Qik integrates deeply into myTouch 4G’s hardware, Android contact book
Surely you've heard of Qik by now, right? It's most closely linked to Sprint's EVO 4G , but it looks as if the video calling service is now siding with another "4G" carrier: T-Mobile USA
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: conversations, froyo, gloves, hspa, newfangled, rates, sprint, video, video calling, video chat
Nokia muses on grip styles, says you can hold your phone ‘any way you like’
If there's one company in the world who knows more about gripping phones than anyone else, it's Nokia -- you know, the creator and sole proprietor of sidetalkin' . So on that note, you might want to sit up and pay attention to this little piece over on Nokia Conversations detailing four popular grip styles that won't kill your signal, including the four-edge -- a work of art that we've attempted to demonstrate for you with limited success in the picture above. We totally buy the claim that this particular grip causes zero signal degradation in virtually any cellphone ever launched (the curious stares you get are just a bonus), but Nokia goes on to boast that "realistically, you're free to hold your Nokia device any way you like...
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: art, conversations, detailing-four, engadget, Grip, loss, muses-on-grip, nokia, phenomenon, phone, phone-antennas, signal, stares
Nokia says leaked N8 has early software, shouldn’t be reviewed
It looks like Nokia isn't too happy that its big N8 / Symbian^3 reveal this morning was tarnished by Eldar Murtazin's harsh preview of the device and OS a few days ago: in a new Conversations blog post, the company says that Eldar's "salacious headlines" masked the fact that he was looking at a "very early, pre-production prototype with dated software that is not yet ready," and that it only ships products that are "refined, tested, re-tested, evaluated, [and] tested again." Now, Eldar says the devices he examined had the very latest hardware and software, so it's a bit of a he-said-she-said at this point, but there's no denying that Nokia's definitely shipped some not-quite-ready-for-prime-time devices lately -- the N900 and Maemo 5 shipped in pretty roughed-out form , and the company itself has said the N97 was a "tremendous disappointment." How that recent history reflects on Symbian^3 and the N8 remains to be seen, but it's clear that Nokia's feeling pretty defensive about things; Eldar's been scooping Espoo's gear for years now and the company's never made a peep about it. Either that, or someone at Nokia is just trying to cash in on all this iPhone 4 drama by saying things like "we want our prototype back" and "we are not the Secret Police, and we want to maintain our culture of openness," but come on -- that would be a pretty crass publicity stunt, right? We want to believe.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: conversations, devices, leak, nokia, prototype, publicity
Exclusive: Android Froyo to take a serious shot at stemming platform fragmentation
We had a couple people at CTIA last week -- people whose words carry weight -- tell us off the record that the next major version of Android would take big strides toward stopping the ugly trend toward severe fragmentation that has plagued the platform for much of this and last year. You know, the kind of fragmentation that has already left users running not one, not two, not three, but four distinct versions of the little green guy (1.5, 1.6, 2.0, and 2.1) depending on a seemingly arbitrary formula of hardware, carrier, region, software customization, and manufacturers' ability to push updates in a timely fashion. Put simply, Google's been iterating the core far faster than most of its partners have been able to keep up.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: conversations, core, ctia, Customization, distinct, elements, exclusive, fashion, froyo, gingerbread, green, market, pace-on-android, platform, time
Nokia hints at augmented reality Maps and 3D smartphones in its future (video)
You know what happens when we see a video pop on Nokia Conversations (Nokia's official blog) featuring a senior VP from Nokia's smartphone division? Everything stops -- who knows what might be revealed during an informal, semi-scripted chat.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: augmentedreality, conversations, dives, entry, future, maps, means-content, nokia, smartphones, video
Nokia X6 16GB announced, Comes Without Music
Nokia's just announced a 16GB version of its crowd pleasing, capacitive touchscreen X6 to compliment the current 32GB model .
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: conversations, handset-offers, nokia, out-sometime, quarter, spore, symbian
BBC – The Life and Death of a Mobile Phone (2009) [Eng Sub …
BBC - The Life and Death of a Mobile Phone (2009) Eng Sub Language: English | 28mn | XviD | 704x400 | 1537kbps | 25fps | AC3 | 256kbps | 373 MB Genre: Documentary Through the life cycle of o.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other, PS2 Tags: conversations, forum-posts, Mobile Phone, modern, movies, phone, PS2, windows
Geithner has frequent contact with Wall Street firms | Gold Anti …
At other times, Mr. Geithner has picked up the phone first. The details of the conversations, which took place between January and July, aren't known.
Categories: Other, Phone Street Tags: america, article, black, conversations, daily, freedom, gold-rush-21, government, phone, press, street, street-journal, treasury