If you like politics you are most likely critical of the media (all of it) for spinning the truth and “changing the narrative” about the facts. Sadly, this is happening in tech and especially close to home with Windows Mobile and Windows Pocket PC before that. We (Mobility Digest team) just got done discussing this … Read more
Kantar Worldpanel (a market research firm) has put out mobile operating system sales as a percentage of the whole for the 12 weeks ending March 15, 2012. In the US, we see Android keeping its top position, but barely, falling from 54.2 to 47.6. iOS jumped from 30.1. to 42.9. Win7 almost doubled its share … Read more
It’s a sad day for any tech company when changing the typeface for said company is considered “big news”. I would say Nokia’s original typeface, Nokia Sans, is quite recognizable in the world of mobile tech, so in that regard, changes to it are more relevant than from anyone else in this space. The new … Read more
I’m sure most of you have either gotten fed up or given up on minimizing the amount of time spent on my phone just so my battery would last all day. And I don’t mean an actual day, we’ve gotten accustomed to being happy with our phones when they survive a lowly workday. My Dell … Read more
Qt is the Symbian platform. The one that’s now headed towards death as Nokia moves to Windows Phone. And of course, Nokia and Microsoft have hopes that all of those Qt devs will becomes Windows Phone devs over the next year. Well, Necessitas from BogDan would allow you to package Qt apps and deploy them … Read more
I don’t want to make this into a review like you’ve read so many times over on every other site. I don’t want to bash or defend the lack of multi-tasking, cut and paste, facebook/twitter integration, long load times, lack of apps compared to other platforms, etc. While these are all important issues, I think … Read more
Ok, I know they are Nokias. I can read. But they are FREE!!! Sell the darn thing for some spare cash! They aren’t worthless, just useless(I jest, they are only very unproductive). If you like freebies, basically you tell Nokia “which Ovi Store app you find most useful” and they’ll reward the “best answer” with … Read more
When I joined the Mobility Digest team a few months back I was sole Symbian user here. I have since abandoned my Nokia N97 in favor of an old iPhone 2G. This is due to how much I hate Symbian and not any particular love for Apple. For the record, I didn’t go out and … Read more
People just love to compare screens don’t they? Here’s one of a normal AMOLED(Nokia N8) pitted against a SuperAMOLED(Samsung Omnia HD) and a standard LCD(Motorola Milestone). The LCD clearly has the worse viewing angles of the three. You can make up your own minds about which is ultimately the best. However I think comparing SuperAMOLED … Read more
Eldar Murtazin claims he does not currently have, nor ever had Nokia’s N8 prototype phone which Nokia claims he has. Video at DailyMobile.se