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Emerging markets are where the battle for the next generation of mobile consumers is currently taking place, and India, with their population of over 1.1 billion, is ripe for the taking for those who can fight on factors such as price, distribution, and better understanding of customer needs. Nokia used to dominate India, and at…
All Nokia N900 owners I’ve met love their stellar smartphone. Let’s face it – the user interface is not on par with what the iOS and Android-based smartphones are offering, but the N900 is more hackable than any other handset on the market. That said, we’re glad to report that someone managed to port Android…
Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, former Nokia CEO, has been living quite the mundane life these days as Stephen Elop, former Microsoft exec, has taken over the show in Espoo. So what does a man do after 30 years of service to a company and then getting shafted for poor performance? Relaxing, apparently. OPK, as he’s often referred…
With the technology press constantly taking pot shots at Nokia for their terribly executed suite of online services, their outdated Symbian operating system, and the seemingly increasing amount of time it takes them to put hardware on store shelves after actually announcing it, there’s one thing the Finnish firm manages to do right and that’s…
Call it nostalgia or a desire to return to simpler days, but one French design firm is taking handsets that many of us loved in the 90s and re-releasing them with a fresh coat of paint and a set new batteries. Lëkki, which we’re not even going to pretend we know how to pronounce, began…
Nokia Beta Labs, which we think of as the Finnish company’s software R&D department, has recently updated two of its apps – Wellness Diary and Nokia Bots. The first of the two now includes a faster UI, stability and improved sharing amongst other things. Moreover, this release also includes tips on how to use and…
The first Symbian^3 device to ship from Nokia, the N8, has been a mixed success. The Finnish handset maker claims that it set a record in terms of preorders, but failed to provide any hard sales numbers. Early reviews say the hardware is beautiful, the camera is the best on the market, but the operating…
Ever since Stephen Elop became the CEO of Nokia earlier this year, many in the industry have suspected that he’ll use his former ties with Microsoft to get the Finnish handset firm to start making Windows Phone 7 powered smartphones. It’s a rumors that has popped up week after week, month after month, and now…
With less than 10 days to go until Christmas, is there someone out there you forgot to buy a present for? Fear not, because Nokia USA is offering the Nokia N8 for only $399. All you have to do is go to nokiausa.com, find the N8, add it to your shopping cart, then use promotion…
The never ending battle over patents continues in the mobile industry, more specifically the case between Apple and Nokia. Both are suing each other for infringing patents, and Nokia just announced that they’ve found even more patents that Apple has violated, bringing the total to 37. “These actions add 13 further Nokia patents to the…