Archive for the ‘Digital Lifestyle’ Category

Symbian Vs iPhone: Is the Glass Half Full or Half Empty?

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

TechCruch and GigaOm both commented the Symbian quarterly results. Both blogs compared Nokia's OS to iPhone and reached two opposite conclusions. Facts by GigaOm: Symbian shipped 19.5 Million units in Q2, 5% year-on-year growth. iPhone shipped 0.77 Million units of its 2G model in Q2, a 166% year-on year growth, considering iPhone only sold ...

Back from Holidays

Friday, August 29th, 2008

After a long summer break, welcome to the new season of tech-talk.biz It has been two months with big sport events as the UEFA EURO Cup and the Beijing Olympics, covered for the first time not only on TV but also on Internet and mobile phones. And competition has not been ...

Nokia to Get Full Control of Symbian

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Nokia announced today a bid to acquire 100% of Symbian. Nokia already owns 48% of the shares, and would purchase the remaining shares for 264 million euro, from their current Symbian partners Sony Ericsson, Telefonaktiebolaget, LM Ericsson, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Siemens International Holding and Samsung Electronics. Even though it may seem ...

Nokia Still Don’t Get it

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

 "It is the usability, stupid." In essence, Nokia keeps developing mobile phones, when younger generations do not care about a phone but about communications in an ample sense (IM, Facebook, web, etc) and multimedia (music, music , music, clips and music). And they do not want multimedia to be a poor ...

iPhone 3G, the Revolution Goes On

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

The iPhone Revolution goes on, only faster. No more “wait for 3G” effect. Half the price. Going truly global to 70 countries. Built-in Wifi and GPS. Do not be surprised when Apple double their forecast and sell 20 million units in 2008. Apple wants to achieve full dominance of the mobile phone. ...

iPhone 3G at $199!

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

Rumors confirmed. Apple announced the iPhone 3G. It will be available in 22 countries on 11 July and more than 70 countries by the end of the year. In US, the 8GB version will cost $199 and the 16GB only $299. Both have built-in GPS. The entire keynote of Steve Jobs ...

iPhone at $199? Why not?

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

TechCrunch echoes the rumor of an iPhone at $199, as it did one month ago, although this time saying it is a baseless rumor from reputated BSter Kevin Rose. The $199 iPhone subsidized by AT&T is an old speculation. And why not? Apple could well launch the 3G iPhone at $399 and ...

My Next Phone

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

Nokia must be getting more and more worried. Apple, a new entrant in the market, has stolen from Nokia the top position for high-end phones in consumers minds. The revolutionary iPhone might not have yet a market share comparable to Nokia, but it is definitively the phone we all dream of. ...

News of the day? 3G iPhone will be launched in June

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Gizmodo reports that sources have "confirmed" that the 3G iPhone will be announced on 9 June during the Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference. It is expected to be available worldwide right after the launch. Gizmodo says: "In Spain, for example, the 3G iPhone will be available for sale at the June 18th grand ...

At last Mobile Web, thanks to iPhone

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

In January, Google disclosed that the traffic to Google from iPhones had surpassed any other smartphone, despite iPhone accounts for only 2% of the worldwide smartphones, Nokia’s Symbian 63%, Windows Mobile 11% and RIM 10%. Later in March, M:Metrics confirmed that 85% of iPhone users access the web from their handset, ...