In the automotive world, carbon-fiber design- and structural-elements epitomize the perfect blend of incredible strength and lightweight. Carbon fiber is stronger than steel and lighter than aluminum, making it perfect for high-end automotive applications (not to mention its extensive use in aerospace applications). But, when we’re talking about carbon-fiber (CF) in the mobile world, we’re…
Nokia Ramadan-related software and services now available for download
Last year we saw Nokia releasing the N73 Ramadan Special Edition and people apparently dig the idea. Now the Finnish giant is going one step forward to extend its reach to Muslims who use other Nokia phones. That being said, they’ve launched the Nokia Ramadan Microsite to release an entire collection of free software and…
Nokia to launch two new Nseries devices on on August 18th? N79? N85?
Nokia will be announcing two new Nseries smartphones on this coming Monday at 8am UK time. The word on the street is that we’ll see the Finnish giant going all official with the N79 and N85. As you may recall, the N79 is a somewhat simple lookin’ candybar, sporting a 2.4-inch display and a 5…
Nokia Email service hits Nokia Beta Labs
Nokia Email service/app is now available as an early release through Nokia Beta Labs. The application is designed to help users easily manage their emails on the go. Supported email services include GMail, Yahoo! Mail and “thousands of personal email accounts offered by other ISPs.” Unfortunately, at this stage corporate email and MSN Hotmail are…
Nokia N96 gets the FCC approval
Nokia’s upcoming superphone, N96, has been spotted while passing the FCC hurdle. The device in question sports a quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE (850/900/1800/1900 MHz) and dual-band UMTS (WCDMA 2100/850; HSDPA) radios. No carrier partners are known at this stage, but even if we don’t see it hitting AT&T, which is known to carry some of the Nokia…
Nokia 3610: 125 Euros for a quadband clamshell with QVGA screen
That (above) is the Nokia 3610. It has a 2 inch QVGA screen that shows 262,144 colors, 1.3 megapixel camera, microSD card slot, Bluetooth 2.0 and is quadband so it works all over the world. For 125 Euros in the 3rd quarter of this year, you can have it, and that is one damn cheap…
T-Mobile launches Nokia 5610 XpressMusic handset
The Nokia 5610 XpressMusic handset has been circling T-Mobile’s network for longer than we can remember (our short-term is shot). The Nokia 5310 XpressMusic has already touched down on T-Mobile as a monoblock (candybar) musicphone, but that leaves the slider form-factor Nokia 5610 XpressMusic yet to come. Today, we’re finally seeing the music-oriented slider land…
The 10 best selling phones in July 2008
Krussell, one of the premier names in consumer electronics cases, has just released a report detailing the “Top 10” best selling mobile phones in July 2008. The figures are based on the number of cases purchased for each specific device, and should be taken as a loose interpretation of general handset sales in July 2008.…
N-Gage goes beyond mobile with Reset Generation
We’ve already seen several games that were ported from mobile to web (PC) and the other way round. However, we haven’t seen Nokia going this way, at least for now. Their latest N-Gage title is called Reset Generation and it could be played on both N-Gage compatible mobile phone or on a PC as an…
Nokia N85 NAM hits FCC – US spec Nokia N85 is near
The Nokia N85 has only just recently come to light as a Nokia N96-esque pseudo-slider bearing the same glossy-black finish and backlit slide-out media controls that we fell in love with on the N96. Last we heard, the device was that Nokia seemed to be aiming the Nokia N85 to be placed towards the high-end…