Forbes: Several thousand employees at Nokia offices in the Finnish cities of Tampere and Oulo have this afternoon walked out in protest against the mobile phone maker’s employment practices, the Finnish Confederation of Salaried Employees (STTK) said. Nokia spokesperson Arja Suominen said it appears the action involves less than half of the 9,000 employees that…
Anyone read Timothy Wu’s paper on the American wireless industry?
Engadget Mobile: Do you believe that mobile carriers are to controlling in the actual design (hardware and software) of cellular handsets these days? If so, you’ll probably love an opinion paper by Columbia law professor Timothy Wu. Wu suggests that cellphone design and innovation is being inhibited by cellular service providers. We all know why…
Nokia’s CFO reaffirms what Nokia’s CEO said days ago: Average phone price will drop
Reuters: Nokia, the world’s biggest maker of mobile phones, expects industry average selling prices (ASPs) for handsets to continue to fall, Chief Financial Officer Rick Simonson said on Wednesday. Nokia and its biggest rival Motorola Inc. have seen pressure on mobile phone prices as most of growth comes from selling cheaper phones in emerging markets.…
Ask Ewan your questions about the Nokia E61i
All About Symbian: As with the E90 yesterday, we have access to an pre-release hardware version of the Nokia E61i (announced recently at 3GSM). What do you want to know about it? Let’s have your questions and see if we can calm your fears and pique your interest. Pop them in the comments and we’ll…
Using a Bluetooth headset eliminates the mechanical noise in the N93i from showing up on recordings
Great idea but I don’t see how practical this can be. The recording would pretty much be centered around your voice only. Mazor gives us all the details and a demo video below: Via: WOM World
Video: Demo of System Rush on the Nokia N95
I play this on my N93i all the time! Think Wipeout on a cell phone. I never win and usually die with in 5 minutes. Those 5 minutes however … are seizure inducing. I wish System Rush had multiplayer support, then I could play Symbian Freak!
Two more videos of the Nokia 6110 Navigator at 3GSM
Source: TechEBlog Most under rated Nokia device at 3GSM in my honest opinion.
Video: The Passenger commercial
If you haven’t checked out The Passenger yet then you haven’t been reading my blog! Darla found this great video promoting it: Click To Play I didn’t reach the end of the game, but maybe you can.
Video: Nokia N93 vs N95 vs E90 recording quality
Steve does a great job comparing 3 of Nokia’s flagship models when it comes to the quality of the video they produce. Of note is the fact the E90 doesn’t record at 30 frames per second just yet. It will when it ships hopefully. Steve reminds us: "Don’t read too much into this test –…
S60 3rd edition running on Renesas processors
I wrote about this earlier but apparently misread. Every Nokia device released running S60 uses a TI processor. Renesas, a company out of Japan, recently demonstrated S60 3rd Edition running on their SH-Mobile processor. That’s huge news folks. The official press release goes in to much more detail and actually has some interesting material on…