Hands-on with Nokia’s S60 touch UI at MWC
Thursday, February 14th, 2008Posted Feb 14th 2008 11:29AM by Sean Cooper
Filed under: cellphones, Features, Handhelds
Move along, nothing too new and thrilling here. We hunted down Nokia’s touch demo and were completely un-thrilled by the whole package. Sure, it’s still early days for the interface, but it’s a case of same old same old as it’s sporting the same UI, same OS, but now instead of using the d-pad, you’re able to poke about with your finger. The demo was running on a small tablet in software only, no hardware yet, though, as we’ve already mentioned, devices should start arriving in the second half of the year. Hopefully Nokia will see the error — in our opinion — of its ways and drop some glitz — feel free to pop on over and visit NVIDIA for some inspiration, Nokia — down on this fairly glitz-free bit of wizardry. Hit the link to see the full gallery!
var Warranty seller SquareTrade, sampling from a pool of over 1,000 claims, says that it’s seeing an Xbox 360 failure rate at around 16 percent. Most Xbox 360 owners — at least the early adopters — don’t just fear the RRoD, they’ve come to expect it, and compared to projected failure rates of 3% for the Wii and PS3 (a stat Microsoft claimed initially), it’s obvious that this continues to be a spendy problem for Microsoft and a headache for its customers. As 1UP points out, the 16% stat might be a little high, since the type of user that would seek out a separate warranty is probably more of a power user, and the majority of problems are heat-related, but whatever the true number is, it’ll probably continue to rise in the immediate future as we all CoD4 our gen one 360s to death, and then eventually fall as the 65nm and eventually 45nm Xboxes fill the market.
Carrying your USB flash drive around can be quite the hassle especially if you don’t want to clutter your pocket with too many things. Enter the Capsule USB Key.
Ready for untethered 3Mbps to 5Mbps downloads and 1Mbps to 1.5Mbps upload speeds while on the go? Us too, especially our Chicago-based brethren waiting for Sprint to properly soft-launch their Xohm service onto the nation. Backed by 50 or so WiMax exhibits with product on display at Mobile World Congress, Sprint’s VP for technology development, Ali Tabassi, assured us that April would indeed see the fledgling Xohm service soft launch into Chicago, Baltimore, and the DC areas. However, he conceded that the billions required to reach the goal of 100 million subscribers by year end have not been approved. Sprint would however at least cooperate with Clearwire — a former Xohm partner — on roaming agreements so that the two don’t duplicate coverage. Come on Sprint, we know it’s been tough for you lately as you bleed subscribers (and profits). But if you build it, we will come back.
