Chalk this bit of news as an awesome sign of what the future of Nokia under Stephen Elop. Peter Skillman, the dude who made the user interface for the Palm Pre, you know, the whole instant search, cards, awesome notification system, synergy, and a boat load of other sweet things that we’re seeing Google throw…
Nokia Chairman Jorma Ollila Stepping Down in 2012
There is a major shift happening at Nokia these days with executives leaving the company, and this time it’s Jorma Ollila who will be leaving his post in 2012. This announcement has been made shortly after the news that CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo will be leaving on September 20 to be replaced by Microsoft executive Stephen…
Hands-on and first impressions of the Nokia C7 Symbian^3 smartphone
The new Nokia C7 is, by all measures, a lesser smartphone than the Nokia N8 – which is Nokia’s Symbian^3 flagship, due to hit market in the coming weeks. The C7 has a down-rated camera and less onboard storage than the N8, but that doesn’t mean the C7 is a bad phone. Nokia announced today…
Nokia Picks on Apple and Google, Sells 260,000 Phones Per Day
Nokia World 2010 is alive and well, and VP Niklas Savander wasted no time in talking up the brand as well as taking unrelenting jabs at Apple and Google. According to Savander, Nokia sold 260,000 phones per day during the summer, and he says that those figures are more than the iPhone and Android handsets…
Hands-on: Nokia E7 – The Symbian^3 successor to the 9000 Communicator
If you ever thought to yourself that you’d love to see Nokia produce a successor to the brick-sized Nokia 9000 Communicator that Val Kilmer used in The Saint, your wishes have been granted in the just-announced Nokia E7. At the Nokia World 2010 London keynote today, Nokia officially announced the E7, among other phones, as…
Dow Jones Indexes: Nokia is the world’s most sustainable technology company, again!
Nokia has for the second time in row topped a Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes Review and is recorded as the most sustainable technology company. The Finnish giant won the “Technology Supersector Leader” crown, making it number one across the entire global technology sector. Mentioned Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes are well-known rankings based on a thorough…
Nokia C6-01: Like the regular C6, but without the QWERTY keyboard [Symbian^3, 260 EUR]
While watching Anssi Vanjoki introduce 3 new devices at Nokia World today, I had a Skype chat window open and one of the first things ex-blogger Ricky Cadden said when the C6-01 was revealed was “wtf, isn’t the C6 already out?” That pretty much sums up this device. It’s the C6 that was launched during…
Nokia C7: 3.5 inch screen, Symbian^3, 8 megapixel camera, 335 EUR
One of the three devices announced at Nokia World today was the much leaked C7. We’ve seen this puppy before several times, and now that’s it is official we’re happy to tell you what’s what. It has a 3.5 inch screen, 640 x 360 pixels, comes with 8 GB of memory inside, has an 8…
Nokia E7: Symbian^3, QWERTY, 4 inch screen, 495 EUR
Anssi Vanjoki was on stage at Nokia World this morning to announce a range of Symbian^3 smartphones, and the biggest, meanest, baddest of the bunch is the E7. It has a 4 inch screen, will ship by the end of this year, and cost 495 EUR before taxes and subsides. It’s expensive, sure, but what…
Video: Concept ad for Nokia’s NFC payment service
My eyeballs nearly fell out of their sockets after watching a video posted by the boys and girls over at Engadget that shows a demonstation for “Nokia Swipe”, a mobile payments system that uses NFC based technology, but then I clicked through to where the video was hosted and was saddened to see that it’s…