Archive for May, 2010 - Page 6

By way of a brief heads up for those of you who have been following the development of MeeGo – we have covered MeeGo pretty extensively here on TFTS – as MeeGo V1.0 for Google’s Chrome browser, and which is specifically being targeted at netbooks and nettops, is now available [...]

Speculation is mounting that Vodafone could be the first UK network to carry Nokia’s first Symbian^3 smartphone thanks to Vodafone having now listed the Nokia N8 as ‘coming soon’ – you can catch up with all our Nokia N8 coverage here, incidentally – though, as yet, there’s no official word [...]

THQ, a mid-sized video game publisher, is reportedly going to follow in the footsteps of the bigger EA and Activision and offer a “Partners” program, similar to the EA Partners program, where they’ll promote and distribute games for independent game developers.

The Nokia N8 may be the most anticipated Nokia smartphone in years. A website has gotten their hands on an advance unit and ran some benchmarking tests on the Symbian^3 smartphone. Big surprise – it’s a lot faster than it’s predecessors.

A CDMA iPhone on Verizon has been rumored since the iPhone first came all those years ago (and it never dies). A new report from a mobile industry analyst says that AT&T would lost a whopping 40% of their iPhone customers to Verizon, should that company ever get the iPhone [...]

It’s no secret that the PSPgo has been doing poorly, with Sony themselves even admitting that “mistakes were made” with the media-less PSPgo handheld. With sagging sales numbers and very likely rumors of a PSP 2 being announced at E3 next month, it looks like Sony UK is changing their [...]

It was announced last year, but it happened a few days ago on May 23rd. Nokia’s stylish brick-and-mortar retail store, located in the high-rent Madison Avenue area of Manhattan, has closed. This just about sums up Nokia’s recent luck in selling smartphones in North America.

Yesterday, we told you about a lucky gym attendant who found a missing Motorola Droid Shadow prototype which was lost in a Verizon corporate gym bathroom. The guy took pictures of it and sent some info along to his pal, who then sent that along to one of the biggest [...]

When the media isn’t busy talking about all of the Chinese suicides happening over at Foxconn, they are busy talking about the oil spill that is causing a ruckus in the Gulf of Mexico. If you’re not clued in on the matter, essentially what happened was an explosion occred on [...]

Foxconn has been under an immense amount of heat from the media recently, not from the products they assemble (which are top notch) but instead about how their employees are being treated. If you’ve been following the topic you’ll know that Foxconn is one of the biggest employees in China [...]