Nokia today announced that the N900 will be available in Vodafone UK stores from 7th January 2010, and from Carphone Warehouse stores in the UK as of 26 December 2009. The N900 will be available from £35 on a 24 month contract and both are now taking pre-orders. The N900 is also available to pre-order…
Nokia: We’re going to be at Mobile World Congress, kind of; we have free booze so please come!
Earlier this year Nokia said that they weren’t going to bother attending Mobile World Congress 2010, citing that they would rather spend their marketing budget on their own event, Nokia World. Looks like Finland partially changed their mind; Nokia is going to be in Barcelona during Mobile World Congress, but they’re not going to have…
GetJar furious that Nokia claims they’re the second largest App Store, Nokia confesses their mea culpa
GetJar, an App Store filled with mainly J2ME and Flash Lite applications, is furious that Tero Ojanperä, Executive Vice President of Services at Nokia claimed that Nokia’s App Store, with nearly a million downloads a day, is second only to Apple’s App Store. GetJar does 1.7 million downloads a day, and they don’t host wallpapers…
Nokia N79, N85 and 5530 get firmware updates
Nokia has released updates for three of its Symbian S60 smartphones. Without further ado, here they are: Nokia N79 – after the update, the N79’s firmware reaches version 32.001. Details on what’s new are unknown at the stage, as we still haven’t seen the full change log. However, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t hit the…
Video: HTML5 SVG and Canvas support shown in Firefox on Nokia’s N900
In 5 years we’ll all be looking at the dedicated application stores of today and laugh at how fucking stupid we once were. The only reason developers care about app stores, the ONLY reason, is the ability to monetize their applications. Once operators make a billing element which taps into the SIM card that can…
Nokia 7230 with AT&T 3G gets FCC approval
Nokia 7230, the Finnish company’s recently announced stylish low-end 3G slider, has been caught on its way to conquering the U.S. market. The version of the device that FCC got to play with comes with 3G radio that sings on AT&T’s and Rogers Wireless’ bands – 850/1900 MHz. However, that doesn’t mean AT&T or Rogers…
Nokia Messaging for social networks updated with Twitter support, better Facebook integration
Nokia Beta Labs has released an updated version of Nokia Messaging for social networks. Still in beta (hence it’s released by Nokia Beta Labs), the newly released application brings Twitter support, allowing you to keep up with your friends right from the homescreen of your Nokia smartphone, via widget. In addition, Facebook support has been…
Brief: Nokia N900 coming soon on Vodafone UK!
Good spot by Mobileburn – they’ve seen that Vodafone UK now has a dedicated page up for the impending arrival of the Nokia N900! It’s interesting to see a carrier picking up should I suppose be considered the premier device by the Finnish giant – even if it is with quite some lag in time…
Nokia to lay off 2,000 people at their Salo factory in Finland
YLE, think of them as the Finnish version of the BBC, has just discovered that on Monday Nokia is planning to announce that they’re going to lay off 2,000 people working at the Salo factory located in Finland. The lay offs will be cyclical, meaning no one person will be laid off for more than…
Nokia releases iSync plug-ins for N97 mini and X6
For its Mac-ownin’ customers, Nokia has released the official iSync plug-ins for the N97 mini and X6. Yap, that means these two smartphone can now sing along your beloved computer, while keeping your Address Book and Calendar entries in sync. The two mentioned plugins are available for download from this page on Nokia’s website… [Via:…