After being open for barely 2 years, Nokia is going to shut down their Flagship Store in London because it has “not been as efficient or as profitable as we’d have liked it to” said a Nokia spokeswoman. The decision was a tough one and has “not been taken lightly” she added, saying that the…
Audio: The most painful question and answer session Nokia has ever had to go through [Ovi Store]
Listen to this MP3 file [9 minutes 53 seconds; 3.5 MB] to get a taste of one of the most brutal questions asked at Nokia’s Capital Markets Day event on Wednesday. I’ve highlighted a few quotes below: “We’ve done major architectural overhauls.” “The uptake [of the Ovi Store] took a bit longer than we expected.”…
Brief: Nokia’s Jo Harlow, Head of Mobile Phones: In 2010 our smartphone porfolio will be half as large
Nokia’s Jo Harlow, the new Head of Mobile Phones, revealed yesterday that the company’s 2010 portfolio of smartphones will be half of what it was in 2009. This year Nokia released around 20 smartphones, so half that would mean they’re going to release around 10 smartphones next year. “In fact we’ve cut the size of…
Nokia N87 12MP in works?
File this under “so not confirmed” as we’ve found a new video on YouTube apparently showing some secret Nokia document, which talks about the still unknown Nokia N87 12MP device. From there we learn that such a handset, if it’s ever released, will come with: 12.1-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and equipped with Xenon…
Let’s play spot the N97…
Okay so I don’t watch that much TV, but I within that small amount I do see, there’s probably an unhealthy ratio of RnB videos. Say what you want about my preferred genre music (I’m not fussed!), but they has been a trend in recent years for mobile devices to be shown in them quite…
New enhanced version of Shazam launched on Nokia’s Ovi Store
Shazam has just launched an enhanced version of their application and service on Nokia’s Ovi Store. Shazam, if you haven’t heard of it before, is a service that allows you to identify songs that are playing over loud speakers. Simply hold your mobile phone up to a speaker, the application then records a short sample,…
Nokia’s 2010 Goals: Fix the Symbian UI, release Maemo 6, and make more money
Today Nokia is holding their Capital Markets Day event in Espoo, Finland. It’s similar to the Nokia World event that took place in September, but instead of an having an audience of press and people working in the industry, this is an event for shareholders and analysts. Everyone is looking at Nokia, and then looking…
Nokia releases Qt 4.6, works on Symbian, Windows 7, Mac OS X 10.6, Maemo 6
Nokia purchased Qt almost 2 years ago and since then have been working tirelessly to bring the native C++ runtime, with bits of C and Webkit mixed in, to both Symbian and Maemo platforms. In a world less cruel than the one today, Nokia would write an application in Qt and it would run on…
Nokia 2720 ‘Fold’ Now Available at Fido
Yesterday you may recall me noting the Fido Nokia 2720 ‘Fold’ was available at Best Buy… As per usual, Best Buy had a device up for grabs before the carrier did… No surprise there. However, a little later in the day Fido went ahead and officially launched the device. Canadians can pick it up now…
Nokia got in trouble with Nintendo for showing off SNES on the N900 [Maemo]
Earlier this year, in September, Urho Konttori, Project Manager at Nokia, showed off a Super Nintendo emulator called DrNokSnes on his Nokia N900. The first sentence of my article highlighting that demonstration was: “The amount of lawyers with dollar bills in their eyes right now is astronomically large.” It didn’t take long for Nintendo to…