There are a lot of “he said, she said” rumours flying around about Nokia making dual SIM card equipped devices next year. After Dusan’s post a few minutes ago I was determined find the sound bite confirming Nokia’s commitment to bringing dual SIM devices to market. Here is a quote from a speech Kai Öistämö,…
Nokia dual SIM phones coming in Q2 2010?
File this under “rumors,” but since it’s coming from always highly-informed Mobile Review’s Eldar Murtazin, I’m thinking there’s some merit to this story. And the story is – Nokia will be launching dual SIM phones at some point next year. That “some point” is the second quarter according to Eldar, who added that the Finnish…
Nokia N82, N95 and N95 8GB firmwares updated to v35
Three Nokia phones have been blessed with a new firmware update. Affected devices include the Nokia N95, N95 8GB and N82, all of which will get the firmware version 35.0.001 after the process is completed. At the moment, we’re not sure what’s included in the latest firmware, but we’re guessing some of the known bugs…
Nokia UK announces winners of ‘Calling All Innovators’ competition
In September 2009 Nokia launched the Calling All Innovators competition, which was a search for talented UK developers to create the next big thing in mobile applications, and the winners have now been announced. Taking the top prize is woZZon (from Wozzon Ltd), with the woZZon search engine that gives access to a comprehensive events…
OtterBox Launches Impact and Commuter Series Cases for the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic
For those of you that pack the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic as your weapon of choice, you’ve got some new choices when it comes to protecting your beloved device. OtterBox has just released new Impact and Commuter Series cases for the 5800, and they look pretty good (as per usual). The Impact Series case for the…
Indonesia’s Telkomsel joins the Nokia Messaging scheme
And the latest carrier that will offer Nokia Messaging to its users is… Indonesia’s Telkomsel, which users will be able to sign-up for the service starting from December 26th. Nokia’s press release says Telkomsel is the first operator in the country to offer the service, as well as the first operator worldwide to offer Nokia…
Nokia Introduces Image Space
The latest out of Nokia’s wonderful, magical Beta Labs is Image Space, which stitches together pictures shared from their phone to Flickr into a 3D environment. By combining GPS coordinates and compass metadata, pictures are arranged and overlapped with one another to create a location-contextualized slideshow. Image Space is basically identical to what Google has…
Fennec Browser “Days Away” from Launch
Firefox’s official debut on mobile is mere “days away”, according to Jay Sullivan at Mozilla. If you’ve been following the string of betas for Windows Mobile and Maemo 5, and the rumours of Android and iPhone apps, you’ll know what Fennec is all about. The status of the latter two have changed a bit, especially…
Nokia Booklet 3G available for pre-order from today!
Nokia has announced that the Nokia Booklet 3G, is available to pre-order for £649 at www.nokia.co.uk/shop today. As we all know, the Booklet has a wicked battery life and Windows 7 – but does that justify £649? Not in my book! We’ve written on the Booklet many times before, but for the sake of completeness,…
Rogers’ Holiday Webphones Available for Free
Rogers’ star holiday lineup, the white BlackBerry Bold 9000, the LG Eve, Sony Ericsson X1, HTC Magic, and Nokia N86, have been on sale for under a hundred bucks the last month or so, but just in time for the final push, they’ve knocked them all down to $0.99 on contract (yep, pretty much free).…