Posts Tagged ‘london’

Filed under: Others , Casio The big rumor out of Japan today has NEC locked in heated negotiations with existing joint venture Casio Hitachi Mobile Communications to add itself into the mix -- a JV that's currently a 51 / 49 percent ownership split between Casio and Hitachi , respectively -- with NEC wanting to pick up a total of 50 percent of the ... Full story

Filed under: Handsets , Motorola , Verizon Wireless , EV-DO , CDMA Seems like it was just yesterday that the W755 launched, doesn't it? Actually, no it doesn't -- it was a good fifteen months ago -- so it makes sense that Verizon would have a replacement all queued up and ready to go. The W766 has apparently graduated to the point of coolness ... Full story

Filed under: Vodafone , HSDPA , UMTS HSPA+ is the ultimate in pre- LTE wireless standards -- but before Vodafone UK gets there, it wants to take plain ol' HSPA just as far as it'll go by pushing downlink speeds all the way to 14.4Mbps. Great Britain's largest operator has announced that it has already flipped the switch on 14.4 in parts of London, ... Full story

Filed under: Handsets , Software , Apple , iPhone OS Augmented reality applications to this point could be best categorized as tantalizing to the mind, but otherwise pointless . Thankfully, it seems as if that's no longer the case. AcrossAir, a nascent app builder for the iPhone, has conjured up a slickly executed digital guidance application that augments video with real-time distance and directions ... Full story

Filed under: Culture , Software , Apple , iPhone OS You know, we might be inclined to disbelieve this exciting tale of derring-do if it weren't for the highly improbably heroics and ingenuity displayed by its three protagonists -- you just can't make this stuff up. Probably. Kevin, Ryan and Mark were in Chicago minding their own nerdness out at Brickworld when Kevin left ... Full story

Filed under: Handsets , Apple , Accessories If you're anything at all like us, you were just a tad disappointed by the color "options" of Apple's newest foray into the world of mobile phones, the iPhone 3GS . After all, who wants to be limited to just black and white these days? Not us, that's for sure -- and ColorWare's just announced a fix ... Full story

Filed under: Multimedia , Software , Android Qik , the live mobile video streaming service pioneered on S60 , has always set out to tackle as many phones and platforms as it possibly could -- and the latest to get hooked up today is Android , which means you can push video to the world anywhere you've got a T-Mobile signal on that G1 ... Full story

Filed under: Games , Software , Nokia , Symbian Quick, what's easier to find: an E52 or a game that'll run on it? You'd think this is an egregious case of putting the cart before the horse, but you've got to give the N-Gage team credit for being well-prepared -- they're already listing Nokia's new mega-thin business candybar as being compatible with the service. ... Full story

Filed under: LG , EV-DO , CDMA , LTE We're not sure what the LG M13 is, exactly, but we can tell you one very important thing about the mysterious device: it's awesome. We know this because the FCC has revealed some limited documentation about the recent approval, which is where we find out that it's a "Cellular / PCS CDMA / EvDO and ... Full story

Filed under: Handsets , HTC , T-Mobile , Android Can't wait until July to check out every nook and cranny of T-Mobile 's version of the Ion / Magic ? A couple of tipsters, including one anonymously, have lent us a hand in that department with pictures of an apparent myTouch 3G unboxing, as well as an entire user guide dating back to May ... Full story

Filed under: Handsets , HTC , Android We'd already pretty much figured that HTC's London event tomorrow would have something to do with Android -- the invite for the shindig playfully teases us with a rose in the picture, after all, which is probably a reference to HTC's Rosie UI that's been circulating in leaked ROM form for a while now. Indeed, Pocket-lint points ... Full story

Filed under: Handsets , HTC , GSM , HSDPA , UMTS , HSUPA We're unfortunately light on details here, but The Unwired is reporting that HTC's Hero has been approved by the Global Certification Forum, listed here as "HERO100," with support for quadband GSM/GPRS/EDGE and dualband UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA at 1800/2100 MHz. With the company's touted London event just around the corner -- this Wednesday , ... Full story

Filed under: Multimedia , Nokia After hearing initial reports that Nokia's Comes With Music subscription service was doing "okay," word on the streets is now... even less good. According to estimates released by Music Ally at an Association of Independent Music conference in London, Nokia's gotten about 23,000 subscribers to the service since it launched last October Full story

Starting today and running through the 25th, A temporary bar dubbed " Alcoholic Architecture " is popping up in London offering a cloud of breathable gin and tonic to it's patrons. The brainchild of culinary adventurers Sam Bompas and Harry Parr, Alcoholic Architecture creates a intoxicating vapor using the same ultrasonic humidifier system found in Antony Gormley's installation at the Hayward in 2007 called ... Full story

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Filed under: Cell Phones Most of us have embarrassingly pocket-dialed someone before, and some have even accidentally hit the emergency call button on our cell phones, but a Peoria, Arizona teenager allegedly took dialing mishaps, and stupidity, to a whole new level last week. The 16-year-old delinquent apparently broke into a car, boosted its stereo and a Cricket cell phone, and then met up ... Full story

Filed under: Cell Phones If you are addicted to your 'CrackBerry,' or just generally love being plugged-in at all times, you may want to tone it down a bit on your next trip to India . India's upper house of parliament, the Rajya Sabha, has witnessed an explosion of cell phone use in the country (277 million users to date) and they are not ... Full story