Well if you’re anything like me, you probably watch music videos a little too carefully at times – granted, some of you might be looking at the lovely ladies that tend to appear in these vids – me, I’m looking for Mobile devices! The likes of Nokia, Motorola, and a few other famous names have…
Get free Ovi Maps Navigation on your Nokia N97 now (because waiting isn’t fun)
Nokia is bringing their Ovi Maps Navigation service to the Nokia N97 (along with a slew of other Nokia smartphones) on January 28th, but you don’t have to wait for the official update to start playing with free GPS navigation on your N97. Nokia N97 Blog has posted instructions for getting Nokia’s Ovi Maps installed…
Nokia looking for American methamphetamine users to bring out the full potential of the N900
One would think that a press release, written by a multinational multibillion dollar company, would have been screened for spelling mistakes before being published. That wasn’t the case this morning: Nokia competition challenges US tweekers and modders to imagine new possibilities for Nokia N900 “Nokia PUSH N900 MOD IN THE USA” Call for Entries –…
Brief: Motorola suing David Hartsfield, former VP of Handsets, in order to prevent him from joining Nokia
David Hartsfield used to work for Motorola. He worked there for 10 years. He was responsible for CDMA device development and even worked on projects such as the Motorola Droid. David was recently hired by Nokia. His title? Vice President of Nokia’s CDMA segment. If that isn’t corporate backstabbing then I don’t know what is.…
1,200 employees stage protest at Nokia’s Chennai factory
Nokia India decided to suspend 60 people working at their factory in Chennai due to “acts of serious misconduct” and that triggered nearly 1,200 employees to stage a protest. Those Nokia N97 Minis and N900s don’t make themselves you know, production has been slowed and the company hopes that things will be “resolved soon”. I…
Nokia’s big press event was to announce a new version of Ovi Maps, now with free navigation
Nokia got everyone’s panties wet when they invited several journalists and bloggers from all around the world to attend a virtual press event related to Ovi. We all thought Nokia was going to fix their troubled, border line retarded, Ovi Store, or better integrate their various scattered Ovi services, but we were all wrong. Nokia…
Nokia N900 gets another firmware update
On the heels of the previous, minor firmware upgrade, Nokia has released a new update for its N900 smartphone/Internet tablet. After the update is complete, you’ll find your device running firmware version 1.1 (up from 1.0.1) with improvements being made across the board. A number of bugs have been fixed, and many of the features…
Brief: Nokia: Something is going down in about 15 hours and 30 minutes
Nokia just launched a website counting down to an event that’s going to take place in 15 hours and 30 minutes. It’s got something to do with Ovi, so you’ll have to forgive me for not wanting to stay awake until 3 in the morning Texas time just to tell you about some new service…
Nokia USA selling 5530 XpressMusic Games Edition bundled with 20 games
In an effort to make its handsets more appealing to the U.S. consumers, Nokia is bundling the all-touchscreen 5530 XpressMusic with 20 games, 10 of them coming from Gameloft and 10 from EA Mobile. This special device is called “Games Edition” and it costs only $10 more — $299 as opposed to $290. That’s the…
Nokia Software Updater gets Windows 7 support, more robust USB connection
Nokia Beta Labs has unveiled a new version of the Nokia Software Updater, which now works with Windows 7. In addition, they say USB connection is improved to be more robust, and the “What’s New” service is translated in more languages. The “official blog post” continues saying that the release is almost ready to go…