Samsung’s market cap (stock price multiplied by the number of shares the company has issued) is now pegged at $101 billion, versus Nokia at $47.2 billion. Nokia used to be at $96.5 billion during September last year, but then the economy went ahead and started binge drinking itself into a recession. During that same period…
Vertu MVNO launches in Japan: $565/month, phone not included
Last December Dusan wrote about Vertu, Nokia’s premium line of mobile phones built by hand in Britain out of extremely high quality materials, possibly starting an MVNO in Japan and opening up a store in Japan. Nearly 9 months later, it finally happened. Launching today, the Vertu MVNO will be available to customers at a…
Brief: Nokia Music Store not launching in the USA this year, pushed back to 2010
Nokia just told Forbes that the Nokia Music Store is not going to launch in America in 2009 like the company had originally said, but instead will come out some time in 2010. To the few of you that care … sorry. To the rest of you using bit torrent: always seed to a minimum…
Unannounced Nokia hits the FCC: Code name Alvin, 32 GB memory, triband WCDMA
Nokia probably hates the FCC right about now. In order to sell their mobile phones in the U S of A, they have to be certified as safe and compliant by a body of individuals who are only now trying to figure out why the North American wireless ecosystem is a load of horse shit.…
Nokia N900 image samples leak out to the internet
The Nokia N900 is now official, but you bet while the folks at Nokia have been laboring over a hot laptop, one of their test use cases was image uploading to Flickr and Ovi. Thank Mark again from The Nokia Blog for periodically checking Flickr to find out if there are any photos taken with…
Brief: Attention France: You can preorder the Nokia N900 for 649€; Italy and Germany: 600€
Last Friday I told our IntoMobile readers in Italy and Germany that they could preorder the Nokia N900. Today, the French now have a shot at securing the first Cortex A8 powered device from Nokia. Sadly, thanks to higher taxes due to socialized medicine and a 35 hour work week, along with 6 weeks a…
Photo: Nokia’s Maemo User Interface team
Behind every slick marketing video, press shot, fluffy corporate blog post, and the many other things companies feed to bloggers and journalists to drool over, there are people who actually make the stuff that we at IntoMobile use and write about. People who wake up in the morning, just like you and I do, who…
Brief: Attention Germany and Italy: You can now preorder the Nokia N900 for €600
The Nokia N900 is now available for preorder at Nokia’s official German [link] and Italian [link] stores, both have it for €600 with free shipping. For Americans, you’ll probably get it cheaper since €600 = $861.90. I’m wondering what other “selected territories” are going to get the N900 come October, only one month away. [Hat…
More Nokia N97 Mini photos leak; see junior next to his father too
The Nokia N97 Mini has already been leaked and previewed by Eldar from Mobile-Review, but we’re not going to complain about more pictures being posted of a device that a lot of people who are put off by either the high price tag or ginormous size of the N97 are going to consider purchasing. Photos…
Nokia makes the N900 and Maemo 5 official; 500 EUR and due in October
You’re going to want to watch these in full screen: Go to http://maemo.nokia.com/ and geek out. “1 million views in less than 50 minutes on maemo.nokia.com.” – @PeterMaemo “Adding more bandwidth to maemo.nokia.com servers completed. Just in case.” – @PeterMaemo Nokia’s official press release about the N900 just went up. Read it in full after…