Over the summer, Nokia squeezed BlackBerry Connect out of their E-series devices supposedly in an attempt to stake their own claim to enterprise functions with some help from Microsoft and IBM, but a recent interview with Tom Furlong, head of Nokia’s messaging services, confirmed that RIM will continue to support the service. “We are in…
Nokia 5730 XpressMusic spotted, previewed
Even though we still haven’t heard anything official from Nokia about the 5730 XpressMusic, that hasn’t stopped Russian site Mobile Review to publish its preview of the device. From what we can see, thanks to the full slide-out QWERTY keyboard, the upcoming device resembles one other model we’ve seen in the wild for few times…
Nokia N97 goes on sale on March 31st?
File this under “rumors” or “wishful thinking” until we hear anything official from Nokia. However, quite respected online retailer, Play.com, has a pre-order page for the upcoming Nokia N97 on its website. From there, we’ve learn that the highly anticipated device will start shipping on March 31st. The price is kinda steep — 479.99 GBP,…
Nokia’s “Coming With Music” to Australia and Singapore in this quarter
Nokia plans to bring its “Comes With Music” offering to the people of Australia and Singapore later this quarter. According to the company’s head of entertainment and communities, Tero Ojanpera, Nokia will expand its “unlimited music downloads for a year” offering to the mentioned two countries in February and March. Ojanpera also said that they…
Some free Symbian S60 5th Edition apps released by Nokia India
Nokia India released several free apps for the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic owners. Let’s go through each one of them quickly: SMS Timer is a neat utility that allows you to schedule SMS/MMS messages to be sent on a future date and time. With it, you can do such things as schedule anniversary messages, connect with…
Deal: Nokia 5310 Comes with Music for 82.18 GBP!
Although Nokia’s “Comes with Music” initiative still struggles to pick up momentum, a deal like this one could turn things upside down. UK mobile phone retailer, Carphone Warehouse, has reduced the price of the Nokia 5310 Comes with Music Edition to 82.18 GBP on pay-as-you-go plan — and that’s the price with full-year of unlimited…
Nokia N79 Eco goes on sale with a charger in UK
Nokia obviously thinks their N79 smartphone is set to be a hit. Hence, following the N79 Active, they’re out with yet another variant of the device – N79 Eco, which is already available for pre-order at Nokia UK’s website. While there (at the pre-order page), you are also invited to participate in a survey and…
Nokia 5800 XpressMusic updated with firmware v11.0.08
Owner’s of Nokia’s first device to rock the company’s touch-based S60 5th Edition OS will be happy to hear that Nokia has rolled out a major firmware update that should fix a lot of bugs and improve overall system stability. Following on a recent firmware update for the Nokia E71, the new S60 5th Edition…
Qt 4.5 to be offered under LGPL 2.1 starting from March; Nokia hopes for increased adoption
Nokia announced that its Qt cross-platform UI and application framework for desktop and embedded platforms will be available under the Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 2.1 license from the release of Qt 4.5, scheduled for March 2009. The idea is to entice developers to adopt the platform by providing them with more permissive licensing.…
Nokia BP-6M batteries could potentially balloon in size
Nokia has recently issued a warning, saying that in rare cases their BP-6M batteries used in such popular models as the N73, N77 and N93 could potentially balloon to several times of their original size. The Finnish giant isn’t saying how common the problem is, only that it affects a “limited number of batteries” and…