Nokia admitted that their profits dropped this year when compared to last years performance. Nokia’s profit in 2008 was €1.10 billion, and €13.2 billion in 2007. That is almost a 61 percent drop.
"Looking at the rest of the year, we are optimistic and have had good feedback about the broad range of new products we expect to sell in our device business," said Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, the chief executive of Nokia.
Zumobi is now available to BlackBerry users by typing get.zumobi.com. For now the application supports 8100, 8300, and 8800 handsets. Zumobi delivers entertainment and information content to its subscribers.
Brighthand is reporting that the much-anticipated Samsung Omnia will debut next week in parts of Europe. AT&T will release the handset in the US by the 3rd quarter, says the website.
Our iPhone 3G review is now totally complete, with the battery tests updated and final. So what do we think of Apple's update to its iconic phone? We feel it's an upgrade over the previous iPhone almost across the board. This is reflected in our ratings, where the iPhone 3G ranks ten spots higher than the original iPhone with improvements like third party applications, 3G, GPS, improved audio and Exchange support pushing it up. It should be mentioned, however, that many of the software improvements are also available on the original iPhone. This makes the phone less of an upgrade for existing iPhone owners, but it does make it a worthy pick up for those who were waiting for the second generation of the iPhone. It's still missing some basic features like MMS, Video recording and copy & paste; the camera has actually taken a step backward. But these deficits are more than made up for by other upgrades.
Nokia recently unveiled the Nokia Chat, which is a Presence and IM client, that gets integrated to the Contacts Application. Via Nokia Chat one can also share their status and location. For more information go here.
Nokia has released a software update for the N78. Version 12.046 improves softkey selection, Bluetooth stability, video playback, email sending and alarm clock functions.
To get this software through your Nokia N78, click Menu > Tools > Utilities > Device Manager. Select Options > Check for updates and follow the on-screen prompts.
Samsung has released a Windows Mobile 6.1 upgrade for the Samsung i760 smartphone. The update can be downloaded from here and offers the following improvements:
# Windows Mobile 6.1 includes new features such as Threaded SMS, Domain Enrollment, and updated “Vista” looks.
# Several software fixes & enhancements have been applied. A detailed list of some of these updates can be found at the end of each FAQ page.
Gameloft announced a licensing agreement with Chuck Norris, to produce a mobile game titled, Bring on the Pain. The game will be launched in August 2008.
So we've been running battery tests non-stop since the iPhone was released on Friday and we've been getting some consistent results and some vexing ones. We're finally comfortable with the battery results we got for talk time, we'll be using our best result of five hours fifty minutes for the iPhone 3G's score. We also ran two other tests that were within half an hour, five hours thirty-nine minutes and five hours twenty-two minutes respectively. All of these results are better than Apple's stated talk time of five hours and are very good for a 3G device, where the network is very power hungry.
It's worth noting, however, that talk time may be the least of the factors impacting your battery life on the iPhone 3G. That display seems to be a power hog, GPS is another and of course data transfer and music playback will impact it as well. Still, it's good to see that the iPhone 3G didn't totally tank this test given the concerns about battery life that have been voiced.
See the iPhone 3G's talk time and all our current battery results here
Three touch screen cell phones, three carriers, three prices, which one is right for you? Find out in our Touch Screen Showdown as we take a close look at these three phones. Comparison after the break.
Following on from our tests on the new iPhone 3G yesterday, Apple has confirmed that the display on the new phone is warmer, and that this was a deliberate decision. Macworld quotes Apple’s senior director of iPhone product marketing Bob Borchers as saying that they deliberately tweaked the new display to be warmer. “We moved the white point in order to make [the display feel] more natural” they quoted Borchers as saying, who also explained that the change would make photos look more attractive. Borchers also did not rule out the possibility of an update that might allow the user to tweak the display to their preference,
In our review of the new iPhone 3G, we noticed that web browsing was faster, but that other operations (such as writing emails, opening menus, etc) were significantly slower. So, we put together this video that shows a side-by-side comparison of the new iPhone 3G and the old one running a number of common operations, such as starting up, browsing the web and loading applications...
You'd better be ready for some no-holds-barred, iPhone-next-to-iPhone action, because, brother, that's exactly what you'll find here. Here we literally pit iPhone against iPhone and then take pictures and then talk about those pictures.
The pictures are big, so you'll have to click here to see them and read our commentary.
As we reported here, a number of posters on MacRumors are claiming that their new iPhone 2.0 screens are looking rather yellow compared to their old iPhone. So, we decided to investigate on our review units to see if any of them had this problem. We found that some of the iPhone 3G screens do have a yellowish cast, but the effect is pretty minor. None of our review units had the sort of extreme problem that some posters are reporting; you only notice the difference in color if you hold the two iPhones side by side. In this photo, you can see a first generation iPhone on the left and one of our review models on the right; the screen on the original iPhone is distinctly bluer.
Apparently some new iPhone 3G purchasers have discovered that, when viewed side-by-side with the first-generation iPhone, the new-model screen inspires off-color remarks.
The widely reported meltdown of Apple's iTunes-based phone activation system is frustrating new iPhone 3G purchasers, but it's also a potential boondoggle for first-gen iPhone owners eager to upgrade to the latest 2.0 software release. Once updated, the phone has to be re-activated via the same iTunes system that's not working for new purchasers. The result: you have updated software running on a phone-shaped brick.
The lack of a user-replaceable battery has always bugged even fervent iPhone fans, since it means no carrying a spare when you travel, and an $86 tab for an Apple-installed replacement when the original croaks. A sharp-eyed observer at iPhone Atlas, though, points out a potential improvement with the move to the iPhone 3G.
According to a Gizmodo report, the coverage map that was up on the AT&T site as recently as this morning didn't accurately reflect the company's current 3G service footprint, and was just updated
CNN just reported that iPhone 3G buyers are experiencing "software problems," citing the case of a New York man who took "30 minutes to get his phone started." According to CNN, "An AT&T spokesman says a global problem with Apple is preventing the phones from being fully activated in the store as had been planned. Employess are telling people to go home and activate the phones by connecting them to their computers."
The Samsung SGH-a227 is now available on the AT&T network. The quad-band GSM (850/900/1800/1900MHz) is retailing for $9.99 with a 2-year contract.
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So we've been running battery tests non-stop since the iPhone was released on Friday and we've been getting some consistent results and some vexing ones. We're finally comfortable with the battery results we got for talk time, we'll be using our best result of five hours fifty minutes for the iPhone 3G's score. We also ran two other tests that were within half an hour, five hours thirty-nine minutes and five hours twenty-two minutes respectively. All of these results are better than Apple's stated talk time of five hours and are very good for a 3G device, where the network is very power hungry.
Three touch screen cell phones, three carriers, three prices, which one is right for you? Find out in our Touch Screen Showdown as we take a close look at these three phones. Comparison after the break.
Following on from our tests on the new iPhone 3G yesterday, Apple has confirmed that the display on the new phone is warmer, and that this was a deliberate decision. Macworld quotes Apple’s senior director of iPhone product marketing Bob Borchers as saying that
You'd better be ready for some no-holds-barred, iPhone-next-to-iPhone action, because, brother, that's exactly what you'll find 
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