Nokia isn’t just the largest mobile phone maker in the world (although, they’re bleeding market share like a hemophiliac heavyweight boxer), they also hold a lot of technology patents that make the wireless world go ’round. And, Nokia doesn’t like it when other companies use their intellectual property without paying their dues. Today, Nokia has…
Video: Nokia’s Ovi Store needs to fix the fundamentals
Folks of The Really Mobile Project wanted to show just how horrible experience Nokia’s Ovi Store provides. To illustrate their hassle in buying a Twitter client, they made a short video above. As you can see for yourself, something’s fundamentally wrong with the Ovi Store. I’ve no doubts the issues raised will be fixed in…
Helsinki Nokia N900 Meetup: The Maemo guys have heart, but is that enough?
I just came back from the first of six international Nokia N900 meetups. The Helsinki event took place in none other than the Nokia Flagship Store, a shop that I used to visit quite often during my usual daily strolls down main street, but have lately been ignoring due to Nokia’s present uninspiring portfolio of…
UK: The N in Nokia’s Nseries stands for not recommended
Long time Nokia fanbois and fangirls know that Nokia’s Nseries devices pack the latest hardware and software inside, albeit at the cost of some instability, while the Eseries packs the hardware and software from the previous generation, but thankfully has been matured and made highly stable, and finally the numbered devices, 6220 Classic for example, are…
Nokia is planning something on Thursday in London
Nokia (NYSE: NOK)’s word of mouth marketing team are up to their silly little tricks again, this time staging an event in London for a select group of 10 mobile bloggers this Thursday. The invitation is one big arrow shaped box and comes with a Nokia N97 inside. “The Nokia Signpost opening on the 23rd…
Leaked: Nokia 2200 Slide: S40, low resolution screen, VGA camera, but pretty in pink
The Nokia 2200 Slide has been leaked and it’s nothing you iPhone packing, Nokia Nseries toting, HTC Android (or Windows Mobile) powered fanbois have to worry about in terms of shrinking your e-penis. What we’re looking at is a S40 powered slider with a 128 x 160 resolution screen, dual band GSM/EDGE capability on the…
Brief: Nokia files trademark for “Ovi Prime Place”, no idea what that could mean
Aleksi Moisio, a writer for Talous Sanomat, a Finnish publication, who was the first to tell IntoMobile about Nokia’s previously filed trademarks: Xseris, Cseries, Netbook and Money, brings news of a new trademark that was filed in Finland on October 14th: Ovi Prime Place. We have absolutely no idea what Prime Place actually is, or…
Brief: Nokia and TANLA sign 5 year agreement to work on mobile payments
Looks like Obopay isn’t the only parter Nokia is going to be working with on providing mobile payments. Today Nokia signed a 5 year agreement with TANLA, an Indian company, to provide a “mobile payment service to enable on device transactions”. Tanla’s service works in 160 countries and can use both operator billing and credit…
Video: Nokia N900 running Google Wave
We’ve already seen how to BitTorrent stuff from the Internet with the Nokia N900. Now we have a video of the same device running Google’s latest product – Wave. As you’re about to see, things don’t run too smoothly — there’s some lag between the keyboard and text box — but overall the experience is…
Nokia Musical Chairs Update: Jo Harlow to head Smartphones, John Martin to head Mobile Computers
Earlier today I posted the press release that Nokia issued this morning about Rick Simonson leaving his post as CFO to head the mobile phones unit. Reuters managed to digg up some more details. The Devices Unit is now split into three subunits, not two as I said this morning. Mobile Phones, which does S30 and…