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Walmart and their no contract mobile service Straight Talk has finally started offering smartphones and the first two they’re bringing to the market are Nokia’s E71 and 6790, the latter most Americans know as the “AT&T Surge“. Both devices are immediately available, will cost $245 each, and require the $45/month plan that gives users an…
Strategy Analytics, an analyst firm that keeps a running tally of how everyone is doing in the mobile industry in terms of unit shipments, took out their abacus, punched some numbers, and found that 77 million smartphones shipped during the third quarter of this year. That’s up 78% compared to last year. The biggest “winner”…
While Nokia is suffering a mass exodus of execs and its latest flagship – the N8 – received horrid reviews, it’s still managing to outsell Apple’s iPhone 2 to 1 in terms of smartphones. Of course, this isn’t a surprise since the Finnish company has a tremendous global presence and is the world’s largest mobile…
Two press releases were issued right after Nokia published their Q3 2010 financial results, and there’s some good and bad news. Let’s start with the bad. Around 1,800 jobs will be eliminated, mainly from the teams working on Symbian smartphones and the folks working on Ovi services. It’s not mentioned how many will be cut…
Nokia has just posted their Q3 2010 financial results and while they’re not as bad as people thought they’d be, they’re still a little bit full of hurt. On 10.3 billion EUR worth of revenue, up 5% compared to last year, the company made 403 million EUR, which is fantastic considering the same quarter last…
Bad news Symbian fans, as Symbian Foundation CEO Lee Williams will be leaving for nebulous “personal reasons” and he will be replaced by the foundation’s CFO, Tim Holbrow. We don’t know why Lee Williams is leaving but this cannot bode well for Symbian. Lee Williams came from Nokia and was tasked with making Symbian and…
Motorola and Nokia jointly announced that the companies have entered into a 4G license agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, the two companies have extended the companies’ existing intellectual property licensing agreement to include 4G technologies, such as LTE, WiMAX and LTE-Advanced. The terms of the agreement are confidential. Plus we have comments from…
The team behind Nokia Mobile Communities keeps listening to the users and as a result they’ve launched another update to the social networking app. Here’s what the latest version brings: Ability to share the Nokia Mobile Communities app with your nearby buddies via Bluetooth. Full editing support that uses T9 and dictionary. Ability to flag…
Grandpa used to listen to AM radio, and you probably grew up with FM radio, but have you heard of DAB? It’s the newest technology to bring you sweet new music when you’re tired of the thousands of tracks on your iPhone or the millions of track that come with a premium Spotify subscription and…
Swype, the quirky way to input text whereby you draw a line from letter to letter when composing a word versus hunting and pecking for a particular key, is now available for Symbian^3 devices. There are only 2 right now, the Nokia N8 and C7, both started shipping recently, and both have identical specifications except…