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Last week we broke news about Peter Skillman, one of the brains behind the gorgeous and functional interface of Palm’s webOS that sadly failed to take on because it was running on half baked hardware, joining Nokia to try and make MeeGo the best mobile operating system on the market. He’ll soon be moving to…
Nokia’s Ovi Store has been recently updated and (I guess) optimized to sing along the latest Symbian^3 smartphones such as the Nokia N8 and the newly announced E7, C6 and C7. As far as I’ve understood, the new mobile client will work on all S60 touchscreen phones, though I may be wrong (I have no…
Nokia has been really pushing its marketing campaign for the N8 with tons of videos – both about the device and videos shot with the device. This time, Nokia, with the help of some friends, has filmed “Dot.” It’s a cute little stop motion film about a really miniscule character. What really gets me is…
Clamshells, or what some people refer to as flip phones, were a big thing in the pre iPhone era, but for some reason or another they lost their sex appeal with people instead opting to have a large sheet of glass in their pocket to poke and prod at. In 2009 the movie Star Trek…
Nokia has updated its popular mapping and navigation client – Ovi Maps. Version 3.06 packs tons improvements (much more than one would expect from a 0.01 update), including: Refreshed main menu and icons New maps with public transport lines for subways, trams and trains in more than 80 cities around the world. To use this…
Foursquare, a service mainly used by hipsters or people who don’t having anything spectacularly meaningful in their life and thus need to acquire emotional reinforcement from icons with funny captions created by previously said mentioned hipsters, has a native iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, and even Palm webOS application, but nothing for Symbian. That says a lot…
London is Nokia’s turf this week, as the Finns hold their annual Nokia World conference in the UK. But, if you were to ask HTC, the “game” of mobile tech one-up-manship is afoot! HTC decided to hold their London-based press event on Day 2 on Nokia World, with the intention of unveiling the HTC Desire…
About a month ago Nokia launched the X3 Touch and Type, the first touch screen based Series 40 device [read: dumb phone aka feature phone] with a touch screen. Today they’re launching the second of such style of device, the C3 Touch and Type. Unlike the X3, the C3 has a standard T9 keypad. It’s…
Nokia launched a couple high-level Symbian^3 smartphones at Nokia World, but the Nokia C6 (C6-01) shows that the Finns haven’t forgotten their entry-level customer base. While the Nokia E7, C7, and N8 rule the upper end of the smartphone spectrum, the Nokia C6 brings Symbian^3 to the lower range. We had a chance to go…
Nokia has released a beta version of their Ovi Maps application that finally brings it somewhat on par with what Google has been offering for some time now. With version 3.06 there’s pinch to zoom support added, sadly only for Symbian^3 devices though, the ability to check-in to various location based services such as Foursquare…