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Apple behind removal of Hottest Girls iPhone app after all {Engadget Mobile}
Jun 28th 2009 7:28PM Justin must be white.
Palm responds to iTunes / Pre statement, defiant and unfazed {Engadget Mobile}
Jun 18th 2009 12:57PM Politics aside, the way that the Palm Pre misrepresents itself as an iPod is from a technical standpoint a very poor, shortsighted design. The way the iPod interacts with iTunes is not a published specification (unlike, say, the API that Nokia Multimedia Transfer relies on to interact with iTunes) - and so to rely on it is bound to backfire sooner or later.
It's a little bit like the various Office suites out there (iWork, anyone?) that claim Microsoft Office compatibility - while in the real world it is incomplete, buggy and only effective until Microsoft releases the next version of Office.
A published specification is a binding contract. Anything short of that is off limits - trying to reverse engineer formats and protocols is very, very hacky.
Nokia's N86 8MP now shipping worldwide {Engadget Mobile}
Jun 11th 2009 4:48AM I am guessing you have not used a very recent Symbian phone (e.g. S60 v3, feature pack 2, as found in the N85, N96..) IMO there is nothing "antiquated" about it (bar from the fact that this particular version of the OS does not cater to the "touch screen" fad - though S60v5 does).
As far as switching OS: First, there is the issue of the thousands of third party applications that have been written for Symbian/S60 - spanning a much wider variety in terms of capabilities and utility than what's available for e.g. the iPhone (iFart, anyone?). Why give up on this ecosystem, unless it serves a purpose?
Second, Nokia ARE actually coming out with some Linux-based touch screen phones in 2010 - starting with the the N900 for T-Mobile. It builds on their Maemo platform (as seen in their internet tablets, 770, N800, N810) - and so there are already quite a set of third party applications available. In fact, since Maemo is based on Debian GNU/Linux, there are plenty of folks that have replaced various aspects of the OS (incl. the UI) with "standard" Linux equivalents (e.g. Gnome).
Android is not really a Smartphone platform, since it does not have a native application platform. As a matter of fact, it does not do multitasking (certainly not to the degree that Symbian does) -- but then again, that's also true for the iPhone (which for some reason is also called a "smartphone" - go figure).
Video: Latest Palm Pre ad makes poppies seem brutish {Engadget}
Jun 4th 2009 1:49AM @rocknrolla
Not until it becomes the Palm Post.
Nokia N97 coming to the UK on June 19 {Engadget Mobile}
Jun 3rd 2009 2:49AM If you mainly want to use the phone in the USA, you want the NAM version, not the one you get in Europe.
The main difference is what UMTS (3G) bands it supports. The International version supports 900/1900/2100 MHz, whereas the NAM (North American) version supports 850/1900/2100 MHz. AT&T Wireless uses 850 and 1900 MHz for their UMTS (3G) coverage, with a trend towards pushing more over on the 850 MHz band. Internationally, 2100 MHz is most common (also in Europe), whereas the 900 MHz has only very recently been added/introduced in some European countries.
Someone mentioned something about "tri-band" and "quad-band" -- those are entirely useless terms these days. They pertain to GSM (2G) frequencies; most, if not all smartphones these days are "quad-band" in this respect. (Again, the issue is that North American networks don't use the standard frequencies deployed internationally).
FWIW, none of these phones will give you 3G coverage with T-Mobile USA - they use an entirely different band, 1700 MHz. Also, they won't work with other U.S. carriers such as Verizon, Sprint, Nextel, US Cellular, Alltel, MetroPCS, etc - since these use different technologies altogether (CMDA, iDEN, etc). So, mainly, the N97 NAM is a phone that's optimized for AT&T.
Screen Grabs: Robyn cozies up to robot, Nokia N97 in Röyksopp video {Engadget Mobile}
May 26th 2009 2:24PM Woops... s/2003/2001/g
Screen Grabs: Robyn cozies up to robot, Nokia N97 in Röyksopp video {Engadget Mobile}
May 26th 2009 2:22PM Neat. Though in honesty, I was a little disappointed in the direction that Röyksopp has taken their music...
The irony is that Apple used their 2003 song "Eple" (Apple) as the intro sound in Mac OS X 10.3.
Microsoft: 'June 2009 will be an important month for Zune lovers... hold off from buying an iPhone/Pre' Update: It's a hoax {Engadget Mobile}
May 12th 2009 1:32PM @EV-D'OH,
I think those comments were meant to hint that this will have phone capabilities.
Sort of Steve Ballmer showing that he, too, can be cool (not just obnoxious) by making a device that has BOTH phone AND music capabilities! (Imagine that!)
Microsoft: 'June 2009 will be an important month for Zune lovers... hold off from buying an iPhone/Pre' Update: It's a hoax {Engadget Mobile}
May 12th 2009 5:15AM Hold off pre-ordering the N97, too??
Too late... I just did. Woopsie. :)
Nokia, cheesiness featured in new Star Trek movie {Engadget Mobile}
May 11th 2009 4:26PM Nokia the Communications/Cell phone company has not been around for that long; more like late 60s, early 70s.
There have been other "Nokia" companies though, all of which started in the town of Nokia, Finland. One produced toilet paper, rubber boots for the Russian army, etc.
