Tag: NOKIA

Looks like some Nokia employees -- specifically those that work specifically on the now-dead Symbian platform -- are not particularly happy about the switch to Windows Phone 7. Over 1,000 employees at the company's Tampere and Oulu offices in Finland decided to use their flextime to leave work early today in protest of the move. Maybe they'll use the time to bone up on their Windows Phone ...

It's no secret that Nokia has been in trouble for some time -- especially in the U.S. market, where Symbian (its smartphone OS of choice) just didn't enjoy the same success that it did in Europe. The problem has only gotten worse with the advent of Android and iOS, truly modern smartphone operating systems that make Symbian look like a quaint mess from a bygone era. MeeGo, a project that saw ...

The Web is teeming with the unrealized ideas of both students and established designers who set out to produce astonishing renderings and prototypes for unusual products. Unfortunately, due to the lack of time, money, or technology, many of those products never move from the planning stages to the mass market. But that doesn't mean we can't salivate over their creations, nevertheless. The ...

Cell phones can monitor concrete factors like location, but could they possibly monitor our happiness? According to Physorg, University of Cambridge researchers have created a system, dubbed 'Emotionsense,' that cross-references voice samples recorded on cell phones with other data, like a caller's location, in order to find out whether or not a cell phone could monitor emotions. Given Nokia ...

Highlights from this morning's big tech headlines... Nokia's sleek E7 QWERTY slider phone finally got an official announcement this morning at the Nokia World event. [From: Engadget and mocoNews.net] Microsoft's Bill Puxton claims that Surface, the multi-touch tabletop that has largely been confined to hotels and casinos, will be in homes within three years. [From: Engadget] Last night, ...

The Web is teeming with the unrealized ideas of both students and established designers who set out to produce astonishing renderings and prototypes for unusual products. Unfortunately, due to the lack of time, money, or technology, many of those products never progress from the planning stages to the mass market. But that doesn't mean we can't salivate over them, nevertheless. We've decided ...

A reader asks: My father is a businessman who travels a lot internationally, and asked me to find him a bare bones, simple cell phone that works well but also looks good. For the life of me I can't settle on a device. Instead, the market is flooded with smartphones or regular ones with tons of confusing crap stuffed inside. He doesn't text much but needs the capability, and his vision and ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2010/06/09/blind-hiker-battles-hardships-on-appalachian-trail-updates-face/?icid=main|aim|dl5|link1|http2Fwww.switched.com2F06%2F09%2Fblind-hiker-battles-hardships-on-appalachian-trail-updates-face%2F'; Share On March 5th, Mike Hanson set off to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail. What makes Hanson's attempt to tackle all 2,174 miles of the longest hiking trail ...

Nokia announced that later this year it would begin selling a dynamo-powered charger kit that will charge a cell phone while you ride your bike. The $18 (€15) pedal-powered charger is targeting developing nations, but will ship globally and may find success in bike-friendly cities like Portland, New York, Paris and Amsterdam. The kit will come with a handlebar mount for a phone, a dynamo ...

Despite being a powerful force in the global smartphone market, Nokia has really struggled to capture much of a share in the U.S. Similarly, Yahoo!, once a dominating force in search and other Web services, has quickly became an also-ran. Its e-mail and other Web apps have fallen behind those offered by Google, and its search service has all but been retired, now merely offering re-branded ...

Apparently, using fingers to navigate a smartphone is just too much trouble. According to MIT's Technology Review, researchers at Dartmouth University have developed a system that allows users to operate a cell phone with their eyes. Cleverly dubbed Eyephone, the system, which you can see in action in this video, divides the phone's screen into nine areas, and identifies when the eye is focused ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Yahoo! has struggled to deter Google's increasing dominance, but the company is apparently forging ahead with a plan to considerably diversify its brand. Yahoo! has scheduled a Monday media gathering concerning the confusingly titled "Project Nike," which will reportedly involve a deal with Nokia to manufacture a Yahoo! phone. ...

If a touchscreen responds to a finger that doesn't actually touch it, is it still a touchscreen? Counterintuitive as it may seem, the answer is "yes." In a few months, people with a Nokia S60, Palm Pre or any other phone featuring a Cyprus touchscreen will be able to navigate their devices by simply hovering their fingers over the screen. A user will still make contact with the screen to execute ...

Now that Apple has jumped into the tablet arena, everyone else is clamoring to capitalize on the new found attention being garnered by the form factor. We already know that HP has one in the works, and Microsoft has been teasing us with the drool-inducing Courier for months now. Even Dell and Nokia are getting in on the slate craze, and we spent some hands on time at CES with many lower profile ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... ChatRoulette, the spontaneous online video interaction service, has exploded in popularity but has also given rise to an epidemic of exaggeration and hyperbole. Worried that children will be exposed to sexual deviants, various organizations are labeling the site as a "predator's paradise." But, there's one easy solution to that ...