Today we bid a fond farewell to the Nokia N810 WiMax Edition, unveiled nine months ago as a revolutionary, next-gen internet tablet. Maybe too revolutionary. According to Reuters, Nokia has officially “ended production ended production of its only mobile device using the U.S.-centered WiMax technology, another blow for the struggling wireless technology.” The N810 WiMAX Edition [...]

With the Consumer Electronics Show getting started on Thursday, and the MacWorld already underway, there’s a lot of little bits of news floating around. Here’s a recap of what’s happened so far in the first week of 2009. Current #4 handset manufacturer Motorola revealed its first environmentally-friendly phone, the W233 Renew. Thanks to the magic of [...]

A new vulnerability is hitting certain Nokia phones: the “Curse of Silence” affects Nokia S60 devices running 2.6, 2.8, 3.0, or 3.1, and blocks your phone from receiving SMS and MMS messages. Unfortunately, you can’t solve the problem with a simple power cycle - according to the advisory, you need to perform a factory reset [...]

So this Plantronics Discovery 630E Bluetooth headset used to be a cool $119.95. Now it’s refurbished and marked down to $14.99. Deal? Even though it’s pretty cheap (even for a refurb), it’s got some decent features: 15 hours of talk time, a carrying case that can also charge the headset with an included AAA battery (also [...]

In what is starting to become a yearly tradition, Nokia recently announced its latest stylus-driven smartphone, the 6208c. Heading to, you guessed it - China. Read the whole preview for a look at the 6208c’s fun features like a 3.2 megapixel camera and bamboo slip detachable stylus. The 6208c continues the trend started by the Nokia [...]

Watch phones are just one of those cool, futuristic ideas that usually end up being completely unpractical in the real world. So of course I drooled all over LG’s latest creation, the GD910. LG has done away with the old-school “calculator watch” button style in favor of just one small (1.43 inch) touch-screen with three buttons [...]

Following in the footsteps of the Sapphire Arte and Carbon Arte, the Gold Arte brings 18 carats of the stuff along with “premium quality leather.” No pleather here! Unfortunately, everything else - OLED screen, 3G, “tap for time”, 3.2 megapixel camera - is exactly the same as the previous iterations, and continues Nokia’s philosophy of “less [...]

I recently received a Nokia 6650 as part of Nokia 6650 Chronicles, a cool little project documenting the daily lives of twenty bloggers, yours truly included. The 6650 is what I’d call an enigma. It looks like your typical S40 AT&T budget phone, but in reality it’s a Symbian OS-powered, quad-band/3G connected smartphone with an integrated [...]

TheStreet.com just released a list of its top five smartphone picks for 2008. Among the winners: 1. Apple iPhone 3G 2. LG Incite 3. Nokia E71 4. Blackberry Storm 5. Blackberry Pearl Flip Yep, the iPhone led the pack, as it does in most top five lists. The Nokia E71 got props for battery life (thanks in part to a 1500 [...]

Car chargers aren’t anything to write home about, but the latest Nokia DC-9 and DC-10 car chargers have at least one new ooh-aah feature: retractable cables. They also don’t look as boring as your typical 1990s-era Nokia car charger or as strange as some “other” car accessories (HF-35W Inner Tube). The only difference between the two [...]