A new service is to be added to Swisscom’s mobile TV menu – Bluewin TV mobile will available on the new DVB-H network that is being rolled out, giving a quality that is claimed to be as good as home TV sets, with customer having access to 20 channels! Swisscom already has a pedigree in…
Video: Francesco Cara, Nokia Design Strategist, We need a new metaphor for mobile interaction
Francesco Cara is speaking at the 2008 LIFT Conference about how Nokia has grown in terms of how their devices interact with the ecosystems around them. He notes that the iPhone takes a very desktop oriented approach in terms of how to operate the device and most curiously praises Palm for their user centric design…
New Nokia N95 8GB firmware with automatic screen rotation
Sure, you might already be rocking that cool RotateMe hack on your Nokia N95, but there’s nothing like a little manufacturer-sanctioned love straight from Espoo to make you fall in love with screen-rotation on your N95. A new firmware (v20.0.016) is available for the Nokia N95 8GB (sorry folks, only the European N95-2 is supported…
Nokia event on the 22nd of April, be there or be square!
There appears to be a Nokia event dealing with Nokia Music on the 22nd of April, sadly the site doesn’t load properly, but if you go to nokia.com/press you’re presented with this image:
Nokia’s CEO Kallasvuo says the Apple iPhone is a niche product
By now you all know that Nokia is working on an iPhone-fighting touchscreen handset based on the S60 Touch OS. The UI on the S60 Touch OS still needs work, from initial impressions. The hardware, on the other hand, looks good. But, the most memorable comment in this whole Nokia S60 Touch vs. iPhone debacle…
Brief: More mouth watering Black Nokia N82 pictures
The site is in French, but lust needs no translation. Check out Planete-Nokia.
Nokia Q108: Net sales up 28% year on year, 115.5 million units shipped
Nokia’s Q1 2008 Financial Figures are out and boy are they great! Net sales are up 28% year on year coming in at 12.7 billion EUR, 115.5 million devices have shipped, market share dropped 1% to 39% and the average price of each handset sold (a term known as ASP) is down to 79 EUR…
Nokia 6500 Classic coming in silver
Now if handset makers could inform us through a press release that some of their existing phones is available in new color, that would be awesome. I ranted about this in the past and I’ll stop here… Nokia 6500 Classic is going to be released in new color – silver. Nokia’s official website proves so,…
Nokia: Green phones still a few years away
Nokia like most of today’s modern companies cares about the environment, but says green phones are still a few years away. According to the company’s director of Environmental affairs unit Markus Terho, being an eco-friendly will become “a competitive factor.” As an example he said that by introducing smaller packages in early 2006, Nokia saved…
Nokia says good bye to employees in Bochum while RIM says hello
Nokia closed a plant in Bochum citing the cost of labor was too high. RIM saw an opportunity, plenty of talented people who’ve been working on Nokia mobile devices for 1989 are now out of a job, which is why they’re planning on opening up a research faciliity and looking to hire 300 people. Nokia’s…