Nokia X3 — the non-3G music-centric slider that was announced at this year’s Nokia World in Stuttgart, Germany — has been cleared by the FCC. We don’t have a clue whether some carrier will pick it up, but with this clearance – it’s officially ready for the U.S. market. Since there are no 3G radios…
Video: Opera Mobile 10 Beta being demoed on a Nokia N97
Waking up and receiving good news doesn’t happen often enough, so when I opened my crusty teared eyes at 10 in the morning (Helsinki time) and got this press release in the mail, I hit the roof. Opera, the Norwegian company we all love, makers of the Opera desktop browser, Opera Mobile for Windows Mobile,…
Video: Mozilla Firefox for Maemo Beta 4 running on a Nokia N900
Jay Sullivan, Vice President of Mobile at Mozilla, runs through Firefox for Maemo on the Nokia N900 in the video below and shows off how tabs work, the “awesome bar”, and extensions. You may be asking yourself what’s the point of Mozilla building Firefox for Mobile? WebKit has the largest share of the mobile browser…
Nokia, Qualcomm, AT&T: It isn’t news, stop telling me it is
I’ve received enough emails and tweets pointing me to an article VentureBeat published titled “Nokia to invade U.S. market — will launch new phone with AT&T” that I feel compelled to tell you why I didn’t write about it on IntoMobile. It isn’t news. Period. Here is the original press release detailing the plans Nokia…
Video: Nokia N900 running Windows 3.11!
We dig the idea of Nokia N900’s expandable feature set. And to prove just how tweaking-friendly the Maemo-powered device is, this guy managed to make it run the good ol’ Windows 3.11. Yap, you’ve read that correctly – it’s running Win 3.11 from DOS. But I said enough, just watch the video and enjoy! 😉…
BREAKING: Nokia to kill N-Gage in September 2010
Nokia just posted an entry to their N-Gage blog saying that the N-Gage publishing platform is going to die in less than a year. Games will now be sold through the Ovi Store, which on face value makes sense, giving consumers a single location to purchase applications, whether that be a new alarm clock, or…
There is only one way someone can beat Google at the mapping game now
Yesterday Google launched Google Maps Navigation for Android 2.0 and with it crushed the stock prices of Tom Tom and Garmin, makers of dedicated navigation devices. The question of whether or not we’ll see Google Maps Navigation come to other platforms has yet to be answered, but knowing Google’s previous moves in the mapping space,…
Nokia Surge Arrives on Rogers
As expected, the Nokia Surge 6790 has arrived on Rogers for the rabid texters out there. An unexpected bonus is a cheaper price point than the originally anticipated: a mere $29.99 on three-year contract. This is one of the cheapest new smartphones you’ll find out there, though the form factor might seem awkward to a…
T-Mobile UK launching Nokia 5800, Comes with Music included, on November 1st for free on contract
T-Mobile UK will be offering a special, Chrome coloured (not pictured above, but just imagining what it would look like makes me go ewww), edition of the Nokia 5800 on Sunday, sources tell Mobile Entertainment. The device will be free on a 2 year contract, 30£/month. Note that the Comes with Music subscription only lasts…
Jan Ole Suhr, the man behind Gravity: “More than 90% of my revenue comes from my website”
While listening to All About Symbian podcast epsiode 154, one sound bite jumped out at me. At around 21 minutes and 20 seconds in, Rafe Blandford asked Jan Ole Suhr, the one man development shop who is best known for his Twitter client called Gravity, what is the revenue split from the Ovi Store, Handango,…