Nokia plans to dump Symbian for Linux. This is part of a strategy to beat the iPhone, Reuters reports. Rumors say the N900 will be using Maemo Linux instead of the Symbian S60 interface and that it is part of a larger stragety that will replace Symbian on some or maybe all high-end Nokia smartphones in the near future. Next week’s Nokia World Show will probably show the first signs of this strategy.
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The Palm Pre and the iPhone look similar in appearance and can also do the same kind of stuff. Both have Maps, Twitter apps, a touchscreen and can be rotated to change the screen size. So how can you show those things in an ad? Precisely! Just make the same ad as what Apple did with the iPhone. Compare both ads below.
Apple is going to investigate incidents of the exploding iPhones in Europe, Reuters reports. Apple believes that those incidents were isolated incidents and there’s they don’t think there’s a general problem, a spokesman of the European Commission says. Apple is working on gathering more information to find out what may have caused the explosions.
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There’s a bug found in the OS 3.0 software. It was found on the iPod Touch 2gen of someone with the YouTube account “Popplenrookie”. When you delete an email in your POP mail account and also delete it in the trash map, you can still find it by using the search option on the iPod Touch. It seems that POP mail accounts are not the only ones having this issue. IMAP has the same problem. Even if you delete the mail directly from the server, it still shows up on the search function of the iPod.
Some days you’re lucky, other days you are not. A lady in the UK had her bag stolen. In it were her iPhone, laptop and Nintendo DS. An to make things even worse, the thief showed up on her Facebook page and said the following:
Gizmodo has received a supposed screenshot from Rogers Wireless’ internal sales systems for hardware upgrades listing an 8 GB iPhone 3GS model. Based on the screenshot and comments from the alleged Rogers employee who submitted it, the 8 GB iPhone 3GS will be offered at the same $99 price point of the current iPhone 3G under the standard three-year contract with data plan offered by Rogers or at $299 without a data plan.