month? 1 year? Nope, the Mobile Firefox team is already working on it with Engineers from Symbian, and together they plan to finish the project by April 2009.
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iPhone app review: Vlingo
In a sea of 10,000 iPhone apps available for download in the App Store, a few truly stand out above the rest. My goal in this review is to find out if Vlingo, released last week, is one of those star performers.
Vlingo is a voice-activation service that not only enables the user to voice dial [...]
India to hold 3G spectrum action on January 2009
As earlier hinted, India is going to auction off licenses to its 3G spectrum starting mid-January in 2009. This will open the door to new players in the Indian wireless industry, and it will be held on January 15th, 2009, according to a report from the AP.
20.20 billion rupees remains as the reserve price for [...]
Nokia to get into USB modem dongle business in early 2009
The market for 3G USB modems is fast growing, and Nokia isn’t about to let market leader Huawei take home all of the benefits. Though it should be working closely on its Symbian Foundation OS for smartphones and the ultimate iPhone killer, Nokia has announced its plans to enter the dongle business early next year.
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Apple claims iPhone is a “gaming console” and “console experience”
Apple owns the iPhone, so they can pretty much say whatever they want to say about it. They say that the iPhone 3G is twice as fast, at half the price of the original, but we all know the truth. That it’s only barely faster most of the time, and actually more expensive in the [...]
Qualcomm and BlackBerry heading for Korea now that WIPI’s gone
With that pesky WIPI mandate rightfully out of the way, Qualcomm Brew is making a comeback, while RIM will make an entry into South Korea’s mobile space.
Qualcomm Brew has been absent for a while from South Korea because of the Wireless Internet Platform Interoperability mandate. Brew is Qualcomm’s mobile platform for mass produced mobile phones, [...]
Virgin Mobile’s “Texts into Space” service will send your texts into space
Powerful messages can live on forever. Cavemen did it with rocks and cave drawings. Now Virgin Mobile wants us to do it through space. Outer space, that is.
Virgin Mobile is boldly going where no carrier has gone before, and has just officially announced the launch of its “Texts into Space” service. This new service lets [...]
Google Maps with Street View now available on Nokia S60 and Windows Mobile phones
The iPhone has it. And so do BlackBerry smartphones. But now, Google has officially announced the availability of Google Maps with Street View for Nokia S60 and Windows Mobile phones.
This is in line with the Google Street View Team’s recent international escapades to take photos of places in France, Italy, Spain, and Australia. Nokia S60 [...]
Hackers crack Nokia “Comes With Music” DRM
And here Nokia thought it had a good thing going with its subscription-based music service, “Comes with Music.” Don’t people already know by now that DRM just ain’t exactly what the doctor ordered?
Nokia’s “Comes with Music” service offers a year’s worth of unlimited music downloads to users, but all songs come wrapped in DRM, which [...]