I can not believe what I just heard while listening to music this morning. Nokia is advertising their “Comes with Music” service on Spotify. That would be like Boeing putting up a billboard on the opposite side of the Taliban’s cave advertising free flying lessons. Or it would be like MySpace telling everyone who just…
Nokia 6750 Launches on Rogers With Shiny Coloured Lights
Rogers is carrying a new low-key Nokia flip, the 6750. It’s got a big keyboard for easy texting, various-coloured LEDs on the external display (blue, orange, pink, green, purple and red), a 2.0 megapixel camera, 2-inch screen, and GPS with Ovi Maps. It also has Stereo Bluetooth, a 3.5mm headphone jack and a microSD memory…
Nokia X6 on sale in UK this Friday!
Nokia has announced that its latest flagship music device, the Nokia X6, will be available in the UK this Friday. Available with Nokia’s all you can eat music service, Comes With Music, the Nokia X6 will be available exclusively through Phones4U from Friday 27 November 2009. The new Nokia X6 is available free from £35…
Nokia and Infineon to work together on HSPA, LTE chips and creating the LTE Advanced standard
Nokia and Infineon are going to be working together to create HSPA and LTE chips. Nokia will be handling the modem side, while Infineon will be dealing with the hard part, the RF implementation. Since Nokia got rid of their ASIC designers back in August 2007, the Finnish company been partnering with everyone in the…
Brief: Nokia getting rid of 220 employees in Japan working on R&D, brings total to 550
Just last week we reported that Nokia will be cutting 330 jobs in Finland and Denmark, jobs in the company’s R&D department. Today Nokia has announced that they’re letting go of 220 more R&D employees, this time in Japan: Nokia reduces R&D operations in Japan Tokyo, Japan – As part of its global efforts to…
Nokia N86 Finds its Way to Rogers: $99.99 On Contract
As promised, the Nokia N86 is now available at Rogers for $99.99 on a three-year contract after rebates. That price point is a sweet spot for a handset with an impressive 8 megapixel camera, full-bodied smartphone OS, and a form factor that still appeals to the feature phone crowd. Rogers is really going to have…
Nokia 7230: $150, 3G, 3.2 megapixel camera, 3.5 mm headphone jack
Along with the Nokia 6700 Slide that was announced today, Nokia also unveiled the 7230. This 100 EUR ($150) dumb phone has a 2.4 inch screen with 240 x 320 pixels of resolution and 262,000 colours, a 3.2 megapixel camera, 860 mAh battery, quadband GSM/EDGE, and triband WCDMA. There will be a WCDMA 850/1900/2100 MHz…
Nokia 6700 Slide: Aluminum, 5 megapixel camera, looks like a Microsoft Zune, Symbian, $240
Nokia has just announced the 6700 Slide, a Symbian powered smartphone coming to market in the first quarter of 2010 for 160 EUR ($240) before taxes and subsidies. For that amount of money you get a 5 megapixel camera, 2.2 inch screen with 240 x 320 pixels of resolution, 860 mAh (tiny!) battery, quadband GSM/EDGE…
Data hogs: iPhone accounts for 50% of global smartphone traffic
The iPhone is a data hog. Just ask AT&T and their strained 3G data network. Data-hungry iPhone users seemingly aren’t able to satisfy their thirst for online information. They’re so ravenous for the all things internet that, according to AdMob, the iPhone accounts for 50% of all smartphone web traffic around the globe. Here, in…
Brief: eXpansys have new Nokia E72 in stock!
You might have seen Stefan’s post recently, mentioning that the Nokia E72 is finally in stores (and long while after it was announced, judging by the dates given) – well, eXpansys have just pinged me an email to let me know that they have the Nokia E72 in stock – at a pretty reasonable £349.99!…