Phone-stuff

    Things I am discovering about mobile phones

    Browsing Posts published on November 2, 2011

    Nokia Lumia – Confirmed. No tethering here. Earlier today we heard that Nokia Lumia 710 and 800 do not support tethering. Tethering, for those that don’t know, if the ability to share your mobile data connection as a web connection for your laptop. We asked the PR team whether this was true or not, and [...]

    Do you like to calculate trajectories and velocities? Play as a turret and shoot other turrets in the strategic warfare game Metal Rain for Android. Features: Local multiplayer and single player Up to 6 players Free additional content A.I system In game economy Dozens of level customizations Video: Note: For Android version 2.3 and higher. [...]

    Steve Jobs Biography Sells 380K Copies . During the first week of sales, Walter Isaacson’s 656-page biography of Steve Jobs has sold 379,000 copies in the US. The results are detailed in a new report from BookScan US. In just a week, the biography has become the 18th bestselling book of the year. It sits [...]

    Yahoo! Weather now shows local pictures matching weather conditions Yahoo! just announced a major update to Yahoo! Weather, which brings the weather to life with beautiful photos that correspond to location, time of day, and current weather conditions. The photos are crowd-sourced from the Project Weather group on Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/projectweather). So obviously, the more pictures [...]

    Alcatel 995 will debut in 2012, Promises Ice Cream Sandwich Alcatel One Touch hasn’t made much noise in the Android world recently, but that could all change. The above picture is the Alcatel 995 which will have a 4.3-inch display, 1.4GHz processor, 5MP rear camera, and 1.3MP front camera. It has Android 2.3.4 with a [...]