To: Nokia CEO Stephen Elop Re: Nokia’s turnaround Dear Stephen: It’s clear from your “burning platform” memo–where you compared Nokia to a man on an oil platform in the North Sea who wakes to explosions and fire, but who survives after choosing to leap into the icy sea–that you’re upset. And I don’t blame you. …
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Nokia’s CEO Stephen Elop is reportedly preparing for a major shake-up at the company as he searches for a way to save the once mighty cell phone brand. Nokia CEO Stephen Elop Nokia Elop is expected to unveil a new strategy for turning around the company at its investors’ conference in London on Friday. Nokia has been slipping in terms …
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We’ve all been there: you’re at your friend’s place and your BlackBerry runs out of juice. For some unfathomable reason, your friend hasn’t read our extensive coverage of mobile phones and still exclusively uses his geriatric Nokia 3210. How on Earth are you going to get your handset charged? The European Commission has now agreed with 14 major mobile firms …
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AT&T has started a new plan today that will allow AT&T subscribers to make unlimited voice calls to any mobile number, regardless of carrier. This is similar to Sprint’s unlimited mobile-to-mobile plan. The Any Mobile Number plan will be effective this Thursday, and requires a minimum of a $20 a month unlimited messaging plan plus an existing voice plan. This …
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Smartphone users looking to sell their current devices to pick up a new Verizon iPhone will find eBay a willing buyer. The auction site yesterday launched a special two-week promotion through its Instant Sale feature that offers cash to people willing to sell their current smartphones. Running through February 22, people can receive at least $200 from eBay by sending …
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It’s one of the craziest weeks ever in cell phone land. Not only are Kent and Bonnie packing for Mobile World Congress, but we also had two big-time press events from Sprint and HP. Sprint’s new device is the dual-screen Kyocera Echo. We admit it doesn’t look like much right now, but that didn’t stop magician David Blaine from showing …
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Just in time for the appearance of the Verizon iPhone tomorrow, VoIP calling service Skype is updating its iPhone app to include support for the H.264 video format. H.264 is the most widely accepted encoding standard for high-definition video. In addition to boosting image quality, the enhancement means that Skype for iPhone users can place and accept calls from and …
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Dell is working on a 10-inch tablet running Windows 7, for release later this year. The company showed off a non-working model of the device at a US event yesterday, and our buddies at CNET.com were in attendance. It looks like a bigger version of the Dell Streak, but will be aimed more at businesses. You want specs? A release …
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The iPad 2 has started rolling off production lines in advance of a debut in the next couple of months. That’s according to a new report in the Wall Street Journal, which also confirms previous speculation that Apple’s second-generation tablet will be slimmer and lighter than the first model. The story — co-written by Yukari Iwatani Kane, who has the …
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Nokia’s new CEO, Stephen Elop, has opened fire on his own company in a roasting-hot leaked memo entitled “Standing on a burning platform”, in which he bemoans Nokia’s perilous position, its market share under siege from Apple, Android and cheap Chinese phone makers. Published by Engadget and confirmed by multiple sources, including BBC News (despite some scepticism online), the internal …
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More bad news for Nokia as it stands on its “burning platform“: reports suggest MeeGo has been delayed and it seems the N9 is no more. MeeGo is Nokia’s new operating system, first revealed last year but yet to be seen in a phone we can actually buy. That may not change any time soon, as Reuters reports Nokia has …
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LG’s Optimus 3D is one of the most hotly anticipated new smart phones for 2011, thanks to its glasses-free 3D screen and dual-lens camera. Now it has made a starring appearance in a new pre-Mobile World Congress video, showcasing its pair of cameras and promising “a smart phone that sees the world like we do”. The video, published by Pocket-lint, …
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HTC’s Wildfire 2 may not need grainy blogosphere spy-shots to reveal itself to the world: the manufacturer appears to have done the job itself, in a video posted on its own YouTube channel. As Engadget points out, the glossy video shows a man holding a handset that doesn’t correspond to any existing smart phones in HTC’s range, but which bears …
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Alien Dalvik would let non-Google smartphones run Android apps. Google Mobile software maker Myriad plans to launch software that lets non-Android-based smartphones run apps designed for Google’s mobile operating system. The software, known as Alien Dalvik, will allow non-Android OSes to run Android Package (APK) files with little modification, the company announced yesterday. “The proliferation of Android has been staggering, …
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The BBC’s iPlayer app for the Apple iPad will arrive this week. A BBC engineer has let slip that the app will hit tablets on 10 February. BBC online engineer Geoff Marshall, a self-described “Beeb operational techie”, tweeted “iPlayer App for iPad is being released this Thursday – 10th Feb. 3G connection is browse only. Browse+Playback requires Wi-Fi.” Marshall hedged …
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