Electronics
Mystery Nokia slider shows off proto-Symbian^3 one last time, commits cellular suicide (video)
We never did quite get the name of Nokia’s prototype slider — it certainly isn’t the C7 , and it’s apparently not the N9 — but regardless of what you call our dearly departed, its journey is over . In what will no doubt be a fairly familiar tale to readers everywhere, TechnoBuffalo saw the phone remotely wiped right before their eyes, and Negri Electronics ( our original source ) says they’ve got private investigators breathing down their necks for the device
Did Nokia just confirm a MeeGo tablet?
We’ve heard the rumors, hell, we’ve even seen Intel reference designs (pictured) running the MeeGo OS. But now we seem to have confirmation that a proper MeeGo tablet built by Nokia is on the way. Anssi Vanjoki , Nokia’s newly crowned chief of Mobile Solutions, said the following in an interview captured by the Wall Street Journal : Due to the spread of cloud computing and new advances in electronics and network technology, mobile devices will increasingly move beyond smartphones to include other computer-like gadgets such as tablets, and the MeeGo platform will be an important asset for Nokia
Nokia N9, E7, C7, or whatever it’s called gets caught on video
The mechanism that opens and closes the articulated display is pretty neat — but otherwise, there isn’t much from Negri Electronics ‘ video of its mysteriously-obtained Nokia prototype that is likely to raise many eyebrows.
iPhone 4 antenna problems were predicted on June 10 by Danish professor
Well, this must be one of the most epic “I told you so” moments in the history of consumer electronics. Professor Gert Fr?lund Pedersen, an antenna expert over at Denmark’s Aalborg University, managed to get his concerns about the iPhone 4′s external antennae on the record a cool two weeks before the phone was even released. In an interview on June 10, the Danish brainbox explained that he wasn’t impressed by Steve Jobs’ promises of better reception, describing external antennas as “old news,” and suggested that contact with fleshlings could result in undesirable consequences to the handset’s reception: “The human tissue will in any event have an inhibitory effect on the antenna.
BlackBerry Curve 9300 prototype gets handled on video
BlackBerry lovers, are you sitting at home on a Friday night itching for the latest device scoop? Or out but glued to your screen checking news sites in between BBM relays
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
