Welcome to Optimism: On Thursday evening we flew to Finland for the briefing on the Nokia global pitch. This was slightly unusual in that all six agencies who have made it through to this stage were briefed together. Those six are BBH, DDB, JWT, Mother, a WPP combo team billed as Bates/Grey/Y&R/RKCR and your very…
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Review: Nokia Sports Tracker
If you’re into exercising and collecting your stats then you have to check out this review. Personally I wouldn’t feel comfortable running and sweating with a $500 smartphone in my pocket. My dinky little < $75 MP3 player does the job just fine. How do I know I’ve ran enough? Every square inch of my…
New Nokia patent: N99 related?
Unwired View: Nokia N99 pictures and soaped-up specs may have been a fantasy and Photoshop skill show-off by some eager fan. But then again, it may have not. Recent patent filing shows that Nokia is indeed working on a slider phone with QWERTY keyboard and numeracial keyboard: I’m still calling shenanigans on the N99 picture…
Nokia being discriminated in Brazil
Cellular-News: The president and CEO of Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, has complained to Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva that São Paulo (SP) state is applying unfairly high taxes on its phones produced in Amazonas state, newspaper Valor Econômico reported. In a meeting with Lula, Kallasvuo and Amazonas state governor Eduardo…
Nokia concerned about the declining interest in science
C|Net: The lack of young people taking up scientific careers is a pan-European problem, according to a senior Nokia executive. Shortly after Nokia announced a collaboration between its research team and Cambridge University–with an initial focus on nanotechnology–Tapani Ryhanen, Nokia’s head of global nanotech research, told ZDNet UK that the same story could be told…
Video: Darla Mack unboxes a very rare pink Nokia N95
Haha, she said multimedia computer: Congratulations Darla! Looks like the limited edition packaging is only being given to bloggers. What do I have to do to score one? 😉
N93i bug: It turns itself off
My days with the Nokia N93i are ending, it’s going to be sent back on Monday. One thing that I’ve been experiencing is shutdowns when closing the device. For those of you unfamiliar with the Nokia N93i, it is a clamshell form factor device. I’m a pretty strong guy, not like Finland’s Jouko Ahola, but…
Nokia is betting on phone replacements to gain market share
Red Herring: Nokia, the world’s largest cell phone maker, expects replacement sales of cell phones to continue gaining share of the total market in 2007, it said in its filing with U.S. officials on Monday. Nokia said it expects consumers replacing their old cell phones to represent more than 65 percent of the device industry…
A few Nokia rumours floating around
It all started with this one guy who made a comment on my "Nokia N81 exists" post: I have seen it today in a Nokia meeting… It was company confidential so I have not pics, but to my taste it is too big.. There was other interesting ones as: – 6267,– the three versions of…
HP’s future smartphone?
The new concept design by Teague called “Data Center Communications Vision of the Future Server” won the “If Design” award at this years CeBIT. The image shows a device that should enable IT personnel to “monitor data center equipment, diagnose and track problems, and perform system services.” The way I see it, it looks like…