Microsoft is making it a habit to surprise me when it comes to Windows Phones. After years of frustration with the power user-centric Windows Mobile OS, Microsoft managed to put out a viable, consumer-based smartphone operating system aimed at the general public. Indeed, the tile system used in the OS has proven popular enough that […]
Graduation is an exciting time for any student, and that goes for anyone graduating from high school, college, or even graduate school this year. New graduates need to have the edge wherever their next step will be, whether it’s in the business world or further into academia. An important component of this edge is a […]
Have any interest in Nokia’s new Windows Phone 7 bearing hotness, the Lumia 900? Maybe you’re interested, but not enough to smack down a hundred bucks? Good news for you. AT&T has decided to make the practically new handset free through April 21. This is with a mail-in rebate so it’s for a given value […]
You probably want to file this under “Solution in Search of a Problem” — Nokia has patented the bright idea for alert ink. The idea is to use ferromagnetic ink to create a tattoo that “pairs with your phone” and vibrates when you get an alert. For those not into body art, there’s also the […]
Day one of CES 2012 sure kicked off to a great start, especially with a bevy of new smartphones announced. Many of the major original equipment manufacturers, even Nokia, have come out with big announcements, though some of them seem a bit odd. Nevertheless, here is a breakdown of some of the more important announcements […]
Hold on a minute, Samsung, Nokia, and Motorola, don’t close up your feature phone shops just yet! While I respect the enthusiasm of Reuven’s Smartphone activation story, the truth is that the smartphone market still has a way to go before it even comes close to outnumbering standard feature phones. Yes, the activation numbers posted […]
Nokia, Nokia, Nokia, what have you been doing since 2007? How could the world’s largest premier smartphone manufacturer have fallen so far out of grace? What happened to the days of the N95, E90, and N70? Remember when everyone had Nokia phones on their belt holsters? Since the advent of the iPhone, Nokia has done […]
Chances are you’ve heard the Nokia ringtone before. Sampled from part of a Spanish guitar composition written in 1902, it has been the default ringtone on Nokia handsets for nearly 18 years. But handsets have changed since the Nokia 2110 of the early 90s. As polyphonic ringtones became standard, Nokia remixed their tune to take […]
The headlines exploded earlier today as Google announced its plans to purchase Motorola’s mobile phone division, Motorola Mobility, for $12.5 billion. The news is still sending shockwaves through the mobile tech industry, with many wondering what this all means and what the ramifications of it will be. First off all, this doesn’t mean that Google’s relationship with […]
