With the market saying 'no' to Nokia's Ovi Store, what do you think can be done to change this?For all those about to find themselves sporting the Nokia 5800 handset (launched officially here in the UK on Friday), don’t panic.
MIR’s James Whatley has it via Twitter from ShoZu that their Nokia app will be live and downloadable in a few weeks time. They’re just tweaking the UI as a result of the 5800’s touchscreen.
Good news!
Another new Nokia hand set spotted at the event at the very same table as their current phone lineup.
Does this mean this musically inclined mobile will soon be on Orange?
Yes, we believe so.
Otherwise why would it be here, come on now Orange!
2+2=4 after all.
Posted via email from MIR Live
Nokia’s new mobile spotted at the event on a table that shows off their line up of handsets.
Are we to assume it’s coming to orange?
Yes.
Why wouldn’t it be??
It’s here, we can see it, it’s at an Orange event … it elementary dear Watson.
Posted via email from MIR Live
Samsung have snapped up elements of Scalado’s rather swish imaging software services that blew us away at the Symbian Smartphone Show the other week (see video1 and video2).
Here’s what the news release says:
Samsung Electronics has signed a contract with Scalado, the leader in mobile imaging software solutions, to licence and integrate Scalado SpeedTags™ technology into future mobile multi-megapixel SOC designs featuring 3 megapixels (MP) and above. Scalado’s technology will be included in Samsung’s image sensor modules in order to help manage the larger files produced by the high-resolution image sensor, thereby improving overall JPEG image handling performance significantly. The camera modules using the new technology will be used in mobile devices, such as camera phones and PDAs.
So watch out. Watch out for some brilliant, brilliant imaging services in upcoming Samsungs…
Quoting our Tech Contributor, Dan Lane, on the T-Mobile G1:
Every time I read something new about the G1 I want one even more… did you know it does Growl-like notifications?!
G1 excitement is building big time and we’ll be bringing you a first look at the retail version of the device toward the end of this week.
I can’t wait…
Who’s going to get one on Thursday?
I’m shortly publishing another 30 minute riot of joy featuring our Future of Web Apps conference coverage which includes a rather interesting normob walk-about and lots of shout-outs.
Plus we reveal the identity of this secret handset:
Did you guess it? I know one reader, John, guessed correctly. I didn’t moderate his comment for a few days to keep the suspense. All those emailing hoping it was the next generation Google Handset, I’m afraid not.
Standby for our first mid-week show — by popular demand — and because we published the awards video this Monday.
I sat down last night to edit the 6 hours worth of footage that I took at CTIA, together with Ben’s stuff from Beijing and James’ stuff from Helsinki. There’s a lot. A LOT. I recognised that I wouldn’t be able to finish the edit in one fell swoop.
So I took a break. The net result, standby for our piece-of-brilliance later this evening.
Android commentary coming
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008I’ve asked some executives from around the industry to give their perspective on the upcoming Android launch so I’ll be publishing them as I receive them.
If you’ve got a viewpoint — knock it into 200-400 words and mail it over to me at ewan@mobileindustryreview.com.
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