Indoor GPS Positioning Technology in works to help find nearest bathroom!
October 18, 2008 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under Nokia
What sucks about today’s GPR positioning technology is that it really just works outdoors. Sometimes, we feel the need to go into a more “macro” level of positioning especially when we’re inside a mall or a huge office building that’s unfamiliar to us and we need to find the nearest bathroom for that !!! huge emergency !!!.
Nokia has been working on a triangulating technology that uses WLAN to find your mobile phone and project you in relartion to everything else in the building:
The mobile uses the buildings’ WLAN infrastructure to triangulate your position and then indicates where you are on …read more
Nokia N78 comes with FM Transmitter
May 23, 2008 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under Nokia
We got to play with an N78 in the wild last night courtesy of Nokia, and I took some photos.
Beneath its smooth, clean surface, the Nokia N78 is the first Nseries phone to boast a built in FM transmitter. This is pure genius. In the history of staple hardware built into mobile phones, the camera and the music player are mainstays in what we consider to be “mobile phones.”
Shouldn’t all music phones have an FM transmitter built in? This is tons useful for podcast and music junkies who want to listen to their music in the car. Look: It costs …read more
N-Gage Brings In Metal Gear Solid: SUPPOSED to be really kick ass!!
May 21, 2008 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under Nokia
You know, Nokia only needs to have one or two kick ass titles to make their new N-Gage gaming platform work. In the past we’ve seen how far teh platform was pushed with mobile version of Medal of Honor for the second generation N-Gage and while we were impressed, it still wasn’t very playable.
Well hopefully Nokia has learned from this and they’re now bringing in playable titles that will hopefully create a following in their new mobile gaming platform. Yes we’re talking about Metal Gear Solid.
The new version of the classic game features original content that can only be found …read more
