Cellular News: Canada’s Rogers Wireless has announced the launch of a specially modified Nokia handset which is aimed at customers with vision loss. The Nokia 6682RVI, equipped with Nuance TALKS software from Nuance Communications essentially turns the Nokia 6682RVI handset into a "talking phone" by converting menus, instructions and content displayed on the screen into…
Dr. Kai Oistamo: GPS will quickly go through almost the whole of our portfolio
With the reliability of the N95 GPS system … I hope they don’t mess this one up. GPS needs to start up in less than 5 seconds or somewhere around 2400% faster than the N95.
Video: N75 reviewed
Can’t embed this, damn you BrightCove! About the only thing this guy liked was the music buttons on the front of this device. Very good rant, but I wish he didn’t compare it to the N95. Not even in the same league.
Nokia market share has dropped in India
Forbes: Nokia’s share of the Indian market has reportedly fallen from 80% of monthly handset sales last year to about two-thirds at present. Sony and Motorola are catching up. Could it be because they offer cheaper devices or their styles are more appealing to the region? Nokia devices look very Northern European: sparse, functional and…
Evening with S60 Helsinki: June 14, 2007
Huge thanks to reader R2 for finding the Evening with S60 Helsinki registration page: Hey all you S60 enthusiasts in and around Helsinki! Our "An Evening with S60" event first touched down in New York City, then Chicago, now we’re trying to score a hat trick with Helsinki! So you’re all very warming welcomed to…
Video: Conan visits Intel, maybe Nokia should invite him over?
This is pretty funny: Conan was in Finland about a year ago. While he didn’t get to tour the inside of Nokia, this is the result from his trip:
Usually I wouldn’t recommend buying things from strangers in vans, Nokia is the exception
Business Week has an article about Nokia’s efforts to sell their devices to the poorest and remote regions of India. Throw a few sub woofers in there and you’ll have a partymobile.
Is Nokia working with u-blox?
I wonder how hard it would be to find out this piece of information. Who is u-blox by the way? Check this out: u-blox 5 boasts the fastest acquisition engine in the GPS market. The u-blox 5 chip is composed of two separate engines, one devoted exclusively to acquisition and one correlator engine for tracking.…
Evening with S60 Chicago: I’m in
Do I have any readers in the area?
Two more evenings with S60: Helsinki in June, UK in October
Phil posted the information on the My-Symbian forums: If you can’t make the Chicago event, we have a Helsinki event coming in June (I’ll announce the details tomorrow probably) and London event in either September or October (I’m thinking we’ll do it the day before The Smartphone Show). More details to come! Awesome!