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In a perfect world there would be no need to code the same application to run on multiple platforms. Developers could spend their time and energy towards building new features, or make the features their application already have easier to discover. Sadly, that’s never going to happen. It was supposed to with HTML5, but it’s…
Nokia’s upcoming Symbian^3 powered E7 has found itself on American shores in a laboratory awaiting certification by the FCC according to Engadget. The sucessor to the long in the tooth E90 is expected to start shipping next month, so it may or may not hit a store shelf near you in time for Christmas. Features…
A 22 year old woman who the police are referring to as S Ambiga was involved in a lethal accident at a Nokia manufacturing plant in Sriperumbudur where she had been working for over 3 years. On Sunday, October 31st, her neck got caught in a machine located in the “loader phase-III” area of the…
MeeGo, the Linux based open source project that is being lead by Intel and Nokia with the goal of making Qt applications run on pretty much anything with a microprocessor inside, got a new friend today. Advanced Micro Devices, better known as AMD, announced at the first ever MeeGo conference that they’ll be joining the…
Nokia’s Symbian^3 powered C7, which was announced on September 14th of this year and started shipping less than a month later on the 11th of October, has a little secret. Buried inside is a chip that is capable of interacting with other devices via near field communication (NFC), but due to schedules that failed to…
These days it doesn’t matter how smart your smartphone is, when the battery dies it’s absolutely useless. It’s why RIM is so popular with the business crowd, it’s why the mainstream stayed away from the first generation of Android devices, and it’s why Apple iPhone owners buy those bulky slip on cases that have an…
Nokia has updated its Gig Finder app to make it sing along more devices, including those that run the latest version of Symbian (Symbian^3 – like the N8 and C7) as well as those running S60 3rd edition FP2 and above — yap the non-touchscreen phones are on the list, too. In addition, the new…
You might be thinking to yourself, “Why would I want Swype on my Nokia N8?” The real question is – why wouldn’t you? The text input software is hugely popular with Android users given its simplicity and ease-of-use. After all, the world record for the fastest text messages cranked out were done using Swype software.…
Nokia, along with just about every other phone manufacturer on the planet, put their devices through a series of tests to see how well they’ll stand up to every day wear and tear. Most people don’t know that, so when they see a video like the one below they walk away impressed and full of…
As spotted in their leaked Q4 roadmap, the Nokia N8 has landed on Rogers and is available today for $79.99 on contract. The Nokia N8 is a multimedia beast, whose crowning specification is a 12 megapixel camera with Carl-Zeiss lens, Xenon flash, autofocus, 720p HD video recording, and all of the balance settings you could…