Nokia’s going out on a limb with their latest product, the Home Control Center, which will tie in a variety of home functions including electricity usage monitoring, remote device activation, and security functions with your phone or computer. Conservation is going to be a big part of this project, as German energy provider RWE has…
Nokia Exiting Japan, Leaving Vertu Behind
Nokia hasn’t had any luck breaking any real ground in Japan since establishing themselves there in August 2003 with the Nokia 6650, and so has announced that they’ll be pulling out of the market . Less than 1% market share combined with turbulent economic waters makes cutting their losses a safe bet, but their plans…
Nokia warns against buying weakling Chinese clones
China is the land of cheap handset rip-offs and otherwise low-quality handsets. Unfortunately for Nokia, that means Chinese-made clones of popular Nokia handsets are undercutting Nokia’s sales in emerging markets like India. The clones are made en masse and boast feature-sets that, on the surface, match those of the real-deal. But, upon closer inspection, it…
“I have a dream…” of a perfect Nokia smartphone
As I already said it before, after using the Nokia E71 for two weeks, I fell in love with it. The full QWERTY keyboard and the overall look and feel are two key factors why I think it’s the single best Symbian S60 smartphone released to date. However, something’s always missing and it’s a result…
FIFA 2009 now available on N-Gage
EA Mobile is out with FIFA 2009 for Nokia’s N-Gage platform. If you still haven’t spotted it in the N-Gage app, make sure you update it first — select “Options” and then “Update Now” and the game should appear in the list. Alternatively, you may want to wait a couple of days until the latest…
Nokia releases Series 40 6th Edition SDK
Nokia’s Series 40 6th Edition was announced back in June and today the Finnish giant released an SDK for the platform. Let’s quickly sum up what’s new in the latest version of Nokia’s feature phone platform: Full fledged Webkit-based browser, which until now was available exclusively for the Symbian S60 smartphones Adobe Flash Lite 3.0…
Nokia 6260 slide feature phone packs HSPA, WiFi, GPS, 5MP camera and more!
Nokia has announced a new device – 6260 slide. The stylish slider is one of the best feature phone announced to date, sporting a 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and flash, both HSUPA and HSDPA support, WiFi, aGPS, Bluetooth, great web browser, music player and more. In addition, there’s a brand new navi-key…
Nokia E75 caught in the wild, again
Nokia seems to be gearing toward the E75 launch, as we have more photos of the device caught in the wild. The both numeric keypad and slide-out QWERTY keyboard equipped Symbian S60 smartphone looks more real than ever and we’re hoping the Finnish giant will pull the “launch trigger” in the coming days or weeks.…
Nokia Build lets French buy customized Nokia 7310 Supernova
In the age of individuals, everyone wants to differentiate itself from the crowd. Smart companies know that, hence we already have a number of custom-built products available on the market, even from the companies that make mass-market products (Nike, for instance). That being said, Nokia France has launched a neat service called Nokia Build to…
Nokia goes to Hollywood for some R&D
By now we all learned Nokia has plans to move beyond devices. Their Software and Services department should drive the growth in the years to come with media being one of the areas they find particularly interesting — hence there’s the Nokia Media Network. That being said we were everything but surprised to see Nokia…