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So you’ve been waiting for the Nokia N8 and things are getting a little more tense since we announced that it was shipping September 30. Fret not, as the date hasn’t changed, but now the touchscreen Symbian^3 handset has been priced at $549. The price is a little steep, yes, and with no word on…
China is famous for exporting 3 things: delicious food, communism, and mobile phones that look remarkably similar to devices sold in the west, but are sold for far cheaper since they’re nothing but clones built in shady factories that the government turns a blind eye to. With the release of the Nokia E68, or Nokla…
Nokia’s most important event of the year, dubbed Nokia World, will begin next week in London and sources who have spoken to Reuters say that the E7, along with other smartphone models, will be announced at the show. If true, and we have no reason to believe otherwise, then the E7 will become the first…
The results of Economic Times-Brand Equity’s annual “Most Trusted Brands” survey for 2010 in India are here and they say Nokia is the country’s most trusted brand, again. The Finnish company has appeared in the survey from 2005, and has held the first position since the year 2008. From the rest of the press release…
Nokia’s upcoming N8 will be shipping on September 30 to those who had pre-ordered, according to Senior Communications Manager Tapani Kashkinen. There are some Google ads showing up that say that it will be shipping even earlier to UK buyers on September 23, though it confirms they’re a week early. The last rumours we had…
Nokia, the world’s largest handset maker who has been struggling in their attempt to launch an attractive set of consumer facing services, has announced that they’re going to shut down Ovi Files on October 1st. Similar to Dropbox, one of the most popular cloud based storage solutions, Ovi Files let you store and access your…
As more and more screenshots emerge for the MeeGo operating system, we’re becoming quietly optimistic because it’s looking pretty darn good. You may recall that MeeGo is a new smartphone OS from Intel and Nokia and it merges the Maemo and Moblin platforms. It is expected to be a modern OS on par with the…
I’m not sure is this a part of Nokia’s official N8 campaign or not but I love it, nonetheless. Sure, some hamster-lovin’ folks could find this insulting and semi-legal, but bare in mind that hamster would run anyways — whether charging the phone or not. Considering the N8 is still not widely available I would…
Nokia is launching its first phones with dual SIM capability, C1-00 and C2, in India. The news doesn’t come as a surprise as both devices are low-end and should sell like hot cupcakes in the ever growing mobile phone market of the world’s second most populous country. The first of the two, Nokia C1-01 will…
Nokia’s E72, the successor to the much loved E71, just got a firmware upgrade and with it brings compatibility with Office 2007 files, a newer version of the browser, and an update to the built in music player. If you have the E72 then hook it up to your PC and download the Software Updater.…