BlackBerry Style 9670′s UI demoed in leaked official videos
RIM has yet to officially announce the upcoming Style 9670 flip, but the leakfest continues today with a handful of new videos -- professionally-produced ones this time -- that show off key features of the UI and how to use them. Unlike the Torch , the Style lacks a touchscreen -- it just wouldn't be prudent in a clamshell form factor -- which means we're seeing just what it's like to navigate the finer points of BlackBerry 6's user interface with an optical pad (and secondary display) alone on a larger, portrait-oriented display.
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: berry-style, blackberry6, certain-well, entry, handful, leak, series, touchscreen, upcoming
Nokia X3-02 Touch and Type puts a touchscreen on your Series 40 featurephone
Nokia has just revealed its X3-02 handset, which does the unthinkable and marries a relatively standard 16-button keypad with a 2.4-inch QVGA touchscreen. Now, we might have our reservations about Nokia's S40 OS being able to translate to a touch-friendly UI , but the beauty of this phone is that touch comes as essentially a free extra rather than the fundamental navigation paradigm. It's augmented with 3G, 802.11n WiFi, and Bluetooth 2.1 connectivity, and the whole thing is wrapped within a 9.6mm-thin brushed aluminum shell
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: 802.11n, aluminum, bluetooth, entry, nokia, phone, s40, series, the-fundamental, touch and type, unthinkable, wifi, x3-02
Inexplicable rise in iPhone dev’s App Store sales connected to iTunes account hacks?
We've received a handful of tips this morning claiming something's rotten in the state of the iTunes App Store , namely via the Book category. As of this writing, 42 of the top 50 books by revenue are from the seller Thuat Nguyen, whose company website ("mycompany") leads to parked site www.home.com.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: appleitunes, breaking-news, category, charts, sales-connected, scope, series, thuat-nguyen
Nokia: the fight begins now, Symbian^4 N-Series device later
Nokia's newly appointed Mobile Solutions chief , Anssi Vanjoki, has penned an impassioned post over at Nokia Conversations today where he sets out his perspective on the company's current position and future challenges. Describing the Finnish phone maker as "a challenger now," rather than an incumbent, Vanjoki wants to introduce a "laser focus on quality," with his two central aims being to reclaim Nokia's reputation for high-end devices and to re-energize a flagging fan base. He specifically namedrops Ricky Cadden -- who yesterday shut down Symbian-Guru because he'd lost faith with the company -- and clearly considers grassroots support like that an important aspect of how Nokia's success will be judged
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: anssi vanjoki, computers, focus, hardware-under, mobile, mobile solutions, newly-appointed, nokia, plans, series, smartphone, solutions, symbian, vanjoki
Nokia N9 (or something) in the wild: 8 megapixel camera, American 3G?
We told you, didn't we ? Whether you want to call this the N98, the N900's successor, or the N8 plus QWERTY, what you're looking at above is potentially the visage of Nokia's next smartphone
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: entry, imager, meego, megapixel, n900, negri, nokia, series, slider, some-straight, symbian
Nokia N8 to be final Symbian N Series device, all MeeGo from here on out
Whoa. Nokia's premier range of devices, the N Series, will bid adieu to the Symbian operating environment and go MeeGo full time after the introduction of the N8
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: entry, finnish, hierarchy, meego, modernization, nokia, nokian8, series, symbian
RIM’s Mike Lazaridis issues report from Bizarro World, says touchscreen devices like the iPhone ‘aren’t that popular,’ forgets he made the Storm
Both of RIM's co-CEOs have reputations for being pretty opinionated dudes, and we feel like Mike Lazaridis in particular would go to the ends of the Earth to support BlackBerry's business model -- but at the cost of one of his own products? Speaking at a tech conference in Toronto today, Lazaridis apparently said that the long-term viability of the tablet market ( iPad included) is in doubt, especially as smartphones get more powerful; that would probably serve to quash the rumors from a few days back that the company is working on its own large-display device for release later this year. More interestingly, though, were his comments that full touchscreen phones like the iPhone "aren't that popular" -- that's news to us -- and that many that end up buying them ultimately go back to a physical keyboard handset.
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: bizarro-world, black, dudes, endless, entry, full touch, lazaridis, like-the-iphone, mikelazaridis, series, touch-phones, touchscreen, viability, working-on-its
Windows Phone 7 Series multitasking: the real deal
We've definitely learned a ton about Windows Phone 7 Series here at MIX , but getting the full picture on multitasking has been difficult, since the OS isn't ready, no one has final hardware, and the emulator seems to behave differently than actual devices and Microsoft's descriptions. So let's set the record straight on multitasking: it's not going to happen, at least not in the traditional way. Not only have we directly confirmed this with Microsoft executives several times, but the developer sessions here are totally clear on the matter -- you don't tell 1000+ devs that they should expect their apps to be killed whenever the user switches away from them if you don't mean it
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: ADDITIONAL, apps, emulator, entry, executives, microsoft, resources, riff-on-android, series, ships, the-background, times, traditional, windows, zune
Three Windows Phone 7 Series devices, all in a row
Well, there they are, the only three confirmed Windows Phone 7 Series prototype devices that currently exist.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: asus, check-out-some, debuted-today, engadget, handset, mix, mix10, mwc, prototypes, result, series, three-windows, windowsphone
Windows Phone 7 Series will be WVGA only at launch, HVGA later
Microsoft's driving home the point that developers are going to know exactly what kind of hardware they're targeting as they whip up Windows Phone 7 Series apps -- and naturally, a biggie is screen resolution since that affects how UI elements are going to be placed, how cool they can look, and how small they can realistically be. In a session at MIX10 , Microsoft's Charlie Kindel has laid down the law that WP7S will be 800 x 480 -- just 800 x 480 -- at launch, a message we heard at MWC last month , but the new tidbit here is that there'll be 480 x 320 in the pipe for an unannounced later date. All devices will have precisely the same amount of available RAM and the same capacitive touch capability, and as we've already know, manufacturers will be able to tack on a keyboard if they like
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: already-know, biggie, charlie-kindel, developers, driving-home, engadget, entry, kindel, microsoft, same-capacitive, series, windows, windows phone 7 series