Holy crap. Who does that? Seriously! Twenty-two handsets in one batch? That’s just crazy-talk. Well, it’s not really one batch – these phones will be released between now and March in Japan through NTT DoCoMo, but that is still one helluva release schedule. Here’s the whole lineup, broken into subcategories, with release dates. Style series…
Nokia E71: Final thoughts
My last day with the Nokia E71 is approaching and I wanted to use another opportunity to rant about it and answer the single most important question of those interested to grab one for themselves. In a nutshell: buy it! As I said it before, the Nokia E71 is the single best Symbian phone released…
Nokia 6650 lands on AT&T
Apparently the Nokia 6650, which we saw at the FCC back in September, is now available on AT&T. We’re saying “apparently,” as MobileBurn reports so, though we haven’t been able to locate the Symbian S60-powered clamshell on AT&T’s website. Specs wise, the Nokia 6650 sports a 2 megapixel camera, built-in GPS receiver, and a microSD…
Nokia E51 gets a firmware update, too!
Just when we posted about new firmware being available for the Nokia E66 and E71, another ESeries device got an upgrade, too. It’s the Nokia E51, which with the new software version should be even more faster and reliable to use than ever. Unfortunately, there is no change log at the moment, so we don’t…
Nokia E63 official announced – mass market messaging device
Today Nokia officially unveiled the E63 smartphone, the one we’ve already seen in the wild for few times. Touted as the mass market messaging device, the E63 resembles the Finnish giant’s E71 model, which I’m currently testing. However, unlike the E71, the newly announced device lacks GPS, has 2 megapixel camera as opposed to E71’s…
Nokia E66, E71 get an update
Nokia has released new firmware upgrades for their popular E66 and E71 enterprise series smartphones. The update brings a number of performance improvements, including camera viewfinder orientation, Mail for Exchange synchronisation and browsing. In other words, bugs have been fixed, some of the pre-installed apps updated, and the devices are more stable overall. As always,…
Nokia working on tracking traffic via GPS-enabled cell phones
Today, the Nokia Research Center, alongside the University of California and Berkley, is launching the Mobile Millenium, a pilot project to use GPS-capable phones to report traffic conditions. The Mobile Millenium project builds from the initial Mobile Century project started last February, and could revolutionize traffic reporting. Google Mobile has some accurate traffic reporting in…
Nokia E71 + Nokia BH-602 Bluetooth headset = match made in heaven
I’m back with my writing about the Nokia E71. This time, however, I won’t rant about the best Nokia smartphone — rather I’ll talk about the Nokia BH-602 Bluetooth headset, which Nokia included in the box that was sent to me. In a nutshell – the headset rocks! It’s simple, elegant and comfortable to carry…
Gameloft’s Real Football ’09 hits Nokia N-Gage
During this year’s Dubai World Game Expo, Gameloft announced the launch of its Real Football 2009 for Nokia N-Gage. The Real Football series has been the best rated mobile football simulation game for the past five years. The 2009 edition allows players to choose from 12 stadiums and six leagues featuring 200 teams, as well…
Apple Takes 2nd in Smartphone Market Share, But Q4 Looking Good for RIM
You may remember Will’s post from friday on Apple leapfrogging RIM in market share according to recent studies. I’ve been reading a bit about that lately and simply wanted to provide my take on it, plus add a lovely chart for you all to see where the numbers are at. As you can see in…