Yes, that’s a woman with a dog in a Baby Björn throwing prototype Nokias
So here's how the story goes: employees at Nokia facilities in Oulu and Tampere, Finland, were fed up with negotiations being held between their representatives and the company over planned layoffs , and decided to do something about it. But really, why strike or organize a rally when you can just socialize, use a few prototype devices for target practice, and get your Cavalier King Charles spaniel some fresh air at the same time
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: cavalier-king, competition, devices, engadget, entry, nokia, phone toss, representatives, result, tampere, weird
Sprint TV brodcasting 30 college bowl games, including entire BCS
Quick: can you name 30 college football bowl games? Well, if you keep your face glued to your Sprint phone's screen for the next couple weeks, you'll be able to, thanks largely to the partnership Sprint inked with ESPN earlier this ear to bring ESPN Mobile TV to its devices. You'll be able to get to the games on your phone through either Sprint TV or the dedicated Sprint Football Live app, which are available on "most" models in Sprint's lineup and cost you nothing as long as you're signed up for unlimited data
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: being-televised, bowls, dedicated, espnmobiletv, football-live, games, inked, models, partnership, sprint, sprint tv, the-partnership, weeks
Does Peek’s future lay in low-powered feature phones, emerging markets?
The overriding philosophy at Peek is "keep it simple," and we have to agree that as these things go, this is a pretty sound principle (even if we don't necessarily have much use for dedicated Twitter hardware ). If the big payoff for the company isn't in the gadget-addicted states, it's been a good start: the company has sold some 50,000 units in two years while developing the back-end technology that CEO Amol Sarva believes can supply cheap, low-powered feature phones and other devices for emerging markets -- devices that could retail for as little as $50. "This is a huge opportunity for us," Sarva told GigaOm .
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: amol, ceo, dedicated, emergingmarkets, gadget, result, sound, suddenly-being
Yamaha InfoSound prototype talks to your phone as you zone out during TV commercials
Of all the things that the ol' boob tube does well, directing viewers to advertiser's websites is not one of them.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: advertising, choose-between, Double, high-bandwidth, infosound, jiffy, khz, prototype, saturday, smartphone, television, tvs, yamaha-info
Palm Pre 2 lands on Rogers today, $99 on three-year contract
Beating out Verizon , Canada's Rogers becomes the first carrier in North America to pick up the Pre 2 today, hawking it for CAD $99 -- about $97 -- as long as you're willing to put your name down for a new three-year contract with a qualifying voice and data plan. Since Rogers runs HSPA on 850 and 1900MHz, you can bet this is pretty much the same phone Palm is offering unlocked in the States for $450; you're just paying a little less upfront and a whole lot more over time. Six of one, half-dozen of the other, as they say
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: Lot, north, rogers, since-rogers, upfront, verizon, webos
Verizon outs Mobile Email 4.0: true push and Exchange support for dumbphones
We imagine that the lion's share of people that need Exchange email access are getting it on a BlackBerry or some other manner of smartphone, but Verizon's covering all its bases here today with the release of Mobile Email 4.0, a dumbphone-compatible release that lets even some of the cheapest handsets in Big Red's lineup (the Octane , Cosmos Touch , and Zeal are specifically called out) in on the corporate action. Besides Exchange support, the release includes a "true push experience," an all-new UI, and Outlook calendar synchronization -- the perfect companion to Exchange email compatibility. It's available now for free if you're on a data plan of at least $15 a month, or for $5 a month with a pay-as-you-go data option.
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: BlackBerry, compatibility, cosmos touch, entry, exchange, lion, mobile, outlook, release, result, smartphone, verizon, vzw
Motorola’s ‘Tablet Evolution’ video teases some Honeycomb at CES
It's on, suckers. Motorola just sent us this "Tablet Evolution" teaser video for their CES 2011 announcements, and it doesn't mince any words -- it calls the iPad a "giant iPhone" and says the Samsung Galaxy Tab is running Android "for a phone" before closing out with a buzzing bee over that new red Motorola logo . That certainly suggests some Honeycomb action to us -- and it fits perfectly with Andy Rubin demonstrating the next-gen version of Android on a Motorola tablet back at D: Dive Into Mobile.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: before-closing, calls-the-ipad, Evolution, honeycomb, logo, result, Teaser, teaser-video, video
Verizon teases Android LTE hardware for January 6th at CES
Notice how we said "hardware," not "phones?" In light of that wild Motorola teaser we just saw and the fact that we know Verizon and Moto are working pretty closely on Android tablets , it's entirely possible that phones won't be the only items on Verizon's docket when it starts pulling the covers off its first consumer-oriented LTE gear at CES in a couple weeks. The fact that there'll be new LTE hardware intros from Verizon at CES is nothing new -- they've been saying as much for a while now -- but the specific mention of Android is a comforting confirmation that we'll probably see the HTC Mecha , that unnamed LG , and perhaps a tablet or two on hand as opposed to MetroPCS' unusual strategy of taking the dumbphone route .
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: ces, couple, engadget, hardware-intros, htc, tablet-or-two, verizon, verizon-at-ces
Samsung’s Bada 2.0 to move to ‘web-centric’ apps, getting ad framework and multitasking
We're still hesitant to call Bada a "smartphone platform" in the same breath as Android and iOS -- but despite our best attempts to write it off, Samsung's homegrown handset platform keeps chugging and expanding to new hardware.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: bada, bada 2.0, developer-event, entry, handset, korea, rumor, samsung, south-korea, web
iPhone 4 hits new low of $147 on contract at Sam’s Club this week
Radio Shack's $149 price for the 16GB iPhone 4 just got undercut by a whole two bucks. We've been tipped off to Sam's Club now offering the AT&T-locked device for a $147 fee, subject to the usual two-year agreement.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: apple, been-tipped, emulating-its, iphone, radio shack, rumor, samsclub, usual, week