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Maps on Ovi promises to span the phone-PC navigation bridge {Engadget Mobile}
May 15th 2008 7:18PM "Perhaps sensing the trend toward connected, social navigation devices and services..."
Sensing a trend? Nokia have just bought NavTeq for $4 billion and are planning on shipping over 35 million GPS phones this year alone. They've even stated publicly that they're going head to head with Google on mapping services (http://mobilementalism.com/2008/05/15/nokia-google-is-our-competitor/).
I think this is a bit more than just sensing a trend!
VK goes belly-up {Engadget Mobile}
Jul 8th 2006 5:57PM VK Mobile: From topless women (http://mobilementalism.com/2006/03/10/cebit-2006-vk-mobile-launch-naked-women/) to tits-up in just 4 short months. RIP.
Never could understand Helio's approach with VK Mobile and Pantech phones, though. They claimed they wanted to bring big-featured Korean phones to the US, but the KickFlip and Hero were hardly that. Besides, all Samsung and LG had to do was to release one of their behemoths in the US, and it's game over!
And that's just what Samsung seems to have done with its new SCH-a990 3.2 megapixeller being released on Verizon. A phone with better specs than either the KickFlip or the Hero, now on sale in the US. Where next, Helio?
CKT's sporty yet boring 6689 {Engadget Mobile}
Jul 4th 2006 7:50PM "We really hope there isn't something you find to be positively irresistible about this phone"
How about the 'Menstrual' application it comes with?!
http://mobilementalism.com/2006/07/05/ckt-6689-offers-more-to-women-than-pink/
Motorola Pink SLVR Phone {Luxist}
Apr 27th 2006 6:31PM Yes, this is a very bad shade of pink, but there are worse (I'm thinking Siemens' CL75 Poppy!). Some phones look good in pink, but most look they've just been painted pink as an after-thought. Check out this list of the latest pink phones to see what I mean:
http://mobilementalism.com/2006/04/27/ten-top-pink-phones/
Samsung drops P300 Card Phone in Korea as SCH-V870 {Engadget Mobile}
Apr 11th 2006 7:21PM Samsung have gone one better than this (don't they always?!) They've just announced the X828, which is, they claim, the world's smallest mobile phone - only 6.9mm thin! That's half the thickness of a RAZR.
http://mobilementalism.com/2006/04/11/samsung-claims-the-worlds-thinnest-phone/
Virgin Mobile launches Switch_Back QWERTY phone {Engadget Mobile}
Apr 11th 2006 7:17PM As another Virgin Mobile customer, this must be the ugliest phone in the world! Can't see how looking at different pictures of this phone help either (e.g. http://mobilementalism.com/2006/04/11/have-virgin-released-the-worlds-ugliest-mobile-phone/)
Maybe it's blessed with great personality!
Disney Mobile reveals more deets, adds LG DM-L200 {Engadget Mobile}
Apr 6th 2006 8:09PM Rumour has it Disney will be making Happy Slappy the eighth Dwarf in a new remake of Snow White.
http://mobilementalism.com/2006/04/07/ctia-2006-disney-makes-happy-slappy-the-eighth-dwarf/
BenQ confirms iPhone? {Engadget Mobile}
Mar 22nd 2006 7:48PM Apple have no choice but to release an iPhone if they want to continue in the consumer electronics market. Nokia's recent rumblings about how they destroyed the photo industry, and how their sights are now firmly on the music device market, can be seen as a clear shot across Apple's bows.
If Apple don't release an iPhone soon, the iPod's days are numbered.
You can read more on Apple and Nokia's forthcoming war here:
http://mobilementalism.com/2006/03/23/nokia-challenges-apple-iphone-now-or-die/
Analyzing the Morgan Stanley Apple analysis {Engadget}
Mar 22nd 2006 6:46PM I don't think Apple have any choice but to release an iPhone. Nokia have ominously reminded the world how they helped kill the photo industry, and now firmly aim to kill the music device and video camera industries. In other words, in just a few short years, your stand-alone iPod will be as quaint as a personal CD player is today.
Full story here:
http://mobilementalism.com/2006/03/23/nokia-challenges-apple-iphone-now-or-die/
Live from CeBIT: Hands on on with Parrot's Bluetooth Sound System {Engadget}
Mar 13th 2006 5:32PM I love this idea for Bluetooth - turns your mobile phone into a remote control, but with the content stored inside it.
I also love the Google Ads that appear for the keywords "parrot": Bird Diaper Flight Suit anyone?!
