Nokia will be shipping an XpressMusic device to the world’s largest mobile operator in terms of number of subscribers – China Mobile — or at least the carrier’s logo on the phone suggests so. It’s the Nokia 5132 XpressMusic, an entry-level candybar, which looks pretty much the same as Nokia’s other device – 5130 XpressMusic.…
Nokia E71’s firmware reaches version 4.0
Popular Nokia E71 got a new firmware update. Version 400.21.013 includes tons of improvements, including: Improved support for Nokia Email/Messaging Pre-installed version of Ovi Contacts (available in the Installations folder) – though without support for Yahoo or Google Talk Small updates for several apps: Internet radio, Quickoffice (5.3), Ovi Store, Email Setup Wizard, and Mail…
Brief: Rumour: Nokia to release only one device next year that runs Linux (Maemo)
“A source with direct knowledge of Nokia’s product roadmap told Reuters” that there will be only one new smartphone released in 2010 that runs on Maemo. Makes sense. Nokia 770 Internet Tablet = Announced May 25, 2005, Released November 03, 2005 13 months later … Nokia N800 Internet Tablet = Announced and made available in…
Best Buy Puts Fido Nokia 2720 Up for Sale
Best Buy seems to make a habit of releasing devices before they actually go official on the carrier. Case-in-point today is the Nokia 2720, which is due to launch on Rogers’ discount carrier, ‘Fido’ sometime in the near future (as early as today). The Nokia 2720 ‘Fold’ is available now at Best Buy for $74.99…
Video: Nokia N900 running in portrait mode
It seems you can run other things, not just the dialer and photo browser, in the portrait mode on the Nokia N900. According to Guyver at the maemo.org forums, there’s a glitch in the OS that allows for this, and we’re hoping it will be included with the next firmware update. The idea to use…
Nokia Executive Vice President Anssi Vanjoki: We may sell our handset manufacturing business
Nokia’s Anssi Vanjoki has always been the one executive from Finland who provides, on a near consistent basis, one line quotes that are ridiculously memorable. He called the camera in the iPhone a “toy camera”. When he announced Ovi in London in August 2007 and then proceeded to demo a concept of what Nokia’s touch…
Photo: In 2015 Nokia will try to remove 7 letters from the English alphabet
Fluffy public relations article was published in the Telegraph on Saturday. It talks about Nokia and how they think the future will look. In the concept photo that Nokia provided they managed to chop off a row of keys from the QWERTY keyboard. Looks like we’ll all be speaking this new Nokia version of English…
Nokia Image Exchange for S60 gets Activity Notifications
A new version of Nokia Image Exchange for S60 has been released. In addition to fixing some of the known bugs, it also adds accelerometer and support for S60 3.2 (Feature pack 2) devices. However, the single biggest feature is the all new Activity Notifications feature, which informs you about activities relating to your images…
Orange brings Nokia Messaging to Poland
Orange Poland is bringing Nokia Messaging to, well, Poland. The carrier started offering Nokia’s push-email service on November 17th, allowing users to access popular webmail services such as Gmail, Windows Live Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, Ovi Mail as well as local internet and email service providers such as Wirtualna Polska, Onet.pl, Interia, o2, home.pl and others…
Facebook app now available for Nokia E71 and E72
Up until now, Facebook app was available for S60 touch-enabled devices, only. The popular social network has released its app for two other smartphones – Nokia E71 and E72. The application allows users to do their cyber schmoozing while on the go. That includes updating your status, adding friends, sending messages, browsing and uploading photos,…