Week in smartphones: BlackBerry gets Bolder; Verizon invades iPhone territory
A roundup of the week's biggest smartphone news, including BlackBerry Bold 9700's debut, Verizon coming after iPhone with Droid and Microsoft updating Windows Mobile.
Nokia sues Apple over iPhone 'free ride'
Nokia has sued Apple in federal court, charging that the iPhone infringes on 10 patents owned by the Finnish mobile-phone maker.
Nokia's testing lab is a cell phone's chamber of horrors
Just about everybody has dropped a cell phone at one time or another. The engineers at Nokia's testing lab in San Diego have seen and heard all the phone disaster stories and have designed hundreds of tests with the idea of improving Nokia cell phone quality.
Nokia Booklet 3G Far Too Expensive at $820
Give Nokia props for designing a good looking netbook, the new Booklet 3G. It's sleek, it runs on batteries a long time, and it has slightly higher video resolution than other netbooks. Too bad Nokia executives went brain dead when setting the price.
Nokia Releases Details on Booklet 3G, Their New Netbook
Nokia, the global leader in cell phones (but lagging in the US), hinted about a netbook product launch last month. On Monday, they released more details (Nokia Enters the Netbook Market with the Booklet 3G). It appears to be a classy rendering of a modern netbook with all the standard screen (10 inch) processor (Intel Atom) and memory options. One nice touch: it has an HDMI port for external monitors, not the traditional 9-pin VGA port.
Will Nokia Upgrade a Smartphone to a Netbook?
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Apple syncing patent can't come soon enough
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New Twitter features borrow from 3rd party clients
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Open Source Changes the Software Acquisition Process
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How to set up continuous podcast play on the new iTunes
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Five important Windows 7 mobility features
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Guard your Wi-Fi for your own sake
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Grepping on Whole Words
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News
Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
- mburton325
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