The Wall Street Journal takes a stab at reviewing the Nokia Booklet 3G, the first laptop to come from the Finnish handset maker hellbent on becoming an “internet company”. Katherine Boehret loves the battery life, saying “after running it through a harsh test with its screen cranked up to the brightest setting, Wi-Fi on, music…
Video: Dear Nokia: The Nokia N97 blows and you know it
I posted this video on the @IntoMobile Twitter account, which if you haven’t followed already may be due to head trauma suffered as a child, and I wasn’t going to blog it … that is until I read what Ewan MacLeod had to say about it: Brilliant, brilliant video from the Phoneage / Tehkseven chaps.…
Nokia hates counterfeiting so much that they’re starting a new company just to fight it
When you’re a company that makes revenues almost exclusively from the sale of mobile handsets, whoring of patents aside, then you take counterfeit hardware pretty seriously. In China it’s really easy to find a Nokia clone, powered by a MediaTek chipset, running some local operating system that most users in the region have no problem…
ATTN Nokia N97 users: Firmware version 20 is out
Straight from the horse’s mouth: This software release improves touch screen usability, allowing you to scroll smoothly through content by flicking the screen. Ovi Maps 3.1 brings 3-D maps, more accurate positioning, and improved search. Nokia (NYSE: NOK) e-mail (Nokia Messaging), Ovi Contacts, Ovi Store, and VoIP support have been added. This release also includes…
Video: Wired: At $650, the Nokia N900 is “a fantastic bargain”
Wired has a Nokia N900 in house (while I’m still waiting for my review unit, if it ever shows up at all) and they’ve given it a brief ~ 3 minute review. For an American publication to say that $650 is a bargain for a mobile device is shocking enough to raise my eyebrows. Also…
Brief: Hey Sweden: You’re going to have to wait until January 2010 for the Nokia N900
In yet another crude Finnish joke about Sweden, Nokia has decided to delay the N900 until the end of January 2010. That’s a full 3 months. [This new of FAIL has been brought to you by Daily Mobile]
Nokia 6788: Nokia’s first TD-SCDMA smartphone; China only, looks like a round N95 8 GB
China has their own 3G standard. First thing you may be asking yourself is why? China has always done their own thing, and by developing an alternative to WCDMA they save themselves the burden of having to pay for WCDMA royalties. Every decision in today’s mobile world, and I mean every single bloody decision from…
Nokia’s Here and Now adds movies and restaurants
Remember Nokia’s Here and Now project we covered some time ago? It has been updated recently to include movies and restaurants to the mix. This means that now (and here 🙂 ) you will also be able to check out movie listings in theaters around, as well as good places to eat — all from…
Video: How To: Create wallpapers for mobile phones with multiple home screens
A new trend in mobile phone user interfaces, possibly started by Apple, but you never really know, is to have multiple home screens. Instead of being forced to pick the most important 3 or 4 shortcuts to put on a small, pixel constrained display, one can opt to have multiple virtual screens that a user…
Brief: Nokia can’t make the Booklet 3G fast enough, demand is huge; new model planned for 2010
According to a report from Economic Daily News in China, Compal, the company that manufactures the Booklet 3G for Nokia by making people work in hellish conditions while earning terrible wages just so you can enjoy your third laptop purchase in 18 months, can’t keep up with the pace of demand for the device. They’re…