The Nokia N95 (pre-production proto) finally arrived a couple weeks ago and it is the most existing mobile device I have used in years. It has everything. The Camera is amazing and the device is lighter than one thinks. It does produce spontaneous WOWs. I think this is due to three things, weight, size and…
Archives for February 2007
Nokia model RM-230 to be the first Nokia with triband 3G?
What we have here is a basic scheme of Nokia RM-230, still unknown model (but not part of N or E series as its model is XXXX), which we guess will be the successor of the 3250 music phone. The new Nokia phone is quad-band GSM and tri-band UMTS (probably HSDPA-capable) device supporting world roaming…
New firmware for the Nokia N73 out
3.0.649.0.0.31 Start up your software updater! Source: Lazy Chris Rant: Why won’t Nokia release a changelog for their various firmware upgrades?
Sony Ericsson: It’s what computers have become
Remember my 20 New Year’s Resolutions for Nokia? Let me give you a refresher on one of them: Create a phone so advanced that it can be put in a dock, and this dock would have several USB ports, audio out, and VGA or DVI out. The one laptop per child idea is foolish; there…
Dear Nokia: Check out this GPS chip that works indoors
u-blox AG, the leading Swiss provider of GPS receiver technology, will unveil u-blox 5, a GPS and Galileo-ready chip featuring an acquisition performance of less than one second, at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona. 3GSM, which runs from 12-15 February, is one of the world’s largest telecommunications trade fairs and is expected to attract…
Nokia wants to buy Vivatel
Nokia is interested in buying Vivatel. The mobile operator will sell individually BTC. Icelander Thor Bjorgolfsson who owns 65% of BTC intends to sell his share, his fund announced. So far only Nokia has intentions to buy Vivatel, Standart newspaper reported. The Finnish giant won in September a contract for building a 3G network for…
Nokia is going to probe the “connecting people” bonus it gives its employees
Finnish telecommunications equipment maker Nokia is to launch a probe into its connecting people bonus system, Finnish provincial daily Keskisuomalainen reported Wednesday. Nokia workers expressed outrage last week upon learning that they would not receive bonuses even though the company reported record profits. Arja Suominen, a Nokia spokeswoman, told Keskisuomalainen that the company would start…
Nokia donating devices to a pair of San Fransisco High Schools
Nokia isn’t waiting for a city-wide Wi-Fi network in San Francisco to get going before it gets involved in the city’s broadband efforts. The company is donating a number of Wi-Fi enabled cell phones and Internet tablets to two San Francisco high schools to get students hooked on the mobile Internet. The largest cell phone…
Luca compares the Nokia N73, N93 and N80i: which one is the best for you?
As most of my readers should know, I’m involved in the Nokia Bloggers Relation program, so I have the opportunity to test all of those mobile phones in deep. Moreover, I look forward to compare them with the upcoming N95, that should be included in the program as well. After a few months of experiments…
Nokia has been acused of breaking handset reuse rules
Pentti Kallio, the chairman of a Finnish association promoting the recycling of electronics, was quoted as saying in Left Alliance organ Kansan Uutiset that Nokia was breaching Finnish handset reuse regulations. In an ongoing Nokia campaign, consumers can send unwanted Nokia-branded handsets back to the manufacturer free of charge. According to Mr Kallio, the company…