Not the prettiest N95 I’ve seen, but at least it comes pretty close to looking like the original, not to scale of course. [Via: Engadget] 3 inch touch screen, not bad!
3 launches their X-Series in Italy with the Nokia N95
Bellissimo! 3, the European operator that is pushing people to use their mobile in whatever way they want, has just launched in Italy with none other than the Nokia N95! As much as I like what 3 is trying to do I’m going to have to recommend that people buy an unlocked or unbranded headset.…
Nokia invests in Kyte.tv … why?
Nokia is trying to become an internet company. We’ve heard CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo say this plenty of times. Why are they investing in Kyte however is beyond me. I installed Kyte on my mobile ages ago, when the product first came out. Think of it as an embeddable picture and video streamer. There are a…
Goodbye Matt Jones, thanks for Nokia’s internal manifesto
I’ve been reading Matt Jones blog “Black Belt Jones” for around 7 months now. He has been working at Nokia since 2003 as a Concept Development Manager and Director of User Design. It is his last week and to commemorate that he has posted the manifesto that he received when starting over 3 years ago:…
Nokia wants to make choosing software to connect your mobile to your PC as complicated as humanly possible
There is the Nokia PC Suite, The Nokia N Series PC Suite and today Darla Mack just discovered the E Series PC Suite. S60 is a platform, yet the Multimedia, Enterprise and Mobile Phones Divisions inside Nokia probably didn’t get that memo. This is a huge mess!
Bluetooth and Wibree sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g
Wibree is a technology that was developed by Nokia Research in 2001. It was made with low power in mind considering that the maximum data transfer rate is 1 Mbps, half that of Bluetooth 2.0, yet only uses 10%-25% the power of a standard Bluetooth IC. Check out this 40 minute podcast Nokia published featuring…
Prediction: Nokia is going to open a Flagship store in Shanghai
Surfing around Nokia’s Career Finder page I stumbled across the following positions, all in Shanghai: Product Specialist Sales Specialist I Sales Specialist II It isn’t a surprise to anyone that most of Nokia’s profits are being made in the Middle East and Asia. There is already a Flagship store in Hong Kong, looks like Shanghai…
Video: Next time Carphone Warehouse puts you on hold, you might be listening to this guy
Check out the vocals from this bloke in the UK. He sells cell phones for a living! Can I get a discount on the 6500 Classic, please? [Via: Alex Wrege]
Nokia Aeon: The ultimate USB key
Remember the concept phone known as the Nokia Aeon? Well the Chinese were smart enough to make a rip off. This one doesn’t make calls however, it just stores whatever it is you usually have on a usb stick:
Darwin Award: Man drowns in sewer trying to recover his mobile
Dropping your phone is bad, dropping it in a sewer is just classic. Weighing over 300 pounds and getting stuck in a man hole cover while you were trying to recover the piece of shit cell phone you could probably replace for $100 is just epic. Sometimes you just need to let things go, take…