Tag Archive: mobile

Sep
12
2011

Polymer Gel Batteries provide more flexible power sources

BBC Radio 4‘s Material World is a great program, presented by Quentin Cooper, full of useful information on the state of materials science (and several other things besides). But the item on polymer gel batteries during the Material World of September 1, 2011.

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Aug
16
2011

Google says “Hello, Moto!” for acquisition

So Motorola Mobility (MMI) (the mobile phone business that was finally spun out of the Motorola parent organisation in January 2011, leaving Motorola Solutions (MSI)) to be acquired by Google (GOOG). In the rest of the article we look to see what the impact is on the Android platform, its partners and if Google could …

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Aug
10
2011

Nokia suspending N9 sales in major markets

So in the latest twist in the long death of Nokia (NOK), there is news from the States and the UK that the suspension of sales of Meego phones (the N9) across these major market places. This includes the latest N9, now not likely to be seen in the wild in the UK. So either …

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Jul
06
2011

Is the Eurostar geared for the UK business traveller?

The Eurostar is still one of the most efficient means of getting to and from Paris from the UK. However, it’s not as good as it could be, especially for the UK business traveler compared to our colleagues from Europe. Here’s why…

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Jun
09
2011

Is this the end for Nokia?

In this Reuters report, it appears that Nokia is still on the downward spiral. The most worrying thing is that S&P have downgraded (from BBB+) to BBB- thier view of the Nokia (NOK) stock. This means that the following the companies recent announcement that earnings are likely to be substantially lower, the markets don’t appear …

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Nov
10
2010

Time for a new mobile, good-bye Nokia, hello HTC

It’s time to change my mobile phone again. I don’t have anything against my Nokia E75, which lasted well.. but the choices I made back in this post ( “Not a camera phone, but a business phone” ) have changed a little. The Symbain platform hasn’t taken off, and with the Symbian Foundation’s absorbtion back …

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Apr
15
2009

Not a camera phone, but a business phone

I’ve had my Nokia N95 for a while (see “Posted from the mobile“), but whilst the screen is nice and large, I spend far to long typing on it. The numeric pad is just not the same as the feel of a real keyboard.

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Mar
31
2008

Posted from the mobile

So as part of the new job I needed to get a new phone. Since I’m not a big fan of Microsoft Windows Mobile, I wanted something different as a platform. Since the only real extensible platform left is Symbian (especially since Palm has now a choice of platform, both Windows Mobile and PalmOS), I …

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