The 6212 Classic is Nokia’s first NFC (Near Field Communications) enabled device with 3G capabilities. You may remember the 3220 which had a shell you could purchase to enable NFC and then the 6131 which was announced early last year, neither of these took off and I’m wondering if the 6212 Classic will face the…
S60 not backing away from WebKit
The bandwagon of people saying that Nokia was going to stop using WebKit for future implementations of the S60 browser: Electronista Symbian-Freak The Boy Genius Report Sideshow Barker Atmaspheric | Endeavors And today from the official S60 Browser Blog: “… one of our developers did some housekeeping on the Tiger branch of the webkit project,…
Video: 1000 people play snake in real life, as in they become the snake!
Nokia’s eMarketing team is at it again and they’ve created what is probably the most kick ass campaign I’ve seen called Get Out And Play. Snake, you know it? You love it? 1000 people, no CGI, was used to make this movie. Download it in HD (960×540 resolution 37 MB file) Download the making of…
200 limited edition Nokia N82 covers created for the people who created the device
The Nokia N82, my favorite and current phone, was created by a team mainly based in Tokyo and to reward their efforts Nokia has produced 200 limited edition covers, each with their own serial number on the back. Kevin Korpi has number 164 and you can view his complete photo gallery here. [Via: Jaiku]
Nokia launches Mobile Games Innovation Challenge
Nokia has recently launched Mobile Games Innovation Challenge with 70,000 EUR in prizes, designed to “encourage development of innovative game concepts with the power to positively disrupt the global mobile gaming industry and to help propel mobile gaming with handheld devices into a new and exciting future.” Nokia Publishing is sponsoring the contest and they’re…
Video: Most disturbing Nokia commercial to watch on a Monday morning
If anyone knows what is going on in this commercial for the Nokia 6500 then please leave a comment. For now I’m going to continue fighting the weekly struggle known as surviving Monday. No clue how to embed this, hit the link below. [Via: I Believe in Advertising]
Nokia: Mobile TV roll outs slower than expected
Nokia said on Friday its push to promote mobile TV has not succeeded as they’ve hoped. Even after winning the EU support for DVB-H standard, only a few operators in Europe have opened any mobile TV broadcasting service. To be fair, many operators are in the midst of trialing the service while others are waiting…
Nokia N95 using the higher-capacity Nokia N95 8GB’s BL-6F battery
One of the most welcome updates that the Nokia N95 8GB features over the Nokia N95 is the larger, higher-capacity battery. All that techno-gadgetry packed into the Nokia N95 made the poor little thing die off too quickly, so Nokia decided to bump up the juice-holding capacity of the Nokia N95 8GB – the BL-6F…
Brief: Largest Black Nokia N82 versus Silver Nokia N82 gallery online
The Black Nokia N82 is out and it’s hard keeping my wallet in my pocket, check out this site for a massive photo gallery, click to enlarge thumbnail of course.
Counterfeit Nokia N95s entering the UK market
Just in case you thought Dusan’s story about the fake N95-8GB was one of those “oh it will never happen to me” scenarios, don’t be so sure UK readers…. Mobile is reporting that N95-8GBs are on their way in to the UK, from Chinese sources, and being knocked out at £150, rather than the usual…