Nokia takes on Apple

The phone maker will unveil a touch-screen phone to rival Google.

In today’s Tech Bytes, the world’s top cell phone maker takes aim at Apple; Nokia has launched its first touch screen phone to rival the iPhone. The Express music phone plays music and videos, store’s 8 gigas of memory and has a slightly smaller screen than the iPhone. It also falls a little short on functions, unlike the iPhone, you can’t use two fingers to zoom internet pictures on web pages. The Nokia phone will hit stores before the holidays and sell for about $400 before any subsidies.

One of Japan’s top cell phone companies is showing off a new concept phone at a major technology show this week. Ntt docomo’s separate phone is sort of like two devices in one, you can actually break it into two parts. One with the touch screen display, the other with a keypad. The idea it that a user can make a call on one half of the phone while reading Email and checking the calendar on the other half. It also means there’s one more thing to lose.

While just find pretty much everything was connected on the Internet, you can add one more thing to that list, bicycles! Yahoo has launched the first social networking bicycle. It has a gps enabled camera that takes a picture every 60seconds, tags it with geographic information and uploads it to a photo sharing website. And there’re 20 of these bikes on the road right now but Yhaoo’s planning on giving away more through a contest.

And finally a British inventor and developed a device he claims turns cheap supermarket wine into vintage wine in just 30minutes. The device looks like an ice bucket but it’s creator claims it recreate it affects of decades of aging, using offer sound technology and it’s not just for wine, it’s suppose to work for any alcohol that is better when aged. The man behind its miracle machine says it even makes alcohol easier to absolve and that virtually eliminates hangovers.

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