Staska from Unwired View lives in Lithuania and the poor guy can’t get the latest TV shows and movies from America, so he has to resort to piracy. I do the same thing from here in Finland, but to be honest even when I was living in America I pirated the living hell out of…
Nokia Comes with Music only has 107,227 users after being operational for one year
Nokia’s Comes with Music, an idea I’ve been shitting on since the day it was announced, is a scheme thought up by executives in Finland to offer devices for around 110 EUR more than they should cost and in return you get one year of unlimited DRM infected downloads. The whole concept seemed as if…
Nokia’s Executive game of musical chairs: CFO Rick Simonson to head Devices Unit on November 1st
During Nokia’s Q3 conference call (see my live blog here) the company alluded to some changes in management. They didn’t exactly specify what was going to change, that is until this morning when they issued this press release: Nokia today announced some changes in the roles of its Group Executive Board members. Rick Simonson, currently…
Is this the Nokia N920?
We’ve no doubts Nokia plans to invest heavily in its Linux-based Maemo platform. Their N900 is certainly one of the best mobile phones on the market today and on that note we bring you this story/rumor, which involves the next generation of the company’s Internet Tablet devices. What you see above is apparently the Nokia…
Bell’s HSPA Launch List Leaks: Bold 9700, iPhone 3GS, and More
Canadian carriers Bell and Telus have been preparing to flip on the GSM switch on their currently CDMA-only networks, but we’ve heard remarkably little about what exactly they’ll be offering when HSPA becomes an option for them. Lucky for us, some generous tipsters have provided us with the list to date, along with associated price…
ATTN DE, FR, IT, SE, NL, PL, ES and UK: 15% off Nokia’s online store for the next 7 days
Attention German, French, Italian, Swedish, Dutch, Polish, Spanish and British IntoMobile readers: Nokia is offering 15% off their online store until October 21st. Go buy something nice for yourself, or a present for someone this holiday season. Shame this doesn’t work for Finland of all places, grrr, this country never gets anything cheap. Nothing. Nada.…
Screenshot: Nokia N900 running on T-Mobile’s 3G network = 2.26 Mb/s down, 0.34 Mb/s up
Mark Guim from The Nokia Blog just came back from Amsterdam after attending the 2009 Maemo Summit. Everyone who attended got a Nokia (NYSE: NOK) N900, which has 1700 MHz 3G support by the way; the weird band that only T-Mobile (NYSE: DT) USA is using at the moment. How fast does that sucker go?…
Nokia’s Q3: The company shipped 108.5 million fones and lost $5.87 on each one; Finland bleeding
Nokia’s Q3 numbers are out and they’re bloody. This is the first quarter I can remember in a long time when the company did not post a profit. Update: This is Nokia’s first loss in a decade. They lost 426 million EUR ($636.57 million), compared to this time last year when they made 1.469 billion…
Something I just learned today: The Nokia N900 doesn’t have MMS support
That’s right, the Nokia N900, the best and brightest Finland has to offer, doesn’t do MMS and it is one of the most requested features according to Nokia Conversations. If you’re a Nokia fan who made fun of the iPhone for not doing MMS back in 2007, then you pretty much have to shut your…
Nokia: We have $350 million to invest in payments, analytics, advertising, gaming and virtual worlds
At the VentureWire Technology Showcase in Redwood City, California today, Nokia Executive Vice President and Chief Development Officer Mary McDowell, openly said that the company’s internal investment group called “Nokia Growth Partners” is looking to pour some money into companies that are working on “payments and transactions, analytics and advertising, gaming and virtual worlds”. Nokia…