My brother from another mother, Matthew Miller, got his hands on a Nokia Surge and recorded a 10 minute video going through the device. He also posted his impressions of the device, in case you don’t want to watch. The Nokia Surge, known as the 6760 Slide by the rest of the world, is an…
Final version of the Nokia N97 SDK is out!
Nokia has released the final version of the Nokia N97 SDK. With what’s effectively the first device-specific SDK, the Finnish giant wants to emphasize its commitment towards its this year’s flagship device. Among the new things the final SDK version brings are improved support of home screen features, updated SDK documentation, support for the Chinese…
Nokia purchases cellity, a company so insignificant they don’t bother capitalizing the first letter in their name
Nokia purchased cellity today, a company based out of Hamburg, Germany. No details were given about the financials involved, except that all 14 employees will soon become powerpoint zombies Nokia employees by Q3 of this year. What does cellity do? According to their website: cellity AG founded in October 2006, has developed their own software…
Nokia Surge coming to the rest of the world, will be called the Nokia 6760 Slide, better camera, €200
The Nokia Surge, which I’ve been insulting left and right due to it’s appearance, is coming to Europe and Asia during Q3 of this year for 200 EUR ($285) under a new name: 6760 Slide. The spec sheet is practically the same, the only key difference is that the 6760 Slide has a 3.2 megapixel…
Nokia’s Files on OVI goes from paid to free
Nokia has made its Files on OVI service completely free. Earlier, it was available starting from 7 EUR per month for 10GB of storage space, and now it’s 100% free. According to Nokia: “On-the-go file access is a basic component of a complete mobile lifestyle offering. Providing Ovi Files for free enables Nokia to connect…
Palm seeing 40% Palm Pre return rate?
The Palm Pre is a hot new piece of kit. Palm baked all sorts of multi-touch, GPS, WiFi, eye-catching goodness into the WebOS-powered Palm Pre, and it should be given praise for what it does well. But, all that hotness apparently comes at the cost of manufacturing quality. According to Jesup & Lamont analyst Kevin…
Nokia XpressMusic 5800 firmware update to feature kinetic scrolling, better homescreen, more
Nokia’s has apparently heard Nokia 5800 customers’ calls for kinetic flick-scrolling on the company’s first-ever touchscreen handset. The Nokia XpressMusic 5800 was actually just blessed with a firmware update from Nokia, so news of another update is a nice surprise. A recent Nokia Malaysia meet-n-greet session had a Nokia product manager confirm that the upcoming…
Rumor: Verizon roadmap leaks, filled with a whole bunch of boring, and a whole lot of Samsung
A source that the Boy Genius Report claims to be trustworthy has slipped him a roadmap of devices, 14 to be exact, that are due to launch over the next few months on Verizon’s network. This list is heavily slanted towards Samsung, which makes the wait for their Q2 2009 financial results, due out this…
Maemo 5 Beta 2 SDK released
Nokia has released the second beta version of the Maemo 5 SDK, fixing many bugs reported by developers. Combined with the recent improvements in the Fremantle Extras repository, this release reportedly provide a solid basis to get software ready for the Maemo 5 final release. Speaking of the Extras repository, it is the main channel…
Nokia E52 photo samples don’t look too bad, but they’re not great either
I’ll let you in on a little secret. Nokia sent me a 6700 Classic to test. I’m not going to tell you what I think of it just yet, I plan on writing a review some time next weekend, but using it has made me fall in love with the T9 monoblock form factor all…