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Sprint Motorola Brute i680 is ultra-rugged

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Jan 12th 2010 No Comments

Sprint Motorola Brute i680 1 Sprint’s latest cellphone, the Motorola Brute i680, is not just a rugged one, it’s ultra-rugged. The Brute i680 – fresh to the Nextel Direct Connect network complete with push-to-talk – meets military spec 810F for not just the regular dust, shock and vibration, but extremes of temperature, low pressure, salt fog, humidity, blowing rain and even solar radiation. We’re guessing that doesn’t mean you could use it while inside the sun (if only because of the lack of coverage) but it probably cuts down on the number of places in the US where the phone can’t go.

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Should Nokia Abandon Symbian S60 for Maemo Linux?

By Avi Greengart on Friday, Nov 27th 2009 8 Comments

Nokia has a problem: it is both the largest handset vendor in the world, by a significant margin, and the largest smartphone vendor in the world – again, by a significant margin. Yet it has never managed to crack the U.S. smartphone market, and it has begun losing market share even in its European strongholds, primarily to Apple, though RIM, Samsung, and HTC are also threats. Nokia admits that it was caught sleeping while Apple first redefined the mobile user experience with the iPhone, and then again when Apple reenergized app development with the App Store. Nokia’s initial response has been lackluster: adapting its existing Symbian S60 OS to support touch, applying that to a few phones (the 5800 and the N97), and stumbling in its initial launch of the Ovi Store.

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Nokia N900 browser demo & first-impressions [Video]

By Chris Davies on Friday, Sep 4th 2009 4 Comments

After our initial hands-on with the N900 – the video and gallery of which you can see here – we spent some more time playing with the Maemo 5 smartphone at Nokia World this week. Our initial enthusiasm has been tempered a little by some of the real-world compromises that blending a smartphone and an Internet Tablet demand, though we’re still looking forward to a full review unit; check out our hands-on impressions after the cut.

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Video demo after the cut

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Talking Nokia N900 and Maemo 5 with Ari Jaaksi

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Sep 2nd 2009 1 Comment

We sat down at a roundtable this afternoon with Nokia’s Ari Jaaksi, VP of software at the company, and talked about the Nokia N900 and the Maemo 5 OS it runs. Describing the N900 as “your internet device on the go” and Maemo as “putting the internet first”, it’s obvious that Jaaksi – and Nokia – have the MID segment in their sights; however they’re also upfront about the issues they’re going to face not only with their first-gen hardware but the ongoing development of the platform.

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Nokia N900 hands-on [Video]

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Sep 2nd 2009 No Comments

While the Booklet 3G is certainly a neat addition to the netbook segment, there’s something undeniably more appealing about the Nokia N900. We’ve seen all the specifications and now know the unsubsidized price, so it was about time for some hands-on experience with Nokia’s latest flagship.

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Hands-on gallery, video and first-impressions after the cut

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Nokia RX-51 N900 Rover Gets an Unofficial Prerelease Review

By Evan Selleck on Wednesday, Aug 19th 2009 No Comments

As we just mentioned earlier today, Nokia is set to announce their RX-51, N900 Rover in just a couple weeks at Nokia World, but the guys over at Mobile Review got a prerelease model and took some time to play with it. They aren’t giving a lot of information out yet, considering they have a lot of respect for Nokia, and even mentioned that if there hadn’t been so many leaks regarding the device, we wouldn’t be seeing any kind of review from them. Luckily for all of us though, they did it, and they have the pictures to prove it.

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Intel & Nokia announce Moblin & Maemo collaboration; HSPA licensing

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Jun 23rd 2009 No Comments

intel nokia collaboration Details on the Nokia/Intel collaboration are out, and unless the duo are planning a big surprise for their imminent conference call it’s not quite the announcement we were hoping for. That means no Intel-based Nokia MID or netbook, but a “long-term relationship” to develop new mobile device architectures with integrated Nokia HSPA/3G connectivity. The pairing will also coordinate their Moblin and Maemo Linux platforms, with common technologies and cross-OS applications.

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Nokia N900 Rover Internet Tablet details leak

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, May 26th 2009 1 Comment

nokia n900 rover internet tablet Details of Nokia’s next-gen Internet Tablet have leaked, suggesting that the Finnish company have moved away from positioning the platform as a companion device and now perceive it more as a smartphone. According to leaked specifications, the Nokia N900 or “Nokia Rover” now has quadband GSM and 3G HSPA, in addition to the WiFi and Bluetooth of the previous-gen models. It also sheds some screen-size, scaling down to a 3.5-inch 800 x 480 touchscreen (from 4-inches) though as this leaked image suggests the overall design is very similar to that of the N810.

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Cheap ARM-based MIDs threatening Atom claim retailers

By Chris Davies on Monday, Mar 30th 2009 No Comments

ARM-based mobile internet devices (MIDs) could soon be presenting more of a challenge to their Intel Atom-based rivals, if newly-emerging trends in China continue. According to Chinese retailers, ARM-based MIDs such as the SmartQ 5 - priced at roughly one quarter of the cost of a branded Atom MID are prompting manufacturers to move away from Intel’s chipset.

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Samsung SWD-M100 WiMAX MID video demo

By Vincent Nguyen on Sunday, Feb 22nd 2009 No Comments

It was at Intel’s booth rather than Samsung’s at Mobile World Congress where we got our hands on the Samsung SWD-M100 Mobile Internet Device, and while the unit they had to play with was mysteriously non-functional, the hardware is certainly promising. Hidden behind a 4.3-inch touchscreen there’s a full slide-down QWERTY keyboard, together with WiFi b/g, Bluetooth 2.0 and – its crowning glory – WiMAX.

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