Flight departs at 16:25 CST and I arrive at JFK ~ 21:00 EST. Since my friend can’t take off work Thursday I’m going to have an entire day to kill until the S60 event at 18:30. Anyone in NYC want to do something? I can’t believe I’m going to sleep and I’ve yet to pack…
Interview: Jan Chipchase, Nokia Research
Read the whole interview, more importantly read his blog. Snippets: What exactly do you do, Jan? I work for Nokia Design. It’s a group of 250 people worldwide in Nokia that includes psychologists, industrial designers, materials experts, and people like me, anthropologists. We use human-behavioral research to think about how the future might turn out.…
Nokia China in lawsuit over Hepatitis B carrier
MSNBC: A Chinese job applicant on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against Nokia alleging that a local unit of the Finnish telecommunications equipment company refused to employ him because he is a carrier of the Hepatitis B virus. The highly unusual lawsuit underscores moves by Hepatitis B carriers to use legal channels to challenge what they…
India passes Britain in Nokia phone sales
Business Week: India has overtaken the UK in terms of mobile sales for the world’s biggest handset manufacturer, Nokia. Nokia, who sells one in three of the world’s mobile phones, has revealed the growing importance of sales in India in a recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The phone maker’s filing revealed that…
Nokia Scandinavia’s Web 2.0 Sales Store awarded for eExcellence at CeBIT
CeBIT starts on the 15th so think of this press release as something from Back to the Future: European Multimedia Associations Convention (EMMAC) has awarded Nokia the "Platinum Seal of eExcellence" – the highest of its European Seal of eExcellence awards – for the company’s Scandinavian Web 2.0 Sales Store. The European Seal of eExcellence…
The Smartphones Show 26: A must for all Nokia fans
Steve compares the Nokia N73 to the HTC STRTrK and talks about some of his favorite freeware S60 applications. I wouldn’t have compared a candy bar to a flip phone, but that’s just me. Bloglines is also something I’ve long since forgotten thanks to Google Reader. If you aren’t subscribed to his program then make…
All About Symbian reviews the Nokia N73 Music Edition
All About Symbian: As with each ‘Music/Internet Edition’ that Nokia produces, the end result is mainly an exercise in marketing, at least in that those who bought the original device certainly don’t need to upgrade, since their hardware can almost certainly be used for the same purposes. But full credit to Nokia for making the…
Video: Nokia 8910i commercial
The days before every Nokia commercial comprised of that ear wrenching Moby track were certainly grand:
Twitter: I don’t get it
Can someone show me, on video, a compelling reason why I would want to use it? Do you really care that I’m: 08:02: Eating tomatoes and feta cheese09:34: Bored in Organic Chemistry II class11:12: Protein bar and espressoetc.etc. Jonathan Greene I’m looking straight at you.
Video: Microsoft’s vision of the future
If you haven’t seen the Nokia future concept videos already then you’ve missed out on a lot. Microsoft just released their vision of what mobile communication will be like in the future. I like the projector concept and having an input device embedded into my clothes, but the whole flying doll thing creeps me out.…