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One of the main reasons people still prefer to buy a Nokia rather than something from a competitor is their consistently amazing build quality. For all the potshots we like to take at Symbian, the death of MeeGo, and the decision to bet the farm on Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system, there’s something to be…
Earlier this week Nokia unveiled the N9, both their first and last device to be built using the MeeGo operating system. To say the internet went wild over this thing would be an understatement. Vlad Savov from Engadget penned an editorial about 15 hours ago wondering why Nokia is giving up this fine platform; his…
During the 2010 Mobile World Congress Google showed off a prototype of Google Goggles that would capture text written in German and then translate it to English. Using optical character recognition (OCR), combined with a translation service that lived in the cloud, Google essentially enabled you to translate signs, labels, and documents you interacted with…
HTC South Korea has just announced a new device called the EVO 4G+ that looks a lot like something we’re soon due to get in the states, the EVO 3D. We wouldn’t hold it against you if you failed to tell the difference between the two smartphones, because based on looks alone they’re practically twins.…
At some point in 2012, we expect AT&T’s acquisition of T-Mobile to be approved and the first steps of the process of integrating the two networks to take place. Among the many people who disapprove of this deal, Sprint has the most to lose. Dan Hesse, Sprint’s CEO (pictured above), has been touring the country…
Several hours before Nokia Connection 2011 kicked off in Singpore, leaked press images of what we now know to be the Nokia N9 hit the internet. One thing we immediately noticed was that it looked nothing like the device we’ve been calling the Nokia N9 since August 2010. Said 10 month old images showed a…
Felipe Contreras, a Senior Software Engineer at Nokia who lives in Finland and works on hardware adaptation for MeeGo, meaning he’s part of the team who makes sure MeeGo will properly run on shipping silicon, said in a blog post yesterday that he received an email from Stephen Elop, Nokia’s CEO, that one of MeeGo’s…
Inside Nokia’s newly announced N9 is a 1 GHz Texas Instruments OMAP3630 with a PowerVR SGX530 GPU and an 8 megapixel camera. Compared the dual core superphones that are already out on the market, it isn’t the fastest device on the planet, but Nokia thinks they’ve optimized the N9 so well that when it eventually…
Earlier this week Nokia held their annual Nokia Connection conference in Singapore where they unveiled the N9, which is both the first and last smartphone they’ll make running the MeeGo operating system. Back in February Nokia announced that they’re going to scrap their plans to use Symbian for low to mid range handsets and MeeGo…
Several hours ago Nokia unveiled the N9 to the world. Forget the hardware specs and the fact that it runs an OS that the Finnish handset maker refuses to support for a minute and just look at how gorgeous the device is. Notice something that’s different about it compared to just about every other mobile…